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Little Britain: The Complete First Series
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| Editorial Reviews: | | |  | "Britain, Britain, Britain, land of technological achievement. We've had running water for over 10 years, an underground tunnel that links us to Peru, and we invented the cat," narrates Tom Baker gleefully at the beginning of Little Britain, introducing the first hit show for fledgling digital channel BBC3 and the best new British comedy since The League of Gentlemen. 
Read our interview with Lucas and Walliams. |
In fact, creators and stars Matt Lucas and David Walliams acknowledge a large debt to the League, not only in the gallery of grotesques all performed by the duo, but also in the way in which the familiar sketch-show format is expanded by clever use of locale: not Royston Vasey here, but "Britain" itself in all its perverse splendor: from Darkly Noon, where chavette Vicky Pollard seems all too frighteningly real ("Yeah, but no, but yeah. Shut up!"), to the Welsh village with only one gay, to the council estate where buck-toothed Lou looks after apparently wheelchair-bound Andy ("Yeah, I know"), to Kelsey Grammar School where pupils are baffled and confused by their fusty teacher, and many more besides. It's unashamedly puerile stuff and, as with The Fast Show before it, many sketches rely on a single incident or catchphrase repeated over and over in only slightly different contexts. But it works brilliantly, thanks to the characterizations of Lucas and Walliams, their sharp eye for the eccentricities of modern life, and of course that surreal voiceover from Tom Baker. Another triumph for Auntie Beeb. --Mark WalkerMore Smashing British Comedy 
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| | To borrow a quote from the ostensibly wheelchair-bound character Andy, "I don't like it." It starts out moderately amusing, and progresses to boring and repetitive.
| | | on friends' recommendations i watched this, and it was... ok. each episode is mostly the same jokes from the same characters. i smiled in places, but didn't laugh once. i've loved python, the office, kids in the hall, but this show is automated comedy, nothing fresh about it. it's not really even edgy. maybe i'm getting old, but gays, wheelchairs, and transvestites don't push the envelope for me.
i would recommend 'arrested developement' instead, for example, to hear tobias unironically say "i just blue myself" after he painted himself blue. it has many of the qualities reviewers attribute to this show.
but some people will love this i'm sure.
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| | "Little Britain" is one of the funniest TV shows ever! David Walliams and Matt Lucas are brilliant performers and writers. The DVD also includes some nice bonus features including: the "Rock Profiles" they did before "Little Britain." (Seeing the guys as Tom Jones and Shirley Bassey is worth the price of this DVD alone.) It also includes a few sketches from a live charity gig, an interview with Jonathan Ross and the obligatory "behing-the-scenes" look at the series. Buy this DVD...you won't regret it!! Cheers!
| | | Maybe it takes a special sense of humor to appriciate the dry Brittish humor... all I know is that I find Little Brittan to be one of the funniest shows I have seen in a long time. It's currently being shown on Canada's Comedy Central on Thursdays nights. The skits are very far from being politically correct (thank God) and get funnier with each show. Watching the prim chruch lady vomit all over her friend, a man in a wheel chair dress as a smurf, the two men dressed in drag (we're ladies) makes me laugh out loud! I adore Monty Python, Absolutely Fabulous, Fawlty Towers etc... Little Brittan is right up there with them.
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