E4's Interactive Comedy Festival:
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E4's Interactive Comedy Festival portfolio
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You need to know what to watch, when and why, natch. Here's the down-low about this year's entries into E4's Interactive Comedy Festival. Man. (Cribbed straight from the press release, if you're interested.)
Comedy show featuring a fast-paced blend of sketches and hidden-camera stunts where Liam Hourican "apes" a random bunch of famous faces and everyday people in his own particular style. Famous faces include Louis Theroux meets Mohammed Al Fayed, Boris Johnson constantly apologising and Peter Stringfellow taking the reigns on the Apprentice. Original creations include: "Donnie" the Charity Mugger and Counsellor Ken’s Drug Awareness Classes for Teens.
The Idiots are Benjamin Wilson, James Wrighton, Elliott Tiney and Andrew Spiers. After sell-out success at last year's Edinburgh Festival they now move their sights on TV, with this, their first TV sketch show. We'll see what happens when they apply for special office nicknames; attend a curious fancy dress party and what happens when you get your genitals caught in a photocopier.
This show sees Humphrey Kerr playing the role of a put upon estate agent who spends a day showing a variety of potential tenants around a flat that he has no idea how to rent. New talent Nico Tatarowicz plays all the different characters that view the flat including a cockney wide boy obsessed with dog-fighting, a man on an oxygen tank who hasn’t long to go and a creep who asks too many questions about the girl’s school opposite.
Laura Patch and Dolly Wells from Channel 4's Award Winning Star
Stories write and perform in this brand new, fresh and exciting sketch show - Dolly & Laura. This tipped for the top duo present their own curious view of the world, which whilst based in reality are always far from the ordinary. Featuring a guest appearance by Noel Fielding of The Mighty Boosh.
Tom Allen has never fitted in. So this comedy investigation sees him on a quest to see if there is a social tribe to which he could belong. Could he perhaps be one of the lads? Probably not… He’s the urbane, witty, sensitive type. We see him chatting to blokes down the pub and interrogating modern men in the park; watching, interacting and occasionally trying to emulate something society calls a man.
Jesusboy & Goatherd is a road movie sitcom starring a brand new 19-year old double act: Jack Whitehall (Big Brother’s Big Mouth) and Nathan Thomas (semi-finalist in 2007’s So You Think You’re Funny). It's is a mixture of laidback comic banter and surreal flashes, with the original twist that it’s mostly played in a car. When you’re nineteen just driving somewhere was something to do - this comedy captures the raw energy of boys taking the piss out of one another and their endless fascination with the opposite sex, along with the freewheeling invention of the comic mind.
Part scripted comedy, part improvised performance, part social satire; Think Tank follows the work and lives of three “market researchers” and the absurd products, policies and ideas they test. Scripted comedy is integrated seamlessly and originally with sequences where “real people” focus group the products and policies without knowing that they are created by us. What will “white van man” make of the new government plan to link up sat navs with sex offenders register so we “always know where they are”? What will the WI make of do it yourself cost saving “Pet Heaven” Euthanasia products?
Sharp-witted, stylish, short animation about day in the life of a keen but deluded job seeker with aspirations to executive status. Baseball hat-wearing Luke lives at home with his mum, his sister and his dog but the walls of his bedroom are packed with ‘inspiring’ posters of top TV-celeb business high fliers and a clock showing the time in the worldwide stock exchanges. His fast talking, gum chewing, ex-Mod uncle Keith, who’s in charge of ‘chairs and tables’ at a big city office, has taken a chance and got him a spot of work experience on his team.
The Sick Animation Show is a brilliant, strange and incredibly puerile animated sketch show created solely by new talent, Marc Moceri. Featuring a mixture of sexually deviant super heroes, gangster rapping heart surgeons and a God who thinks it’s funny to play practical jokes on the last two men on Earth; the show is thoroughly wrong-headed, edgy and big on belly laughs.
A black sketch show featuring stand-up by Nivea Funny Women 2007 winner Andi Osho, and interlinked sketches. All material written by Andi Osho, including an African version of the TV show Dragon’s Den, a character who thinks everyone is a racist, a character who can’t separate the real world from the glossy world of adverts and a fickle news reporter whose story angle flips and turns at any given moment.
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