Editor's Pick: The Brits Invade Comedy Network With 'Little Britain, USA'

The Brits have taken over The Comedy Network with the outrageous sketch comedy 'Little Britain, USA'. Award-winning comedians Matt Lucas and David Walliams took the United Kingdom and Australia by storm with their hit comedy 'Little Britain,' and they hope to repeat the success in Canada with the Americanized version.

This 30-minute, six-episode series features 'Little Britain' faves in all-new sketches, as well as a host of new characters, all performed by Lucas and Walliams. In typical sketch-com style, Lucas and Walliams suit up to play returning favorites including: Dafydd Thomas, the self-proclaimed "only gay in the village", Lou and his wheelchair-bound best friend Andy, Marjorie Dawes, the insensitive leader of a chapter of the weight-loss support group Fatfighters, and Vicky Pollard, a teenage delinquent with a bad attitude.

Guest star cameos include Rosie O'Donnell, Sting, and many more.

The show airs on Wednesdays at 10 pm ET on The Comedy Network.

The Brits have taken over The Comedy Network with the outrageous sketch comedy 'Little Britain, USA'. Award-winning comedians Matt Lucas and David Walliams took the United Kingdom and Australia by storm with their hit comedy 'Little Britain,' and they hope to repeat the success in Canada with the Americanized version.

This 30-minute, six-episode series features 'Little Britain' faves in all-new sketches, as well as a host of new characters, all performed by Lucas and Walliams. In typical sketch-com style, Lucas and Walliams suit up to play returning favorites including: Dafydd Thomas, the self-proclaimed "only gay in the village", Lou and his wheelchair-bound best friend Andy, Marjorie Dawes, the insensitive leader of a chapter of the weight-loss support group Fatfighters, and Vicky Pollard, a teenage delinquent with a bad attitude.

Guest star cameos include Rosie O'Donnell, Sting, and many more.

The show airs on Wednesdays at 10 pm ET on The Comedy Network.

Reviews of 'Little Britain, USA':

The first scene is, in a nutshell, the trajectory 'Little Britain' has taken since its British debut. Where once its wildly diverse sketches were politically incorrect glimpses into different facets of British life -- such as Vicky Pollard, the hilariously incoherent working-class teen, and Emily Howard, just an old-fashioned transvestite gal in denial -- now they are firmly rooted in genital humor, an endless fascination with homosexuality and fat jokes, often in the same sketch. 'Little Britain USA' adds some new American characters to the Lucas/Walliams repertoire, but the hard-R gross-out humor remains the same. - LA Times

I think the show is going to catch fans' attention, and I think it'll do well to introduce the two to American audiences.The show was very entertaining if you like the 'Little Britain' style of crude, un-politically correct humour. I do, so I was cackling like mad through most of the program, especially at the exploits and nudity of two new characters, Mark and Tom the 'gym buddies'. Lou Todd and Andy Pipkin are also there, and provide one of the funniest moments in the entire debut show that wasn't an elaborate gay joke. - www.denofgeek.com

Clip of Episode #1 - Warning: Foul Language

Think of Monty Python with fewer people, even more drag, and latex fat suits, and you'll get the idea behind the marvelously talented Matt Lucas and David Walliams' comedy revue. What you won't get from that description is the cheeky, modern effrontery of their humor, or their ability to mock their characters while keeping us on their side -from the desperate-to-be-remembered eighth man on the moon to the angelic little girl who talks like a longshoreman. - USA Today

The American version of 'Little Britain' shares several traits with Showtime's Tracey Ullman sketch comedy 'State of the Union,' yet virtually every comparison proves unflattering to the new HBO series. Whereas Ullman's comedy is clever, 'Britain USA' is mostly just crude, reveling in mock condescension toward American stereotypes. Ullman plays multiple gender-swapping characters, but with more panache than the chameleon-like David Walliams and Matt Lucas. And Ullman's hit-miss ratio is simply higher, making the slog through 'Britain's' gooey swamp to find laughs feel more arduous.- Variety

An American spin on the British series from the original's creators, Matt Lucas and David Walliams, 'Little Britain USA' delivers a community of characters who exhibit acute symptoms of human nature and then some. The show is certainly crude burlesque, with no shortage of penis and breast jokes along the way; if you don't like comedy that pushes the boundaries of good taste, you have no business here. But the material is presented with enough comic skill, cultural resonance, and clever mockery to rise above. - Boston Globe