'Some people might be a little bit shocked': David Walliams gives update on Little Britain reboot

David Walliams has given an update on the Little Britain reboot, teasing that it will be “edgy” like the original.

The cult comedy sketch show ran as a television series from 2003 until 2006 and made household names of co-writers and co-stars Walliams, 52, and Matt Lucas, 50.

It also spawned books, talking dolls and even a live stage show.

In the years that passed, the show faced criticism for its offensive humour, including blackface, fat-shaming and racial stereotyping.

Last December, Lucas confirmed that they were working on an updated version which would look to remedy this.

Now, appearing on The Therapy Crouch podcast, former Britain's Got Talent judge Walliams has promised that the new series will still include the non-PC jokes the original was famed for, but they would be “not in terrible taste”.

He said: "We’re writing again but we want to do entirely new characters like Come Fly With Me. It’s a little bit edgy, there are jokes in it that are like, not in terrible taste, but, you know, like Little Britain was and Come Fly With Me."

Walliams then added: "No, it’s not trendy, it’s edgy. It’s walking a line between… like some people might be a little bit shocked."

Reflecting on the success of Little Britain to the Standard in 2022, Walliams said he felt “so grateful” for the experience and still gets people regularly quoting his characters’ catchphrases at him.

“I get ‘Computer says no’ quite a lot,” he explained. “When someone says ‘Do you want a receipt?’ I say ‘Yeah’ and they go, ‘Computer says no,’ I get that a lot.

“I guess Matt must get a lot of the ‘Yeah, but no, but’. All kinds of ones! I’ve had lots of bizarre ones, I remember being in Egypt crawling up this little dark tunnel and I just heard this echoing, I heard someone go ‘EH EH EH!’

“They each come back at you at strange times… lucky that you’ve done something that people know, people liked, it’s great, you know, it doesn’t happen to everybody so it’s something that you’ve just got to be so grateful for.”