British Comedy Guide
Sex Lives Of The Potato Men. Image shows from L to R: Dave (Johnny Vegas), Ferris (Mackenzie Crook)
Sex Lives Of The Potato Men

Sex Lives Of The Potato Men

  • 2004 film

Comedy focusing on four male friends, running a potato supply/delivery company in the West Midlands, on the lookout for sex. Stars Johnny Vegas, Mackenzie Crook, Mark Gatiss, Dominic Coleman, Julia Davis and more.

F
X
R
W
E
Sex Lives Of The Potato Men. Image shows from L to R: Ferris (Mackenzie Crook), Dave (Johnny Vegas)

Key details

Genre
Film
Released
2004
Stars
Johnny Vegas, Mackenzie Crook, Mark Gatiss, Dominic Coleman, Julia Davis, Lucy Davis, Kate Robbins, Nicolas Tennant and more
Writer
Andy Humphries
Director
Andy Humphries
Producers
Anita Overland, Nigel Green, Robert Jones and Andy Stebbing
Company

Best mates Dave and Ferris, Tolly, and boss Jeremy, are very normal, underachieving, dysfunctional everymen who are either having sex, or on the lookout for it.

Screeching through the streets of Walsall in their potato van, Dave and Ferris call upon a stream of regular customers, some of whom they are more friendly with than others. Ferris has split up with his wife and is currently living with his mother-in-law, whilst Dave has just been thrown out by his. He imagines the split will unleash a new wave of sexual freedoms with the women of the midlands, but reality quickly proves to be some way off.

Ferris, meanwhile, is known for his generously proportioned appendage and has a regular store-room liason with one chip shop worker in particular; but things get very weird very quickly when she invites him to her house! Meanwhile, it seems even his mother-in-law, Joan, has heard word of his endowment...

Then there's manager Jeremy: obsessed with a woman he dated briefly, but who dumped him when she discovered he was not, as claimed, a successful dentist - can he win her over or is there a new man in her life? Kidnapping her new dog is probably not the best start.

And Tolly - Tolly's got a thing for strawberry jam. Strawberry jam and fish paste. It's best not to ask.

These are the escapades - and sexcapades - of the potato men.

Additional details

UK certificate
18
Duration
82 minutes
UK release
Friday 20th February 2004
Distributors

Entertainment Films

Production
Location
Camera set-up
Single camera
Picture
Colour

Website links

Broadcast details

All previous repeats
  • Thursday 1st March 2012 at 2:30am on C4
  • Sunday 15th March 2009 at 2:10am on C4

Share this page