Quote: sidecar jon @ December 15 2010, 8:27 PM GMTas was mum.
AKA Penny
Miranda - Series 2 Page 14
In case you missed it, here's the red button extra in which Miranda talks to her real mum. You can slightly see where some of the posh inspiration must have come from: https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/miranda_hart_sitcom/videos/2084/
Red buttoners! 
Quote: Tony Cowards @ December 15 2010, 9:36 AM GMTI know, fancy her doing a popular comedy programme that appeals to millions of viewers, both male and female, how on Earth is that going to help promote women in comedy?
(Fat "bird"? Really? And you think she's the one stuck in the past?)
>_< I really don't see your massive prob' with 'bird', it flowed, nothing else would do.
This is a comedy site, so I didn't expect totally 'PC' posts?.
Bird is non-gendered noun; Jo Brand uses it all the time, so good enough for me folks.
To Tony, 
She uses 'fattist' material, an easy laugh for millions of viewers, yawn...
Quote: dellas @ December 17 2010, 3:11 AM GMTThis is a comedy site, so I didn't expect totally 'PC' posts?
And Miranda is a comedy television programme, so why would you expect totally 'PC' plots and humour from it?
Quote: Aaron @ December 17 2010, 9:38 AM GMTAnd Miranda is a comedy television programme, so why would you expect totally 'PC' plots and humour from it?
I am posting a critique of someone's material, viewed by millions, if I find it boring and 'fattist', I can say so. This stuff only perpetuates the notion of women as 'fat', ergo; 'funny'. Surely we have to move on? Sooo dated I will trudge out in snow and die, who will care?, as I have no fat to protect me.
Quote: Mark @ December 16 2010, 9:41 PM GMTIn case you missed it, here's the red button extra in which Miranda talks to her real mum. You can slightly see where some of the posh inspiration must have come from: https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/miranda_hart_sitcom/videos/2084/
OH such a revelation- NOT.
Nice attitude!
I liked the first series well enough but I've declined to keep up with an insular, repetitive sitcom into a pointless and wholly contrived second series (as I assume it must be). I believe I saw it all in the first series. (confirmed by seeing the 1st ep of s.2).
Quote: dellas @ December 18 2010, 3:26 AM GMTThis stuff only perpetuates the notion of women as 'fat', ergo; 'funny'. Surely we have to move on?
Does it? Or is that your own interpretation? I would suggest that it is. Therefore, by your own logic, it is your mind that has to move on. 
She's not particularly 'fat' anyway!
Not that it has f**k all to do with her comedic talent either way.
Quote: dellas @ December 18 2010, 3:26 AM GMTI have no fat to protect me.
Well, THAT won't endear you to anyone here. 
It is true, however, that funny women on British TV do tend to be well-upholstered.
Quote: zooo @ December 18 2010, 11:19 AM GMTShe's not particularly 'fat' anyway!
Not that it has f**k all to do with her comedic talent either way.
Maybe not her talent but definitely her material, she never stops leaning on it, does she? It's definitely a gender thing, fatness - you never saw Benny Hill, Ronnie Barker or Benard Manning using it in their acts, not intentionally. And yet women such as Miranda Hart, Dawn French, Jo Brand, Victoria Wood and Sarah Millican never seem to stop going on about it in their otherwise slim acts. It's you women who are so obsessed with your size, not men! Morning.
I've said it before I think, but she makes very few jokes about being fat. Most of them are about her being clumsy, mistaken for a man, unfeminine, and tall.
Not very many at all about being fat.
Hmm, don't know, direct jokes maybe but there are an awful lot of indirect fat jokes about her eating cakes and puds, having to go to the gym, and the visual gags that wouldn't work if she was slim, are you not being too dismissive of this huge wad of fat related material? I know I've seen it all and I've not kept up with this 2nd series. It's a big part of her act imo.