Wednesday, November 26, 2003
You better be in front of a telly on Monday evening.
If you're out you better set the video.
If you lack either a telly or a video you better sell yourself to a twisted scinetific genius to have a telly implanted in your belly so you can watch yourself in a mirror.
Little Britain has made it on to BBC2. This is quite possibly the most important thing ever in the whole history of everything. Little Britain is the funniest thing I've seen all year, and I did see Colin Powell's stand up routine in front of the UN security council. David Baddiel described it as a 'gay Goodness Gracious Me' but then he had his comedy surgically removed in the 90s and grew a beard instead. It's like an early Fast Show, but when they relied on good writing rather than dashing to the catchphrase. There are some queer characters, like Sebastian who is the rather overly familiar advisor to the Prime Minister (played in wonderful cameos by Anthony Stewart Head) , Daffyd 'the only gay in the village', and crap transvestite Emily Howard ("but I'm a lady!") but many other non-gay characters such as teenage delinquent Vicky Pollard who talks in gibberish ("Yeh but, no but, no what happened was SHUTUP! You don't know nothin' about it but Shelley said, but no...") and the teacher who gets his class to read out books in the style of The Elephant Man. All topped off with liberal splatterings of surreal nonsense delivered by Tom Baker.
If you miss it, you'll feel all left out when all the other kids are reciting bits of it in the playground the next morning...
If you're out you better set the video.
If you lack either a telly or a video you better sell yourself to a twisted scinetific genius to have a telly implanted in your belly so you can watch yourself in a mirror.
Little Britain has made it on to BBC2. This is quite possibly the most important thing ever in the whole history of everything. Little Britain is the funniest thing I've seen all year, and I did see Colin Powell's stand up routine in front of the UN security council. David Baddiel described it as a 'gay Goodness Gracious Me' but then he had his comedy surgically removed in the 90s and grew a beard instead. It's like an early Fast Show, but when they relied on good writing rather than dashing to the catchphrase. There are some queer characters, like Sebastian who is the rather overly familiar advisor to the Prime Minister (played in wonderful cameos by Anthony Stewart Head) , Daffyd 'the only gay in the village', and crap transvestite Emily Howard ("but I'm a lady!") but many other non-gay characters such as teenage delinquent Vicky Pollard who talks in gibberish ("Yeh but, no but, no what happened was SHUTUP! You don't know nothin' about it but Shelley said, but no...") and the teacher who gets his class to read out books in the style of The Elephant Man. All topped off with liberal splatterings of surreal nonsense delivered by Tom Baker.
If you miss it, you'll feel all left out when all the other kids are reciting bits of it in the playground the next morning...
