Little Britain Live

When tickets to Little Britain went on Sale last Autumn they were sold out in a matter of hours. As each venue went on sale they were snapped up so fast you couldn’t get them for money or love. So Last October having tried several times to outbid someone on Ebay for a pair and failed, my good friend Steph Alden & I sat at her PC, found a pair that were being offered on “Buy it Now” for £60 each, hit the button and relaxed. We were going. Rather than making the trek into central London with all of its traffic problems and lack of late night transport, we booked for the Brighton Show with the intention of spending a day catching up Pre Show.

The Auditorium at the Brighton Centre was Packed as we rushed to get out seats just prior to curtain up. 5th Row Centre with a perfect uninterrupted view of the Stage meant we had money well spelt.

The Show was the usual characters from all of the series, Lou & Andy, Bubbles De Vere in various states of undress, Sebastian & the Prime Minitster, the infamous Vickie Pollard, Yeah but no, but yeah, but no but yeah but no, I so cant believe you just said that, I only hit Michelle – As a JOKE!. There was the weird customer in the Shop, the Dean at the College and her unpolitically correct descriptions of the students, Rosemary Doors and Fat Fighters, Perverted Children’s Entertainer Des Kay, who got two men out of the Audience and thoroughly embarrassed them. There was the incontinent woman, the ladies at the Women’s Institute vomiting, not very good transsexual Emily Howard and of course the now iconic Dyffed Thomas, The Only Gay in the Village.

The Show ended in a Musical Number leaving you in state close to tears of laughter having laughed your whole way through the show.

Sat to our left were a family of four, Mum, Dad & two boys of maybe 13 & 11. At when stage when Sebastian left stage quoting, “oh Prime Minister, I’m all covered in Jizzm”, the eldest of the boys asked his Brother & mother, What’s Jizzm? Oh we laughed, but Steph agreed it was probably a little too below the mark even for her own 12 year old. Rude, Vulgar, un politically correct, its become the backbone of our comedy for the past three years. You can barely walk down a street without hearing someone quote from the show. “I’m a Lady”, “Oh Myfannwy I’m so down, its not easy being the only gay in the Village”, “Call me Bubbles Darling, everyone does”, “Margaret Margaret, do we have any Pirate Memory Games?”. The TV show is a classic, the Stage show was hilarious and worth every penny. We left after the big musical number on a High and although Steph had to go home I had a Bed & Breakfast booked and met my friend Jaffa Joe for a couple of Jars. Joe & I met in the Gaydar Radio Chat room back in August and although have been chatting since then have never actually met. My friend Neil says that he and I are very much alike and are to be compared to Stuart Alan Jones from Queer as Folk, except in his words, your Like Stuart but much more likeable”. HOW VERY DARE HE! But it was nice to meet Jaffa Joe and yes we are very similar but I shall leave that subject right there! 

Sitting with Joe in several drinking holes in Brighton and post Little Britain it did get us talking and thinking about being Gay in Little Britain Today. Its not such a bad place after all. To think back in 1997 when I came out I was worried that my parents would throw me out or turn their back on me and instead my world changed for the better. I came out of my shell and became the person I am today. Happy, confident, dozens of truly close friends whom I absolutely adore and a lifestyle that I love. I’m not only happy to be out but Happy to be Gay. I love my life, love my friends and love the special times we all spend together. I have straight friends and gay friends but the one thing we all have in common is a love for having a good time and a friendship sealed at the heart. There was a time when I would have said I wished I was straight so I could just live a Normal life. But normality is only in the eye of the beholder and what once seemed a strange far off world of men holding hands, gay clubs and flamboyance has become the fabulous world that I now live.

While chilling out after DTPM on Sunday at Lee’s apartment (possibly the most interlectual Chill out I have ever been to as Joel & I were reading National Geographic) we were discussing how man had evolved. From Ape to Neanderthal to Victorian Britain with all its reservations & pomp to us now – SIMPLY FABULOUS!

For more on Little Britain See Hyperlink Under title at Top! :-)
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