Smoke me a kipper?

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I doubt 'Little Britain in America' would be as totally filthy, scurrilous & outrageous as the real BBC broadcast thing, as the whole premise of the series is an extreme send up of current British stereotypes, political correctness and current Britishness in general, & would be totally incomprehensible to anyone not British, and certainly would be censored or banned by the authorities in the Land of the Free.

However, as usual, Youtube comes to the rescue, in short digestible chunks:

This one, of Daffyd Williams 'the only gay in the village' is typical ( the implicit joke is that Daffyd isn't gay, just Welsh, desperately seeking an identity in a dead & forgotten Province of the UK ):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4zx1ZX8 ... re=related

Lots more clips associated with the above clip there, btw, unless access to certain bits of Youtube are blocked & censored by the US authorities, etc., etc.

Particularly hilarious is Mefanwy's comment: " Think of how much cock & bum fun you could have had " in her mock-Welsh accent.

No doubt baffling to an American.

Try searching for 'Father Ted' on Youtube & you'll get a similar bunch of the best bits. Like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvvwNR3vF44

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As a postscript to my above post, the premise of 'Father Ted' is that all Irish people are incurably stupid, priest-ridden, thick and degenerate, which is a commonly held mindset & prejudice here in Little Britain. But it doesn't stop us taking the piss out of them in TV shows.

Fortunately we shipped most of them to America in the 18th & 19th centuries, so there's not many of them left in Ireland, apart from the ones who killed hundreds of our people & bombed our cities in the 70's/80's. So perhaps we have a slightly different take on the Irish in general from that of Americans.

Ditto Fundamentalist crazy Non-Conformist pseudo-Christian loonies, whom I remember we similarly shipped out to America somewhat earlier.

I hasten to add that I, of course, share none of these prejudices, having inadvertantly married an Irish girl many years ago, to whom I'm still married (it's a miracle, Father!) & I can attest that they are neither stupid, thick nor priest-ridden.

The jury's still out on the last count.