Tom Allen at iComFest

Tom Allen - iComFest questionnaire

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

Ah, comedy. What I like about it is how it can be summed up in only a few words. You can't do that with a drama. I don't think. So, do you have a few words for me that explain your show?

Personal identity, fitting in and falling out - Tom Allen is on a quest to find out who he is and where he fits in.

I'm loving your use of the third person there. I'm going to do it too. So, Tom, tell the E4 Fictional Emergency Comedy Commissioning Editor more...

Tom has never fitted in so goes on a comical investigation to see if there's a group of people or an identity he might fit in with. Along the way he meets a body builder, a gang of skin heads, gets regressed to his previous life and chats to loads of people in the park. All of them fascinating; none of them have a clue about who he is or where he could fit in.

This is fun. Tell me... er... I mean, they... we... he... all about this Tom Allen character.

Tom Allen - 25 year old award-winning comedian (BBC New Comedy Awards; Edinburgh's So You Think You're Funny; Montreal's International Just for Laughs festival). Having appeared in Channel 4's Law of the Playground, BBC's Sensitive Skin and BBC Radio's Bleak Expectations, this year sees a second series of his celebrated The Correspondent for Radio 4.

Tom has never fitted in – he’s the urbane, witty, sensitive type... an old head on young shoulders. This film sees him taking his own uniquely hilarious standpoint on the world and the people around him.

How would a Fictional E4 Commissioning Executive fit this idea into HIS future plans for HIS channel? (HE is thinking this third party malarkey is confusing.)

It's a show that involves laughing at myself and laughing with other people - meeting quirky interesting folk and seeing what weird and wonderful stuff they get up to in their world. There's 6 billion people in the global community so it'd be about interacting with some of them and seeing where anyone of us could fit in. Who knows, we might even solve all wars and disputes ever if we meet enough people... what do you say?

I, he, you... say you've gone back to first person again, so now I don't even know how to respond. I'm off for a lie down...

Well, be sure to take these soothing video clips with you for comfort.

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