Little Britain audience tickets were announced while we were on holiday in
Ireland so I thought we had missed out completely… but at almost the very last
minute, after much weeping and wailing I managed to get a golden ticket to go to
an evening of Little Britain filming at the BBC! The wonderful Tara from
The
David Walliams Fansite managed to get some and I became the proud owner of a
pass to comedy heaven. Poor old Jamie had to stay at home though and have tea
and biscuits. The trip to London let me meet up with some comedy friends who I
know through the programme and take some silly photographs of them, and of
course promote their websites. After lunch with a friend who has no website but
really should, we met
another fan
who had once asked David to marry her and scared him. We talked about the
following day when they would be enjoying the filming with fellow webby folks
such as Matt and David (and The Boosh's)
personal
autograph stalker and a young man who creates animated avatars and video
montages (and has a thing for celebrity
tongues). I had to leave the pub and journey to White City (not some racist
Daily Mail town, a place in London) in the rain to queue for two hours. At this
point, I contacted the wonderful ticket-holding Tara and her other mad comedy
fan friends to join me in the drizzley weather (covered by the handy new shelter
at the Beeb) to hang around for a small eternity in order to guarantee entry. It
worked. And I learnt it's a small small world in the internet comedy fan world
we live in. Eventually we got into the studio and saw ther great new (more
crowded) title sequence and lots of new top secret Little Britainy things which
I cannot possibly mention. Well, here are some snippets. Sort of...
"...I'm well gonna be the new Abi Titchmarsh!"
"Bring in the horse..." "Tonight, Matthew... eh eh eh ..."
"Michelle Pfeiffer and her husband Danny DeVito..."
"Meeeeester Dudley..."
"Florence, dear?"
"No, it's Fred..."
"I can get you a lentil bake on a flight to Vancouver..."
"Yeah I know"
"We are beautiful, no matter what they say..."
"I would like a painting of a disappointed horse please"
"Do be do be doo dooo.... dooo... do"
"Computer says no." etc.
The studio sets that were used that night were Roy's shop, the Scarecrow And Mrs
King (The Llandewi-Brefi pub) and Carol's travel agency. Lots of VT was shown
and most of it was very good. Except a pissing old woman, more from the
vomitting Tory lady and naked Bubbles fighting her equally naked doppelganger
are not funny, just crude. Luckily the weird surreal humour I love was present
in a number of new sketches that I shall not reveal for now.
A run-down on some of the characters can be
found
here.
Back to Index.
Series 1 filming report; episode reviews:
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
Series 2 filming report; episode reviews:
1
2
3
4
5
6
Comic Relief 2005
Series 3 filming report; episode reviews:
1
2
3
4
5
6
More good websites to see:
BBC's Little Britain Page;
Tara's David Walliams Site;
Observer 'Screen' Article;
Little Britain on
TV Tome
.
