Little Britain's Rosie future
O'Donnell to guest on US version
Rosie O'Donnell is to make a guest appearance in the American version of Little Britain.Matt Lucas and David Walliams poke fun at the talk show host’s sexuality and well-publicised weight problems in the scene, set at the Fat Fighters club.
Lucas’s brutally rude Marjorie Dawes character asks O'Donnell if she is a lesbian because her weight made it hard to find a man.
Walliams said that O'Donnell was a ‘good sport’ about the gag and did not ask for any changes to the script.
‘I think the boundary is, if it's funny,’ Walliams told the Reuters news agency, ‘and I think it's helpful that we're doing it in front of an audience because if, for example, we’d done that Rosie O’Donnell sketch and people weren't laughing, if it was uncomfortable, I don't think we’d want to show it.’
‘I hope that even though that’s pretty outrageous, it’s done with warmth. We're obviously sort of exaggerating people and it's got to have some feeling of silliness about it, which stops it from being unpleasant.’
Little Britain USA launches on the HBO cable channel in September.
Published: 12 Jul 2008
