Matt Lucas: 'Comedy is a dialogue'

Matt Lucas has described comedy as a "dialogue" where the audience has a key role in deciding the limits of taste.

The actor told thelondonpaper that he never really felt as though Little Britain had gone too far.

Lucas said: "We would let the audiences decide. Sometimes we'd play stuff and they wouldn't laugh, and we'd think, 'OK, we've overstepped the mark here'.

"Other stuff we thought a bit too edgy the audience would really laugh at, so we'd put it in. It's a dialogue, comedy."

He continued: "There are all types of different humour. There is shocking stuff but also stuff that's just plain silly.

"The Sebastian sketches are just farce, and Lou and Andy is like pantomime because when he turns his back, I get out of the wheelchair. You want to scream, 'It's behind you!'"

Lucas added: "We have got a film in development which has Little Britain characters in it, but it's not really a Little Britain movie.

"We've put Little Britain to one side for a bit. We want to write a book together, and we might write a musical at some point."