It appears that Matt Lucas and David Walliams have chosen to finally end 'Little Britain'. It won't be missed by anyone with good taste in comedy. Its creators exuded the terrible smugness of a pair of untalented second bananas who unexpectedly hit the jackpot after years of beavering away in other people's shows. Perhaps this explains why it frequently descended into the sewer in search of easy laughs, mocking the elderly, the disabled, the obese, anyone who wasn't either young or good looking. Hitler would have laughed at this. It also spawned the worst comedy catchphrase of all time - "I'm the only gay in this village!". So what? It might have been funnier the other way round - "I'm the only straight in this village!" - but this did not seem to occur to them.Williams once said he drew inspiration from going out into the street and observing "funny little people leading funny little lives". Had he thought to look in the mirror he'd have seen the most ripe target for send-up imaginable. There is a classic comedy waiting to be made about the vile media types who think they're cleverer than they actually are, and who regularly churn out dross in the misguided belief it is 'cutting edge'. Walliams is no actor - witness his dire performance as 'Frankie Howerd' in B.B.C.-4's 'Funny You Should Ask'. He is simply not qualified to take the mickey out of others.The people most amused by this were children, the sort who find farting and swearing hilarious. The Americans rejected 'Little Britain U.S.A.' and, following the flop that was 'Come Fly With Me', it looks as if the less-than dynamic duo have had enough. Should their solo careers falter, expect them to reunite in five years time. By then, their audience will have grown up, and will probably be ashamed at themselves at having liked such a nasty, sneering little show.

This is one of the funniest T.V. shows I have seen in a long time. A mix of Monty Python, Kids In The Hall and toilet humor, Little Britain is laugh-out-loud hilarious.Matt Lucas and David Walliams create some of the most memorable characters in a long time. Yes, the show runs their characters into the ground and it becomes repetitive but when they are fresh, these caricatures are winners.Some of my favorites:Marjorie Dawes, the hypocritical leader of the Fat Fighters, who calls her customers fat despite being overweight herself.Sebastian Love, the openly gay aide to the Prime Minister of the U.K.Emily Howard, the Victorian era cross-dresser.Vicky Pollard, the fast-talking teenage delinquent.Daffyd Thomas, who claims to be the only gay in the village when there seems to be plenty of them around him.Kenny Craig, master hypnotist.There's other characters I like, though some of them aren't as funny. It can be hit-or-miss.The show also relies on a lot of toilet humor and tastelessness at times, seemingly in the later seasons.Still, it's a tremendous show. I hope to see Season 3 on Netflix soon. However, I would definitely not allow kids to see this show. It's R- rated to be sure.

I have an enormous crush on David Walliams. Apparently I have to have 10 lines of text, so here goes: I have an enormous crush on David Walliams, sadly. I'm revealing this thanks to several glasses of Absolute Citron and orange juice, with a splash of pomegranate juice (it's supposed to be good for you, how much better can it be with vodka?) At any rate, I've used my full name, which is never good, but what are the chances of anyone ever finding me on this board saying I have a crush on a random TV star and knowing who I am? For both to be possible, would you multiply the amount of people reading this board with the amount of ex-students who would know who I am? Or, perhaps, the number of people who have a sad little crush on a most-likely gay David Walliams (Williams, whatever) with the amount of people who have gone to private Catholic schools, or combine the number of people who will ever really read this post with the number of living sea urchins and then subtract the number of people who have ever had to chase cattle from their yards at Christmas (that would be me) divided by the number of people who have random crushes on random British TV comedians. Is that 10 lines yet? A plane crashed in the Hudson River today and I live in Oklahoma.

The modern approach to making TV series and movies is very much in evidence here: hit them with all you've got and hope that it sticks. For "Little Britain" that means outrageous characters like the wheelchair-bound guy who really isn't, the adult guy who still loves being breast-fed by his mother or any female relative, the gay guy who prefers to think he's the only one in his village, cross-dressing men and frontal nudity galore. Running gags are repeated to the point of nausea (literally so in the case of the vomiting "lady"). The low-brow humour is only partially appealing. Hearing an old man talk about his experiences in mutual masturbation as a youth solicits laughter not because it's funny to hear, but because it's just plain outrageous. A complete lack of subtlety brings everything down.The Monty Pythons had a policeman chasing them away when the sketch got too silly or the studio audience storm the stage when the gags got too tasteless - something that I sorely missed here. Not surprisingly, "Little Britain" has only about half the number of episodes that the Monty Python series had.6 out of 10 for sheer recklessness - and not much else.