Rather than retroactive hand-wringing, the cultural reckoning (content warnings, removal of certain scenes, much social media discourse) currently being experienced by the grotesque strain of 00s comedy that included Little Britain and The Catherine Tate Show stems largely from how uncomfortable it made many feel at the time. Sketch shows that don’t seem quite so funny now. Both had playground-friendly catchphrases – “Yeah but no but” and “Am I bovvered?”, respectively – and both starred in extremely popular sketch shows. N early 20 years ago now, two feckless teenage girls ruled the comedy zeitgeist: Matt Lucas’s Vicky Pollard, an obnoxious young mother who once swapped one of her many children for a Westlife CD, and Catherine Tate’s ridiculously defensive working-class schoolgirl Lauren Cooper.
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