The sixty-second TV show: #639 Little Britain
I've struggled with Little Britain for a while now, and I just couldn't. It's mostly just not funny and as a sketch show, once it lost me I couldn't find anything else in it. For a show starring a gay man, there are a lot of gay jokes (and not just laughing at homophobes and the like, but perpetuating a number of LGBT stereotypes that feel misguided and because of that, just not funny. The same thing applies to other groups as well, the disabled coming off badly as well, but this is one place where I really felt it and where, I think, it shows how entrenched these attitudes are in our society.
Where this didn't apply, a number of sketches fell flat because they relied too much on repetition, wanted to become funny by creating catchphrases but didn't do any of that. You know where it's going, the show leans on it and it gets boring.
There are a handful of cases where the show works and it sometimes does hit the mark - even in sketches that otherwise don't work - but it feels so wildly inconsistent that I just couldn't get into the show and mostly just stared blankly at the TV. Not a good experience.