Jesusboy and The Goatherd at iComFest

Jesusboy and The Goatherd - iComFest questionnaire

E4's Fictional Emergency Comedy Commissioning Editor puts each of this year's shows through the one-minute pitch process...

So, hit me with the high concept, baby

Nathan: It's a post-structural situation which follows a journey into the existential landscape of the modern teenage mind. So Voltaire meets Socrates meets Lenny Henry.

Jack: It's a Documentary about your mum. We filmed her going to the clinic.

Ah, there's two of you. This is the sort of interesting conversational challenge a fictional E4 Commissioning Editor likes to rise to. So tell me more...

Nathan: Curtain up. We open on a car. Scratch that, we open on THE car. The vehicle is life and the road is Man. But not man as in a specific Man, or Man like "hey man can you pass me some crips", rather, like Man as in Mankind. But not the former WWF wrestler Mankind. It's a fairly complicated metaphore for determanism and human nature.

Jack: I hate you. Your such a dick.

This has GOT to be confusing for anyone reading now. If there are indeed two of you, what do I need to know about you?

Jack's Agent: At just twenty years old, Jack Whitehall has made a remarkable impact upon the comedy world. Jack recently hosted the live launch of Big Brother's Big Mouth only a year after winning the Amused Moose new act of the year award at 2007's Edinburgh Comedy Festival.

Nathan: The only thing you need to know about me is that I was in the final ten contenders to play Harry Potter. Daniel Radcliffe was sleeping with JK Rowling at the time. I was basically passed over for not having a granny fetish. Or shit hair.

As fictional E4 Commissioning Editor, I owe it to the public to point out that at no time has any fictional character in this conversation been passed over for a job due to not sleeping with a real life person. And now there's a NEW fictional character in the shape of Jack's Agent. Where is this all headed?

Nathan: I see the show being developed into a series of interactive / online art instalations and then diversifyng the whole concept into a kind of manifesto, an ideology if you will. The only way our viewers can really get to grips with the bigger concepts of 'Goatherdism' is by actually participating and adopting its' principles and practices into their everyday life. We are all The Goatherd.

Jack: I'd try and write Nathan out of the show.

Excellent. Well, your time's up. Do you like the way I left all your original spelling mistakes and typos in the questionnaire?

Both: We do! (And we didn't even write this bit.) Here's the clips we were asked to bring along.

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E4's Interactive Comedy Festival:

Jesusboy and The Goatherd - iComFest questionnaire

So, hit me with the high concept, baby

Ah, there's two of you. This is the sort of interesting conversational challenge a fictional E4 Commissioning Editor likes to rise to. So tell me more...

This has GOT to be confusing for anyone reading now. If there are indeed two of you, what do I need to know about you?

Excellent. Well, your time's up. Do you like the way I left all your original spelling mistakes and typos in the questionnaire?

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