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Little Britain USA

  • TV Series
  • 20082008
  • TV-MATV-MA
  • 30m
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7.5/10
6.4K
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Matt Lucas and David Walliams in Little Britain USA (2008)
Little Britain Usa
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The characters of the original 'Little Britain' and some new characters feature in this comedic exploration of the modern American society from, and starring, British comedians Matt Lucas an... Read allThe characters of the original 'Little Britain' and some new characters feature in this comedic exploration of the modern American society from, and starring, British comedians Matt Lucas and David Walliams.The characters of the original 'Little Britain' and some new characters feature in this comedic exploration of the modern American society from, and starring, British comedians Matt Lucas and David Walliams.
IMDb RATING
7.5/10
6.4K
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  • Stars
    • Matt Lucas
    • David Walliams
    • Tom Baker
Top credits
  • Stars
    • Matt Lucas
    • David Walliams
    • Tom Baker
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 25User reviews
    • 4Critic reviews
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    • Nominated for 2 Primetime Emmys
      • 1 win & 3 nominations total

    Episodes8

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    1 Season
    2008

    Videos10

    Little Britain Usa: Phyllis And Mr Doggy
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    Little Britain Usa: Phyllis And Mr Doggy
    Little Britain Usa: Emily Howard
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    Little Britain Usa: Emily Howard
    Little Britain Usa: Lou And Andy
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    Little Britain Usa: Lou And Andy
    Little Britain Usa: Vicky Pollard
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    Little Britain Usa: Vicky Pollard
    Little Britain Usa: Grandma And Connor
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    Little Britain Usa: Grandma And Connor
    Little Britain Usa: Bing Gordyn
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    Little Britain Usa: Bing Gordyn
    Little Britain Usa: Daffyd Thomas
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    Little Britain Usa: Daffyd Thomas
    Little Britain Usa: Bubbles Devere
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    Little Britain Usa: Bubbles Devere
    Little Britain Usa: Carol Beer
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    Little Britain Usa: Carol Beer
    Little Britain Usa
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    Little Britain Usa

    Photos23

    Matt Lucas in Little Britain USA (2008)
    Tom Bower and David Walliams in Little Britain USA (2008)
    Harry Lennix, Paul Rudd, and David Walliams in Little Britain USA (2008)
    Matt Lucas in Little Britain USA (2008)
    David Walliams in Little Britain USA (2008)
    Matt Lucas in Little Britain USA (2008)
    David Walliams in Little Britain USA (2008)
    David Walliams in Little Britain USA (2008)
    Matt Lucas in Little Britain USA (2008)
    Matt Lucas and David Walliams in Little Britain USA (2008)
    Matt Lucas in Little Britain USA (2008)
    Matt Lucas and David Walliams in Little Britain USA (2008)

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    Matt Lucas
    Matt Lucas
    • Various Rolesas Various Roles
    6 episodes6 eps • 2008
    David Walliams
    David Walliams
    • Various Rolesas Various Roles
    6 episodes6 eps • 2008
    Tom Baker
    Tom Baker
    • Narratoras Narrator
    6 episodes6 eps • 2008
    Brett Gentile
    Brett Gentile
    • Waiteras Waiter
    6 episodes6 eps • 2008
    Davenia McFadden
    • Overseeras Overseer
    5 episodes5 eps • 2008
    Brad Grunberg
    Brad Grunberg
    • Tony 'Fat Fighters'as Tony 'Fat Fighters'
    5 episodes5 eps • 2008
    Peggy Miley
    Peggy Miley
    • Anna 'Fat Fighters'as Anna 'Fat Fighters'
    5 episodes5 eps • 2008
    Harry Lennix
    Harry Lennix
    • The American Presidentas The American President…
    4 episodes4 eps • 2008
    Lorna Scott
    Lorna Scott
    • Jennyas Jenny
    4 episodes4 eps • 2008
    Geraldine James
    Geraldine James
    • Celiaas Celia
    4 episodes4 eps • 2008
    Tonita Castro
    Tonita Castro
    • Fat Fighteras Fat Fighter
    3 episodes3 eps • 2008
    Matt Walsh
    Matt Walsh
    • Senator's Press Repas Senator's Press Rep…
    3 episodes3 eps • 2008
    Nancy Lenehan
    Nancy Lenehan
    • Kellyas Kelly…
    3 episodes3 eps • 2008
    Julie Brister
    Julie Brister
    • Fat Fighteras Fat Fighter
    3 episodes3 eps • 2008
    John Richard Petersen
    John Richard Petersen
    • Fat Fighteras Fat Fighter
    3 episodes3 eps • 2008
    Stevie Mack
    Stevie Mack
    • Fat Fighteras Fat Fighter
    3 episodes3 eps • 2008
    Leslie Berger
    Leslie Berger
    • Fat Fighteras Fat Fighter
    3 episodes3 eps • 2008
    Rose Bae
    Rose Bae
    • Kimas Kim
    3 episodes3 eps • 2008
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    Storyline

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    • Trivia
      Before the writing process began, Matt Lucas and David Walliams took a trip to some American cities.
    • Connections
      Featured in De wereld draait door: Episode #4.43 (2008)

    User reviews25

    Review
    Top review
    What is it about the sketch comedy series that brings out all the hacks?
    Network: HBO; Genre: Sketch Comedy; Content Rating: TV-MA (for strong language, strong scatological humor, graphic sexual dialog and full frontal nudity); Perspective: Contemporary (star range: 1 -4);

    Seasons Reviewed: 1 season

    What is it about the sketch comedy series that brings out all the hacks? That brings out all of those whose sense of humor doesn't rise above lazy elementary school jokes surrounding bodily fluids, nudity, gay jokes and fat jokes? With HBO's import, "Little Britain USA", we often get all three at once. Whether it's half the crap on Comedy Central or Showtime's "The Underground" or now "Little Britain", we shouldn't have to be eye raped by a ghastly, juvenile sense of humor every time we tune into a sketch comedy series.

    "Britain" comes on the heels of Tracey Ullman's brain-dead "State of the Union", exhausting a concept that didn't work for her (yet makes her show look much better by comparison). Once again a narrator (Tom Baker) take us all around America explaining the American way of life to us as an outside observer, this time comparing American and British culture head-to-head. The cast mostly consists of Matt Lucas and David Williams, in costumes and fat suits to play characters in all of the sketches. Like "Union", the sketches are a minute or 2 long, which means they aren't fleshed out to anything yet feel unmercifully long even at that length. "Britain" is a more blatantly caustic series, openly hostile toward American culture and lobbing a few grenades at Britain for appearances sake. Britain has transvestites and miserable marriages and they aren't always proper. Americans are all fat, illiterate, crack smoking, gun-toting imbeciles. Americans have never shied away from making fun of themselves – as most of our primetime animated programs show – just not with a sledgehammer style.

    The show speaks for itself. I'll let these descriptions spare you the sight of actually having to witness it. The first sketch climaxes in a wheelchair bound character peeing in a pool. That's it. A later one features a grown man nursing on his mother's breasts at a dinner table, which naturally also evolves into a spraying of bodily fluids. Oh yes, and naked fat women and naked homo-repressed body builders are inherently funny here. And even if you've had a frontal lobotomy, have so little respect for yourself and your intelligence that you find this garbage funny, the show is unbelievably repetitive, recycling bits and characters that were never funny through the entire series. A woman whose dog tells her to do things, an astronaut who brags about going to the moon, a rude hospital receptionist and, most annoying, a child who speaks to her mother in language she picked up from hardcore pornography – these one-note, single-joke bits are deemed such rock solid comedy gold by Lucas and Williams that they are repeated ad nauseum in every single episode.

    Single camera director Michael Patrick Jann and studio director David Schwimmer (yes, there's a laugh track and, yes, that David Schwimmer) keep everything pitched out to the cheap seats. It is sophomore humor at its most base and vile. So if you can't get enough gay jokes, fat jokes, fart jokes, spraying bodily fluids, racial stereotypes, men wearing dresses and desperate "shock" humor for the sake of it where the mere utterance of an obscenity is considered sidesplitting comedy (and if you need these gags repeated over and over before you get them) this is your show. A random buffet of clumsy paper-thin would-be satire that is an embarrassment to both Britain and the United States. It isn't insulting because it's crude, it's insulting because it's so infantile. "Little Britain USA" – the worst TV show of 2008. Let's hope I never have to hear from Lucas and Williams again.

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    Details

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    • Release date
      • September 28, 2008 (United States)
    • Countries of origin
      • United Kingdom
      • United States
    • Official site
      • HBO
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Little America
    • Filming locations
      • Wilmington, North Carolina, USA
    • Production companies
      • 19 Entertainment
      • David Steinberg Entertainment
      • Little Britain Productions
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    • Runtime
      30 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Stereo
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.78 : 1

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