Little Britain...

[samvara]

A friend just gave me a spare ticket to the stage show - given I've never seen the TV show, what do people recommend seeing?

Are there absolute favourite episodes?

Comments

[cricketk.livejournal.com]

I don't have any favourite episodes - it's not really my style of humour. It will probably be much funnier live with an audience who gets it and likes it.

[strangedave.livejournal.com]

Its an almost entirely running joke based show. So the concept of standout episodes doesn't really work - even particularly funny episodes probably depend on developing the running joke.

That said, I'm not really a fan, so I'm probably not the person to ask. I do have a DVD of the show around here somewhere you can probably borrow if you want, though.

[psycho-tabby.livejournal.com]

avoid at all cost!

[missyjack.livejournal.com]

i'd just pick an ep from the beginning, middle and end of the first season.

I heard the stage show is brilliant.

[http://users.livejournal.com/doctor_k_/]

Me, I'd scalp the ticket and go out for a nice civilised meal somewhere instead. It's really small-minded, schoolboy type humour that centres on meanness.

[mr-booboo.livejournal.com]

I'm with doctor_k on this. I've seen it on ebay and you can do quite well with this ticket. It's hugely popular and I know people who would like to go.

[evilmattikinz.livejournal.com]

Curious to know what you make of it. I personally find it quite awful and painful. It swept britain as the meme of the moment whislt I was travelling. Upon returning and having heard many rumours internationally of the magnificence of this humour source I was acutely disappointed. So, I hope this doesn't spoil it for you but you can always throw rotten cabbages on stage or something to liven it up. Or gratuitously eat mangos.

[ascetic-hedony.livejournal.com]

kae_dash is a fan, and owns DVDs.

[battblush.livejournal.com]

Watch one episode, just so you know what you would have seen, and definitely, scalp the tickets.

It really is a case of 'seen one, seen em all'

My darling children bought the first series for me for a birthday or christmas or something. They watch it far more often than I do.

Having said that, season two dvd was held on our floor at Clarion and I retired to my bedroom with it one day when I was really really cheesed off with everyone. Not because I especially enjoyed it, but because it gave me an outlet for my complete piss-offedness. :)

[ironed_orchid]

It's character based comedy. Some of it works and some doesn't. It all depends on how much enjoyment you get out of cringe-worthy characters and situations.