Little Britian -vs- The League of Gentlemen

[grobelaar]

Originally Posted by Spandex

Had a works christmas do in the Derbyshire peaks once... near the place it was based on "High Peak"... and it was genuinely terrifying to find out how realistic LOG is.

We arrived at a train station (we were going on a train to somewhere were a meal was booked)... and there was a marquee outside. Inside, was a menacing animatronic gnome with a speaker inside it playing Cliff Richard, a hugely fat girl selling (and wearing) sparkly deely boppers... she looked REALLY pissed off and nobody dared approach her... finally, in the corner was an enclosure made of chicken wire... we couldn't work out why until we spotted a guinea pig cowering under a plank. The rest of the (large) marquee was completely empty. I think a sign outside read "Fun House" or something. Then we got on the train and were horrified to see a "Santa Claus" slowly making his way up the train towards us.. stopping to talk to all the kiddies... he arrives in our carriage, full of 25-35 yr old programmers and designers... and suddenly turns into Bernard Manning and starts doing unbelievably unfunny sexist and racist jokes. He managed to find our least sociable programmer and started asking him about whether he preferred blondes or brunettes... and just wouldn't let it go until the chap quietly said "I want you to go away now". We were all expecting papa laza to leap out at any moment.

Then.. we get to where our christmas meal is supposed to happen and (I'm not making this up) it was an abandoned pit. There was nobody there... just a few sheds with rusting machines in them. We looked around, then someone spotted a portakabin up the hill with a light on.. so we trudged up there.. and sure enough, there was our dinner... in a portakabin on a hill. It was pissing down by this point. Inside, it was a bit like a transport cafe... plastic chairs, a couple of hairy men smoking fags etc. They sat us down and gave us plates of watery meat (hard to tell what, it tasted a bit like turkey but a bit like pork as well) with revolting overcooked cauliflower. They served us some drinks.. but it turned out they only had about 2 cans of lager (there were about 15 of us who wanted a lagery beer) and the rest was some manky bitter. Someone asked for a glass of white wine and got half pint glass full of liebfraumilch.

Still makes me smile to read this again - the worst works xmas dinner ever...

[thepigjockey]

Originally Posted by Lady E

little britain is actually funnier to repeat to your friends than it is to watch.

That says it all really.

Didn't get LoG the 1st 3 times I saw it, indeed thought it was utter rubbish, then found it hilarious.

[garew]

I have to go now as I'm reaching orgasm.

[garew]

I love the premise of Saxondale. Washed up prog rock roadie. Endless material there.

[gen-eral]

Originally Posted by Spandex

Had a works christmas do in the Derbyshire peaks once... near the place it was based on "High Peak"... and it was genuinely terrifying to find out how realistic LOG is.

We arrived at a train station (we were going on a train to somewhere were a meal was booked)... and there was a marquee outside. Inside, was a menacing animatronic gnome with a speaker inside it playing Cliff Richard, a hugely fat girl selling (and wearing) sparkly deely boppers... she looked REALLY pissed off and nobody dared approach her... finally, in the corner was an enclosure made of chicken wire... we couldn't work out why until we spotted a guinea pig cowering under a plank. The rest of the (large) marquee was completely empty. I think a sign outside read "Fun House" or something. Then we got on the train and were horrified to see a "Santa Claus" slowly making his way up the train towards us.. stopping to talk to all the kiddies... he arrives in our carriage, full of 25-35 yr old programmers and designers... and suddenly turns into Bernard Manning and starts doing unbelievably unfunny sexist and racist jokes. He managed to find our least sociable programmer and started asking him about whether he preferred blondes or brunettes... and just wouldn't let it go until the chap quietly said "I want you to go away now". We were all expecting papa laza to leap out at any moment.

Then.. we get to where our christmas meal is supposed to happen and (I'm not making this up) it was an abandoned pit. There was nobody there... just a few sheds with rusting machines in them. We looked around, then someone spotted a portakabin up the hill with a light on.. so we trudged up there.. and sure enough, there was our dinner... in a portakabin on a hill. It was pissing down by this point. Inside, it was a bit like a transport cafe... plastic chairs, a couple of hairy men smoking fags etc. They sat us down and gave us plates of watery meat (hard to tell what, it tasted a bit like turkey but a bit like pork as well) with revolting overcooked cauliflower. They served us some drinks.. but it turned out they only had about 2 cans of lager (there were about 15 of us who wanted a lagery beer) and the rest was some manky bitter. Someone asked for a glass of white wine and got half pint glass full of liebfraumilch.

Jesus christ........................ ..........

[gen-eral]

League of gentlemen forever---yes little britain is kak

[Daddys Girl]

Originally Posted by hektor ruiez

LOG by far.
I'm liking The Dave Chappell show at the moment, he is funny.

I like Dave Chappell

As this has been bumped, I never really got into LB at all - I've watched LOG more.

[garew]

Colbert is the funniest man in America right now. Dunno if you get him there though. Chappell's cool too. Diff humour.

[darrell]

The Orange Juice Sketch still a classic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GgB_zwqEn4

[baselogic]

league of gentlemen all the way. little britain is pony

[jamyna]

Originally Posted by JonnySpeed

easy targets done badly.

spot on, they're both really 'shouty' all the time in an attempt to mask a lack of content / character depth
un-funnily enough neither show really do it for me either
but my favourtie of the moment by a long way is CURB.. oh yes

[garew]

I credit Curb with helping nurse me out of a clinical depression. I'm not even slightly joking.

[spoon]

i wish this thread would fuck off.

[WON'T DO IT]

fuck ! I can't believe i said i liked little britain.. i hate it now.. oh well, familiarity breeding contempt there ladeees and gents

[gen-eral]

Originally Posted by WON'T DO IT

fuck ! I can't believe i said i liked little britain.. i hate it now.. oh well, familiarity breeding contempt there ladeees and gents

The shame, oh the shame

[thembuzz]

there's a whole raft of dads out there who still cringe when they remember passionately arguing that the goodies were better than monty python

[thembuzz]

Originally Posted by arar

LoG has a nasty side to it rather than just being "dark" (the blacked up clown shit is just plain offensive rather than "clever"), its generally not nearly as smart as it thinks it is either, a lot of the plotting having rather too much of "Tales of the unexpected" about it. I also attempted to rewatch some of it and just found it strangely unfunny the second time...Little Britain seems to stand some re watching, and there is kind of a narrative arc over the course of a series with some of the characters...

here's the next generation of that dad

[Hectic Cum Balthazar]

[Orang Utan]

fuck, i forgot all about them - i loved them when i was a kid - my parents didn't like that!

[emef]

you liked the grumbleweeds????

FFS

[Orang Utan]

i was a kid ffs!

[Hectic Cum Balthazar]

every good northerner liked the G-Weeds

[Orang Utan]

they were on ever saturday teatime after bullseye - all i remember was their wellies, beards and 'weeee are the grumbleweeds'

[Hectic Cum Balthazar]

yeah I don't remember anything about it

[Orang Utan]

think it's best that way

[grobelaar]

Originally Posted by spoon

i wish this thread would fuck off.

hooray - the thread is back...

[Hectic Cum Balthazar]

poor Jerome

[thembuzz]

poor, poor jerome

[WON'T DO IT]

oy you cunts, stop bringing this thread back!! I was only saying it in an ironic way anyway... honest

[Loz]

What about your lucky "yer i know" underpants you always wear to special occasions?