Jam

"Perhaps you'd like to see Cats with me." The most deranged peek into humanity I've encountered. Truly one of a kind, and is Chris Morris's masterpiece. Chris managed to convince Channel 4 to broadcast each episode with zero adverts at the time so there'd be no interruptions and honestly I wanna rewatch this by seeing all six segments uninterrupted, all just vignettes that make you question everything. Inspiring. Harmony Korine meets David Lynch meets Monty Python. You can't really review a thing like this. Unbelievable. I purchased the DVD after only seeing the first segment - I've only ever purchased a DVD before seeing it once before and that was Twin Peaks the Return. Jam made me laugh until I couldn't breathe at a man jumping off a building to his death. This is the holy grail of sketch comedy. But also the most unsettling thing I've watched.

Morris attempts to synthesise a trademark British 'nonsensical' sketch schema with a hyper-modern grotesque, yet neither works individually or in conjunction with one another. Rather than unveiling a turn-of-the-century horror that had been glossed over by Blairite managerialism, it simply acts as yet another means for a British comic writer to suck themselves off.