Jack And Jeremy’s Real Lives

I keep finding some rather glaring gaps in my 1990’s British comedy knowledge, and they all seem to be things that were broadcast in 1995 or 1996. God knows what else I was doing back then if not watching telly.

Anyway, one such gap is the rather intriguing and incongruous pairing of Jack Dee and Jeremy Hardy, in a series of six mockumentaries written and performed by the duo under the title of Jack And Jeremy’s Real Lives. Here’s a short clip from the final episode about Hospital Entrepreneurs.

The whole series can be found easily enough.

This isn’t the first time they wrote and performed together either. A year earlier, in what may have been a pilot for this series, they made Jack And Jeremy’s Police 4.

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