Genre
As a comedy genre, 'Little Britain' has the affect to attract people to watch because you'll usually find that the audience of the show being more C1 to D2 are working class that want to relax and switch off when they get home from a hard days work. Comedies are the best method for this as it doesn't invlove any heavy thinking and provides entertainment to brighten up their day. Being a comedy show also provides a protective layer to the controversial sketches that stereotype and could be seen as offensive, but as a comedy this is still debatable as they're suppose to be making fun, but does that give it a devine right to do so without criticism?
The show follows many generic conventions of a comedy sketch show by the structure of coming back to certain stories to finish it off after other sketches in between. Other comedy sketch shows include :
- The Lenny Henry Show
- The Sketch Show
- Harry Enfield and Friends
- 2D TV
- Allister McGauin's Big Impressions
posted by dp866GHS at 5:32 AM
2 Comments:
What are the generic conventions?
Do some research!
Danny, I like your writing style and your insight into your study. You’ve even included an overview of things you intend to look at, something that never occurred to me. Very good stuff here.
My only criticism would be the point you make that comedies don’t involve heavy thinking. I’m guessing you meant that most of the jokes don’t need it, but you make it sound that ALL comedies are like that. . .look at the Simpsons, or Black Adder for the basic and complex jokes. If you knew that already, nevermind. Good blog entry.
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