I'm Spazticus

Peter Mitchell interview

The star of Channel 4's controversial new comedy talks about missing out on footballing glory, pranking the public, and why he still gets dirty looks for parking in disabled spaces.

The title of I'm Spazticus (Channel 4, Sunday) filled me with as much dread as C4's grotesquely named Make Bradford British. In the event it was a jolly prank show with a twist. Think Fonejacker where prankers are amputees, blind, have cerebral palsy or - in my favourite sketch - one is a parachutist in a wheelchair, dangling inches from the ground after getting stuck in a tree. Who, after making small talk, could walk on and let him dangle? How could they not cut him down? He's probably still there, dead. This country. Honestly.

I'm Spazticus, Channel 4, review

Disabled people are famously less reverent about their condition than the able-bodied. Even so, it did feel genuinely uncomfortable when disability itself was presented as the main joke - and, worse still, often quite a funny one.

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Part of C4's Funny Fortnight season, a provocative and often side-splitting hidden-camera show in which a disabled cast play a host of pranks on unsuspecting able-bodied members of the public. Among many in the first episode are a wheelchair parachutist stuck in a tree, and a blind man returning a sex aid to the wrong shop.

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TV bosses axe naked prank in class

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