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2[[caption-width-right:350:ShouldntWeBeInSchoolRightNow [[note]]From the left: Max Langdale Brown, Lilly Lucia Ainsworth, Jack Harries, Ella Ainsworth, Creator/WillPoulter, Beth Rylance[[/note]]]]
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4-> '''Pitch B!tch:''' Okay, picture this: ''[[TitleDrop School of Comedy]]''. It's a half-hour sketch show. It's funny, really funny, funny like "Ha-ha". [[[GoodTimesMontage Laughing montage]]]
5-> '''Marv:''' I love it, what's the angle?
6-> '''PB:''' Kids.
7-> '''Marv:''' Kids?
8-> '''PB:''' Little guys, still growing, ''chronologically challenged''.
9-> '''Marv:''' So it's a kid's show.
10-> '''PB:''' No, the comedians are kids but the show's for adults. [[IKnowWhatWeCanDoCut It's mature...]] [Adult themes montage] ...risqué [[[UnusualEuphemism Anatomically descriptive]] montage] ...and a little shocking.
11-> '''Marv:''' How shocking? [[[RefugeInVulgarity Shocking moments montage]]]
12-> '''PB:''' We're talking about 8 's#!ts', 3 'f***s', a 'screw you' and a 'c--k sucker'.
13-> '''Marv:''' That is shocking, Karl. [{{beat}}] I love it! It's gunna be huge!
14-> '''Karl:''' Yes! Yes... yes.
15-->-- Explanatory sequence from ''"School of Comedy: [[BonusMaterial Extra Lessons]]"''.
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17''School of Comedy'' is a {{British|Series}} SketchComedy, starring young BritishComics; most notably Creator/WillPoulter, [[Website/YouTube Jack Harries]] and Beth Rylance. The show ran for two [[BritishBrevity six-episode series]] in 2009 and 2010 on [[Creator/Channel4 E4]], beginning as a run of massively successful sell-out shows at the [[UsefulNotes/FringeFestival Edinburgh Fringe Festival]]. The range of characters is extensive, including a pair of South African security guards and a homosexual couple in the '40s (both Poulter and Rylance).
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19The show is possibly the greatest aversion of a DawsonCasting as, in the same style as ''Film/BugsyMalone'', all the characters are adults but are played by a group of 11-to-15-year-olds. The show was also given a guidance warning (18+) and had to be shown after the watershed, though it was partially written by the entirely under-age cast.
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21!!Tropes in ''School of Comedy''
22* AvoidTheDreadedGRating: Hilariously PlayedStraight: The show ''does'' carry a G rating, but it's a [[UsefulNotes/{{Britain}} British]] one, the 'G' is for 'Guidance' (basically an American 'R' rating) and when watching On Demand the viewer is asked to confirm they are over 18 before it plays. Blame [[SirSwearsALot Old MacDonald]], among nearly everyone else.
23* TheBeard: Pongo and Margot are this to each other, and so are their crushes to each other. Naturally, they're all secretly into each other.
24* BrickJoke: Typical of the genre.
25** "My wife Carol"
26** "Shart" "Fully" "Dorf" "Cock off!"
27* BritishBrevity: There were two seasons; six episodes each.
28* ChildrenAreInnocent: Yeah, keep thinking that. Move along, now.
29* ChubbyChaser: The museum tour guide, who spends his time around works of art with chubby and/or overweight women. When he spots male visitors, that's all he has to talk about the artwork.
30* ClusterBleepBomb: For the below.
31* ClusterFBomb: [[OnceAnEpisode Typical of]] [[DownOnTheFarm Old MacDonald]], all bleeped out in some way until a final PrecisionFStrike at the end of the skit.
32* ComicallyMissingThePoint: When Pongo finds out his wife's lesbian:
33-->'''Pongo:''' Margot, you're wearing trousers!
34-->'''Margot:''' Yes. Yes I am.
35-->'''Pongo:''' Well how long has this been going on?
36-->'''Margot:''' Since forever. Since the day we were married.
37-->'''Pongo:''' [[AreYouPonderingWhatImPondering Are you trying to tell me...]]
38-->'''Margot:''' Yes. I'm a lesbian.
39-->'''Pongo:''' Oh thank goodness for that, for a minute there I thought you were [[RedScare Communist]].
40-->'''Margot:''' [[FateWorseThanDeath Oh, Lord, no!]]
41* DawsonCasting: Averted, not one of the cast had hit 16 when the show began though all characters were adults. In fact, some of the younger stars appeared much older than their baby-faced co-stars: Will Poulter, Jack Harries and Charlie Wernham looked the youngest, but were born in '93 and '94.
42* DriverOfABlackCab: Charlie Wernham's 'Cabbie' is this personified.
43* HaveIMentionedIAmGay: Pongo and wife Margot are both homosexuals. In the '40s, and so nothing happens. Pongo explains, on the website, "[There's] me, my wife Margot, my chum Freddie and Margot's chum Lulu". Also see HideYourLesbians, below.
44* HideYourLesbians: Margot and Lulu. They're barely seen touching (though likely because they're [[HollywoodOld only teenagers]]), but the website has "There, I've said it. I love a lady. Not just any lady. I love Lulu. Not just any Lulu. Naked Lulu. Naked Lulu with no clothes on." 'written by' Margot.
45* LastSecondWordSwap: On the show they swear as much as they like, on the website - which kids can access - it's a different story. There is no profanity, with the nearest being Mr. Mills' "None of your namby pamby, mollycoddling 'lets talk about our feelings' bull''dust''." Angharad ''does'' call Gerald "The cock", but she meant cockerel.
46* TheMafia: There's a brief sketch with one Italian-American family sitting at their dinner table.
47* MakingUseOfTheTwin: Jack's brother Finn made an appearance.
48* ObligatorySwearing: This is not a kiddie show. It's co-written by kids, it's starring kids, but ''[[NotInFrontOfTheKid they swear]]''.
49* OlderThanTheyLook: Some of the older cast looked strangely younger than others; they were all adolescents, though. Then the second season came, and they'd all hit puberty.
50* OnceAnEpisode: Recurring characters and their quirks.
51* OneSteveLimit: There are many Terrys; most played by Will Poulter, though, so maybe they're the same person?
52* PrecisionFStrike: At the end of every Old [=MacDonald=] skit.
53* QueerPeopleAreFunny: This is where we list the gay jokes.
54* ChekhovsGag: Near the start of the episode Terry constructs a statue of Carol, his wife, instead of a celebrity; near the end, he steals £4.4 million from the council to build a giant, naked one straddling the bridge.
55* ShoutOut: See quotes page.
56** Also the scene where Margot and Lulu meet parallels ''Film/BriefEncounter'', but funny.
57* SoundEffectBleep: Throughout Old [=MacDonald=], not always for the ClusterFBomb, though.
58* TheSecretOfLongPorkPies: Connie's pies, as she explains "You can't leave till you've eaten a pie. See, our pies are legend. They got all the fillings - meat, offal, sausage, meat - and they come with a choice of chips or nothing. Sauce costs extra. As does cutlery. Them pies is why, hands down, mine's the best boozer in London."
59** Also, how enough gravy and you can eat anything. Very true. ''"[[OopNorth #OopNorth]] [[UsefulNotes/BritishPubs #BritishPubs]] [[MyLocal #MyLocal]] [[{{Emoticon}} =D]]"''
60* VulgarHumour: Common, especially to say it's kids doing it. See page quote.

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