Home. Image shows from L to R: John (Oaklee Pendergast), Sami (Youssef Kerkour), Peter (Rufus Jones), Katy (Rebekah Staton). Copyright: Channel X
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Home (2017)

  • TV sitcom
  • Channel 4 / Comedy Blaps
  • 2017 - 2020
  • 13 episodes (2 series)

Comedy about a family who allow a Syrian asylum seeker to live with them. Stars Youssef Kerkour, Rufus Jones, Rebekah Staton, Oaklee Pendergast, Aaron Neil and more.

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How sitcom Home humanises the migrant crisis

A family find a Syrian man hiding in their boot in Rufus Jones's comedy. It's a warm-hearted riposte to years of 'terrifying' anti-immigrant rhetoric, he says.

Julia Raeside, The Guardian, 5th March 2019

Home, episode 1, review

Gentle variation on the sitcom.

Sean O'Grady, The Independent, 5th March 2019

Home: review

This fish-out-of-water comedy about a family who take in an asylum seeker feels timely but mild-mannered to a fault. Where's the conviction?

Rebecca Nicholson, The Guardian, 5th March 2019

TV review: Home

Home boasts snappy dialogue and some great jokes, but most of all it oozes humanity, Sami, of course, is just like us.

Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 5th March 2019

Rufus Jones on his new sitcom Home

Rufus Jones has written his first series about a Syrian refugee who is taken in by a family in Surrey.

Gerard Gilbert, i Newspaper, 4th March 2019

Rufus Jones: Why I wrote Home

I can't quite remember where the inspiration for Home came from. I started writing in the Autumn of 2015, at the height of the refugee crisis in Europe.

Rufus Jones, The Big Issue, 4th March 2019

Rufus Jones interview

"When you're dealing with this subject matter you have to make sure that the jokes travel in the right direction."

Elliot Gonzalez, I Talk Telly, 3rd March 2019

After last year's well-received Comedy Blap (Channel 4's fancy name for a short, if you were wondering), Rufus Jones's sitcom about a family who unknowingly return from a holiday in France with a Syrian refugee (Youssef Kerkour) in their boot receives a full series. Its tone is gentle rather than stridently satirical - understandable given the subject matter - but the gags are strong, the performances are likeable and the issues depicted could not be more timely.

Lanre Bakare, Gwilym Mumford and Stuart Heritage, The Guardian, 2nd January 2019

Channel 4 orders Rufus Jones sitcom series Home

Channel 4 has ordered Home, a sitcom series written by and starring Rufus Jones. The comedy was piloted in 2017 as part of the Comedy Blaps strand.

British Comedy Guide, 8th June 2018

Channel 4's new Comedy Blaps for December 2017

Channel 4 has made four new shows for its Comedy Blaps pilots strand. The episodes star Rhys Darby, Rufus Jones, Felicity Ward, Morgana Robinson and more.

British Comedy Guide, 21st December 2017

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