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Little Britain USA

  • TV Series
  • 2008
  • TV-MA
  • 30m
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7.6/10
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Matt Lucas and David Walliams in Little Britain USA (2008)
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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.

  • Creators
    • Matt Lucas
    • David Walliams
  • Stars
    • Matt Lucas
    • David Walliams
    • Tom Baker
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.6/10
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    • Creators
      • Matt Lucas
      • David Walliams
    • Stars
      • Matt Lucas
      • David Walliams
      • Tom Baker
    • 25User reviews
    • 4Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Nominated for 2 Primetime Emmys
      • 1 win & 3 nominations total

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    Matt Lucas
    Matt Lucas
    • Various Roles
    • 2008
    David Walliams
    David Walliams
    • Various Roles
    • 2008
    Tom Baker
    Tom Baker
    • Narrator
    • 2008
    Brett Gentile
    Brett Gentile
    • Waiter
    • 2008
    Davenia McFadden
    • Overseer
    • 2008
    Peggy Miley
    Peggy Miley
    • Anna 'Fat Fighters'
    • 2008
    Brad Grunberg
    Brad Grunberg
    • Tony 'Fat Fighters'
    • 2008
    Harry Lennix
    Harry Lennix
    • The American President
    • 2008
    Lorna Scott
    Lorna Scott
    • Jenny
    • 2008
    Geraldine James
    Geraldine James
    • Celia
    • 2008
    Tonita Castro
    Tonita Castro
    • Fat Fighter
    • 2008
    Matt Walsh
    Matt Walsh
    • Senator's Press Rep…
    • 2008
    Nancy Lenehan
    Nancy Lenehan
    • Kelly
    • 2008
    Julie Brister
    Julie Brister
    • Fat Fighter
    • 2008
    Rose Bae
    Rose Bae
    • Kim
    • 2008
    John Richard Petersen
    • Fat Fighter
    • 2008
    Leslie Berger
    Leslie Berger
    • Fat Fighter
    • 2008
    Stevie Mack
    • Fat Fighter
    • 2008
    • Creators
      • Matt Lucas
      • David Walliams
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    User reviews25

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    9mntag04

    It seems a lot of UK people don't get it....

    I have been a fan of Little Britain for a long time. I live in the USA but downloaded and watched all the UK episodes like I do a lot of British TV; Top Gear, Saxondale, Ali-G, I'm Allen Partridge, the Original Office, etc, etc.. I am a true lover and connoisseur of UK comedy shows. Little Britain is no Saxondale but it is a great show.

    When I first saw Little Britain USA I nearly threw up laughing so hard! Not only has the show evolved and gotten more edgy it is clear that they are able to go much further because of the R rated content HBO allows that BBC in the UK did not.

    It funny to see the negative responses on here, they seem to be mostly from people from the UK. And I suspect that the only reason they don't like it is because they went into it determined to hate it just because of the "USA" on the end of the title. If they ever got the show before they would really love the "USA" version that does not hold back! This show makes jokes about sexuality, racism, etc. that most American TV wont touch. This is something that has been funny about The Office, Saxondale, Ali-G, even Top Gear for years. The fact that the people from Britain don't get how over the top that is here for this audience, mixed with the sheer raunchiness allowed by HBO over BBC is truly their loss!! And I suspect more about a miss placed sense of anti-Americanism than a true evaluation of the show!!
    8planktonrules

    I guess I have very low standards

    Before I'd seen my first episode of "Little Britain USA", I'd talked to some British friend about the series. While we all agreed that we liked the original series, they told me not to even bother with the newest Americanized version--it just wasn't funny. Well, I got HBO a few months later and watched this new series with feelings of great dread...and found that I really liked the show...about as much as the original. Sure, some of my favorite characters are gone (such as Daffyd), but many of the old ones (such as the evil fatty-hater, Marjorie as well as the Prime Minister's assistant--who is now the Prime Minister himself!). One other inclusion from the original shows that I was thrilled was present were Tom Baker's inane narration--it was perhaps even more stupid (and funny) than before. My only reservation is exactly the same one I had about the original all-British shows--there is an awful lot of repetition and a few more characters would have been appreciated. Still, all these shows make me laugh...a lot!
    6thomas-hardcastle-2

    Not Seen The Originals, You Might Like It - Seen The Originals, You Might Hate It...

    I really like the three series of Little Britain (the British version). They're in no way my favourite comedy show (South Park, Family Guy, The Office, Extras, Spaced, Brasseye and Big Train all come above it), but as far as sketch-show comedy goes, the original series was pretty good.

    Watching Little Britain USA, I can't help but feel disappointed that many people will not like it, therefore they will not want to visit the original British series, which I think is so much better than this.

    The jokes are more immature than before, and some of them simply are not funny. Overall, the show still generates laughs and is enough to pass the time in a semi-pleasant way. Just don't go expecting award-winning comedy this time around.
    liquidcelluloid-1

    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.

    0 / 4
    9GeddyLeeForMe

    WARNING!! Go to the bathroom BEFORE you watch this show...avoid having an accident from LAUGHING TOO HARD!

    I have never seen this show or any of this groups' previous shows. I'd never even heard of them, although it seems now that they have been around more than a few years. I'll say in advance that I enjoy British humor, especially Monty Python & Tracey Ullman. I enjoy anything funny & well made, regardless of where it's from. When I found this show listed on HBO OnDemand I popped some popcorn & took over the couch.

    I nearly died laughing. That was just the first 5 minutes. I had to stop it a few times because I laughed so hard I missed some of it & had to back it up. Watching this program felt like I was making a new friend, someone that would happily be in my life forever. I want more. I NEED MORE.

    To me, this show is Kids In The Hall meets Monty Python with Reno 911 sprinkled on top, but DIRTY funny too. Funny British Comedy! Funny Comedy for any country.

    I've watched the Little Britain USA twice more & sat down to write it up here, which I've NEVER done before. I am sure there will be some who disagree with my initial feelings for this show after my first viewing, but that's some people for you! Some people have a sense of humor, some don't. And I stand by my warning...Go to the bathroom before you watch this show. I wish someone had warned me.

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    • Trivia
      Unlike Series 1, 2 and 3 of Little Britain (2003) and the 2 part Christmas special Little Britain Abroad (2006). Little Britain USA (2008) was not given the M rating in New Zealand and was given the R16 rating due to its adult humour, graphic nudity, profanity and drug references. With Little Britain USA (2008), Matt Lucas and David Walliams wanted to push Little Britain USA to the extreme and make it more rude and more offensive than the first 3 seasons of Little Britain (2003).
    • Connections
      Featured in De wereld draait door: Episode #4.43 (2008)

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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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