Goodness Gracious Me

[Stan Butler]

Started off as a radio sketch show then was later given a Telly series.
It ran for 3 series and a special between 1998-2001

Not one I watched myself so much, but I remember it being popular with some people, and it had him in it off Rita, Sue & Bob Too' (Sue's Pakistani boyfriend, Aslam!)

The only other thing I remember of this was the 'Going for an English' sketch!


Any fans of this on here?

[funkdooby]

You will no doubt be astonished to hear that I loved it ;D

Anyone remember the Punjabi Girl p*ss take? ;D

Or those two kids who thought they were cool, innit! But weren't...

Or that really fat spoilt kid...

I could spend all night just staring into your cleavage...cheque please! ;D

[sarolium]

was it this show that spurned the line

"Lets go out get bladdered and then go for and English"

not exactly them words but on those lines

[Stan Butler]

funkdooby said:

You will no doubt be astonished to hear that I loved it ;D

;D

Not at all!


In all fairness, I could probably have got into this if I'd made more effort watching it. There must have been something else on at the time. Can't remember what though....

[Lieutenant Columbo]

Used to love it, but it dated very easily for this reasons:

"Hey... I know let's take a stereotypical 'English' or 'Asian' theme or situation and reverse it to make it ironic in that it's done from the other culture's viewpoint in order to highlight how ridiculous it would look!"

And then that's all they seemed to stick too - which was a pity, because the earlier stuff was top... especially thew Nan who insisted how to make anything was to use "a small aubergine" - and 'Uncle' who alsways said he could get it cheaper... and the feller who claimed that everything and everyone of merit was from India... and the fat kid was pure inspiration!



N.