ABSTRACT
Originally a radio show and later a TV series, Little Britain has attained huge success in the British entertainment industry since its first release in 2003. It is a British TV comedy featuring different characters from all walks of life in Britain, exaggeratedly parodied by creators and actors David Walliams and Matt Lucas. One of the famous characters, Daffyd Thomas, played by the ‘out’ gay creator and actor Matt Lucas, is a provincial young gay man living in a tiny Welsh village who chooses to believe that he is ‘the only gay in the village’. The ‘only gay song’, ending with ‘because I am gay . . . A big fat gay! A proper gay! The only gay!’, sung by Daffyd, was the climax of the live charity show Comic Relief in 2007. I was surprised by the outrageous, bold and blunt lyrics of the song, sung by Matt Lucas. For me, it was more than his excellent and funny performance of the gay character Daffyd; it was also a declaration of his own personal life, screamed out on the stage: ‘I am gay, a big fat gay’.
