Limmy's Show

Development

Recurring characters

• Limmy – Limmy appears as himself making blunt observations on life and modern culture. These sketches range from short pieces of satire to dancing and complete non-sequitur jokes. On several occasions, he criticises Top of the Pops performances, with himself keyed in over the footage.
• Jacqueline McCafferty – An ex-junkie who spent three years of her life on heroin and a further five years on a methadone treatment programme. Jacqueline tries her hardest to fit in with the middle and upper classes and is very bitter about people looking down their nose at her.
• Falconhoof – The humble, soft-spoken and consistently well-intentioned costumed host of "Adventure Call", a live televised call-in show in which he guides players through a fantasy role-playing game in order to win cash prizes. He regularly has to deal with angry, unexpected and sometimes misleading or threatening callers and situations.
• Derek "Dee Dee" Durie – A spaced-out waster who spends his time doing absolutely nothing but over-analysing trivial things. He prefaces each monologue with "Fockin'..."
• Raymond Day – A smug television psychic medium based on Colin Fry who imparts devastatingly terrible information on particular members of his otherwise happy crowd. The other members of the audience seem to be completely oblivious as to the emotional horror Raymond is putting those members through, however, Raymond himself is portrayed as an intentionally malicious fraudster.
• Larry Forsyth Experiments – These sketches are a series of experiments which the title character "Larry Forsyth" conducts with fictional drugs, which often have strange hallucinatory effects, and always end up with a nurse coming into the room and subduing him. The sketch is presented as a black and white TV show from the 1950s, modelled on an infamous unaired episode of Panorama in which Christopher Mayhew carried out a similar experiment using mescaline.
• Mr. Mulvaney – A mischievous 60-year-old businessman constantly thinking of ways to avoid the law as he struggles with his desires to engage in acts of petty crime.
• Wee Gary – A primary schooler who spends his breaks and lunch times trying to capitalise upon his fellow pupils with manipulative tact and by selling anything and everything.
• Supercomputer – Limmy controls a supercomputer to wreak havoc on the things he hates in society and cause mischief in everyday life.
• John Paul – A teenage working class ned and all-round trouble maker who terrorises and humiliates his victims, behaving in a loutish way. He has a persistent, negative social media presence.
• The Spies - Two inept spies who are intent on 'getting something' on the other one, yet foiled by their inability to predict one another's actions.
• guy in an empty pub - at the end of certain sketches Limmy cuts to an empty pub where a guy in an empty pub tells him a story, it sometimes relates to the previous sketch. Limmy always looks confused as to how he’s got there.

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