The trouble you’ve had here is, any WatchMojo ranking is just absolute drivel. You should start watching full episodes.

The fat fighters sketches weren't about making fun of the members. They were all about how awful, rude & uncouth the hostess is. Other sketches show how much of a hypocrit she is and over time her behaviour starts backfiring on her

I think the biggest difference between the USA understanding and the British understanding of humour is the target. In the USA people laugh at the the target of the funnies, in the UK we laugh at the perpetrating character. That explains why the Brits can find humour in people being made fun of because we are laughing at the parody of the person doing the insulting, not the people being insulted.

Little Briton was popular here in Australia. "The computer says no * , "I'm a lady ", "I'm the only gay in the village" are phrases that still come to mind.. It was hilarious. 😅

Little Britain is one of the funniest shows ever shown on TV. Even here in Germany, we constantly quote the characters in conversations with our friends... "computer says no", "we're ladies... we're doing lady things", "the only gay in the village", "but yes... but no... but yes.. but no..." - there were too many iconic scenes!! 🤣❤‍🔥

We as British have a sense of humour, regardless of subject it’s COMEDY

Bitty, I want bitty!

Little Britain falls into the same category as Family Guy, where the writers are (usually) poking fun at the cruel person stereotype more than the cruelty itself. For example, Marjorie Dawes, the FatFighters leader, is mocked for her hypocrisy, tearing other people down for being fat as a defence mechanism, since she is the truly ugly person there (both inside and out). It's also commenting on diet culture itself, and suggesting that weight-watcher groups and fad diets ultimately profit off prolonging the agony of its patrons.

Do yourself a favour and watch the full series of Little Britain, and then Come Fly With Me. Thank me later

The parody was of Dennis Waterman, who was famous from The Sweeney and Minder as a tough-guy actor in the 70s and 80s, but when the Little Britain guys met him at a function they were surprised at how short and polite he was.... hence the parody. He also wrote and sang the theme tune to a good few of his shows (including Minder), hence the catchphrase. If you want to binge a good UK show by the way, Minder was superb... funny and dramatic and Waterman's character was a true hero.

Did you notice that the guy playing the Prime Miniter in the gay kissing sketch was Anthony Head who played The Watcher, Giles, in Buffy The Vampire Slayer

12:00 little britain dont make jokes about the "fat fighters" ,they make jokes about how hillarious the leader woman is .

To see the point and get the best out of Little Britain you need to watch full episodes to really get how uncomfortable and truly outlandish the sketches genuinely are. Hilarious show, love it.

😂 "Compoota says no" became a national catchphrase after this .

The village of Llandewi Brefi, where the gay chap Daffyd Thomas is supposed to live, does actually exist. When the show was popular, it had its road sign stolen several times.

best lou and andy sketch will forever be either the one at the beach with the private resort or the one where andy jumps on a horse and jumps a fence😂

It might be 20 years old but it's still funny, good for you showing an open mind.

Little Britain was shown in Finland, probably all over Europe. My favorite character was that gay one. Finland also has very similar sketch comedy culture with dark humor.

Little Britain was HUGE back in the day. I even went to see it live on stage. You’re right though, a lot of the content would be frowned upon now. But I’ve got the box sets, so I can watch it anytime I want. 🤣🤣

I've lost count how many times I've watched little Britain, I will ALWAYS love it 🤣😂

Me and my son loved this. It would probably be very controversial if it aired as a new show today. They did an American version too I think it was called Little Britain in America. Well worth a watch. Perhaps you could react to full episodes, if they are too long you could do in two parts.

In sketch 7 there's a photo of Tom Baker as Doctor Who. Tom is the man who does the voice-over for Little Britain.

Dafydd, 'The only Gay in the Village' reminds me of a guy I knew at uni. One night in his final year a big group of about 20 of us were in the pub and he stood up and asked us all to be quiet as he had a big announcement to make. He said it was something that might shock us and he expected that some people wouldn't want to associate with him anymore. At which point he came out as gay. We were all a bit bemused and told him we'd always known he was gay as it was bloody obvious. He was really miffed as coming out was a huge deal for him and his big dramatic moment. He'd convinced himself that we'd all judge and shun him, so when he discovered we'd all known for years and weren't bothered in the slightest he was really pissed him off and he flounced out in a sulk! It was hilarious!🤣🤣🤣

Another sketch series they did was Come Fly With Me Come Fly with Me is a British mockumentary television comedy series created by and starring Matt Lucas and David Walliams. Narrated by Lindsay Duncan, the series launched on 25 December 2010 on BBC One. A spoof of British documentaries Airport and Airline, the series follows the activity at a major airport and three fictional airlines: low-cost British airline ‘FlyLo’ (a parody of Flybe), low-cost Irish airline ‘Our Lady Air’ (a parody of Ryanair), and major British airline ‘Great British Air’ (a parody of British Airways).

If it was aired in the UK today 85-90% of us would still laugh our asses off...however the remaining 10-15% would cry,scream,shout and stamp their feet til the show got cancelled and the actors and anyone involved in it's production were living in cardboard boxes and had their human rights removed. It was absolutely brilliant. I still say 'computer says no' and ' I want that one ' to this day.😊

They made Little Britain USA that was filmed LA and Carolina. It only lasted one season but its just as funny and they talk in American accents, Rosie O'Donnell, Rachel Harris, Bob Stevenson, Paul Rudd, and a few others guest stared in it.

David Walliams is hilarious. He also hosted a brilliant one one one evening with Elton John in 2019, they are apparently good mates. My son grew up loving his books, Billionaire boy for example. He changed his name from Williams to Walliams as there was already an actor David Williams 😂

This is true TV gold

Matt Lucas and David Walliams wrote and performed these sketches. David went into acting and is also a judge on Britains Got Talent and the US version. Matt Lucas had various life problems and took a step back from the industry, hence on 3yr run of the series. Apart from 'Computer says No'. there was also one from Andy in the wheelchair ' Don't like it' that became popular. If you want a real classic sketch check out The Two Ronnies sketch Fork Handles, its hilarious.

The 'boss' in the Careless Whisper sketch was Anthony Head, who you would have seen in Buffy the Vampire Slayer!

Hi Tyler. The fact it only had three series is what makes it so precious and memorable. Such as (faulty towers) If they continued for say 5 or 6 series the shows would have been naturally diluted, would of lost its energy and uniqueness. You really need to watch all three series in its raw state, no. Vocabulary editing or areas masked off.

Don’t forget this series was aired 20years ago; so yes some of it is touching the line, and is very tongue in cheek now.

Yeah, “Computer says No” is still a used phrase in the U.K.🇬🇧

Great reaction. You have to react to Little Britain 'Bitty' absolutely hilarious

Another legendary comedy to watch is 'Yes, Minister' It's not dark, it's deadpan. Also it's great that you're learning about comedy that's _not_ Monty Python. We get a little bit sick of everybody going on about it.

I nearly had a heart attack when you said clitish class culture !

Really fun series. I am Dutch and used to British humor. Love it.

This aired in Canada as well. I have watched the whole series and loved them. Wouldn't be able to put this on air today. They also did a Little Britain America as well.

Vickie traded her baby for a Westlife (a band) CD ! She's what we call a 'chav'

When you eliminate everything which may be offensive to someone and put it on a tape you would have a blank tape. You could market it as Des O'Conner's greatest hits.

We make fun of everyone. That WAS Vanessa Feltz, a well-known Radio Presenter/Journalist sitting next to the character while he called the large lady "Vanessa Feltz". It was a standard joke that Dennis Waterman who was in 2 of the greatest series in my 69 years in The UK, firstly "The Sweeney" and then "Minder" where he was a Police Detective in The Sweeney and a Minder in the show of that name , so seeing him 6 inches tall was hilarious as he DID take himself quite seriously and was known to write THe Theme Tune in a few of the Series he starred in so they made him out to look and sound like a little boy who had to write the"theme" tune but it was pronounced as a little kid would.

The funniest coolest out of it British TV series I love was Gimme Gimme Gimme.

It's a product of its time. I'm glad I watched this when I was younger. Plus Tom Baker doing the voice over huge bonus!!

Little Britain is 20 years old, and some things definitely would be approached differently today. However, making fun of people who are overweight. Tyler misses the point here- the humour is the awful diet coach NOT a dig at the overweight people! Even very successful TV shows in Britain rarely do more than 2-3 seasons. In the case of Little Britain both Matt Lucas and David Walliams had other projects to pursue. They have worked together since on other TV skech type shows, but both have a wide range of individual projects too.

It was slightly controversial at the time, but a firm favorite amongst younger generations and more progressive/ less sensitive people. It was one of the shows that really launched the now online only (declined since it stopped producing good shows) TV channel BBC3 into popularity amongst youth. e.g. I was 8-11 years old when the show first aired but watched it with my dad who was by then already in his 40's. he has a great sense of humor and was not prudish like many his age and really enjoyed it. I didn't really get what was going on, but by my teenage years, we would re-watch together. It is one of those where not all humor would be acceptable now & some more borderline e.g. they did a black face character. I think it would be fine to air most of it still now, but i don't think it would do as well, especially amongst the current teenage generation. I do find that at least in our first world countries, we are so far past times of victorian humor. true satire is on the decline and each generation is becoming more and more social media driven socially as well as privilaged and protected and thus more sensitive. I guess that is just a progression of history though. 400+ years ago, crowds would gather in public centres to enjoy the entertaining spectacle of a public execution, and we have become, rightly, obviously. A lot more sensitive since then.

" mostly good taste" 😂 That was a highly selective set of clips, some of the sketches certainly pushed the boundaries of what was acceptable, even for uk television, I'd love for you to see those ones.

If you want to be really shocked you need to go back to 60/70's to programmes like Till death us do part 1965 to 1975.

Tom Bakers voice is so unique 90% of Brits would recognise it instantly. Not just from Dr Who but he has voice overs like this to his credit too. It's like Christopher Walker or James Earl Jones in the USA...

Its always a treat to see Anthony Head in a sketch. Here he played one of the dancing politicians. He of course also played Giles in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Incidentally the bookshop skit here is actually based on a skit dine by john cleese and marty feldmann where the latter attempts to buy ridiculous books with names that have dodgy names like “knickerless nickleby” the final book being one which turns out to accidentally exist but the character has a string of reasons why he cant buy it.

True fact. The "Andy and Lou" sketches were based on Andy Warhol and Lou Reed.

never mind the content - the one thing that made me laugh until I was hoarse, was the opening of each episode. Tom Baker narrated a LOT of LB and I'm impressed that he didn't break down laughing while recording them (he probably did).

It’s a lot better to just watch the full clip. I guarantee you the majority of people who clicked on this video expected to see you watching the full clip and then when they saw this immediately left lol

Little Britain is a very well written and great show. You would love Little Britain in USA, the series they did on USA.

David Walliams swam the English Channel between England and France in 2006. The shortest distance across the Dover strait, at approximately 20 miles (32 kilometres), is from the South Foreland, northeast of Dover in the English county of Kent, to Cap Gris Nez, a cape near to Calais in the French département of Pas-de-Calais.

This is still shown now on repeat. Everyone I know loves it and some of the catch phrases are popular 👍

David Walliams has written a ton of childrens books. however, he's now started to bring those books to life. and one of the more recent productions brought him to the area I live. I have a friend who lived in the tower block that was used for filming. she's a bit dippy, and she's Scottish, and when she gets excited, I'm one of a few people who can understand her! and I bumped into her on the bus one day and she showed me David Walliams autograph that he wrote on her hand and she totally forgot his name....!!!! It took me ten minutes to calm her down enough to get her back down to earth to work out the autograph on her hand! and then literal seconds to be totally jealous!! so, if you get the chance to watch 'Ratburger', now you know!! My mum HATED 'Little Britain', but did like David Walliams... eventually... when he became one of the judges on 'Britains Got Talent'.🙄

Little Britain would be totally different if it was pitched now. Even 20 years ago, it was criticised for being mean spirited and perpetuating damaging stereotypes. It definitely pushed the boundaries of comedy, but imo hasn’t aged at all well.

Ooh! Do the League of Gentlemen next! You'll get to watch some of our very best _dark_ comedy, which i don't think America does. Specifically start with Tubs and Edward and the policeman sketch. Also, you should just watch the entire series, not just some kind of 'top 10'

Tyler reminds me of the American pilot from the SNL sketch with James McAvoy, can literally hear him saying "they want a steakum?"

You need to see it in its full context. Fat fighters took the mick out of the lady that ran the club.

Matt Lucas has said some of these sketches would not be made now as they are genuinely offensive and yeah, they punch down at times

At its best, UK comedy pushes the envelope, sets it on fire, stamps on it, eats it, defecates it and throws that at your window. Try "Brasseye".

This is a tame top 10. Can think of much more jaw dropping scenes.

A few years ago, they even had Professor Stephen Hawkings involved with an Andy and Lou sketch for a charity show. It was hilarious.

You should watch 'The League of Gentleman'. Another classic British sketch comedy about British life

Lou and Andy are the funniest thing ever. I'm constantly quoting them, or talking the way Andy does just for the lols 😂 Last week, my mother got a lot of rice from the Chinese, so I broke out the "that's an awful lot of rice".

After watching a few videos of you, I finally was able to pinpoint who you remind me of: It's Van Wilder. Love from Vienna. PS: Little Brittain is also very well known in most of Europe, it was even translated to other languages, like german. "Computer sagt Nein." was a thing for months over in my country.

Most of little Britain is not allowed to be shown any more because some ppl got upset. And some ppl saying its racist.

I think the British are not scared to take risks to highlight all sorts of life, it makes you think, not necessarily laugh out loud.

Mr. Doggy and Bitty certainly wouldn't fly on American TV.

You said handicapped instead of disabled 😮😮

The Vicky Pollard one is a parody of life on a British Council estate, a council estate is an area of social housing for people on low income, normally rough areas

The 2 guys starred in Little Britain USA ( produced by and aired on HBO) , it was an American spin-off Continuation of Little Britain

Unfortunately this has been stopped in UK I used to love watching it. I like it if David Williams was to bring it back

The computer says no and andys "yeah i know" thing was said alot when it was on tv... alot of kids said it when I was in school Vicky said: Swapped it for a westlife CD. Also the stereotype vicky is the scum we call chavs. A chav is: a young person in Britain of a type stereotypically known for engaging in aggressively loutish behavior especially when in groups and for wearing flashy jewelry and athletic casual clothing (such as tracksuits and baseball caps) and destroy property and graffiti everything... in short...a wannabe gangster in scum form

America made Blazing Saddles, but they could never make a movie like that today, now America loves to get upset at everything.

“Swapped it for a Westlife CD”

So there is a tradition in British comedy and other TV that you dont want it to go on to long. After a couple of seasons many writers find the material repeats so will start an entirely new project which keeps everything. Fresh. A little more controversial is “the league of Gentlemen” which would really cause some problems.

In the fat fighter sketch the point is not to demonize overweight people but to point out the irony of the hostess Marjory who is overweight herself. That’s standard British humour

There is a town here in Ontario called Little Britian. Its a very small community.

17:00 this sketch is well known but it’s also negative as it perpetuated the stereotype of ‘benefit fraud’ and made ‪people‬ think the issue was far wider then it actually was so led to abuse of ambulatory disabled people who only sometimes need an aide

Vicky Pollard says "swapped it for a Westlife CD". (Westlife being popular Irish boyband back in the 90s in the UK). If you can try and watch full episodes and also Little Britain USA - you will LOVE that! I thought it was a great show - love Carol Beer. But surely Harvey Pincher (bitty) was one of best characters. I hope you get to review some more 😄

I remember there was a USA program called The New Normal, it got shown here in the UK and there was only 1 series, I heard the show got cancelled, because American mothers where being homophobic about 2 men wanting to have a baby.

Matt Lucas is in fact gay, so in his sketches about being the only ‘gay’ in the village, he is comfortable to make fun of himself, and exaggerate the behaviour of a gay. Because he accepts that it is funny.

You asked if "The computer says no." became a catchphrase, well I looked it up on the internet ....... and the computer says no.

One of the main things that mainly comes through on British comedy like little Britain and only fools and horses is not just that they are funny, it's the timing of the canned laughter. I find the canned laughter a distraction however the sketches are great.

It was a real phenomenon when it was on, partially because it really pushed the envelope & stepped over the line of what was happening on comedy TV at the time. The voice overs that were utterly nuts were done by Tom Baker (Doctor Who in the 70's), there were tonnes of phrases that became user by the general public (e.g. "Computer Says No). And yes, a lot of the characters are just the 2 stars dressed as women). - LOLs Vicki Pollard, the translation to the answer to the question where is your baby is "Swapped it for a West-Life CD" (West-Life was a pop-band in the UK at the time & Vicki is supposed to be a teenager) Vicki is a lower economic teenager, at the time refered to as a "Chav" who traditionally wore tracksuits hair tied back in a ponytail, usually had gold jewellery & designer sneakers, uneducated, living in govt highrise housing, underage pregnancy, petty theft & an also indeciferable accent (even for other Brits), Vicki Pollard is a distilled interpretation of the average "Chav" at that time. :)

I've seen American reactions to the show and they enjoyed it.

Some of it is still funny, some was just plain creepy. The guy who said 'bitty' and the guy who fancied his mates nan - both made me shudder. The guy with the piccolo was my fave.

The reason it only lasted 3 series was because it was all done by the 2 of them, and they wanted a change and there is only so many times you can do the same joke.

lol that was wonderful! :D

David Williams is a book writer and a judge on Britain’s got talent I loved this programme I’m from the uk

Tyler, I dont remember the topic of the first video of yours I saw, but I remember st the time thinking "Damn this guys annoying!" But I must say, you're growing on me! Subscribed 😁

They made a series for the US in the US. David Schwimer was a huge fan of the UK show and was the director of the American series. Matt Lucas said that because he was over weight when growing up he was taken to diet clubs and based Marjorie Dawes's character on a real life person but he takes it to the extreme. Rosie O'Donnell was a huge fan of the character and appeared in a sketch. The Davfyyd "only gay in the village" is based on his and many other gay peoples experience of building up to coming out and then finding out that no one really cares that your gay. Haha 😄😄❤️❤️ You really should try and watch some full episodes. You will most likely be really shocked at how extreme many characters are. Like the racist old lady in a little village and Matt Lucas's lady boy "Ting Tong".

Little Britain was the best comedy show that ever existed as was its sequel “come fly with me” The league of gentlemen was also fantastic but a lot darker

Tyler if you can find it, check out 'Little Britain USA'....the scenes 'take the piss' out of American 'life' in exactly the same way. The 'Fat fighters' episode has Rosie O'Donnell as guest star and it is hilarious!!! another is a county Sheriff showing off his gun collection....pure magic. ;-)

This is 'self depreciating' British humour ... We love it ... David Walliams and Matt Lucas play EVERY ROLE .... The Cake Lady .... Computer Operator ..... The two of them are the main players .... SUGGESTION FOR YOU .... Look up ... LITTLE BRITAIN 'BITTY' ..... THAT is as close to the bone as you can get ... Paula x UK

These vids are great

They missed ting tong the Thai bride and the lady who cant control her incontinence 🤣😂