![]() ![]() It was created by the same team behind the sketch show Smack the Pony, led by Victoria Pile, and stars Tamsin Greig, Stephen Mangan and Julian Rhind-Tutt. Green Wing is a British sitcom set in the fictional East Hampton Hospital. He usually has a much more optimistic and energetic outlook on the world than Mark, yet his self-proclaimed talent as a musician has yet to be recognised, and he is not as popular or attractive as he would like to think himself, although he is more successful with the opposite sex than Mark. Jeremy, having split up with his girlfriend Big Suze prior to the first episode, now lives in Mark's spare room. He is financially secure, but awkward and socially inept, with a pessimistic and cynical attitude. Mark is initially a loan manager at the fictional JLB Credit, later becoming a waiter, and then a bathroom supplies salesman. The pair met at the fictional Dartmouth University, and now share a flat in Croydon, South London. Peep Show follows the lives of two men from their twenties to thirties, Mark Corrigan, who has steady employment for most of the series, and Jeremy "Jez" Usbourne, an unemployed would-be musician. ![]() Stylistically, the show uses point of view shots with the thoughts of main characters Mark and Jeremy audible as voiceovers. The show's eighth series makes it the longest-returning comedy in Channel 4 history. It has been broadcast on Channel 4 since 2003. The television programme is written by Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain, with additional material by Mitchell and Webb amongst others. Peep Show is an award-winning British sitcom starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb. The team intended their humour to be impossible to categorise, and succeeded so completely that the adjective "Pythonesque" was invented to define it and, later, similar material. The series followed and elaborated upon the style used by Spike Milligan in his ground breaking series Q5, rather than the traditional sketch show format. Their comedy is often pointedly intellectual, with numerous erudite references to philosophers and literary figures. Terry Jones and Michael Palin are Oxford University graduates Eric Idle, John Cleese, and Graham Chapman attended Cambridge University and American-born member Terry Gilliam is an Occidental College graduate. The members of Monty Python were highly educated. The show often targets the idiosyncrasies of British life, especially that of professionals, and is at times politically charged. The first episode was recorded on 7 September and broadcast on 5 October 1969 on BBC One, with 45 episodes airing over four series from 1969 to 1974, plus two episodes for German TV. It also featured animations by Terry Gilliam, often sequenced or merged with live action. The shows were composed of surreality, risqué or innuendo-laden humour, sight gags and observational sketches without punchlines. ![]() Monty Python’s Flying Circus is a British sketch comedy series created by the comedy group Monty Python and broadcast by the BBC from 1969 to 1974. ![]()
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