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I think I see what you're getting at, but alternatively the Kumars at no. 42 and Matt Lucas playing Daffyd? Or the 'check please!' man, who's nothing to do with being Asian, and say David Walliams as Royal Correspondant Peter Andre?
Well, Legba has already done a neat job of discussing the different relationships to stereotying that LB and Syal/Bhaskar/Wadia etc have.
Another distinction is that the GGM stuff works on two levels, in that there are points of explicitly speaking to the community it's lampooning. There's the odd Hindi catchphrase, for example, jokes that only 'we' get.
GGM does a wonderful job of being at the same time generally funny and speaking to its community. The writers/performers are clear that they want to be on TV/recognised as a good comedy show, not 'the Asian comedy show', but there's also plenty of stuff in there that is written for their mothers/cousins etc
The 'check please guy' is a perfect example. There's the 'terrible chat ups by man who thinks he's super suave' general laugh. Then thee's the styling, which references/lampoons some very specific Indian male presentations. So, actually, it *does* have a subcultural element to it.
Now, Daffyd may work on this level (and in fact, was on in the gay pub I was in last night, which would suggest that for some, it does), but that's a single character, and I'm dubious that the identifications that are going on there translate into a more connected view of Vicky Pollard/Bubbles and Desiree.
See also Flyboy's point about queasiness re VP dovetailing with 'chav' |
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