Three of Britain's top comedians have given their response toplans by evangelical Christians to use their catchphrases to recruitnew members: "No, but no, but no, but no."
Little Britain's Matt Lucas and David Walliams and Catherine Tatehave threatened legal action against an evangelical Christian groupover a poster campaign aimed at young people. Representatives of thestars claimed that using their most famous utterances on the postersbreached their intellectual property rights.
Christian Publishing and Outreach (CPO), the UK's leadingreligious publicity supplier, sold the brightly coloured series tochurches across the UK with the phrases in capital letters with theaim of reaching out to young people.
Each poster carried a famous phrase followed by a quotation fromthe Bible. One featured the catchphrase of Little Britain's shell-suited teenager, Vicky Pollard: "Yeah but, no but, yeah but". Belowher catchphrase were the words of Peter the Apostle: "Always beprepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give thereason for the hope that you have." Another poster featured theretort of the nimble wheelchair-bound Andy Pipkin to his trustingcarer, Lou Todd: "Yeah, I know."
Two catchphrases used by characters in The Catherine Tate Showwere also used: Derek Faye's "How very dare you" and "Am Ibovvered?" popularised byTate's argumentative schoolgirl character,Lauren.
To that last question, representatives of Tate answered "yes" andsaid they would be contacting CPO on her behalf. The Little Britainstars have already taken action.
CPO was unavailable for comment yesterday (the Sabbath) but aspokesman told Scotland on Sunday that permission to use thecatchphrases had not been sought and the posters had been withdrawn.
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