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This is a list of characters for the British television and radio sketch show '' Little Britain'' (and its American spin-off, ''
Little Britain USA ''Little Britain USA'' is an American spin-off-continuation of British sketch show, ''Little Britain'', produced by and aired on HBO. As in the British series, Matt Lucas and David Walliams play the majority of the characters: originals such a ...
'').


Overview

;Key : Characters that appear for only one sketch are not listed in the table


A


Alan

Appearances: Series 3
Alan works for the Donkey Hospice in the town of Achingballs. After contributors give him some money, he blatantly places stickers on embarrassing body parts, such as the genital region or breasts and on someone's rear in a deleted scene. He makes one appearance in Series 3.


Peter Andre

Episodes: Radio Show; Series 1, episodes 4 and 5
Catchphrase: "I love you Anne" and "I need you Anne"
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who gets sacked after first making surreal and false claims about the Royal Family (such as Prince Charles having magical powers, describing
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as "The Main One" and mistaking
Princess Eugenie Princess Eugenie, Mrs Jack Brooksbank ( ; Eugenie Victoria Helena; born 23 March 1990) is a member of the British royal family. She is the younger daughter of Prince Andrew, Duke of York, and Sarah, Duchess of York. She is a niece of King C ...
for her mother,
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) and then expressing his love for
Princess Anne Anne, Princess Royal (Anne Elizabeth Alice Louise; born 15 August 1950), is a member of the British royal family. She is the second child and only daughter of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and the only sister of K ...
through song. He later attempts to enter a royal garden party to give her some drawings, despite being scruffy and without trousers, and is turned away by police. The character's name is a reference to the singer. There are also two deleted scenes in which Peter Andre appears backstage at the Royal Variety Performance (impersonating Keith Harris and
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) and at a drug rehab centre.


Anne

Appearances: Starting in Series 1
Catchphrase: "Eh-eh-ehhh!" Anne is a patient at the Steven Spielberg Hospital in Little Bentcock, where she is being trained for integration into society. She is severely mentally challenged, except when answering calls on her mobile phone, when she converses in a completely coherent and polite manner. Unfortunately for her psychiatrist, Dr. Lawrence, who is almost always accompanied by Dr. Beagrie, she displays poor progress when observed. She often resorts to extreme behaviour, such as licking or stroking the faces of other people, or destroying things around her. Anne likes poo. She painted a picture out of poo and wrote "Merry Xmas" in poo. Anne has worked at a library (where she earns £5 but then, much to the doctor's surprise, intentionally drops the money into a drain), at a
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and as a pianist in a restaurant; she takes a keen interest in amateur dramatics and home decoration. Her character is similar to that of Mr Doggy's owner. Anne has appeared in all series and had a ''
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'' sketch for ''Little Britain Live''. In ''Little Britain Abroad'', Anne met the Pope and went to the
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in Paris, from where she stole the
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. She also licked the
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's face, and showed him her fanny. She did not, however, appear in ''Little Britain USA. She is 39 years old''


Ashraf The Horse Whisperer

Appearances: Series 3 episode 5 Ashraf is an Indian man working at the local computer shop. He has an unusual way of using a horse to help customers with their IT problems.


B


Mrs B

Appearances: Series 2 episode 5
Catchphrase: "Fetch", "Good boy" Every time she goes out to give refreshment to the builders who are doing work on her garden, she gives them biscuits as if they were a dog. This is by throwing them on the floor or making them do tricks in order to get the biscuit.


Bank robbers

The bank robbers make an appearance in ''Little Britain USA''. The two appear to be very skillful bank robbers, having a quick and simple manner of robbing a bank, with one going in and demanding money while the other drives the getaway vehicle, and a very secluded hideout. However, it becomes clear that the two are actually too timid to rob the bank properly, with the one played by Lucas getting only a handful of desk pens and the one played by Walliams a desk marker saying "Position closed" on the second attempt, rather than money.


Carol Beer

Appearances: Starting in Series 2
Catchphrase: "
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.... (coughs)" as well as offering bizarre substitutes to requests. Carol Beer is a perpetually disillusioned woman who works in a number of jobs that require a very close relationship with her computer, such as a bank clerk, a travel agent or a hospital receptionist. When approached with a reasonable request, such as opening a bank account, a holiday to America or making an appointment, she will type the information into her computer. Upon discovering that the request cannot be met, she will answer with a deadpan "Computer says no." As a travel agent, she would then follow up her refusal with an offer of a strange, and often unhelpful substitute, of the kind that the customer is very unlikely to agree to, such as (when the client asked for a flight to
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) "I've got a flight to Guildford" or (when asked for a boat ride for two people) "There is one place left. Would one of you be prepared to swim alongside?" When she does occasionally offer a helpful alternative (for example, when the recipient wants a flight to
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, and she offers a flight to
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), she will make it unhelpful by saying the flight is taxiing now. She is unwilling to use any human initiative beyond checking her computer to help her customers further, and will instead cough in their face to get them to go away. Occasionally, she will amuse herself by being extra unhelpful (such as cancelling a customer's flight plan when he requests a vegetarian option, or telling a child wanting to go to
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that the " Mickey Mouse" will just be a man in a suit), finding new ways of swearing in front of children and getting away with it, coughing right in their faces, or just being rude. Another of her trademarks is that, whenever a customer reveals an aspect of their personal lives (such as when a man comments that it's been a while since he saw his daughter, or a couple comment that they have been married for thirty years), she will shrug her shoulders and mutter "Oh." In ''Little Britain Abroad'', Carol was a rep for a holiday to Spain. When a woman became nauseous, and she and her husband got off the coach for fresh air, Carol drove off without them. When a couple wished to book an excursion, Carol said there was one place left, and asked if they’d be prepared to swim alongside. They then complained about Carol, saying that she'd been rude and unhelpful. Carol was furious when she discovered this. After Carol pretended to cry, they agreed to withdraw the complaint, and she called them "dirty shitters". In a deleted scene, she does a karaoke cover of " I'm So Excited" by
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(where she just repeats the chorus), and the woman loses her temper with her. Carol Beer appears in ''
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'', in which she is the receptionist at a hospital. Her most recent escapades involved offering a child named Danielle Lloyd for double-hip replacement (saying that there is "only one
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" using the hospital), verbally abusing and annoying a pregnant woman and her husband, and denying an injured patient an
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. In her final sketch, she tells an elderly patient that he's listed as deceased, as well as getting frustrated by his slow walking (eventually shouting "Oh, for fuck's sake"). The patient then gives Carol the middle finger after being ordered to move faster. In the 2009
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for
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, comedian
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stars as Carol's boss, Dawn, who is evaluating Carol to see if she makes standards to keep her job during a
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. Carol was considered to appear in Lucas and Walliams' new comedy '' Come Fly with Me'', working as a check-in manager for Flylo Airlines, but was rejected as David Walliams didn't want it to be a spinoff of ''Little Britain''.


Letty Bell

Appearances: Series 3 episode 3
Catchphrase: "I love me froggies" and "KILL IT" Letty appears in only one sketch in Series 3, in which she appears to have an obsession for frogs ("froggies") as her house has in it many frog-related novelties, plus she loudly admits it. The sketch shows her birthday. When her friends present her with a real frog, she strangely reacts with fear and bludgeons it to death with a rolling pin. Originally intended as a recurring character, she also appears in several deleted scenes from Series 3. Letty also appears in the ''Little Britain'' video game. In a deleted scene, she lives in a small village called "Slut".


Len Boothe

Appearances: Series 1 episode 7
Catchphrase: "It was just (near a certain location) that my wife Eileen first (did something of a sexual nature)" Len Boothe appears in just one episode of Series 1. He works as the voice-over man on tours of his hometown of Pove. Whenever the tour bus passes a location (i.e. the blacksmiths, the church, the 'Hanging Judge' pub, or the Roman bridge), he tells the people a little bit about the place, and then also says something about what his wife Eileen (they've been married at least 32 years, and the details become more vulgar as the tour proceeds) did to him there: *Church: First kiss. *Pub: Touched her breasts. *Blacksmiths: Performed oral sex. *Bridge: Went up the ' wrong-un'. In Series 1 Deleted Scenes, Len is still working on the bus tours; however, he has a French woman on the bus (presumably Matt Lucas), who keeps needing to sit down when she and her husband get off the bus. And, she repeats this when the passengers get back on. The woman had the same appearance as Bubbles DeVere.


Boris the Babysitter

Appearances: Radio Show; Series 1, episode 8
Catchphrase: "Your baby is fine" Appearing in Episode 8 of Series one, Boris is an intense, but well-meaning Russian man who works as a babysitter. In his appearance, he babysits the son of a couple who are about to go out for a work function. Due to his intimidating appearance and behaviour, the couple are nervous about leaving their baby with him. They decide to take their chances and leave. Despite their worries, Boris turns out to be a great babysitter, spending his time teaching the baby to play the
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, showing it the
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'', playing with
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and
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puppets and dancing around with it on his shoulders. The couple return to find the baby sound asleep with Boris playing his Balalaika to it, and Boris leaves, still acting strangely (and responding to the question "did you have to change him?" with "No, is still the same baby."). The baby then says to the couple "Comrade Stalin salutes you!" Throughout the sketch, Boris mentions having a deceased mother called Piet'kà (Russian: Петька, the informal form of the name Peter) and an evil brother called Josef.


PCs Bryce and Rawlinson

Appearances: Series 2 episode 3
Catchphrase: "We must have the wrong house!" PCs Bryce and Rawlinson appear in Series 2 episode 3, in which they are trying to give some sad news to a Mrs. Harris, whose husband has died in a car accident. In the first sketch, they give the news to the wrong Mrs. Harris, and then laugh hysterically when they learn that they've made a mistake. However, when they give the news to the real Mrs. Harris, they laugh at the memory of their
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sequence in which Lucas and Walliams question the logic of their caricature, which in fact bears little resemblance to Waterman. In a special recording of the sketch for
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2007, Waterman himself appears on stage and confronts the two, forcing them to admit that in voice and appearance, there is no resemblance. He is forced to concede that he has often written and sung the "theme tune" of programmes in which he has appeared.


Whitelaw

Appearances: Series 1 episode 6
Catchphrase: Do you know if anyone died in it? Whitelaw appears only once in the entire Series, at her local charity shop. She is seen to browse through the clothes rack, and when she finds something she likes, she always asks the shopkeepers if anyone died in the clothes she is holding. When Whitelaw finds some pale blue silk pyjamas, the assistant keeper (Matt Lucas) says that, just the day before, an elderly lady came in with her husband's clothes, saying he died in his sleep. Whitelaw then buys them.


Deleted scenes characters

Many characters from deleted scenes never got an appearance in the series, either due to time constraints, lack of laughs from the audience or due to a sometimes offensive story.


Bus Passenger

Played by: Matt Lucas
Appearances: Series 3 Deleted scenes A man (with the appearance of a Beanie) from the town of Frottage is generally seen on a bus on its way to Dung market centre. He likes to blurt out various tunes at random, to the annoyance of the person sitting next to him.


Stewie and Dale

Played by: Matt Lucas and David Walliams respectively
Appearances: Series 3 Deleted Scenes Stewie and Dale are two Scottish men working in their local supermarket. Whenever he sees a random person at a certain area of the shop, Dale will say that the person is a celebrity (he has said
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, and
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), then Stewie will prove him wrong.


Barry Edwards

Played by: David Walliams Appearances: Radio show; Series 1 Deleted Scenes Barry Edwards' sketch consists of him with a new answerphone. When he tries to enter the 'please call me back' message, he tries many different ways of saying 'Hi, this is Barry. I'm sorry I can't answer your call, please call me back', including a serious tone, an excited and zany tone, a quiet, ominous whisper, an impersonation of Sir Ian McKellen and a faux Welsh accent, but each time ends up dissatisfied with the result and recording a new message. His final message is an incoherent whine, which he ultimately settles on.


Eugene

Played by: David Walliams
Appearances: Series 2 Deleted Scenes
Catchphrase: "Correct", "Incorrect", "Does that smell?", "Is it smelling?" Eugene appears in three clips of the deleted scenes. He is a musician, who plays nothing more than a triangle, and speaks with a South African accent. He is irrationally sensitive and always answers with the words "Correct" for positives and "Incorrect" for negatives. In each clip, he vandalizes colleagues' instruments for minor things that affected him. In his appearances, he: bends a flute because the owner in question trod on his toes; flattens the brass section's instruments because one of them said his lunchbox smelled, and saws a double bass in half because the owner was reading his Daily Express. After that occasion, he is fired from the orchestra, which results in him igniting gasoline all over the orchestra, proclaiming "I am correct, they are incorrect! I am correct, they are incorrect!"


Roland

Played by: David Walliams
Appearances: Series 2 Deleted scenes
Catchphrase: "Is it Pornoo...?"
Roland is a farm boy with a love of pornographic images, or "Pornoo" as he calls it. His suggestions for almost any question he is asked is various types of the subject, much to the concern of his family. The start of his sketches often sees him putting women's clothing on a pig. At the end of each sketch, he will take something off the kitchen table before returning to his room.


Ruth and her Mother

Played by: Matt Lucas and David Walliams
Appearances: Series 2 deleted scenes
Catchphrase: Ruth: "Muuuummmm!" Mother: "Meet me in the back in 5 minutes!" Ruth is a girl who works in a cafe with her mother. Her mother tries to get her daughter to fall in love with someone. She first makes her daughter do a dance in front of the customer, then later, makes her have sex with them.


Shy Hotel Guest

Played by: David Walliams
Appearances: ''Little Britain USA'' Deleted scenes
Catchphrases: "Pass it under the door please", "Pervert...!" Appearing in 2 deleted scenes, the Hotel Guest is never seen in person as he doesn't like to show his face, thus having his treatments and breakfasts slid under the door in unusual fashions. When the person he is addressing attempts to catch a glimpse of him under the door, he will shout "What are you lookin' at, you pervert!?" It is revealed in the second sketch that he has a third ear, the most likely explanation for his hate of other people seeing him.


Kim and Jill

Played by: Matt Lucas and David Walliams
Appearances: Series 2 Deleted scenes
Catchphrase: "He's handy is he?" Jill is a young woman who enjoys dating men of certain professions to exploit their skills and giving her free upgrades while she and her mother Kim laze about in the sun before they finish their work and she dumps them afterwards. Jill dates handy men like a plumber, a Sky electrician and an elderly Sikh gardener. The first two lightly accept her rejection but the very last is more eager, prompting Jill to actually ask him if she can "throw him in a pond".


Douglas Stirling

Played by: David Walliams
Appearances Series 1 Deleted scene
Catchphrase: Oh, so it's "The warmth of the sun reminded them that they were alive", '' uggests a ridiculous ending' Douglas Stirling is an author who is seen at a restaurant, meeting up with a potential publisher (played by Stirling Gallacher). He has written a masterpiece of nearly 700 pages, up until the last line which reads "Anyway, readers, I must go now, as my Mum is calling me for my tea". The publisher encourages him to change this line, although Douglas doesn't understand what is wrong with it. He then suggests other ridiculous endings, such as "The warmth of the sun reminded them that they were alive, ok bye" or "I've got to go now, as Graham Norton is just starting. Lots of love, Douglas". Douglas reluctantly agrees to remove the last line, to the publisher's relief, only for her to discover a new problem: the first line reads "Dear Mum".


Benjy

Played by: David Walliams
Appearances Series 2 Deleted scenes
Catchphrase: "My black friends"
Benjy is a man with an unusual obsession with Black British men (whom he refers to as his "Black friends"). Only one sketch featuring him was made, in which he is seen to host a party whose invitees consist solely of this demographic. He is uncomfortable when one of the invitees brings along a
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friend of his (played by Lucas), and only admits him after getting an absolute reassurance that the friend is not a racist. Throughout the sketch, he is seen to make constant politically incorrect remarks, to the discomfort of his party guests.


References

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