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Jam

Jam

  • TV sketch show
  • Channel 4
  • 2000
  • 6 episodes (1 series)

Comedy show from Chris Morris which delivers various unsettling sketches. Also features Mark Heap, Kevin Eldon, Julia Davis, David Cann and Amelia Bullmore

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Jam: The experimental black comedy by Chris Morris

Life is fragile and baulked about by difficulty. Still, through a series of disturbing and surreal vignettes, Morris provided an experimental critique of our modern ills while making the whole human enterprise the absurdist comedy that it undoubtedly is.

Thomas Leatham, Far Out, 8th February 2024

From Python to The Young Ones, how British comedy and music became forever linked

As he releases a new book looking back at the history of British comedy, writer David Stubbs explains how it's always found an unlikely friend in music.

David Stubbs, Rolling Stone, 2nd August 2023

The show that shaped me: Jamie Campbell on Jam

Chris Morris' fearless, subversive sketch show taught the creative director of Sex Education producer Eleven Film that nothing was off limits.

Jamie Campbell, Broadcast, 29th March 2019

7 clips that prove Chris Morris's also a musical genius

Looking back at Morris's body of work, 20 years after the first episode of Brass Eye was broadcast on January 29, 1997, it's clear that few people have combined music and comedy quite as successfully. Whether he's creating strung-out ambient music for a short film about a talking dog or parodying Eminem to highlight the media hysteria surrounding paedophilia, Morris's use of music strikes the balance between creating black comedy and something that's actually listenable. Below are seven of his finest music moments - just be careful not to find yourself jazzing to the bleep tone of a life support machine.

Scott Wilson, Fact Mag, 29th January 2017

The distorted world of Chris Morris

A rare interview with the reclusive agent provocateur of comedy.

Robert Hanks, The Independent, 20th April 2000

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