Underground Comedy


Spoons reveals painful-but-funny moments in the lives of twenty and thirty-somethings


BBC America’s late night comedy destination, The Underground, presents a brand-new sketch comedy about the fragile relationships of twenty and thirty-somethings — especially the ones held together by bad sex and worse marriages. Tune in to meet some characters that you may already know all too well, such as the “Keeping Tabs Boyfriend,” “Blind Date Man,” and “The wife who wants a f-ing baby!”. Spoons premieres Friday, February 23, 11:00 p.m. ET/8:00 p.m. PT.


The cast of Spoons has created a collection of spot-on characters based on young urbanites, mining the awkward, yet funny, moments from parties, job interviews, bad dates, bars, as well as the odd brothel. There’s the wife who forcefully reminds her partner that she “wants a f-ing baby!” at every possible waking moment, even during a game of charades. We meet the caring husband who offers to cook dinner for his wife, since she has just spent 29 hours delivering their first child. There’s also the paranoid boyfriend who reminds his girlfriend, “try to keep your knickers on this time!” whenever she’s out of his sight — getting popcorn at the movies or taking a driving test for her license. And who could forget the shameless “Blind Date Man,” who thinks a cockfight, or maybe paintball, is the path to romance.


Written by Charlie Brooker, Ben Caudell, Peter Holmes and Neil Webster, Spoons features some of today’s most talented young comic performers, including Rob Rouse, Kevin Bishop (Peep Show, Love Soup), Josie D'Arby (Look Around You), Tom Goodman Hill (Green Wing), Rosie Cavaliero (Feel the Force, Clatterford), Simon Farnaby (The Mighty Boosh), Elizabeth Bower and Kerry Godliman.



The Guardian described the series and challenged readers to use Spoons catchphrases, “It seems that the writers of Spoons wrote down all the things that are most on the minds of middle-class people in their 30s: relationships, work, relationships at work, sex, exes, sex with exes, children. And it’s very funny. Bottle of cider for the first person who, when a waiter asks them if they want anything, says, yes, they want a ….f-ing baby!”