Comedy Showcase



Comedy Showcase returns to Channel 4 for a second season of seven comedy singles, featuring some of the best established and up-and coming comedic talent. Campus kicks off the season, and is made by the award-winning team behind Green Wing and Smack the Pony. It's set in the fictitious Kirke University and explores the lives and souls of a handful of people that work there: some as academics and others involved in the general running of the place. The ensemble cast includes Andy Nyman, Joseph Millson, Sara Pascoe, Will Adamsdale, Dolly Wells and Lisa Jackson.

Campus



On: Channel 4
Date: Friday 6th November 2009
Time: 22:00 to 22:40

It's the beginning of the new academic year and Jonty de Wolfe, Vice Chancellor of Kirke University, played by Andy Nyman, tries to talk a suicidal student into ending it all.

Meanwhile, underachieving English professor Matthew Beer, played by Joseph Millson, is forced to collaborate with introverted lecturer Imogen Moffat, played by Lisa Jackson, who has just written a popular maths bestseller. But first he has to deal with the fact that she is female, and therefore technically on his 'to do' list.



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Comedy Showcase Season 2: PhoneShop
Air Date: Friday 13th November 2009



On High Street UK the priority is to "shift units, make money, smash targets..." and no one knows that better than the staff of PhoneShop. New recruit Christopher is on the notorious one-day trial, but will he make his first sale by 6.00pm and secure the job, or will he be yet another victim of the vicious "retail battlefield"? The ensemble cast includes Javone Prince, Andrew Brooke, Martin Trenaman, Tom Bennett and Emma Fryer.



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Comedy Showcase Season 1: Other People



At 14, Greg Wilson was a child star: precocious, smug and very punchable. But in the blink of an eye, his career is finished.

During a phone-in on a Saturday morning kids TV show, a child rings in and swears at Greg on live TV. It seems that the caller has brilliantly articulated what everyone was thinking...

Twenty years later, Greg works in a leather sofa shop, the early promise of his life unfulfilled. When Greg is recognised by a customer who asks for his autograph, one disastrous event leads to another and he finds himself in court facing a year-long prison sentence.

With only his worryingly unconventional duty solicitor, the over-confident Rick Parish, on hand to help, Greg is forced to relearn a harsh lesson: hell truly is other people.

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Comedy Showcase Season 1: Ladies and Gentlemen



It's London in 1865. Horatio is the youngest son of a baron, a man incapable of earning a living who gets by because of his superior social position.

His friend and flatmate Jack is a doctor and a serial romantic - there isn't a woman in London who he hasn't tried to become engaged to.

When Horatio's uncle dies and the entire estate is left to him, Horatio suddenly finds himself the number-one suspect for murder.

Did Horatio purposely kill his uncle to get his hands on the estate? Or is the killer his cousin, the daughter of his dead uncle, the beautiful Elizabeth, who (among others) was recently betrothed to Jack?

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Comedy Showcase Season 1: Plus One



Rob Black is struggling with self-esteem issues. His girlfriend Linsey has left him for Duncan from Blue, and a freak sewage pipe explosion has wrecked his flat.

Even his family and friends think Duncan is better than him. But when he receives an invitation to Duncan and Linsey's wedding, Rob sees an opportunity to get his own back - by turning up with a hot date in tow.

Rob strikes gold when his colleague Laura suggests he invites her gorgeous flatmate, Nicky.

At first, he takes a purely platonic approach to his big day date, but then Nicky's interest in him makes Rob deviate from the original plan...



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This pilot did become a show - Thread Plus One (2009-?)

Comedy Showcase Season 1: The Eejits



Not-very-ably assisted by their roadie, Tom (who believes he is blessed by visits from the Virgin Mary), Maurice and Gerard are two musicians on the fast track to fame and fortune.

At least, that's the plan...

But the fast track is proving a bit sticky. Their band E-Z Feelin' isn't doing too well on its tour of Ireland's more dubious venues. Perhaps a smoke machine and strobe light purloined from U2 will help?

The only trouble is - U2 want their gear back...

Meanwhile, Maurice and Gerard agree to smuggle some 'goods' into Northern Ireland to repay an old debt. Thus the scene is set for one of E-Z Feelin's most dangerous gigs so far...

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Comedy Showcase Season 1: Free Agents



Meet Alex. He's penniless, homeless - and last week he burst into tears in Sainsbury's because for a second he imagined he saw his kids by the meat counter.

Stuck in the middle of a painful divorce, Alex is barely clinging on to his job at successful talent agency TMA, run by his sex-obsessed, cocksure and roguish boss, Stephen.

Meet Helen. She, too, is coping with the after-effects of personal trauma. It's a year since her boyfriend dropped dead, just months before their wedding. But time has passed, she has a nice flat and, unlike Alex, she's successful at her job.

She's getting her act together. She's just wishing she hadn't celebrated the anniversary of her fiancé's death by sleeping with Alex...

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(This Pilot became a show - Free Agents (2009) Thread)

Comedy Showcase Season 1 : The Kevin Bishop Show



No celebrity escapes unscathed in Kevin Bishop's lightning strikes at popular culture.

Characters include the overly clinical R 'n' B singer Dr Usher, whose raunchy yet medically accurate songs are hardly conducive to romance.

Elsewhere, Bruce Parry takes on more than he can chew when he meets some over-friendly tribesmen on his latest trip to the jungle and the middle-class Hulk remains far too polite to express his internal rage.

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(This pilot became a show)