Matt Lucas

Desert Island Discs

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4.4 • 13.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2006

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Kirsty Young's castaway on Desert Island Discs this week is the comedy performer and writer Matt Lucas. As one half of the team that created the hit TV show Little Britain, he's been responsible for dreaming up such characters as Vicky Pollard, the Asbo teenager who swapped her baby for a Westlife CD and Dafydd, the Welsh homosexual who is adamant he's "the only gay in the village". When he was six years old his hair fell out and as a result he acquired a certain local notoriety - from then on it simply never occurred to him that he wouldn't go on to become famous. Just five years ago he was struggling to have his work commissioned and thought of abandoning his career in comedy. Today, he's one of the most popular and recognisable entertainers in Britain. [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] Favourite track: These are the Days of Our Lives by Queen Book: The Deeper Meaning of Liff by Douglas Adams Luxury: Favourite London restaurant

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Kirstie Young and this is a podcast from the Desert Island Discs Archive
0:04.9	for rights reasons we've had to shorten the music. The program was originally broadcast in 2006.
0:17.6	My cast away this week is the comedy performer and writer Matt Lucas.
0:31.6	Legend.
0:32.6	Comedy legend.
0:33.6	Legend, I beg your pardon. As one half of the team that created the hit TV show Little Britain,
0:37.6	he's won a bundle of awards and is responsible for the character of Vicky Pollard,
0:41.6	the chav teenager who swapped her baby for a Westlife CD, and Dapheth,
0:45.6	the Welsh homosexual who despite all indications to the country considers himself to be the only gay in the village.
0:51.6	The comedy characters that have brought him and his on-screen partner David Williams such success
0:55.6	are grotesque as well as funny,
0:57.6	appearing to reflect the habits and attitudes of a nation as though through a fairground hall of mirrors,
1:03.6	they exaggerate and distort, but at the same time show us something of the truth of how we behave and how we are.
1:09.6	Matt, the Little Britain catchphrases now are part of everybody's everyday life, the yeah,
1:15.6	but no but and the only gay in the village. Do they follow your round everywhere you go?
1:17.6	They do, but we cherish to see that as a bad thing because me and David have been writing together.
1:25.6	Is it me and David or David Nigh?
1:27.6	It is David and I.
1:29.6	Oh, well you and David have been writing together for 12 years.
1:33.6	I can see where this is going to go.
1:35.6	And you know, and many years without much success.
1:39.6	So finally, we have this big audience.
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