Little Britain

Little Britain stars front Nationwide adverts

David Walliams and Matt Lucas are to star in a series of Nationwide adverts. Characters including Vicky Polland and Lou and Andy are to appear in campaign, also featuring Fabio Capello and England players.

Little Britain's Vicky Pollard takes catchphrase crown

''Yeah but no but yeah but'', the retort used by Little Britain's ill-educated teenager Vicky Pollard, has been voted the funniest ever television catchphrase.

Matt Lucas: 'I feel very vulnerable'

"Apart from one-off specials, there are no plans for any more series of Little Britain, either here or in the US, but when I ask if he'd grown bored of it, he answers before I've even got the question out..."

A largely successful US spin off. I'm not sure that having Sebastian as the British Prime Minister works all that well and the Vicky Pollard stuff hasn't been great, but there's still much to enjoy.

Radio Times Review

Can you hear that sound? It's the final nails being hammered into the coffin of Little Britain with the truly dismal Little Britain USA.

Little Britain USA Episode 2 Review

David Walliams and Matt Lucas are stuck in a comedy rut trying to shock desensitized teens and twentysomethings. The excuse here is that they're just introducing old characters to fresh-eyed Americans, so they have every right to recycle. So, for British audiences tuning into this unofficial 'fourth series', it's all very flat, repetitive and brainless.

Little Britain USA Review

You spend quite a lot of the time analysing what Matt Lucas and David Walliams have changed in their bid to crack America - and why. (Happily, the urinating old woman seems to have gone, along with the vomiting one.) You spend much of the rest wondering what on earth its target audience will make of it.

Matt Lucas and David Walliams certainly can't be accused of buttering up to American audiences in Little Britain USA, which begins with Tom Baker grandly informing HBO's viewers that we let you win the War of Independence because you threatened to cry if we didn't. They're not going to be accused of overdoing it with new material either. There are some fresh characters here, including a redneck sheriff who gets an erection as he displays weapons to his deputies, and a former astronaut who can't get over the fact that he was the eighth man on the moon and not the first. But mostly they've simply transferred the British regulars Stateside, and not worried much about the plausibility of the move. Quite how Marjorie Dawes comes to be conducting an American weight-loss class isn't clear, though it has to be said that imagining American sensibilities coming in contact with her rasping lack of tact adds a novel twist to the basic gag. Rosie O'Donnell sportingly takes a cameo, which allows two pieties to be outraged at once: Are you fat because you're a lesbian, she was asked by Marjorie, Or are you a lesbian because you're fat?

The show would be a lot easier to like if you had the sense that such calculated shocks were serving something other than mere shock itself.

Apart from some transatlantic locations and a couple of new accents, Little Britain USA was mostly more of the same old jokes recycled. Which isn't entirely a bad thing, familiarity breeding contentment among the modern sketch show audience.

Jim Shelley Review

It's the last sketch of Little Britain USA and Bubbles de Vere displays the kind of sharp observation totally lacking in the 'comedy' up until then. I think it's very important to know when to stop, Bubbles confesses, having gambled - and lost - her dress, wig, and ruby-encrusted 'panties' on the roulette table.

I only wish Bubbles had thrown her ludicrous fat suit into the pot, too. With the losing streak David Walliams and Matt Lucas were on, that would have been the end of her, guaranteed.