History Series / Jam

From Creator/ChrisMorris, creator of ''Series/BrassEye'' and ''Series/TheDayToday'' came ''Jam'', a SketchComedy show with a difference. The show was a televised adaptation of the late-night Radio 1 series ''Blue Jam'' (also by Morris), and employed a unique combination of filming techniques and {{ambient}} music to create the sensation of the viewer being on drugs. Usually very, very ''bad'' drugs. At least one memorable piece per episode was 'filmed' via security cameras and a double to blur the line between 'reality' and 'sketch' even further. There were no ad breaks, no canned laughter and no closing credits, all of which, it was felt, would ruin the mood of the show. It just faded in www.jamcredits.com for a few seconds.

From Creator/ChrisMorris, creator of ''Series/BrassEye'' and ''Series/TheDayToday'' came ''Jam'', a SketchComedy show with a difference. The show was a televised adaptation of the late-night Radio 1 series ''Blue Jam'' (also by Morris), and employed a unique combination of filming techniques and ambient music to create the sensation of the viewer being on drugs. Usually very, very ''bad'' drugs. At least one memorable piece per episode was 'filmed' via security cameras and a double to blur the line between 'reality' and 'sketch' even further. There were no ad breaks, no canned laughter and no closing credits, all of which, it was felt, would ruin the mood of the show. It just faded in www.jamcredits.com for a few seconds.

From Creator/ChrisMorris, the creator of ''Series/BrassEye'' and ''Series/TheDayToday'' came ''Jam'', a SketchComedy show with a difference. The show was a televised adaptation of the late-night Radio 1 series ''Blue Jam'' (also by Morris), and employed a unique combination of filming techniques and ambient music to create the sensation of the viewer being on drugs. Usually very, very ''bad'' drugs. At least one memorable piece per episode was 'filmed' via security cameras and a double to blur the line between 'reality' and 'sketch' even further. There were no ad breaks, no canned laughter and no closing credits, all of which, it was felt, would ruin the mood of the show. It just faded in www.jamcredits.com for a few seconds.

[[caption-width-right:200: Jaaaaaaaam. JAAAAAAM. JAAAAAAAAM. [[SensoryAbuse JAÅÅÅÅÅÅÅÅM. JÅaAaååAaAaAM.]]]]

''Jam'' was a ''[[BlackComedy very dark]]'' SketchComedy show created by Creator/ChrisMorris of ''Series/TheDayToday'' and ''Series/BrassEye''. The show employed a unique combination of filming techniques and electronic/ambient music to convey a disturbing, acid trip-like feel — and a complete disregard for taboo topics, including literal dead babies.

The show was a televised adaptation of Morris' BBC Radio 1 series ''Blue Jam''. There were no ad breaks, no {{laugh track}}s, and not even any opening or closing credits. At least one memorable piece per episode was "filmed" with security cameras.

Notable sketches include:

* A deranged mother hires a plumber to repair her dead baby son to working order.
* A man calls out a ProfessionalKiller who turns out to be a six-year-old girl.
* A woman gets so desperate to make friends that she dresses as a police officer, lies to a mother that her son has died, and invites her to the theatre that same evening while she's still grieving.
* A doctor treats his patients in ridiculous ways.
* Mr. Ventham visits his expensive therapist Mr. Reilly only to get obvious advice.
* A suicidal man jumps off a one-story drop forty times, just in case he changes his mind.

--> '''Narration:''' ''Today...we saw Richard Madeleyyy...beating up a cleaneeerrr...and later being apprehended...for fucking a coffee machiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii­iiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnnnnnneeeeee­eee...''

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Averted, as is Morris' style. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1yI_erpnpI A fake]] [[AcceptableTargets Kilroy]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1yI_erpnpI is shown to have gone insane and is running around naked in a shopping centre, urinating on a window containing a television displaying his face.]] Fake Richard Madeley is shown beating up an innocent cleaner and having sex with a coffee machine.

* OverlyLongGag: a couple.

* {{Gaslighting}}: The mechanics in the "Shrunken Car" sketch, who insist that they haven't done anything to their client's car - despite the fact it's only 4 feet long and 2'6" tall. The client is qute incensed by this.

* A suicidal man jumps off a one-story drop fourty times, just in case he changes his mind.

From Creator/ChrisMorris, the creator of ''Series/BrassEye'' and ''Series/TheDayToday'' came ''Jam'', a SketchComedy show with a difference. The show was a televised adaptation of the late-night Radio 1 series ''Blue Jam'' (also by Morris), and employed a unique combination of filming techniques and ambient music to create the sensation of the viewer being on drugs. Usually very, very ''bad'' drugs. At least one memorable piece per episode was 'filmed' via security cameras and a double to blur the line between 'reality' and 'sketch' even further. There were no ad breaks, no canned laughter and no closing credits, all of which, it was felt, would ruin the mood of the show. It just faded in www.jamcredits.com for a few seconds.

Notable for its heavy use of BlackComedy; we're talking seriously deranged stuff here. Nothing was taboo, not even the literal dead baby.

Best remembered for:

* The said Dead Baby sketch, where a deranged mother hires a plumber to "repair" her deceased offspring to working order.
* A man calls out a hired 'cleaner'/killer who turns out to be a six-year-old girl.
* A very lonely woman goes to extreme lengths to make friends. She even dresses as a police officer, pretends that a man has died, then invites his grieving mother to the theatre that evening.
* Several sketches about a highly eccentric doctor.
* Mr Ventham: A man who visits what seems to be an expensive therapist, only to ask really obvious advice: "I can't find my wallet?" ... "It's probably on one of the surfaces."
* The suicidal man who jumps off of a one-story drop forty times, in case he changes his mind.

* CoversAlwaysLie: The DVD cover for the show pictures an unconscious man in a tracksuit outfit lying on the ground while a distressed woman (presumably the man's wife) is pleading to two ambulance workers, one male and one female, who both look apathetic while smoking cigarettes and drinking beer, to save the man's life, while a police man is seen in the background laughing at what is happening. Unfortunately, this never once occurs in the show.

* MeddlingParents:
** One sketch was based around a couple talking about how they got their daughter into a competitive school by handing out booze, drugs and pornography to the other children applying.
** Another involved CCTV footage of a children's party where a mother snaps and violently attacks the kids (and their parents) after her child loses a game of musical chairs.

-> ''"When dancing, lost in techno trance, arms flailing, gawky Bez, then find you snagged on frowns, and slowly dawns, you're jazzing to the beep tone of a life support machine, that marks the steady fading, of your day old baby daughter. And when midnight sirens, lead to blue flash road smash, stretchers covered heads, and slippy red macadam, and find you creeping 'neath the blankets, to snuggle close a mangled bird, hoping soon you too will be freezer drawered... Then welcome, ooh chemotherapy wig, welcome in Jaaaaaaaam."''

* AdultFear: The show relies heavily on this. The [[BlackComedy "Plumber Baby"]] sketch is possibly the best-known example, with other sketches focusing on paedophilia, child murder, sexual assault, OutWithABang ("Gush") and more.

* BritishBrevity

* MeddlingParents: One sketch was based around a couple talking about how they got their daughter into a competitive school by handing out booze, drugs and pornography to the other children applying. Another involved CCTV footage of a children's party where a mother snaps and violently attacks the kids (and their parents) after her child loses a game of musical chairs.

* MissConception: The obviously heavily pregnant woman who visits a doctor asking for acne cream, because she thinks her swollen stomach is just a pimple. She and her husband refuse to believe she's pregnant, and laugh at the idea in the face of all evidence; the doctor gets tired of them, agrees with them that it's just a pimple afterall and prescribes them something that either does nothing or just flat out causes her to miscarry, having decided that they'd be horrible parents anyway.

* YourCheatingHeart: The sketch where a midwife seduces a patient's husband and has sex with him in another room while the woman is giving birth.
** Another sketch involves a man visiting his friends who have just lost a baby; he inadvertently gives away that he was having an affair with the wife and the baby might have been his.

* DVDBonusContent - mercilessly mocked with the DVD release. The "extras" include a "play all at once" feature (which yields stills from all six episodes, the Creator/ThamesTelevision fanfare and the word "WHY?"... as well as a bona fide, if rather odd, bonus scene), an option for "Undeleted Scenes" which merely tells you to go down to the shop you got the DVD from and complain loudly and profanely about the DVD not having any undeleted scenes, and a version of each episode that has been digitally altered in such a way as to make it entirely unwatchable (for example, shrunk down to a tiny size and bouncing around the screen.)
* {{Homage}} - the "casual parents" sketch is a homage to a Victoria Wood sketch where the parents of a teenage professional swimmer are totally unconcerned after she doesn't return from an attempt to swim the English Channel.
* InLoveWithLove - parodied in a sketch about a middle-aged man who, having never achieved his goal of finding someone to marry, decides to marry himself. He reveals at the end that he's since dated several women he would have liked to marry, but it's a bit too late for that now ...
* LonersAreFreaks - one sketch features a woman who deliberately causes accidents and does other upsetting things so she can spend time with the people she's hurt/upset, with the implication that nobody else will do so.

* MeddlingParents - One sketch was based around a couple talking about how they got their daughter into a competitive school by handing out booze, drugs and pornography to the other children applying. Another involved CCTV footage of a children's party where a mother snaps and violently attacks the kids (and their parents) after her child loses a game of musical chairs.
* MindScrew - Look at the examples above and tell me I'm wrong.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed - Averted, as is Morris' style. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1yI_erpnpI A fake]] [[AcceptableTargets Kilroy]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1yI_erpnpI is shown to have gone insane and is running around naked in a shopping centre, urinating on a window containing a television displaying his face.]] Fake Richard Madeley is shown beating up an innocent cleaner and having sex with a coffee machine.

* ObstructiveBureaucrat - "Mr. Lizard", who installs a television in a couples' home which inexplicably begins spewing lizards, then denies all responsibility - suggesting that the cable company are sending the lizards down the wire while repeating "it's nothing to do with me" and taunting the pair.
* OverlyLongGag - a couple.
* ParentalIncest - PlayedForLaughs with the mother of a child who apparently has a gay friend. Whilst the father has sex with the friend to keep him away from their son, she has sex with her son (in disguise as a "younger lady", who he thinks is a prostitute) "to keep him interested in ladies."

* ProfessionalKiller - subverted with the six-year-old "cleaner"
* SerialEscalation- "Shit your leg off! Make it green!"
* SensoryAbuse - While some sketches were quietly dull, a few were full of it. The 'Robert Kilroy Silk' sketch featured a lookalike of Kilroy experiencing a nervous breakdown in a supermarket, accompanied by dramatic, tribal music, while an alarm repeatedly beeps in the background. It ends with a [[BrokenRecord looped clip of the real Kilroy calmly saying 'Take care of each other']], which gradually turns into [[DroneOfDread atonal droning]].
* SoundToScreenAdaptation - Many sketches were directly taken from Morris's radio show ''Blue Jam''. Some of them clearly used the original recording with the actors miming to the lines, giving an even more unsettling feel to the scene.

* SurrealThemeTune - No real theme tune, but every episode would begin with Chris Morris delivering a rambling monologue that had seemingly little to do with the show, and ending with "Then welcome... in Jaaaammmm"; see page quote.
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehaviour - Maria, the six-year-old assassin
* WithFriendsLikeThese - The parents oblivious to their son's disappearance are eventually told that his body was found, and one of their friends has confessed to the murder. They shrug it off and resolve to just "have a word" with their friend the next time they see him.

* YourCheatingHeart - The sketch where a midwife seduces a patient's husband and has sex with him in another room while the woman is giving birth.

-> ''"When dancing, lost in techno trance, arms flailing, gawky Bez, then find you snagged on frowns, and slowly dawns, you're jazzing to the beep tone of a life support machine, that marks the steady fading, of your day old baby daughter. And when midnight sirens, lead to blue flash road smash, stretchers covered heads, and slippy red macadam, and find you creeping 'neath the blankets, to snuggle close a mangled bird, hoping soon you too will be freezer drawered... Then welcome, blue chemotherapy wig, welcome in Jaaaaaaaam."''

* CannotSpitItOut: The security guard whose stutter prevents him from warning others about the broken elevator, causing many people to fall down the empty shaft and die

* MissConception: The obviously heavily pregnant woman who visits a doctor asking for acne cream, because she thinks her swollen stomach is just a pimple. She and her husband refuse to believe she's pregnant, and laugh at the idea in the face of all evidence; forcing the doctor to let them go since they won't let her examine the patient.

* MissConception: The obviously heavily pregnant woman who visiting a doctor asking for acne cream, because she thinks her swollen stomach is just a pimple. She and her husband refuse to believe she's pregnant, and laugh at the idea in the face of all evidence; forcing the doctor to let them go since they won't let her examine the patient.

* MissConception: The obviously heavily pregnant woman who visiting a doctor asking for acne cream, because she thinks her swollen stomach is just a pimple. She and her husband refuse to believe she's pregnant, and laugh at the idea in the face of all evidence; forcing the doctor to let them go since they won't let him examine her.

* MissConception: One sketch involves an obviously heavily pregnant woman visiting a doctor because she thinks her swollen stomach is just a pimple and expects a prescription for acne cream. She and her husband refuse to believe she's pregnant, and laugh at the idea in the face of all evidence; forcing the doctor to let them go since they won't let him examine her.