Jerk

I've cerebral palsy. I haven't laughed so much in ages.

Love it.

Tim Renkow's caustic sitcom about a much more abusive version of Tim Renkow playing the fool and getting into all sorts of bother with his acerbic and indifferent care worker Ruth and the cringingly gawky Idris is a fun enough watch and has a fair amount of rollicking shock to it, but lacks depth and often clunkily trips into some fairly obvious joke traps. Develops a bit of a plot and some stabs at heart as the series go on but still feels a bit too shallow despite a strong cast.

First off i love this show. Im sure it wont run another season; in the day of the thin skin generation. Jerk is cutting edge, breaking the bounderies of TV trying to keep us in a box; trying to tell us how to think and act.

The show hits some other social norms. Jerk shows how disabled people and their families can use comedy to "make the best" of the gifts we were born with.

The show was not uncomfortable like one review said. Politically correct ? No!

What is funny or entertainig that is PC? Nothing!

I think other reviewers have missed the point here. Tim actually does have cerebral palsy. He is not mocking it - he is living with it. Check out his youtube standup if you don't believe me. This is seriously good and thought provoking.

I don't care how 'boundary pushing' it allegedly is (you knew all the critics would define it as such before the first minute of episode 1. I just found it, fundamentally, unfunny. Painfully so. This should be the number one Goal of a comedy series, I don't care how boundary pushing, innovative, diverse or any other buzzwords it is..... if it ain't funny, what's the point?