TV series
Jam
Overview
Adapted from Blue Jam, a late night radio show, Jam consists of six shows featuring dark humour and unsettling sketches unfolding over an ambient soundtrack. From the mind of Chris Morris.
Details
- First air date
- 2000-03-23
- Status
- Ended
- Seasons
- 1 season
- Episodes
- 6 episodes
- Genres
- Comedy
- Network
- Channel 4
- Production
- Talkback, Channel 4 Television
- Country
- GB
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Chris Morris as Various
- Kevin Eldon as Various
- Mark Heap as Various
- David Cann as Various
- Julia Davis as Various
- Amelia Bullmore as Various
- Roz McCutcheon as Singing Woman
- Robert Kilroy-Silk as Self (archive footage)
- Anna Carteret as Mother of Woman Who Can't Feel Her Cock
- Lorelei King as American Porn Actress
- Robert Katz as Maggot Mouth
Creators and crew
- Chris Morris - Creator
- Peter Fincham - Executive Producer
- Chris Morris - Producer
- Chris Morris - Director
- Peter Baynham - Writer
- Chris Morris - Writer
Episodes
Episode 1: Jam 1: chemotherapy wig
Robert Kilroy Silk loses his mind, a man picks up his car from the garage only to find it is only four feet long, a suicidal man jumps off a first-floor balcony forty times rather than once off the top of the building, and an agency provides thick people for jobs that thick people are particularly good at.
Episode 2: Jam 2: astonishing sod ape
A woman calls a plumber to fix her dead baby, porn stars are afflicted by a deadly disease called "the gush", a man is buried alive because he doesn't want to die in his old age, and Mr Ventham goes to a therapist to find out what he should do on Saturday evening.
Episode 3: Jam 3: oooohmhuhhhh
A couple calls a repairman to deal with the lizards coming out of their television, a woman farts on her secretary's head rather than give one of her employees a pay raise, Mr Ventham can't find his wallet, and a man tries to hold up a shop with a gun in his stomach.
Episode 4: Jam 4: arrested for copying dogs
A doctor takes up phone sex to raise money for a young girl with cancer, Mr. Ventham's chin is a bit hot, a six-year-old girl helps a man get rid of a dead body, and a couple whose baby was miscarried is given the gift of a small coffin by their neighbour.
Episode 5: Jam 5: fussfussfussfussfussfussfuss
A woman's unorthodox method of acupuncture tends to leave her patients dead, a man tries to hold up a shop but forgets the axe he was going to use, a doctor blinds himself to get out of explaining an unusual prescription, and a very uninterested couple deal with the disappearance of their son.
Episode 6: Jam 6: born dead through your own arse
A woman tricks a man into "raping" her, two parents believe their daughter is really a 45-year-old man trapped in a little girl's body, a couple have an extremely bizarre sexual encounter, and a doctor insists there is nothing wrong with wetting yourself.
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