Goodness Gracious Me Analysis

'Going for a English'

This sketch is particularly interesting as the cast turn over the roles of the English and Indian society, showing a loud INDIAN family going to a English restaurant for a 'English' opposed to an 'Indian'. Like always, humour is used, and the Indian families behaviour presents themselves as stereotypical English people, as they have characteristics such as being Loud and Drunk. The Cast have cleverly turned the English Society as the 'Other', by making fun of them the ways they are made fun out of. The waiter, who is male, is made into a sexual object rather than the female, as the indian lady teases him with sexual comments. This is used as an example of the Female Gaze.