Little Britain Review

Overall Rating

There is nothing good or funny about this programme.

This is offensive and un-funny.

Why does everybody in the country like this rubbish? In my opinion it's really offensive. The Vicky Pollard character especialy. It's 2 middle class white boys making snobbish fun at the less fortunate, eg, the disabled, the mentaly ill, as well as young working class teenagers and single mums. David Walliams and George Daws are talentless idiots. Some of these punch lines are straight from the 1970's. Chubby Brown or Jim Davison would be less offensive and funnier. I'm no prude. I love Chris Morris's stuff. Whilst some of Brass Eye was close to the bone at least he was trying to make a point. Wake up Britain and get this Little Britain rubbish off our screens. One joke sketches with an annoying catch phrase have a short shelf life. Harry Enfield soon learnt that. So in short Little Britain, I know, I don't like it.

Members' Comments onBattan3000's Review

• Annakin on 5th May 2005

  What can I say. You're from Bangor mate - I think that says it all.

• Fortune01 on 6th May 2005

  I thik you fail to see the difference between humour and the politically incorrect. The whole point of the show is that is is a comedy and that is how it is to be taken. As for the character of Vicky Pollard, well I for one find that hilarious, if you find it offensive then please stop watching it, but let the rest of us enjoy this brilliant show.

• J Mac 80 on 11th May 2005

  I cannot comprehend how you can find Brass Eye less inoffensive than Little Britain. Brass Eye took a topic like paedophilia and ridiculed it while Little Britain is just poking fun at some social stereotypes. Little Britain is extremely clever in the way it has parodied British life. I agree, Chris Morris is incredibly talented (eg Nathan Barley)but this talent was overshadowed by the controversy that surrounded his programme. Surely someone with this much talent does not need to stoop to the levels Brass Eye did. Little Britain isn't trying to be something that it's not: simply harmless fun. Just as an aside, the co-creator of Little Britain is Matt Lucas not George Daws.

• ensorseven on 17th Nov 2005

  I find occasional glimpses of wit in the show, bit I agree entirely with the post. I would like people to think over why they find the Andy and Lou characters funny. I wondered during the broadcast of Live8 what the rest of the world thought when they were on stage and the audience were laughing. And what any people with learning disabilities thought when they saw it? What weak-minded society pokes fun at the weak rather than lambasting and satirising the powerful? British humour has always been best when undermining vanity and self-delusion (think of Basil Fawlty or David Brent). But Little Britain seems to encourage such vanity....

• vickyc on 2nd Mar 2006

  Thank you Battan 3000 for a real view of Little Britain. I've been searching for some intelligent observation on this show & it certainly is hard to find. To me, the popular view that anyone who doesn't find this show funny is some humourless, overly politically-correct person is so wrong. I think the reality sadly that we are so badly governed & represented that we all feel insecure & in these circumstances it's so easy to ridicule someone else as being even more hopeless & incapable than oneself. That way people can feel smug & safe.

• sq on 7th May 2006

  Am alone in thinking that 90% of comedy programming in Britain is now so PC it has lost all it's base humour. Yes ok so little Britain does exploit social stereotypes but has anyone heard the one about the English man, Irish man and the Scots man? or the mother-in-law perhaps? most of british humour is based on these and other stereotypes (and sex) and to compare LB's level of offensiveness with that of Jim Davidson is just short sighted. p.s Lou and Andy wasn't originally a parody of a disabled man and his carer, it comes from an earlier sketch of Lou Reid and Andy Warhol sharing a flat a bit like the odd couple and developed into one of the many sketches much more loved than hate. However i suppose there's got to be one person who disagrees with the majority. Thats why they use stupid voices for your type on points of view. Dear BBC, I am outraged.... snore