I'm Spazticus
- TV sketch show
- Channel 4
- 2005 - 2013
- 9 episodes (2 series)
Hidden camera prank show in which disabled performers prank able-bodied members of the public. Aims to highlight the public's attitude. Stars Tim Baggaley, Tim Gebbels, Toby Hewston, Simon Stevens, Maxwell Laird and more.
Key details
- Genre
- Sketch Show
- Broadcast
- 2005 - 2013
- Channel
- Channel 4
- Episodes
- 9 (1 pilot + 2 series), plus 2 highlights specials
- Stars
- Tim Baggaley, Tim Gebbels, Toby Hewston, Simon Stevens, Maxwell Laird, Peter Mitchell, Tanyalee Davis, Martin Dougan and more
- Writer
- Jamie O'Leary
- Directors
- Gemma Rawcliffe, Jamie O'Leary and Paul Hupfield
- Producers
- Dan Whitehead, Jemma Gander, Gina Lyons and Jamie O'Leary
- Company
I'm Spazticus is a prank show featuring disabled performers pranking able-bodied members of the public.
The show mixes hidden camera and mockumentary style shooting to create a series of situations. Alongside a number of recurring characters, there will also be host of one-offs throughout the series.
We see the results of a foul mouthed talking guide dog who people happily engage in conversation with, and discover how the public fair when they volunteer to take part in Police line-ups and have to pretend they have the same disability as the other 'unusual' suspects, and the reaction of finding a wheelchair parachutist stuck in a tree....
The show also sees a mock disability awareness stand being set-up in a shopping centre, asking members of the public to place (by physically moving them) different disabled people in the order of the disability they would least like to have. So, who goes to the end of the queue: the blind man, dwarf, amputee or person with cerebral palsy?
The pilot episode, first aired on Channel 4 in 2005, won a Superfest International Disability Award.
Additional details
- Part of
- Also known as
-
- Comedy Lab: I'm Spazticus
- Production
- Location
- Camera set-up
- Single camera
- Picture
- Colour
- Soundtrack
- Dwarf Punch Sandwich performed by Underclass UK.
Website links
Broadcast details
- First broadcast
- Tuesday 17th May 2005 at 11:40pm on Channel 4
- Most recent repeats
-
- Saturday 20th August 2016 at 1:05am on C4 - Series 2, Highlights Special
- Saturday 30th July 2016 at 2:30am on C4 - Series 1, Episode 1
- Saturday 12th July 2014 at 2:45am on C4 - Series 1, Highlights Special