Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0794051421029
Format: Box set
Label: BBC Warner
Manufacturer: BBC Warner
MPN: 4210
Number Of Items: 8
Publisher: BBC Warner
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2007-11-20
Running Time: 745
Studio: BBC Warner
Theatrical Release Date: 2004-06-20

Customer Rating:
Summary: Husband Loves this Series!
Comment: Extremely funny British humour at its best! Just glad it was released in US NTSC format so my hubbie can stop watching it on YouTube!

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Brilliant!
Comment: This show is amazing, in the vein of Absolutely Fabulous, Mr. Show, Kids in the Hall and of course a modern Monty Python.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Silly, bawdy, brutal, clever, satiric, surreal, lewd and funny
Comment: Says our dignified narrator and guide, "Britain...Britain...Britain...land of tradition...fish and fries...the changing of the garden...trooping the colours. Have you ever wondered about the people of Britain? Nor have I..."

And with that, Matt Lucas and David Walliams take us into a Britain far removed from Jane Austin. Lucas is short, fat and hairless, something like a pink, soft kewpie doll. Walliams is tall, hirsute (hair suit?) and, depending on the occasion, wolfish or just showing a lot of teeth. They are the creators, writers and performers of Little Britain, a sketch comedy series centered on the lives of a dozen or so worst examples of British human life. Want an obnoxious, trouble-making teen with a thick accent and an excuse for everything? Try out Vicky Pollard. How about the effeminate assistant to the Prime Minister, who invariably finds excuses to fall to his knees directly in front of the man. Or the fat, wheelchair-bound Andy Pipkin, who mumbles and lolls, and is just too lazy to walk. And there's plump Daffyd Thomas, young Welsh lad who dresses in tight, bright polyester and is the only gay in his village...and is determined to keep it that way. And more and more. We visit them often, usually in places like Kelsey Grammar School and St. God's Hospital. Since Lewis and Walliams play all of them (backed up by a small cast of straight-faced actors), the old tradition in Britain of men wearing dresses is alive and well.

There's nothing like it in the United States, and probably never will be. The FCC would have a fit, and so would most U.S. social service agencies. Little Britain is ferociously un-PC. If you think it is terrible taste to make fun of homosexuals, old ladies, the mentally disturbed, the fat, minorities, or any number of other groups (politicians and teenagers, of course, excepted), this is not the show for you. ("Are you fat because you're a lesbian or are you a lesbian because you're fat?") Matt Lucas and David Walliams have created a world (and a series) that is silly, bawdy, brutal, clever, satiric, surreal, lewd and funny. It's best watched in small doses. Little Britain was so popular in Britain that it just about became an empire...Christmas specials, performances for charity, a try at transplanting to America, interviews and awards. Of course, the pecksniffs and self-appointed moral guardians are always on the alert. Said one British critic, "Little Britain has been a vehicle for two rich kids to make themselves into multi-millionaires by mocking the weakest people in Britain. Their targets are almost invariably the easiest, cheapest groups to mock: the disabled, poor, elderly, gay or fat. In one fell swoop, they have demolished protections against mocking the weak that took decades to build up."

Perfectly true. Shame they're so funny.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Freaking hilarious, I still laugh when I think about it.
Comment: Freaking hilarious, I still laugh when I think about it. You know something is good when you can still laugh about the lines or characters way after you finished watching it. Lot of the skits would offend a tiny minority of loud uptight Americans, only because those are the types that are always looking for something to complain about. Anyway the non-PC material doesn't really offend the characters they portray. In fact the characters become beloved by the viewers. I would say I am a cross between Bubbles Devere and Carol Beers. Ehh ehh ehh ehh.

This show is one of my favorite funny british shows along with others that I always highly recommend to my friends and tell them just give the show a chance to get to know the characters and what is going on if you can't get into it right away, but once you do, you won't regret it and will watch it over and over again. Try these comedy dvds: AbFab Absolutely Fabulous - Absolutely Everything, The Vicar of Dibley The Vicar of Dibley - The Immaculate Collection, French & Saunders French & Saunders Collection, The Thin Blue Line The Thin Blue Line - The Complete Line-Up, Father Ted Father Ted - The Holy Trilogy, Only Fools and Horses Only Fools and Horses: The Complete Collection, Alan Partridge I'm Alan Partridge - Series 1(and Knowing Me, Knowing You Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan Partridge - The Complete Series), The Office (the original British version) The Office - The Complete Collection BBC Edition (First And Second Series Plus Special), Coupling Coupling - The Complete Seasons 1-4... Alan Partridge season 2 is not on region 1 dvd yet, and the british show called Dad is not on dvd yet. Others are bit out there like The League of Gentlemen and The Young Ones, Full Bottom or Blackadder Goes Forth. Rik Mayall is in the last three, what an adorable cutie who is so funny even when doing standup.

People ask me how I know about these shows. Well sometimes you catch them on PBS or BBC America or you try them via renting from Netflix, which I love because I never would have known or seen some great dvds without them.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Great laugh! Wonderful off beat British Humor
Comment: Watched bits of this in London Last year and when i got back to the states i had to find it to see more!

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