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Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
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The LSE researcher's analysis says more to me about her than anything else.
Little Britain's figures are grotesques, some of whom are funny, others simply bizarre.
Dafydd's character is wonderfully bizarre, and surrounded by a village full of out, gay folk! Really a commonly uncommon scenario.
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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I probably have a deficient sense of humour when it comes to this kind of thing - on the rare occasions I've seen it, I *have* found the portrayal of Dafydd to be sterotyped to the point of encouraging homophobia.
Matt Lucas has never managed to give me the impression that he's entirely happy being gay in interviews, either ... notwithstanding his status as a mega-celebrity gay civil partnership (rapidly followed by "divorce").
"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. ... Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night devoid of stars." Martin Luther King
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timmy
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I think there is no character in the gallery of grotesques who is genuinely funny. But the show is about caricatures, not reality. Thus it panders to "Laugh at the freak" attitudes everywhere.
Walliams and Lucas have run their course. Their humour is not the lasting kind. I find I don't care if either are happy in their private lives because I'm waiting to see them fail.
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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