gappy
Saturday 3rd March 2012 9:33pm
Oxford
2,693 posts
I don't think you're really supposed to consider the characters and situations in Peep Show normal. I think you're supposed to find them exagerated, grotesque, unusual and therefore funny. It's not a kitchen sink drama, it's a comedy of embarrassment.
Claiming that the show's writers and actors want us to think that Johnson is a rational, down to earth role model is loopy; by that logic you'd have to conclude that the presence of Super Hans suggests that everyone involved in Peep Show find taking crack, being dishonest, and making incredibly poor music to be astoundingly good ideas. It would be like claiming that The Office is designed to teach us that being a pompous, needy, insufferably annoying person is what we should aspire to.
Ironically, of course, Ricky Gervais is a pompous, needy, insufferably annoying person, bt that's by the by.