Little Miss Jocelyn
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Little Miss Jocelyn | |
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Created by | Jocelyn Jee Esien |
Starring | Jocelyn Jee Esien |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
No. of series | 2 |
No. of episodes | 13 (one unaired) |
Production | |
Running time | 30 minutes |
Original release | |
Network | BBC Three series 1) BBC Two (series 2) |
Release | 22 August 2006 14 February 2008 | –
Little Miss Jocelyn is a British
In 2007, Esien featured in Girls Aloud and Sugababes' Comic Relief video for "Walk This Way",[1] where she puts a parking ticket on Ewen Macintosh, a reference to the character Jiffy from the show Little Miss Jocelyn.
History
The first episode aired on
Selected characters
Jiffy – a dysfunctional Nigerian
Florence – an overweight dietitian who uses Juju to help people lose weight. One of her catchphrases is "umm-hmm" (used repetitively), and "...or dream of this!", said while doing outrageous things, such as ripping open someone's shirt. She usually ends the session with: "save yourself, save yourself, save your se-e-elf!"
Sheson – a Nigerian-Cockney bus driver who regularly sings "In The Name of Jesus". She criticises her passengers on a regular basis. Several scenes include telling a female passenger with a dog to "take her sheep off her bus", accusing her of making the bus look as if it is Noah's Ark. She refuses to allow a lady with a pram to board her bus, branding it as a spaceship, and closes the door on a man who asks if the bus stops at a certain place. She refuses a passenger permission to talk to her when he asks a question. In one scene she has a mat for her passengers to wipe their feet on that says "I Can See Your Knickers". She criticises two men for not thanking her by calling them homosexuals. One of her catchphrases is "You're lucky I'm a Christian!"
Paulette – a spoilt middle-aged woman who screams and cries when she doesn't get her own way.
Fiona – a middle-aged woman who works in an office and tries to conceal the obvious fact that she is black.
Madame President – the first black female president of the US. She speaks
Mrs Omwokwopopo – a Nigerian woman who is constantly in marriage counselling with her several husbands, and who often tries to make a move on the counsellor, or
Helen – a woman who is often seen in important places, such as at a wedding or an interview, where she rubs her buttocks along the floor. When the surrounding people look confused, she states, "I've got worms."
Liz – a savage and the girlfriend of
Gladys Kingston – an old Jamaican woman who is going through a divorce and hates men or anyone of the male gender, whether young or old. In one episode, she scolds her nephew Josh, saying that her niece is her favorite. She is also a teacher in a primary school. She tells a boy to stand at the corner on one foot, and a girl that her father will run away and impregnate a postwoman. She also wishes her husband was dead.
Prim – a white
Hortense – a woman in her early to mid-fifties who asks people with babies to allow her to take a look at them, thinking them to be beautiful. However, on two of the three times she appears (all in S1 E6) she finds the baby ugly so says "What a lovely...pram" or "What a lovely...rattle". In her third and final appearance, she says: "Oh! What an ugly baby! Jesus!" At the end of her section she usually says "You take care now you hear, and God bless!"
Sharonisha – a teenage schoolgirl who is seen with her friends on a bus, sometimes driven by Sheson. She is seen talking to or about other passengers and asking them questions. Sharonisha usually makes a big speech about how something her friend said doesn't make sense. She often calls other passengers "pefodiles".
Ignatius – a Nigerian driving instructor who teaches the people who took his lessons how to drive a vehicle in a very hazardous, inappropriate manner. Ignatius is ignorant of the car's controls (e.g. he calls the gear-stick the "pully-puller"). Ignatius allows his 10-year-old son Toby to get behind the wheel, in an effort to teach him the family trade. He admits that he lives in the UK illegally.
Cash Helper – a girl who works at a supermarket checkout or sometimes on a sweet stall. She attempts to add the prices of the items in her head, causing great inconvenience to customers. Her catchphrase is "If you don't use it, you'll lose it..."
Reception
The first series was nominated for a BAFTA for "Best Comedy Programme" in 2007.[2] Esien was also praised for being the first black woman in either the UK or USA to be given her own sketch show.
However, after the second series, a poll conducted by the British Comedy Guide website named the show the "Worst British TV Sketch Show of 2008".[3]
DVD releases
The first series was released on DVD in the UK (Region 2) on 25 September 2006, and in Australia (Region 4) on 23 April 2007.
The second series was released on DVD in the UK on 29 September 2008 but is missing some scenes.
References
- ^ "Red Nose Day – Walk This Way". Archived from the original on 11 August 2008.
- ^ "BAFTA Nominations announced". British Sitcom Guide. Retrieved 11 April 2007.
- ^ "The Comedy.co.uk Awards 2008". British Comedy Guide. Retrieved 19 January 2009.