Limmy's Show is a Scottish comedy

Comedy

Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...

 sketch show written, animated and directed by Brian Limond

Limmy

Brian Limond , better known as Limmy, is a Glasgow-based Scottish comedian, actor, web developer, writer and occasional musician . In early 2010 Limond achieved success through his premier series of Limmy's Show. Limond first became known through his website and its accompanying blog...

. The show stars Brian Limond

Limmy

Brian Limond , better known as Limmy, is a Glasgow-based Scottish comedian, actor, web developer, writer and occasional musician . In early 2010 Limond achieved success through his premier series of Limmy's Show. Limond first became known through his website and its accompanying blog...

, Ryan Fletcher

Ryan Fletcher

Ryan Fletcher, 27, is a Scottish actor.Fletcher grew up in Blantyre. He was in the hit theatre show "Black Watch" for the "National Theatre of Scotland" and has appeared in 'River City', 'Taggart' and more recently 'Limmy's Show'. He has worked nationally and internationally in Film T.V and...

, Paul McCole,
Alan McHugh and Kirstin McLean. The show previously starred Debbie Welsh, Tom Brogan and Raymond Mearns

Raymond Mearns

Raymond Mearns is a Scottish actor and comedian who is best known for his part in Scottish comedy sitcom Legit where he plays "Happy Boab". He has also appeared in Ae Fond Kiss... and It's a Free World... which were both directed by award winning Ken Loach...

.

Development

Limmy's Show was created as a result of the success of Limmy's live performances at The Fringe and the Glasgow International Comedy Festival

Glasgow International Comedy Festival

Glasgow International Comedy Festival is a comedy festival in Glasgow, Scotland.The comedy festival started in 2002 and is held annually in March....

 based on his successful 2006 podcast

Podcast

A podcast is a series of digital media files that are released episodically and often downloaded through web syndication...

 Limmy's World of Glasgow. Several of the characters seen in Limmy's Show were originally created through this podcast, including Jacqueline McCafferty, Wee Gary and Dee Dee. The first series, which was approved following a successful pilot in February 2009, first aired on 11 January 2010 and ran weekly for six episodes.

Recurring characters

• Jacqueline McCafferty: An ex-junkie who lost 3 years of her life on heroin and a further 5 years on the methadone that was meant to get her off it. Jacqueline tries her hardest to fit in with the middle and upper classes and is overly bitter about people looking down their nose at her. Jacqueline can be seen trying to buy clothes from Versace and getting a family portrait from an in-store photographer for her living room, much to the dismay of the shop's security guard.
• Falconhoof: Falconhoof is an adventure game host on a televised, live premium-rate phoneline. The host regularly has to deal with angry and unexpected callers, including those who have wasted or lost money as a result of calling in and an ex-school friend.
• Mr Mulvaney: A mischievous and troublesome businessman plots to avoid trouble with the law as he struggles with his tendencies to set off fire alarms and graffiti bus shelters late at night.
• Derek "Dee Dee" Dury: A spaced out waster who spends his time doing absolutely nothing but over-analysing trivial things and bringing his kitchen to life through hallucination. In one memorable sketch he rings his Da (not his sister, she would think he was mad) to check 'whether or no' they had held a party 'up that Finnieston Crane
  Finnieston Crane
  The Finnieston Crane is a crane and landmark in Glasgow, Scotland. It is now disused but is retained as a symbol of the city's engineering heritage.- History :...
  
  ' (pronouned Cran). In another, he stays up for an extra few hours to check how the phrase 'mmmmm...Danone' is pronounced on a TV advert.
• Wee Gary: A primary school kid who spends his breaks and lunch times selling everything and anything to his fellow pupils including spare plimsolls and advice to beat bullying. Not all goes as planned with his advice, but the trickster keeps the payment anyway.
• Supercomputer: Limmy controls a supercomputer to wreak havoc on the things he hates in society and cause mischief in everyday life.
• John Paul: Working class ned
  Ned (Scottish)
  Ned is a derogatory term applied in Scotland to hooligans, louts or petty criminals, latterly with the stereotypical implication that they wear casual sports clothes. Such usage in Glasgow dates back to the 1960s or earlier.-Early use of term:...
  
   and all round trouble maker John Paul terrorises and humiliates his victims, behaving in a loutish way.
• Limmy: Limmy appears as himself and makes dry observations on life and modern culture. "Have you ever noticed..?" and "What would you do...?" are common intros to these musings.

Second series - new recurring characters

• Raymond Day: A television psychic, he only seems to tell people bad news, such as that their loved ones have "gone downstairs", although the reasons for this are unknown.

• Major Boo Boo - a new animated character, who although is dressed in a major's uniform, doesn't actually seem to be in the army. He makes mistakes frequently, or "major boo boos".

• Magic Picture Guy - a fantastic character which has to be see to be believed.

• Larry Forsyth Experiements - These sketches are a series of experiments which the title character conducts with old drugs, which often have strange effects, and always end up with a nurse coming into the room and subduing him. The sketch is presented as a black and white TV show from the 1950s, modelled on an infamous unaired episode of Panorama in which Christopher Mayhew
  Christopher Mayhew
  Christopher Paget Mayhew, Baron Mayhew was a British politician who was a Labour Member of Parliament from 1945 to 1950 and from 1951 to 1974, when he left the Labour Party to become a Liberal...
  
  carried out a similar experiment using mescaline.

• The Spies - Two spies who are intent on 'getting something' on the other one, but whose attempts are foiled by their mutual inability to predict the other's actions.

• Semi-Automatic Guy - A guy who, wearing only a towel, shows up at random points in the show to gun down (using an imaginary gun) anything Limmy seems to find annoying or enraging.

External links

• Limmy's Show at Limmy.com