DAVID WALLIAMS & JOSH: Little Britain, Gender & Satire

Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps

Josh Szeps

Comedy Interviews, Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Education, Comedy

4.6 • 863 Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2024

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

David Walliams is one of the most successful comedians in the world. On "Little Britain", his smash hit BBC sketch comedy show, he created characters whose catchphrases have become part of the culture: "I'm a lady", "Computer says No", and so many more.

David did ten seasons as a judge with Simon Cowell on Britain's Got Talent, and has written 43 children's books that have sold over 60 million copies.

Josh and David recently did a six-week, fifteen-show tour of Australia and New Zealand, where Josh interviewed him in front of tens of thousands fans. Before the final show in Perth, David sat down for an uncomfortable conversation about offending people, dressing up as a woman, and how he and Matt Lucas created some of the most memorable characters of 21st century television.

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0:00.0	Gahey, humans. Welcome to the safe space for dangerous ideas.
0:06.0	And few comedians have made people as uncomfortable and tested the dangerous edges of propriety,
0:13.0	like David Williams. If you're in America, it's probably hard to articulate just how huge his BBC TV sketch comedy show, Little Britain, was.
0:24.6	For years, wherever you went, you would overhear someone in a pub or a park or an office,
0:31.1	mouthing off one of David or Matt's catchphrases from characters like an old-fashioned transvestite.
0:38.7	But I'm a lady. I don't have testically.
0:44.4	To the carer for a wheelchair user.
0:47.2	Oh, that one.
0:48.7	That one?
0:49.6	Yeah.
0:50.9	Well, that says with deepest sympathy.
0:53.3	Yeah, well, that's what you send someone when somebody died
0:57.0	To the gay political staffer who is in love with his boss, the Prime Minister
1:02.0	Oh, Prime Minister, I want it so bad
1:05.0	It's this file
1:09.0	Oh yes, this file, yes!
1:12.2	I want this file so bad, yes.
1:14.9	What is it?
1:16.1	To the least helpful customer service agent in the world.
1:20.2	Computer says no.
1:22.9	And when earlier this year a global IT failure grounded planes and wreaked havoc on banks and businesses all over the world,
1:31.4	the front page of Britain's Sun newspaper ran only one headline. Computer says no.
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