Irishchatter I honestly remember this show well, I really loved Matt Lucas and David Williams teaming up together to play variety of stupid characters on the show who honestly would make you laugh.I remember back when I use to watch the Australian soap opera 'Neighbours' that they appeared as Lou & Andy from Little Britain on one episode in around 2005. I was just completely shocked and stunned that anyone like them would appear on the show, I think that was the highlight of that year on Neighbours to have the guys on! Anyways back to this show, my favorite character was Matt Lucas playing Vicky Pollard, she was hilarious and I liked how they used her as a typical teen as you know, those teenage years were terrible!It was fun but be aware of the naughty bits!

neil-arsenal Well, face it.If I was to go on TV and say 'hey look at me, I'm Matt Lucas' and start shoving bananas up my bottom...people, quite rightly would be outraged. Even if I said all gay men loved Madonna and hated football I would be in trouble.However he feels it's OK to show disabled people as mentally slow and annoying, Men who marry women from Russia or Thailand as all desperate and the women as ladyboys.This show likes to mock the elderly, the obese, the poor and anyone 'different'.At times it can be funny but a little cruel.Now Matt, where did I put those Madonna CD's you wanted? Want to see a much funnier UK sketch show? Watch 'The Fast Show'.

kittenkrushers I saw this series when it first premiered in 2003, and I really liked it! It had characters like Des Kaye and Ray McCooney, who were actually quite funny. I liked the show a lot, and couldn't wait for it to return.Then series 2 arrived. I was shocked by the drop in quality. No more clever, versatile characters like Ray McCooney. Repetitive, disgusting (and not in a funny way) characters like Bubbles De Vere and that puking woman (can't remember her name!) were the focus now. Even classic characters like Lou and Andy had become shadows of themselves.I saw series 3, in hopes it would improve, but to my dismay it got even worse! I left the series with a bitter taste in my mouth, and went off to re-watch a true classic (Brass Eye).I saw the rating of 8.0, and was amazed at how high it was. One great series, followed by two god-awful ones, does not deserve something higher than a 4.My advice, buy series 1 if you're curious. Save your money on the rest (including Little Britain USA).Rating 4/10

lothd The modern approach to making TV series and movies is very much in evidence here: hit them with all you've got and hope that it sticks. For "Little Britain" that means outrageous characters like the wheelchair-bound guy who really isn't, the adult guy who still loves being breast-fed by his mother or any female relative, the gay guy who prefers to think he's the only one in his village, cross-dressing men and frontal nudity galore. Running gags are repeated to the point of nausea (literally so in the case of the vomiting "lady"). The low-brow humour is only partially appealing. Hearing an old man talk about his experiences in mutual masturbation as a youth solicits laughter not because it's funny to hear, but because it's just plain outrageous. A complete lack of subtlety brings everything down.The Monty Pythons had a policeman chasing them away when the sketch got too silly or the studio audience storm the stage when the gags got too tasteless - something that I sorely missed here. Not surprisingly, "Little Britain" has only about half the number of episodes that the Monty Python series had.6 out of 10 for sheer recklessness - and not much else.