| Runtime: | 30 minutes |
| Creator: | Sean Hughes |
| Director: | Sylvie Boden |
| Starring: | Sean Hughes Victor McGuire Jeff Shankley Michael Troughton John Barrard Eileen Way |
| Producer: | Katie Lander |
| Executive Producer: | Mike Bolland |
| Language: | English |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Network: | Channel 4 |
| Num Series: | 2 |
| Num Episodes: | 14 |
Sean's Show is a British television situation comedy, first broadcast on Channel 4 between 15 April 1992 and 29 December 1993. Stand-up comedian Sean Hughes co-wrote and starred as a fictionalised version of himself, aware that he is living in a sitcom.[1] The show's style drew heavily on It's Garry Shandling's Show (1986–90).[2] [3] [4]
It received a nomination for the 1992 British Comedy Award for Best Channel 4 Sitcom.
In common with a number of British shows of its era, humour often came from the repetition of catchphrases or situations. These included Sean's love of The Smiths and Morrissey; conversations with a spider who was actually Elvis Presley; messages on the answerphone from Samuel Beckett and God; "That sock's still not dry"; phone calls from a girl called Angela who Sean definitely "did not lead on"; refugees in the bedroom who do nothing but comment inanely on television programmes; attempts to get scrambled egg from a saucepan and many, many more.
The first series ended with the entire main cast other than Sean killed off in various ways. When he was granted a second series, he was forced to resurrect them all in the first episode.
Series one is based around Sean's life on a set much like his home in Muswell Hill. He pursues his love Susan while avoiding Angela "who I did not lead on". In the last episode, all of the cast bar Sean are killed off.
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In series two Sean owns a house in Chelsea "near the football stadium" (a recurring gag is Sean hitting back footballs, occasionally for Crystal Palace F.C.), with his killed off co-stars resurrected as identical twins of their characters. Running jokes include a spider that is the reincarnation of Elvis Presley, cleaning scrambled eggs off a plate, and Bosnian refugees in his spare room.
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Sean's Show: The Complete First Series was released on DVD in October 2007.