Funniest Charachter? - The League of Gentlemen (2000) Discussion

[–] SeaShore4 17 years ago

I love Babs and her taxi:

"Hop in Gents!"

And the details of her "op".

Oh, and what about "Pops"? He wasn't so much funny as revolting, but I loved the scene where his son had his girlfriend round for dinner and Pops was perving over her. Pops sends the son off to get her a Kinder Egg and when the son says she didn't like chocolate Pops does that mad thing with his hand over his eyes and says:

"well, if she doesn't want to eat the cho-co-late she can play with the toy!!"

Infamy! Infamy! They've all got in in for me!!

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[–] Bubbly-Jubbly 16 years ago

Oh oh, I love herr lipp and pauline too!! I just love Steve, I think he's great!
Herr lipp is the best though, I love the christmas special where him and Matthew are in that creepy bedroom together and matthew breathes on him and herr lipp says "oh matthew i think one of us has done a trump! I think it's just the way he says it, I piss myself everytime.
The Herr Lipp/Steve Pemberton thing is great in the film too!

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[–] saugoof 16 years ago

Hard to pick one, but I'd probably have to say Pauline too, or Tubbs.

Also one character that probably won't get much of a mention since he only appeared once was the cave guide, "Some people like darkness. Me, I don't care for it, it's in the darkness where I see the boys face..."

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[–] HennerBoBenner 16 years ago

I adore Pauline as much as I want to hit her with a shovel - which is a lot. I've had to be "on the dole" during hard times and gals like her are a bit much.

Mickey is definitely my close 2nd favorite

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[–] mco-15 15 years ago

I loved the cave guide, too :)

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[–] iv032 16 years ago

Mickey - he doesn't have to open his mouth to be funny. :)

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[–] jpearson-20 16 years ago

The whole cast of Legs Akimbo "put yourself in a child", I cant remember their names but The Timmy Mallett look a like with the inferiority (sorry about the spelling)complex and the two gay actors and their rivalry combined with the fact that none of them can act or have any understanding of the subject matter make for compulsive viewing although they only appear twice!
Apart from them it would have to be either Pauline & Mickey or the posh bint and her mother the cleaner, although the vets misadventures are very funny too.

"I distort my perceptions to make my reality more palatable"

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[–] leinadree 16 years ago

i like legs akimbo and papa lazarou

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[–] TakiRP 16 years ago

I like Geoff Tipps... mainly because he's a clever man with a big c@ck.

'Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.'

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[–] Kudos_King 16 years ago

Hilary Briss, played by the best of the league Mark Gatiss. He's so incredibly sinister and the underplayed comedy is what makes him the best in my eyes.

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[–] BeautifulGreenBeast 15 years ago

Herrlipp! I love that character I laughed sooo hard when I first saw him, he doesn't even have to say anything, but when he does it's some of the best dialog in the show. "OOH! I have squished your mouth brush!"

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[–] davies666 16 years ago

Legs Akimbo : their 'play' Everybody Out ,had me a stiches !
the Denton Family : white for hands brown for feet,green for torso thighs and seat !!

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[–] vdemon96 16 years ago

Pretty much every character Steve plays but my favourites are Pauline, Tish and Harvey Denton.

Although saying that, Reece and Mark are both fabulous too!

"Once the vodka gets flowing you never know what's going to happen, really"

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[–] nikkimousarri 16 years ago

many brilliant character, but for me it's papa lazarou, i just love that character and just genius how funny it is him calling everyone dave is

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[–] Tonks1982 16 years ago

Like most people on here, I love Legz Akimbo, and as an actor, I've seen (and sadly once or twice had to be in) plays like that, and the characterisation is spot on. I love Mark Gatiss' character, he's just such a terrible actor.

"You stand accused of being gay, how do you plead."

"Guilty. No, not guilty. Oh why are you judging me?"

That bit has me in hysterics every time.

God, there's so many. I love the sinister monolgues from Gatiss in both Series 1 and Series 3, as the tour guide and again as the mortician. Genius.

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[–] emmapoo 16 years ago

i love pauline & her pens

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[–] Jenesis 16 years ago

Pam Doove

Jenesis

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[–] babelfish1 16 years ago

Without doubt it's Rev. Bernice Woodall.

Twelve times did the iron register of time beat on the sonorous bell metal

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[–] vdemon96 15 years ago

Good choice! I forgot about her!
"Ekskewd beef!!" haha

"Once the vodka gets flowing you never know what's going to happen, really"

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[–] qmark78 15 years ago

Papa Lazarou "Is that dave'

"I am so smart. I am so smart. S-M-R-T, I mean, S-M-A-R-T."

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[–] violentquiche 15 years ago

Im with you. Close second is Pauline. And Geoff Tipps.

Genius stuff.

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[–] gallifreyrises 15 years ago

I personally like Reverend Bernice. Ranting about hippies and disabled parking spaces is just hilarious. As is calling school children cowards and whoremongers and yelling at a teenage girl for masturbating. I also loved that mini sketch where she collects donations to bring back the slave trade.

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[–] vdemon96 15 years ago

Me too! I used to recite her monolgues at school when I first saw it (I was quite young) I'm sure my teachers loved that...

"Once the vodka gets flowing you never know what's going to happen, really"

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[–] wonderegg 15 years ago

funniest character would be the peado dutch guy who keeps saying farter (father). As well as the old couple in the shop, saying "this is a local shop for local people, theres nothing for you here."

Any fool can risk his life, but it takes a hero to risk his heart.

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[–] vdemon96 15 years ago

the 'peado dutch guy' is Herr Lipp, a German.

"Once the vodka gets flowing you never know what's going to happen, really"

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