Little Britain – The Very Funny Dog
I care about my friends, students and people very much. One of the ways I try to bring them some sunshine is by humour. Everyone enjoys humour. I certainly do. I want everyone I know to be happy, growing and healthy in all ways.
This is very funny and I’ve watched it countless times and still laugh when I watch it again.. Please please please enjoy!!!
Laugh, be happy, forgive those that hurt you, stop focussing on yourself, but FOCUS OUT. Go do charity and take care of the needs of others on a consistent basis to heal please. It works!! Meanwhile enjoy this video!! And may no one ever suffer…
Tsem Rinpoche
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The best thing about Little Britain is that the portrayals are accurate but just slightly off enough to be hilarious. David Walliams and Matt Lucas really highlighted the idiosyncrasies of British life and then went one step further, turning up the notch on the various stereotypes.
There really are super campy gays like Daffyd, there really are vulgar people like Vicky Pollard and there are holiday reps who are as unhelpful and unenthusiastic as Carol. There are gross men like Mr Dudley who have to resort to mail-order brides whose qualities and qualifications are questionable. And when it comes to characters like Phyllis, it’s definitely not hard to imagine or locate someone in our lives who has the potential to become like her…I can already think of one or two people I know!
I decided to come back to this after a great day. it was like cherry on top of the icecream. The video is so funny, I have watched it countless times and I still can laugh. It shows us how our own delusions and attachments hurt us.
This is so funny! The most funny part is the where the doggie started ‘talking’. The doggie is a real devil, he is taking granted on the love given to him from the Mama. But I think the Mama reflects the love in every Mama’s heart, she willing to do anything just to make the doggie happy. I hope more people in this world will actually practise the quality the Mama has and love their pets like she does. We must give them with all our love and never abuse them, cause they are the same as any other sentient beings. They feel love and pain.
Thank You for sharing Rinpoche.
Love, beatrix.
Mrs.Phyllis is so funny, in the last part of all three videos she always say You are one crazy b*tch in a man’s voice and she will mentally visualize that she is talking to Mr.Doggy. I hope there will be more videos of Phyllis and Mr.Doggy
An analogy I can make for this is that the dog is similar to our desires. When we have desires, they will distort us just as the dog made the lady do the things she did with the words “If you love me, you would do it.” When we get in trouble, our desires will NOT help us at all. This is like te dog who just sits back and says, “She’s one crazy bitch”
Another thing to note is that the lady is making the voices as shown by her mouth moving. This is significant because it shows how desires are caused by the self and not others.
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Laughter is always the best medicine for everything! It is not bitter, sour or hot(like chili). Neither is it harmful, hurtful, or detestful, but it does give a mouthful, with a happy-heart full. This is really caring, sharing, and loving of our guru. Rinpoche always want his students to stay happy and full of laughter. Leave it to our guru, he cares about friends, his students and people and wants to bring laughter and joy to all. His sense of humour is contagious. Who doesnt love or enjoy humour, every body does. This is proven in all his teachings, which make everyone always burst out with laughter. That is one of the reasons why KH is always “over-filled” when rinpoche gives teachings. At heart he always stays a caring and loving teacher, and a very helpful friend indeed!
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The video makes me laugh a lot. But I can’t help but to think of the small dog as my own self-centered mind and my own ego.
Whenever this self cherishing mind of mine is being challenged (i.e. I am going to be hurt and I don’t want myself to be hurt), a self-defense mechanism would be activated in my mind to counter those challenges (i.e. I am going to hurt others before others hurt me). Over the years of cherishing this self-centered mind of mind, the self-defense mechanism in my mind has been so skillful that it is being activated automaticaly without the realisation of my own consciousness.
As my self-cherished mind and my ego gets bigger everyday, the more I neglect the preciousness and well being of others, the further I distance myself away from the fundamentals of Buddhism – Bodhicitta/ Compassion/ Wisdom, the longer and deeper I trap myself in the never ending sufferings in samsara.
In order to avoid committing these self-inflicting thoughts and actions, I have no choice but to attack my self-cherishing mind/ego by:-
a) choosing the longest and hardest path of problem solving solutions in every decisions made on daily basis that would benefit others instead of myself;
b) change my habbits (i.e. instead of switching tv channels whenever the current program showing a group of people carrying out selfless deeds that benefit others, I force myself to watch the program to learn how to be happy by making others happy through the helps and assistances providing to them without any selfish agenda, etc)
c) participate myself in actvities that benefit other beings, which in this case, participate in activities carry out by Kechara House.
Nonetheless it is easier to be said than done. H.E. Tsem Tulku Rinpoche has mentioned before that attacking one’s mind is a form of guru devotion. By learning and practising the teachings given by our guru, we are validating the authenticity of our guru’s teachings and also repaying the kindness of our guru.
Hence, how much effot I spent in attacking my mind is equivalent to how devoted I am to my own guru.
This is another prime example of the skilful and contemporary ways in which Rinpoche brings teachings to us. On first glance, it is just another couple of funny clips from Little Britain, which I absolutely love (Daffyd – the only gay in the village) but now I see them in a different light. The sketches teaches us about letting go of conventionality and to see things for what is rather than what we perceive. After all, if we ‘peel’ off our skins and ignore the gender issues, we are all the same – we crave for attention and love. On a deeper level, we should disregard the ignorant way we perceive everything around us and deal with the truths.
Hilarious as it may seem, as I laugh, I do feel that this had been happening in our society most of the time. In the clip, the dog is the so called manipulative creature. But in our real world, humans are always trying to manipulate others and getting control of other people’s lives. In the middle of laughter, I felt the sinister selfish attitude and it really won’t help in making our society a better place to live in. People like this are full of anger and full of themselves without thinking of how other people feels. The line “If you love me, you will do it”, is it real love? Or is a way to manifest guilt into someone else and making them think that they should do something which they already know is wrong? It is really sad to see this type of people. Hope they will find their peace and stop trying to manipulate others.
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HAHHAHA. LITTLE BRITAIN!! This series is insanely funny and so random. In the past, every time I’ve watched an episode of the series, it was only for pure entertainment value. I would not look at the deeper meaning or the morale behind the story. I would just laugh at what I’ve seen or heard, and that was it. I stopped right there. Watching this video now and reading the comments above from the others has made me realise that the teaching doesn’t stop at KH, or Rinpoche’s youtube, blog, website and all other means. Dharma can be learnt from anything one does, watches, sees or hears, and that is the wonder of dharma, how it is so applicable in all walks of life. Thank you Rinpoche, for always finding different means to teach us.
This video is funny and it really made me laugh and thank you Rinpoche again for sharing this video.
Rinpoche always uses all kind of methods to bring Dharma into us by showing us examples such as this. Full of laugther and easier to sink in.
This lady here suffered enough humiliation and embarassment because she is too attached with the dog. Whatever the dog says and threatened, she follows although she knows its not right. She should influence the dog and not to be easily influenced by the the dog (she was worried that she will lose the dog by not order). The lady who is supposed to be the lead had turned into a slave in this episode. She is now a slave to her own attachment.
Same goes to our kids, if we pamper them too much, in the end they become a monster and causes us unhappiness because we have spoilt them. By the time we realised our mistakes, maybe its too late already.
This is very hilarious, especially when the mama starts talking to herself; pretend that the dog talks to her. Yes, she is really a crazy bitch.
When I watch this video, it reminded me of the video of David singing in Coffee Bean. It is about breaking our ego, because when our ego too high, we tend to step back due to we want to look good, so without realizing it, we actually lose out a lot of precious things / moment in our life..
Basically the dog is just an ego breaker for the mama, she wanted to do something that beyond what she is willing to do, and then she’ll use her dog as medium for her to break her ego, one sentence: ‘if you love me, you will do it’ and she’ll surrender immediately. Hahaha…
Laughter does bring people together – well said, Shaz! This video is too hilarious for words. And the dog is just too funny. It’s a small dog with a voice that would appear more suitable for a bull dog, but not that cute furry fellow. Again, it’s my own fixated perceptions.
I just love the way the dog would always say, “If you love me, you will do it.” Sadly but true, we hear that all the time in our daily lives – be it from our spouses, children or we are the guilty ones who say the same exact words to our own children.
Bottom line, we can learn Dharma from anything and everything – even something as hilarious as this! As long as we see the Dharma value in it, it is Dharma!
Hi Sean, yes the video’s very funny and I’m glad you enjoyed the video… there are also many things we can learn from the video – aside from it just being entertaining. You can read the other comments which others have written above, which mention:
1. learning to let go of our ego and laugh at ourselves
2. laughter brings people together
3. how we impute values and create projections on others which are not real etc.
But the best thing I liked about your post was when you said you want to join Dharma work full time when you grow up. It really is the best and most fulfilling work we can do. You can see Jean Mei, Jean Ai and Aunty Ruby together, or Datuk May, Li Kim, Li Kheng and Wee Liang – all in the Dharma and I think it’s really fabulous! I can’t wait for you to grow up 🙂 but in the meantime, you can still be very involved and I’m glad you are…
It was very funny as the dog is shown to be the master instead of the woman(?) It is clearly seen how the woman is acting as the ventriloquist for the dogs act. This teaches me that some people will try to take advantage of you and just by using five simple words , “Do you really love me?” So the woman says, “Yes” or argues a bit. That is why the dog has a bad mind. Also, when the woman gets caught by the policeman for sitting in a trash can wearing nothing other than undergarments or throwing a brick through a window the dog just sits there and calls her crazy for listening to him. Appearantely, the woman does not learn her lesson from listening to her evil puppy. Hahaha! This is one of the reasons why Kechara is what I feel better than my other pastimes by a hundred fold! I want to join full time when I grow up.
You’ll do it if you love me. A little bit of encouragement will do. What a threat tugging at little mama’s heart strings, only to be told “You are one crazy bitch.” It’s emotional blackmail, that’s what it is.
All in all, what a crazy little show – good fun and laughter. A laughter a day keeps the doctor away – LOL. When down in the dumps, return to watch this short clip for a little pick-me-up moment.
Rinpoche always has us in stitches in all his dharma talks – not to blackmail us, but to put us at ease as we are not used to sitting through hours of dharma talk, sometimes stretching overnight. A good wake-me-up and plenty of happy tears
Oh my Gawd! This is really so funny! I showed it to my mum too and she laughed so hard and kept saying the little dog is so adorable. I think laughter is such an amazing thing as it is an especially powerful tool to wake us up from a long teaching or to make us let go of silly conceptions and just hang out.
One of the more difficult things to do for most ego-centric people like myself is to laugh at oneself. Rinpoche have often pointed that I would laugh so loud and exageratedly when the joke is on others. However, when the joke is on me or on one of my more embarassing traits, I would just have a forced smile and Rinpoche is very quick to point that in me. I immediately understand where Rinpoche is getting at but my ego is just too big and quite scary indication of how attached I am to how others view me.
Hence, Rinpoche would use increasingly potent ways to ‘embarass’ me towards letting go. You have no idea how skillful Rinpoche is at doing that and there are times, I could let go and just have a hearty laugh while there are times, I could barely force a smile. There is still a lot to be desired from my practice of letting go.
Terima Kasih Rinpoche!
I wonder who was the owner? The dog or the human lol
Again, it was like a reminder to me about my own Ego.
How I love to protect it and then think that I am the one in charge when it was in charge of me.
Then I take it on the self cherishing level: excluding all others and actually think that those stunts are quite clever….
Then comes the part ‘If you love me, do it?’ ROFL..
It’s all a test…to see ourselves…one wrong turn and it’s all over again…sigh lol
I agree with you margaretlee but I don’t think that’s the only teaching in the video. I think another one we could get out of it is how our delusions are our downfall. It’s mama who is doing the talking, and causing herself into all of those tricky situations which will disturb people’s minds. And another teaching is imputing values. The dog isn’t talking, it’s just looking at mama. Still, when mama talks and uses those words, we (as the audience) almost believe it’s the dog, just by the look on the dog’s face…but the look on the dog’s expression never changes! It remains the same the entire time, but we project values like ‘cute’ or ‘blackmail’ or ‘guilt’ or ‘love’ onto its face which makes the whole sketch so believable for us.
This is so funny, in the name of love, the Mama did anything for the dog. It is like talking to our own “Little Devil” in our mind. Every moment we have a chance to make our decisions, whether positive which lead to good karma/result or a negative one which leads us nowhere.
The mama was debating with her dog (or her ego) so many times, but at the end, she let her dog/ego win and did all the stupid actions. It looks very funny and ridiculous, but we are doing the same thing in real life knowingly or without knowing.
This show is magnifying our character weakness to us just like Rinpoche who uses all kinds of creative ways to let us recognise the root cause of our problem, face it and change it.
hahaha…and to add on, Rinpoche memorised the lines and mimic the crazy old lady. It is so hilarious.. “You’re one crazy bitch!!!” ☺ Just recalling watching the video with Rinpoche makes me laugh to myself…hehehe…
Rinpoche, thank you for all the fun times together, the movie nights and chats, etc. How kind of Rinpoche to go to our level of silliness to engage with us. In all the fun times, there’s always teachings, be it teachings to let go, teachings to just be yourself….this is dharma in real life.
Rinpoche integrates Dharma in everything, every moment, in contemporary ways so i can relate to it better…how fortunate I am to have the merits to be a student of Rinpoche!
This video is pretty hilarious. The old mama kept on listening to the dog, challenged and pushed until she got tricked again, infact every time without fail. The morale of the story is? Is she stupid or does she just blindly listen to her dog in the name of love?
I figure it to be the former. Old mama is stupid. Love does not necessarily mean you lost all kinds of rationality. I find this video very refreshing, even though Rinpoche wants us to enjoy it with a sense of humour, crack a few laughters, infact, it put me to contemplate harder that in life, there are a lots of situations like those between the old mama and the dog, and if we don’t wake up and just blindly repeat what we used to be doing, we will end up like reaping the same results.
Also, I liked the show so much that I went out to buy the biography of the two guys behind the show, Matt Lucas and David Walliams, and I would recommend this to anyone who wants a boost of inspiration and confidence.
The book reveals how these two guys just started out as nothing. They would go up on the stage and people would literally boo them off and shout really nasty insults at them as they were doing their comedy acts. They tried and tried and tried again for YEARRRRRRRRS, until they finally got a breakthrough. Matt Lucas even went into quite severe depression and resorted to taking quite a lot of weed just to get through it.
But they never gave up on their career, and more importantly, they never gave up on each other. They stuck through it together and now they’re one of the hottest TV acts in Britain, with HUGE fan base in America too. Even when they started, they just cobbled all their props together – their friends helped them with the wigs and props and makeup, and they would just improvise all kinds of things to make it look good, even though they didn’t have any budget. They met with crazy rumours, ran out of money, went through all kinds of ups and downs… and yet, they’re still here.
Really a good story in what it means to never give up.
After all, who knew a crazy old lady with a talking dog could become such hot television viewing?
Rinpoche, omg I just watched it again and laughed all over again. “You’re one crazy bitch!!!!” It just never stops being funny… heheh reminded me of all the good times that we spent in Rinpoche’s room and in Nepal Ladrang watching these videos; rinpoche would laugh so hard he couldn’t breathe and would almost fall off his chair.
MUST WATCH this one too, about Bubbles and Desiree having breakfast:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gm_YaS7Hg4c
“Hippo like you belong in the zoo”
“maybe bebe’s right, maybe I shouldn’t have this munch bunch rrrrraspberry yoghurt after all”
hahahaha!!
The videos are so ridiculous and Rinpoche would find all these funny catchphrases from the show and repeat them to us, or even use them in teachings. Rinpoche really is so kind to continuously find all these ways to engage with us, make us laugh and keep us happy, just so he can impart the Dharma to us.
Even Little Britain becomes a teaching – to just let go and not be so fixed on how we should be or act or talk. It’s quite amazing to see how the two main guys on this programme just let loose and are so versatile and open to doing anything – from acting as big black naked women, to crazy old ladies, to a fat short gay Welsh man, to a rude teenage girl… haha I’m still laughing to myself now as I type this… hehe
Oh My god! That was infinitely funny. The dog is so cute yet so evil. HAHAHA! It made me laugh in a few minutes.
haha…love this show…kind of reflects whats going on in my mind sometimes.