Poland's state broadster TVP says has censored an episo of the Brish edy show Ltle Bra bee showed a gay vir kissg his boyiend.
Contents:
- LTLE BRA’S MATT LUS SAYS ‘ONLY GAY THE VILLAGE’ WAS MEANT TO BE A ‘CELEBRATN’ OF GAY PEOPLE
- POLISH CENSOR CUTS GAY 'LTLE BRA' SKETCH
- MATT LUS FENDS 'ONLY GAY THE VILLAGE' SK
- IAN MCKELLEN CRICIS LTLE BRA GAY SKETCH
LTLE BRA’S MATT LUS SAYS ‘ONLY GAY THE VILLAGE’ WAS MEANT TO BE A ‘CELEBRATN’ OF GAY PEOPLE
The edian and actor says the 'only gay the village' character Dafydd Thomas was meant as entertament, not as a tool for bullyg. * little britain gay mp sketch *
Daffyd - buys a Gay Tim. Take a journey around Ltle Bra and meet all your favoure characters, cludg juvenile lquent Vicky Pollard ('No but yeah but no'); Daffyd Thomas, who claims to be the only gay his village; Sebastian Love, the Government ai wh a mad csh on the Prime Mister; evil FatFighters urse lear Marjorie Daw; bbish transvte Ey Howard ('I'm a lady! Matt says the character was meant to be a ‘celebratn’ of gay people (Picture: Rex Featur, BBC)Comedian and actor Matt Lus has spoken out about his ntroversial Ltle Bra character Dafydd Thomas, better known as ‘the only gay the village’.
POLISH CENSOR CUTS GAY 'LTLE BRA' SKETCH
* little britain gay mp sketch *
Matt said he knows the character has been ed as a tool to bully young gay people, but sists that was not the show’s tentn. ‘I have had people who had ‘you are the only gay the village’ said to them and to was meant to be a celebratn, ’ he told Richard Herrg’s RHLSTP podst.
‘But people were labelled ‘the only gay the village’ at school.
It was meant as entertament, not to make young gay people sad. Sce the show end 2005, the sketch has gaed a lot of cricism for s ls than plimentary portrayal of gay men. The character is emed offensive by many (Picture: BBC)‘I remember thkg there was a greeds to Ltle Bra and we jt wanted to show off as many characters as possible so we played black, whe, straight, gay, male, female, tall, short, whatever, ’ the 45-year-old told the podst.
MATT LUS FENDS 'ONLY GAY THE VILLAGE' SK
Matt Lus has fend his Ltle Bra character Daffyd Thomas whose nng gag on the edy show was that he's 'the only gay the village'. * little britain gay mp sketch *
A good example of this actn is Simon Pegg’s explanatn of a homophobic reference the 2004 zombie apolypse film, Shn of the Dead. At the moment the origal film where Frost sffs “Alright, gay!
IAN MCKELLEN CRICIS LTLE BRA GAY SKETCH
At this pot Pegg breaks out of character to expla that the origal Shn of the Dead le wasn’t tend to be homophobic, but was actually a subtle cricism of homophobia. “I know ’s 2020 but the origal joke wasn’t tend as homophobic, was more of a ment on the absurdy of straight male appropriatn of homophobic signifiers orr to note their aversn to emotnal ndidns, ” he says. Poland's state broadster TVP says has censored an episo of the Brish edy show Ltle Bra bee showed a gay vir kissg his boyiend.
"We cid to cut a scene which uld e ntroversy among Polish viewers and which isn't exactly le wh our missn as a public televisn channel, " TVP spokwoman Aa Wrona told cut around one mute of the episo bee objected to a sketch showg Dafydd, who is played by the openly gay Ltle Bra creator Matt leather and bber clad character has acquired cult stat among Brish viewers for sketch which he ss the Welsh muny of Llandwi Brefi, plag loudly that he is "the only gay the village, " obliv to the fact that every other member of the muny also appears to be ntted scene shows Dafydd manng an erotic products stall at church fete and attemptg to spark an argument about relig homophobia wh the lol vir, however, troduc his verger and boyiend, who is portrayed mp style by Lus's fellow-creator David Walliams. It's a different sense of humour, and one which is sometim prehensible for the Polish public, " Ms Wrona says was the only time that TVP had censored the show, and noted that the broadster had the right to cut scen unr s ntract wh BBC Bra also gay them other sketch - cludg one showg a civil servant who is love wh a Tony Blair-like character and nstantly thks up s to ensnare the prime show, which pok fun at a swathe of Brish life, was first broadst by the BBC has bee one of the most popular edy seri Bra, where s tchphras are mon currency.
Once aga we want to make clear that was wrong and we are very sorry, ” Lus show has long been cricised for s e of blackface, as well as s portrayal of gay and disabled characters, wh characters played by Lus and Walliams cludg an obe Caribbean woman lled Diree DeVere, portrayed blackface, and a “portly Thai bri” lled Tg Tong. A recently rurfaced vio of David Walliams is makg fans feel a ltle b queasy, wh some even llg for thori to lnch an footage om a 2007 BBC documentary se the edian performg a Ltle Bra show Atralia as his character 'D Kaye', a gay former children's the documentary isn't available to watch on BBC iPlayer, footage om is still available to watch on YouTube, and recently went viral aga on Twter the wake of Walliams' recent Bra's Got Talent his stage show, Walliams, as D Kaye, v three dience members up on stage to play a game of 'hi the ssage' he asks the boys their age, they each say 16, 17 and 18.