Car Share Audience Pleasures

Peter Kay has been in many comedy shows and has been around for a long time. He is considered a household name for his original comedy and popularity. Due to his popularity, the TV show Car Share has a large potential viewers range so that the show can become popular. The episodes have snowballing humour which is reoccurring humour throughout each episode, which hints at other jokes within. The humour is mostly adult based humour. This is enjoyed by the audience without restraint as the show is scheduled after 'The Watershed'. The show uses narrative resolution to bring narrative pleasures to the audience. Character identification, suspense and comedy to bring pleasures to the audience. Each episode plays familiar well known songs on the radio to entice a familiarity and recognition pleasure to make the audience feel more a part of the show. Another use of audience pleasures is unpredictability and spontaneity.

Situational Comedy: Car Share

Peter Kay's Car Share

Written by:

Paul Coleman

Peter Kay

Sian Gibson

Tim Reid

Scheduled broadcast:
11-12 pm based on  location in UK.

Sitcom codes and conventions:

The running joke, which is a reoccurring joke throughout the episode or series.

The comic trap, of which the entire show is based around. It is the situation which links the characters together which they cannot escape from otherwise the humour would be lost.

The one-liner, a joke made within a single sentence that has relevance to an event that has just occurred.

Car share is an example of situational comedy, a sitcom. Unlike a sketch show, sitcoms feature the same cast throughout the series, with a few changes based on storyline.

TV Comedy: Audience Pleasures


The type of audience pleasures you need to write about in the exam include:

• narrative pleasures such as those of narrative resolution, 
• character identification, snowballing narrative, suspense, comedy, and so on
• pleasures of recognition, familiarity and anticipation
• pleasures of difference-within-repetition
• performance unpredictability and spontaneity
• transgressive pleasures
• specific pleasures associated with performers or personalities.

Walliams and friend

The program was commissioned by the Shane Allen and Gregor Sharp. The producer of the show is Sarah Fraser. The show is aimed at adults due to it's classic style and adult humour. The show is played at 9:30pm on BBC One which further shows the adult based audience as well as a mainstream audience as it is on a popular channel and can be seen by most audience. The show is on after the watershed as it contains swearing and adult humour which is enjoyed among adults for its comedy. The audience demographic is aimed at the mainstream audience, which is people of all social classes.