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high times; A British comedy duo takes an irreverent look at life after empire.(Little Britain)(Television program review)
Byline: Adam Green
If you had been watching BBC America recently, you might have witnessed the following scene: Two demure English transvestites named Florence and Emily-one of them short, stout, and mustachioed, the other lanky and sporting a thick beard-flounce into a seaside drugstore in full Victorian beach costume. "I have a very slight facial-hair problem," Emily confides to the druggist on whose advice he bleaches his whiskers an iridescent platinum. "Honestly, my dear," Florence tells him afterward as they sashay down the boardwalk. "You wouldn't know it's there."
Florence and Emily are just two of the many odd and mildly disturbing characters that Matt Lucas and David Walliams bring to life on Little Britain, their hugely popular, shamelessly vulgar, and insanely funny sketch-comedy show, now in its third season. Others include Daffyd, a flamboyantly gay Welshman with a penchant for short shorts and severe ...
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