Little Britain

Little Britain is a comic television and radio series on the British channel BBC, consisting of a series of short sketches. The series is written and played by Matt Lucas and David Walliams. In the Netherlands the series broadcast by VPRO on OUTTV Netherlands 3 and and in Flanders on Canvas.

The series won a BAFTA Awardin 2004 and 2005. In 2006 won the Emmy Award for best comedy series.

In the fall of 2008 was the fourth series, Little Britain USA, aired on HBO and BBC One. Despite earlier reports about a possible second series, HBO made known that these plans were deleted at the end of August 2009. Though there is a chance that some specials of the series will be recorded and later broadcast. [1]  Walliams and Lucas also think to make a movie of the series and write a scenario currently for this[2] .



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[hide] *1 Description  ==Description[ Edit] == Little Britain began as a sketch show on BBC Radio 4 in 2001, if two short series with episodes of half an hour. In 2003 the series made its debut on television. Initially only on the digital channel BBC Three, but after the great success of the series there, the series was reprogrammed on BBC Two, and for the third series on BBC One. In total there are now three series and three ' Christmas Specials ', two of which were also to see already in Netherlands. Between 2005 and 2007, Lucas and Walliams toured the United Kingdom and Australia with their characters from the show, called "Little Britain Live".
 * 2 History
 * 2.1 Radio show
 * Little Britain USA 2.2
 * 3 external link

The series seems at first especially turning to flat humor, but upon closer examination of the episodes show that the sketches often cleverly put together and comment on society.

Many of the skits revolve around "minority groups", such as:

Other characters who come back regularly are:
 * Obese people, such as the Marjorie Dawes sketches around with her "Fat Fighters" diet group and Bubbles DeVere who with her ' sexy ' body trying to pay in kind.
 * People with disabilities, such as in the scenes around Andy Pipkin who is in a wheelchair (but really just lazy and can walk) and his naive caregiver Lou Todd; Dennis Waterman, a Lilliputian who acts and wants to write the theme song for each show.
 * Teen girls from the Breezercultuur, by the pieces with Vicky Pollard and her grove, aggressive and uncouth behavior.
 * Homosexuals, by the sketches with Daffyd Thomas, the "only gay in the village" and Sebastian Love that actually madly in love with is on the British Prime Minister(played by Anthony Stewart Head) and that prove something to clear late.
 * Transvestites, the sketches with Emily Howard and Florence Rose, two ' ladies ' dressed in Pride and Prejudice-style.

The sketches are presented by Tom Baker, who is best known for his role as "Doctor Who". This he does often on an absurd way; so he claims among other things that the United Kingdom to Peru is connected to via a tunnel and he gives the time as, for example, "30 minutes about Oliver". Also during the show "Little Britain Live" was Tom's voice can be heard.
 * Carol Beer, first worked for a bank and later for a travel agency. She has to ask everything to her computer, which apparently always responds "no" ("Computer says no").
 * Mr Mann, Roy and Margaret: Roy and Margaret driving a shop (every time another) where Mr. Mann comes who knows exactly what he wants (like a pirate memory game). Roy never know where something is, and Margaret (who never appears-because she has no arms and legs) ask for help.
 * Anne and Dr. Lawrence: Dr. Lawrence is a psychiatrist who tries to rehabilitate his patients in the society, and for this ever-Anne singles. It says only "Eeeeh Eh Eh", unless they receive a call-then she talks with normal male voice.
 * Harvey Pincher: a young man from the upper class that is getting married, but still drink breast milk with his mother (' bitty ').
 * Ting Tong Macadangdang Dudley point and: ugly old Brit who has ordered a Thai mail order bride, that are not quite to his expectations.
 * Maggie Blackamoor and Judy Pike: two ladies from the rural England. They are concerned with the judging of local cooking contests. If it turns out that eating was created not by a heterosexual white person, gives Maggie all about.
 * Kenny Craig: a failed magician who tries to hypnotize anyone who bothers him.

The humor of Little Britain is typically British, absurd, by the mixture of dry humor with an often ironic undertone. The show is therefore akin to classic British series like Monty Python's Flying Circus and The Fast Show . ==History<span class="mw-editsection" len="333" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Radio show<span class="mw-editsection" len="330" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Little Britain began as radio show consisting of nine episodes on BBC Radio 4, produced by Ashley Blaker. Radio 4 began a repeat of the nine episodes in February 2004. The content of the episodes was then partly adapted so that there could be broadcast before 18: 30 in the evening. Oddly enough this iteration overlapped with a repeat of the first five episodes on the digital radio station BBC Radio 7, which began in mid March that year. From June to July 2004 sent BBC Radio 7 the remaining four episodes out. ===Little Britain USA<span class="mw-editsection" len="339" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The fourth series, Little Britain USA, in the autumn of 2008 was broadcast on HBO and BBC One.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Some characters from previous series were taken to the United States. Vicky Pollard is sent to a boot camp, Daffyd Thomas goes to the University and his own ' gay society ' on, Sebastian Love becomes Prime Minister of Great Britain and falls in love with the American president, Carol Beer now works as a receptionist at a hospital, Marjorie now leads a ' Fat Fighters'-group in the United States, Bubbles Devere goes on acruise, Harvey Pincher and his parents visit family and Lou & Andy go on vacation in Mississippi. There were also some new characters added, specifically intended for the American market. So we get to know Ellie Grace and her mama, Bing Galloway is the eighth American on the Moon, Mildred is an old lady from the South of the United States, Phyllis Church obeys her dog Mr. Doggy and Marc & Tom are 2 bodybuilders who have taken far too much growth hormones.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Sting, Paul Rudd, Rosie O'Donnell and Sarah Chalke have played a guest role in this series. David Schwimmer directs the show.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-3" len="166" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [3]