I may have enjoyed this comedy series if it weren't for the canned laughter. I couldn't watch more than a few minutes. IMDb requires ten lines of text in order to submit a review, so...Please excuse me for writing continuing to write when I really have no more to say about the series. If the producers would remove the canned laughter, I think I would enjoy this particular comedy series.I just couldn't get past the canned laughter. British humor can be hilarious. I regret that I couldn't stand to watch this particular series. I hope I can now end this and post my review. IMDb also requires ten. Lines. Of. Text. In. Order. To. Review.

Let me first start out by saying I like Little Britain Series one and two; I missed series three because I started to live in the US again by that time but I may not watch series three now that I know how Little Britain USA turned out. In act of full disclosure I did start a bit late into the US version as I just upgraded my Satellite package to include HBO and BBC America in November due to a new discounted rate through my apartment complex so if there was some comedy gold missed in the first few episodes due tell me.When I discovered that there was a US version of Little Britain I was quite happy. I was very keen on watching the programme I enjoyed so much back in the UK and being able to watch it in HD was just some icing on the cake. Well, as it turns out the cake has been left out since 2004 because by the time I viewed Little Britain USA it had become quite stale indeed. Mind you I watched one and a quarter episodes so it's not like I didn't give it a shot I just didn't find it all that good. I think I may have chuckled once perhaps but that was at a rehashed bit that used to be quite funny in the first series. In fact as I watched the US version I started to think that maybe it was never funny in the first place. Maybe I was deluded back in Britain into thinking it was funny just because of the hype surrounding the show at the time. I thought that I had been duped but then I happened across the original on BBC America and I discovered that I had not been duped the show has just become really bad. I then tried to watch another episode that I had recorded of the new series and was just as let down after only 8 minutes and had to shut it off. In my eyes the show as run its course.Please do yourself a favour and watch Series one and two... maybe three; again I haven't been able to see that one yet but just don't bother with Little Britain USA. You will just get depressed by the thought of how much these once funny characters are dead perhaps forever.

In the episode when Bubbles DeVere gets thrown off the ship... when the camera pans away from Robert Vaughn, could someone confirm that another quite fabled TV and Movie actor uncredited is sitting there...? Its perhaps a trick of the light or someone who just happens to look like this star but after watching recently Space 1999: S1 - Black Sun... its the eyes that give it away... but perhaps someone can confirm that is Martin Landau or not or just some supporting actor from an agency.I'm minded of this as its not the first time Landau has declined mainline credits. I think that it rather ironic having the man from Mission Impossible sitting opposite from the Man from Uncle, watch the Space 1999 episode Black Sun and you will see a time warp from the 70's to now...I wouldn't be surprised as Williams and Lucas are both of an age that would have seen the tail end of series II of 1999 when it was shown here in the UK, for many of us young lads it was our "Star Trek" and enjoyed great viewer ship on Saturday mornings despite ITV's abysmal schedule and to wrap it up, if that is Martin... its great to see he's still about.

I was never a fan of Little Britain when it was shown on the BBC, and Little Britain USA is just as bad. Little Britain and Little Britain USA is basically a sketch show with a collection of 'colourful' characters, like Vicky Pollard, the chav schoolgirl, Bubbles, the overweight nudist, Lou and Andy, the fake disable guy and his carer, Daffyd Thomas, the homophobic Welsh gay, etc, with some American buddies like the gym buddies, the mother and daughter team Ellie and Grace where they tell each other how much they love each other until one of them comes up with something vulgar (like double ended didoes) and Phyllis Church and Mr. Doggy, a woman who does inapproitate things in the disguise of her King Charles Spaniel.They are several problems with Little Britain and the American Spin-off. Firstly once you heard one of the jokes, like Vicky Pollard's 'yeah but no but' or seeing Andy getting out of his wheelchair when Lou isn't looking, then you don't need to see or hear it again, but Matt Lucas and David Walliams are poor writers and just go over the same territory over and over again. At the same time the fans of the show just lap it up and love it. The catchphrases from the show have become a part of British culture and can get very annoying. Because they is such little room for continuing the show in Britain the characters are taken to other places like Thailand and obviously the US. Secondly, the show is vulgar, it is perfectly willing to go to the lowest common denominator just to get a cheap laugh, like seeing someone grotesque naked or watching a woman urinating whilst talking to someone. The show has been criticised for being sexist, racist, homophobic, and ageist, basically annoying a lot of people on the left and right. I say its borderline and does cross the line sometimes. The offers no intelligence to the audience, has no clever jokes at all. It crude and crass. The characters are horrible and they is no point to the show. They is little originality and because of the show ability to repeat itself all the time any novelty goes off really quickly.They has been a real decline in British comedy over the years. Gone are the days where great shows like Only Fools and Horses, Blackadder, Red Dwarf, the Young Ones, etc... are long gone, and the BBC keeps rubbish show after rubbish show like After You're Gone, Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps and Coming of Age. But they are still some gems like Peep Show, the Office and to a lesser extent Extras, as well as panel shows like Have I Got News for You and Mock the Week. I personally recommend shows like that way above Little Britain and Little Britain USA.What surprises me most is that it s HBO that shows Little Britain USA. How can a channel that has made top-quality like the Soparnos, Oz, Deadwood, Rome, etc... show this rubbish to its audience? Do the executives think that just because the show is British that it means it's high quality? It doesn't. The saving grace in my made is that the American critics have panned the show and audience figures were low in the states. It does show that America does have taste and in recent years have overtaken Britain in quality in a number of areas in entertainment. Top-quality British shows are becoming less and less frequent. As well Little Britain USA has not be renewed for a new series which is good news.