Little Britain
- TV sketch show
- BBC Three / BBC One
- 2003 - 2016
- 23 episodes (3 series)
Matt Lucas and David Walliams take a comic look at British life in this character-based sketch series. Also features Anthony Head, Joann Condon, Charu Bala Chokshi, Leelo Ross, Ruth Jones and more.
Streaming rank this week: 429
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I'll never throw out my DVD player - the woke police can't delete my box sets
These days there seem to be vanishingly few comedies that can be enjoyed by all the family. So recently, in desperation, I tried showing my son some of my favourite comedies from when I was young, instead.
Michael Deacon, The Telegraph, 8th June 2023Matt Lucas reveals new sketch show details
Matt Lucas has spoken more about his and David Walliams's plans for a new sketch show - and it won't be a straight revival of Little Britain.
British Comedy Guide, 22nd February 2023David Walliams shouldn't just apologise for BGT. Little Britain was the worst of the Noughties
Is anyone all that surprised by the presenter's sexist and derogatory comments on Britain's Got Talent?
Eleanor Peake, i Newspaper, 11th November 2022BBC defends Little Britain's racist language
The BBC has defended a Little Britain sketch of charges of racism after the comedy was restored to iPlayer. The Corporation received complaints about the David Walliams character Linda Flint, a university counsellor who always describes the student sitting in front of her in offensive terms such as 'Ching Chong Chinaman'.
Chortle, 11th April 2022The BBC's Little Britain edits make no sense
No blacking up, but transphobia is fine? Attempts to sanitise the sketch show for more 'modern' audiences are self-defeating - and reveal a twisted hierarchy of offence.
Ella Whelan, The Telegraph, 18th March 2022Little Britain was right to axe Blackface but wheelchair users are still the butt of the joke
Little Britain has now returned to BBC iPlayer with offending scenes axed to 'reflect the changes in the UK's cultural landscape'. However, Paul Newman, 45, from Portsmouth, has been left questioning why other characters, such as wheelchair user Andy, were left in.
Jill Robinson, The Sun, 18th March 2022Dan Wootton: cancelling comedy puts us on a communist-style path towards erasing heritage
Little Britain fans were celebrating yesterday after the censorious BBC reinstated a newly edited woke version of the classic comedy onto its iPlayer service after being banned for two years. But I wasn't. Yet again, this pathetically politically correct organisation has decided to play judge, jury and executioner over our cultural heritage.
Dan Wootton, Daily Mail, 17th March 2022David Walliams and Matt Lucas make changes to Little Britain on iPlayer
A modified version of Little Britain is now available to stream on BBC iPlayer after changes were made by the sketch show's creators and stars Matt Lucas and David Walliams.
Lauren Morris, Radio Times, 16th March 2022Walliams & Lucas can't find time to write Little Britain
Little Britain fans are dying to see new episodes after David Walliams and Matt Lucas finally mended their broken friendship, but sadly they just can't find the time to write together.
Vicki Newman, The Mirror, 10th November 2021BBC snubs pleas to put Little Britain back on iPlayer
Woke BBC bosses have snubbed a plea from Tory MPs to put comedy smash-hit Little Britain back on iPlayer.
Jack Elsom, The Sun, 23rd July 2021