If there’s one reason to lament not having (read: not being able to afford) HBO right now, it’s that you’re missing the new stateside version of the hit British sketch comedy show Little Britain. (This reporter is among those without premium channels. Sigh.) The show’s vulgarity. The over-the-top-ness. The willingness to tackle even the most un-PC topics. We love it all.
And so does Michael Musto, whose column in this week’s Village Voice includes a brief Q&A with Matt Lucas and David Walliams, the creators and stars of the original Little Britain and now, Little Britain USA. We learn that they got Rosie O’Donnell to make a cameo on the show after meeting her at an Elton John concert, and also about their leanings in the presidential election:
Lucas then handed the phone to Walliams, who for all I know was wearing pink tights and grinning like a schoolgirl. I asked him about the sketch in which he plays the British prime minister-as a man-who’s madly infatuated with an Obama-like American president. ("I want you inside me right now," he coos, admiring the Prez’s "weapon of mass destruction.") "We’re hoping Obama wins," Walliams said, "because we have that character, and it’s much easier to flirt with Barack than with John McCain. It’s hard to imagine having a homoerotic crush on McCain. I’m not trying to insult him-this is purely on physical terms." Matt Lucas, however, disagrees. As he recently told Walliams, "Well, if you like the kind of sugar-daddy thing, then maybe John McCain is sexy."
Lucky for us, YouTube has some of the new skits online, which we’re happy to treat you to below:
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