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Jerk

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Jerk follows Tim, who has cerebral palsy and knows he can get away with almost anything.

Meet Tim. He has cerebral palsy. And he's awful. He knows he makes people uncomfortable - because he does it on purpose. Starring stand-up Tim Renkow.

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Jerk: Series 1: Episode 2

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Tim becomes embroiled in a lie about his identity that spirals completely out of control.

After stumbling across a charity food bank, Tim becomes embroiled in a lie that spirals completely out of control.

Broke, hungry and having been given his marching orders by lazy carer Ruth, Tim heads out to do some grocery shopping. But after a showdown with the world’s most overcautious lollipop lady, Tim finds himself lost in an unknown part of town. Stumbling across a food stall giving out free hot meals Tim thinks he’s hit the absolute jackpot. That is until he reaches the front of the queue and realises that the food is actually meant for the queue of refugees he suddenly realises he’s walked past. 
Faced with this moral dilemma, Tim as ever takes the path of least resistance and with scruffy look and dark beard does his best to go under the radar - until he’s spotted by enthusiastic charity worker Benedict. Intrigued by this severely disabled refugees’ story, Tim finds himself embroiled in a lie that snowballs out of control, beginning with Tim claiming to be Syrian ex-skateboard champion ‘Mohammed Ali’ and ending with him fronting a new charity campaign video.

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Jerk follows the life of Tim, a man who knows that having cerebral palsy means that he can get away with almost anything.

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. And usually they judge him wrongly, because what they don’t realise is that inside that severely disabled, vulnerable body is an incurable piss-taker. 
Tim knows he makes people uncomfortable - he knows it because he does it on purpose. He knows that having cerebral palsy means he can get away with saying what others can’t. But that’s his issue - time spent taking aim at life’s easier targets means Tim takes his eye of it’s bigger prizes: the job, the relationship and the visa.

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