Original title
Jerk
Released
2/24/2019
Origin country
GB
Genre
Comedy
Production companies
Roughcut Television, Gogglebox Entertainment, Primal Media
Status
Returning series
Number of seasons
3
Number of episodes
14
Jerk follows the life of acclaimed stand up Tim Renkow, who plays a heightened version of himself; an American art school dropout who needs to get a visa to stay in the UK. The only problem is that Tim has cerebral palsy. This means that people judge him… all the time. Although usually they judge him wrongly, because what they don’t realise is that inside that severely disabled, vulnerable body is a bit of an asshole.
Tim Renkow has cerebral palsy. Which means that people judge him...all the time. But usually they judge him wrongly. Because what they don't realise is that inside that severely disabled, fragile body is a bit of an asshole. Tim knows he makes people uncomfortable - he does it on purpose. He knows his cerebral palsy means he can get away with saying what others can't. But that's his problem: time spent taking aim at life's easier targets means Tim takes his eye of its bigger prizes: the job, the girl and the visa.
Tim is employed by a greeting card company headed by Shaun (Karl Theobald), but takes excessive advantage of his disabled status.
Tim concocts a false personal history about being a refugee in order to receive free meals, but quickly becomes tangled in a web of deceit.
Tim's mother suggests that he get married in order to avoid deportation. After a failed attempt at internet dating, he meets Clara (Izuka Hoyle) and invites her to an art exhibition by his old enemy, Kiefer (Lee Ridley).
Tim's deportation is averted when it is discovered he has British ancestry, but his encounter with Great Uncle Thomas (David Calder), does not go smoothly.
Tim is back and has enrolled himself on a uni course - not that he has any intention of going. But a student visa means he can stay in the UK and wreak more havoc.
Following a car accident, Tim is referred for personal training, but he gets more than he bargained for with ex-Paralympian PT Claire, known as 'the wrecking ball'.
After terrifying a group of young kids, Tim is invited by well-intentioned but misguided teacher Marcus to run a disability workshop for children.
After being mistaken for an addict, Tim is welcomed in by an eccentric religious community who set their sights on his spiritual health. Despite staunch atheist Idris’s protestations, Tim’s life seems genuinely to improve after attending church, to the extent that he excitedly agrees to be baptised.
An open casting for actors in a period biopic leads Tim to a role as an extra, which quickly turns to him replacing James Norton as the disabled lead, with chaotic results.
Tim gets scouted as a drug dealer but soon realises it isn’t as fun as it looks on TV, while Ruth is left to look after his new care dog, Snuffles.
Tim is out of his depth when he takes part in a select committee for the new disability funding act, but he is distracted by a familiar face, who reveals all is not as it seems.
Lily and Tim have just a day to hire enough disabled talent to put on a showcase and scam Tim’s nemesis, Kiefer, who wants to buy them. But it’s not as easy as they thought.
After a surprise announcement, Idris organises a night to remember for Tim. Not everyone agrees with his idea of a good time, so Ruth takes matters into her own hands.
Lily’s plan to scam the venue for a free wedding is thrown into jeopardy when Tim tries to help. Someone unexpected comes to Idris’s rescue during an existential crisis.
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