Dennis Waterman (Little Britain)

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The Little Britain character Dennis Waterman (played by David Walliams) is a caricature of the real life actor of the same name.


Dennis Waterman
First appearance Series 1 (first series appearance)
Statistics
Gender Male
Occupation Unemployed

The character is featured in both the radio and TV series (series one and two, but not three) in sketches where he visits his agent Jeremy Rent (played by Matt Lucas) looking for parts, but is always rejected (or more likely turns down the parts) because of his insistence (in a high, squeaky voice) upon writing and singing the "feem toon" (theme tune), which usually often sounds similar to the Minder theme with the lyrics altered to fit the situation.

There have been references to Minder in some of his sketches: he gave Rent a Minder video for his birthday and sang the Minder theme instead of "Happy Birthday to You". Also, a new series of Minder was going to be aired, with Waterman reprising his role, but he turned it down, despite the fact of starring in the series and writing and singing the theme tune.

In the television version, oversized props are used to make the caricatured Waterman look just three feet tall (or even smaller in some cases, such as a series two episode which he is in a design of a set, which is a shoebox and he is the equivalent size to the objects). In real life, Waterman is of average height.

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