Little Britain

David Walliams and Matt Lucas are now pretty much household names, with Little Britain largely to thank for their fame. I (and I'm sure alot of you) know it in it's televisual incantation, I was quite suprised to learn that it started out on the radio before it's move to the chattering cyclops. The show is as its name suggests, is a look at some of the more peculiar residents of this tiny little island we call home. As well as playing all the roles, Matt and David (and before you ask yes we are on first name terms, lol) write the show as well. While the writing is generally good alot of the humour comes from the actual characters visually. Characters such ...  Read the complete review

When Little Britain first came on to the screens, I was never a fan, and admittedly I never gave it a chance. I gave it a chance and I started to become a fan and started enjoying the series. All the characters were funny and well played by the cast of Matt Lucas and David Walliams. My favourite characters were Anne, who was in the mental institute, Daffydd, who was the only gay in the village, Mr Mann, who was the very silent shopper, and Lou and Andy, who is a 'disabled' person and his helper. I thought it was brilliant British comedy. The show then went on to make three series, and made some special editions, however as the series went on, the ...  Read the complete review

Little Britain is a television comedy sketch show done by Matt Lucas and David Wailliams who are very funny and have create some very memorable characters. The show will feature a few sketches and sometimes they can last a few seconds to a few minutes and they always build up for a twist and a comedy moment throughout them all. They manage to find a way to make you laugh even when the character they are using might have issues such as mental ones and you laugh not because of the condition but how they have managed to use comedy to get over a message. They could play men or women these two and their characters can be gay or straight as well depending on whom ...  Read the complete review

Little Britain is a show that has been supremely overrated by and large, chiefly because the state of modern British comedy is so bad that this is apparently the best that the Beeb can manage (it isn't). Although the show works fairly well as a satire of modern "Broken Britain", it simply isn't cutting enough, and falls into the trappings of sketch show formula quite quickly, resting on its rather flimsy laurels. The show is concieved by comedians Matt Lucas and David Walliams, who also perform all of the show's skits. There are some fairly memorable ones, such as a young disabled man and his carer, an aggressive weightwatchers woman, and a young man ...  Read the complete review

Like the Fast Show before it, Little Britain was pretty funny when it first appeared, with a range of unsophisticated yet superficially amusing and surreal characters played skilfully by Matt Lucas and David Walliams and with entertainingly bizarre narration by ex-Dr Who star Tom Baker. The problem with catchphrase comedy is that it has a very short shelf life however, and so it wasnt long at all til Little Britain, like the Fast Show before it, stopped feeling inventive and funny and begain to feel dull, derivative and utterly vacous as the same shallow characters (a fat naked woman, a camp civil servant, a devious disabled man, a transvestive, an ...  Read the complete review