Product Description

Meet Mark and Jeremy: two very ordinary weirdos. Mark, a middle-aged man trapped in a twentysomething's body, is the sensible one - a loan manager with seven GCSEs ('back when a GCSE actually meant something') and an unhealthy obsession with the Second World War. His flatmate, Jeremy, is a grade-A, work-shy freeloader with dodgy mates. He dreams of being a world-class musician but can't seem to get out of bed in the morning...They hate themselves, each other and the world. This is their story. Uniquely filmed - shot from the characters' point of view and edited so the viewer hears their unspoken thoughts, as well as the dialogue between them - "Peep Show" has attracted both a cult following and critical acclaim.Now, Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong, the creators of the show, have pulled together and annotated the scripts of all five series and written hilarious extra material to take us even deeper into the minds of our socially inept and wonderfully weird heroes, and their slightly strange friends. A perfect example of British comedy writing at its very best, this book is the perfect present for quirky comedy fans everywhere.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #15332 in Books
• Published on: 2008-10-23
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 480 pages

Review
If you need any more proof that Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong are the funniest men in Britain, this is it.
--Maxim, January 2009

From the Back Cover
Meet Mark and Jeremy: two very ordinary weirdos. Mark, a middle-aged man trapped in a twentysomething’s body, is the sensible one – a loan manager who got seven GCSEs (‘back when a GCSE still meant something’). Jez, his flatmate, is a grade-A, work-shy freeloader with dodgy mates, who dreams of being a world-class rock star but can’t seem to get out of bed in the morning. They hate themselves, the world and each other. This is their story.
Now commissioned for a sixth series, the BAFTA award-winning Peep Show has gained both cult status and critical acclaim. Here, Sam Armstrong and Jesse Bain, the creators and writers of the show, have pulled together the scripts from all five previous series of this twisted cult comedy with hilarious new material – school reports, suggested playlists, interview transcripts and even business tips – to take us even deeper into the warped minds of our socially inept heroes and their slightly strange friends. To top it all off, there is a whole chapter in which our authors describe how each episode evolves from a sheet of scrawled notes through its many script drafts to the polished, laugh out-loud funny, hide-behind-your-hands cringe worthy half-hour of TV that appears on our screens.
Peep Show: The Scripts and More is an example of British comedy scriptwriting at its very best, and will allow you to relive the muckiest, darkest and most outrageous moments of your favourite TV show, over and over again.

About the Author
One of the hottest duos in comedy scriptwriting, Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong's CV includes credits for Smack the Pony, Big Breakfast and The Thick of It.

Customer Reviews

Typical scripts collection, with added extras
There are people who enjoy reading scripts, and those who don't, and I fall firmly into the former category, often finding things in a script that I wouldn't find in the finished product - reading the script for "Pulp Fiction" helped me understand the film, for example.

Unlike the superb "Father Ted" scripts book this collection provides printed versions of the finished shooting scripts, and so you won't find excised scenes or be able to spot jokes which were improvised when the cameras began to roll, but as the show is so good anyway you won't be too bothered. Here you will find the scripts for every series to date, plus some extra bits and pieces such as pictures and letters from the characters, along with a lengthy section towards the end in which the writers of the show provide their emailed notes to each other about how a particular script was progressing, and this is interesting if you're interested in the creative process, if not vital.

All in all, if you love the show and like reading scripts this is a great purchase. If you're neither of these, avoid.

Brilliant
If you're a fan of Peep Show you will love this book. Firstly you might be wary of getting this because it's just all the episodes written down and you might as well watch the DVD's. Fair enough, but like DVD's the book has "extras".

Included are things like Mark and Jez's school reports. E-mails from Mark to Sophie post jilting. Mark and Jez's post it notes on the fridge. And various other things that make this book worthwhile.

good read
this is the comprehensive collection of peep show scripts with funny extras such as the the lads school report's etc. a good read