MY ORAL PRESENTATION: BRITISH HUMOR (1st term)

MR. BEAN:

Mr. Bean is a British comedy of 14 half-hour episodes, written by Rowan Atkinson. The first episode was broadcast on ITV on 1 January 1984, and the last on October 2006 in United Kingdom.

The series has been the recipient of a number of international awards. The show has been sold in 245 territories of the world.

Mr. Bean is a man that’s “a child in a grown man’s body”, and he has to solve various problems presented by everyday tasks. He rarely speaks, and his humor is derived from his unusual solutions and interactions with other people, his pettiness, and occasional malevolence.

He has got a teddy bear named Teddy, his best friend. It’s inanimate, but Mr. Bean always pretends it’s alive. He buys it Christmas presents or he tries not to wake it in the mornings.

He has a mini (car), and he also has got a girlfriend, Irma Gobb, that seems to be only a friend, no more. However, Bean becomes jealous when she dances with another man at the disco, or things like that.

THE YOUNG ONES:

The Young Ones is a british sitcom, broadcasted in 1982. A programme where characters are sharing the same common environment, such as a home or workplace, accompanied with jokes as part of the dialogue. It’s anarchic, and in the 80’s made a little funnier the television.

The main characters are four undergraduate students sharing a house:
- Vyvyan: a violent punk.
- Rick: a pompous would-be anarchist.
- Neil: a long-suffering hippie.
- Mike: the posh of the group.

The show combines traditional british humor style with violent moments, and surrealism.

LITTLE BRITAIN:

Little Britain is a British comedy, a sketch show (consists of a series of short comedy scenes or vignettes, called "sketches," commonly between one and ten minutes long).

The show are some parodies of British people from all walks of life in various situations familiar to the British. It can be described like a guide of ways of British lifes, really accentuated.

There are many characters, most of them played by Lucas and Walliams with varying degrees of costume and makeup.
The programme has become increasingly popular with children, despite being shown after the watershed. There has also been criticism from teachers that the programme leads to copycat behaviour in the playground.


MY SELF EVALUATION:

In my opinion I have to improve my security in front of other people, and read less. However, I think I'm good with some other things. Also, it's good to see that at first, I was soooo nervous and embarrassed, but when the presentation went on, I was more secure, and stable ;)



Paula.