Recurring sketches

• TV executive producing programmes for Alan Titchmarsh
  Alan Titchmarsh
  Alan Fred Titchmarsh, MBE DL is an English gardener, broadcaster and novelist. After working as a professional gardener and a garden journalist, he established himself as a media personality through appearances on gardening programmes...
  
   (Mitchell with Colman and Webb)
• "Outdoor Wee" (Holness) in which an interviewer conducts his interview over an 'outdoor wee'
• Hapless, paranoid man (Freeman) who worries that he has stumbled into situations which appear to make him look like a pervert, stalker or paedophile, and then shouts that he isn't.
• All Pile On Man (Holness) in which an overweight man seizes any opportunity to launch himself and a group of others onto an unsuspecting victim
• Secret agent's gadget, which is just a normal instrument, and when the inventor demonstrates the weapon he punches and kicks the model, not including the weapon. (Mitchell with Freeman)
• Sparky the puppet
  Puppet
  A puppet is an inanimate object or representational figure animated or manipulated by an entertainer, who is called a puppeteer. It is used in puppetry, a play or a presentation that is a very ancient form of theatre....
  
   (voiced by Webb with Freeman), a mischievous puppet who disrupts Martin Freeman's efforts with the bank manager and a romantic date.
• Womanizing Australian sportsman (Holness) who boasts about the best places to seduce women including over a game of bowls, archery and during choir singing, calling it pussy
  Vagina
  The vagina is a fibromuscular tubular tract leading from the uterus to the exterior of the body in female placental mammals and marsupials, or to the cloaca in female birds, monotremes, and some reptiles. Female insects and other invertebrates also have a vagina, which is the terminal part of the...
  
   on a stick.
• Builder who is extremely touchy about being called touchy (Holness), and attacks the man who constantly says so.
• Married couple Gary and Samantha (Freeman and Colman) who bicker about Gary's faddish new interests in areas such as converting to Islam
  Islam
  Islam . The most common are and .   : Arabic pronunciation varies regionally. The first vowel ranges from ~~. The second vowel ranges from ~~~...
  
  , stating he is gay
  Gay
  Gay is a word that refers to a homosexual person, especially a homosexual male. For homosexual women the specific term is "lesbian"....
  
  , or constant fear of being murdered.
• Vulgar IT
  Information technology
  Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications...
  
   technician (Holness), (seen to be the precursor to Simon in the sitcom The Office, also played by Holness), who calls everything a wank
  Masturbation
  Masturbation refers to sexual stimulation of a person's own genitals, usually to the point of orgasm. The stimulation can be performed manually, by use of objects or tools, or by some combination of these methods. Masturbation is a common form of autoeroticism...
  
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• American TV anchorperson
  News presenter
  A news presenter is a person who presents news during a news program in the format of a television show, on the radio or the Internet.News presenters can work in a radio studio, television studio and from remote broadcasts in the field especially weather...
  
   Sasha Solomon (Colman) who offends actors and actresses and mispronounces Worcestershire
  Worcestershire
  Worcestershire is a non-metropolitan county, established in antiquity, located in the West Midlands region of England. For Eurostat purposes it is a NUTS 3 region and is one of three counties that comprise the "Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Warwickshire" NUTS 2 region...
  
  , pronouncing it Woort-cesta-shy-a.
• Hollywood celebrity interviewer (Mitchell), who makes irrelevant opinionated remarks and constantly fears offending interviewees.
• Cautiously exploitative friend/coworker (Webb)
• Group of French
  French people
  The French are a nation that share a common French culture and speak the French language as a mother tongue. Historically, the French population are descended from peoples of Celtic, Latin and Germanic origin, and are today a mixture of several ethnic groups...
  
   artists, who carry puppets and remark about dead artists. The sketch is a parody of French new wave
  French New Wave
  The New Wave was a blanket term coined by critics for a group of French filmmakers of the late 1950s and 1960s, influenced by Italian Neorealism and classical Hollywood cinema. Although never a formally organized movement, the New Wave filmmakers were linked by their self-conscious rejection of...
  
   films.
• Poison
  Poison
  In the context of biology, poisons are substances that can cause disturbances to organisms, usually by chemical reaction or other activity on the molecular scale, when a sufficient quantity is absorbed by an organism....
  
  -seeking husband (Webb) who barges into different businesses and asks incriminating questions, but then upon questioning proclaims his innocence. In one episode he goes to a poison store, and asks a man who behaves just like him for a lilo
  Lilo
  Lilo may refer to:People* Lilo , a French actress and singer, the leading lady in the Broadway production of Can-Can* Lilo, nickname of Carmine Galante, American mobster* lilo, nickname of Rob Levin, founder of the freenode IRC network...
  
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• Female friends discussing sexual habits (Colman and Hudson), who finish each other's sentences, until Colman says something that goes one step beyond.
• Man who accidentally injures himself whilst making eyes at attractive women (Freeman)
• Inconvenient office pranks including giving someone a wedgie
  Wedgie
  A wedgie occurs when a person's underwear or other garments are wedged between the buttocks. While a wedgie can be created naturally, the term is usually associated with a prank or as a form of bullying...
  
  
• Frustrated, angry and sarcastic plumber/paramedic/farmer/burglar/etc... (Mitchell), who says he's had a bad day.
• An irate Satan
  Satan
  Satan , "the opposer", is the title of various entities, both human and divine, who challenge the faith of humans in the Hebrew Bible...
  
   on the phone taking wrong numbers (Webb), as people call 666 asking for Steve, instead of 669.
• Bass Guitar Player (Holness) who gets none of the attention lavished on his fellow band members, e.g while other members make out, he does a code breaker
  Code Breaker
  Code Breaker is a cheat device developed by Pelican Accessories, currently available for PlayStation 2 and Nintendo DS. Along with competing product Action Replay, it is one of the few currently supported video game cheat devices.-History:...
  
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• BBC schools revision programme presenters (Webb and Hudson) giving banal A-Level revision lessons on subjects such as Geography, Philosophy and General Studies, giving useless facts and wrong translations, e.g "Eureka! Which is philosophy for 'hiya!"
• I Love Ballet Man (Freeman) who tries to convince his friends he loves pursuits which he clearly does not, such as Jazz.
• Time-Team type Archaeologist (Freeman) on an archaeolgical dig whose enthusiasm far outstrips his knowledge.

Series Writing Credits

• Bash Doran
• Richard Parker
• James Bachman
• Jason Doll-Steinberg
• Ricky Gervais
• Daniel Lander
• David Mitchell
• David Tomlinson
• Robert Webb
• Russell Young

External links

• BBC Bruiser guide