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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 4

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Episode 4

BBC Three - Jerk, Series 1, Episode 4

Tim’s visa has run out, but can he find a loophole before it’s too late?

Tim’s visa has run out and deportation looms. However after Mum drops a bombshell about Tim’s heritage Tim, Ruth and Idris race to Wales to meet Tim’s long lost family.

The clock has well and truly run down on Tim’s leave of stay in the UK. Having discovered a letter from the Home Office carefully filed by Ruth under the sofa cushion, Tim has just 48 hours before deportation looms. With no job, no wife and no sponsor it seems all hope is lost. Skyping Mom to break the news to her, Tim and the gang are stunned however when she inadvertently mentions that Tim has Welsh family. If his grandfather was British this could be just the ticket he’s looking for. Hot-footing it to Wales to meet the family and discover more, Tim can’t believe his luck when they pull up at a grand old manor house. Not only might Tim be British but it looks like he’s also loaded! However after meeting doddery old Great Uncle Thomas, Tim is faced with the awkward truth that not only did Tim’s grandfather renounce his British citizenship, but that he did so in order to join the Nazi party. And not only that but old Unckie Tom is actually broke. With all avenues exhausted the gang say their fond farewells at the airport. At least Mom managed to turn the waterworks on at check in and they’re flying back in first class style.

Jerk: Series 1

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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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