Sorry, but Surrealism Is No Excuse for Giving a Licence to Prejudice
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Little Britain BBC3, 9.00pm Who Do You Think You Are? BBC2, 9.00pm Some people, noto-riously, will do anything to appear on television. They don't mind the humiliation; they have no visible sense of shame or self-disgust. Getting on the box is what is known, in their witless jargon, as "validation". But did Vanessa Feltz really imagine that being spat upon by Matt Lucas would have the nation clutching her to its bosom?
It was not the most gross moment in Little Britain. Lucas and David Walliams crow-barred plenty of other vomit gags, cheap innuendoes and acts of casual, unfunny cruelty into their show. It was, nevertheless, a telling moment. It hardly matters how desperate Feltz is for attention; it doesn't count that Lucas, once again in drag as the co-ordinator of "Fat Fighters", was supposed to be playing an appalling bitch. He spat on the woman. In the face. Cue canned laughter.See the full content of this document
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Sorry, but Surrealism Is No Excuse for Giving a Licence to Prejudice
When Little Britain first appeared I was all too aware of the game of comedic dare and double-dare Lucas and Walliams were attempting. Somewhere along the line, n...
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