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After scoring minus twelve, the lowest score ever in the history of pretentious radio panel game 'Watch Your Language' Rick's day gets even worse when his email system crashes and he has to go into ...
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Following an incident involving Clive's mother during a performance of 'Peter Pan' in which he is starring,Rick looks forward to Christmas with just Mel and himself. But then Mel feels the need to ...
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Donald orders everybody else out of the library, explaining to Rick that he has taken him hostage in order to be provided with a chess set, denied him on safety grounds. He is a fairly jocular ...
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| Jack Dee | ... | Rick Spleen 27 episodes, 2006-2011 | |
| Raquel Cassidy | ... | Mel 26 episodes, 2006-2011 | |
| Sean Power | ... | Marty 26 episodes, 2006-2011 | |
| Anna Crilly | ... | Magda 26 episodes, 2006-2011 | |
| Antonia Campbell-Hughes | ... | Sam 26 episodes, 2006-2011 | |
| Rasmus Hardiker | ... | Ben 26 episodes, 2006-2011 | |
| Tony Gardner | ... | Michael 26 episodes, 2006-2011 | |
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Rick Spleen is a world-weary comedian who ends up doing far too many corporate jobs to pay the bills.
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Marty: You Brits, you don't know how to do nervous breakdowns properly! In the States, you have a nervous breakdown, you don't open up a whole food restaurant. No, no, you become a bum. You live on the streets, you put all your stuff in a shopping cart, you pick food outta garbage ...
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Rick Spleen: You know what Mel told me about Michael? She found out he used to work in the City, had a complete nervous breakdown, completely flipped out, had to give it up, wanted to do something else so he opened this place instead.Marty: You Brits, you don't know how to do nervous breakdowns properly! In the States, you have a nervous breakdown, you don't open up a whole food restaurant. No, no, you become a bum. You live on the streets, you put all your stuff in a shopping cart, you pick food outta garbage ...
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Forget Catherine Tate, Two pints of lager and Little Britain, this is comedy gold.
Do not not expect slapstick, this is the art of observational understatement. Nobody could play this part better than Jack Dee.
Rick Spleen is the slightly paranoid Brit, lacking a bit of confidence but willing to nick anybodies good idea and shamefully claim the credit. When he's invariably found out he's the little boy who's been caught red-handed and desperately looks for any excuse no matter how improbable to justify his actions. Marty is his writing partner, the up and at-em American egging him on, pushing Rick further than he wants to go knowing it will get him into trouble. As ever its the women who are the moral compasses, his other half Mel and Magda the East European housekeeper.
A couple of the characters could be fleshed out. Without doubt Magda has more to offer than the "you think that's bad, its worse in my country" caricature and just why is ex-city banker Michael running a cafe selling pasta and brown rice? Give it a go, you will not be disappointed.