Little Britain is a British character-based comedic sketch show that was originally broadcast on BBC radio and was later adapted for television. David Walliams and Matt Lucas composed the text. The show's name is a portmanteau of 'Little England' and 'Great Britain'; it is also the name of a Victorian neighborhood and a current street in London. The show consists of skits depicting exaggerated parodies of British individuals from all walks of life in circumstances that are familiar to the British. These sketches are presented to the spectator along with a narrator in a manner that suggests the program is a guide for non-British individuals to the lifestyles of the various classes of British society. In spite of the narrator's portrayal of great British institutions, the humor derives from the British audience's self-deprecating understanding of themselves or others they know.
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Little Britain is a British character-based comedic sketch show that was originally broadcast on BBC radio and was later adapted for television. David Walliams and Matt Lucas composed the text. The show's name is a portmanteau of 'Little England' and 'Great Britain'; it is also the name of a Victorian neighborhood and a current street in London. The show consists of skits depicting exaggerated parodies of British individuals from all walks of life in circumstances that are familiar to the British. These sketches are presented to the spectator along with a narrator in a manner that suggests the program is a guide for non-British individuals to the lifestyles of the various classes of British society. In spite of the narrator's portrayal of great British institutions, the humor derives from the British audience's self-deprecating understanding of themselves or others they know.
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