Green Wing

THE most amazingly funny, stupid, genius piece of comedy work I have ever seen... I love Green Wing so much.

I watched almost all of the first series when it was on TV and have recently been bought the box set of series 1 allowing me to relive all the amazing moments of comic genius.

Synopsis:

A Channel 4 comedy which follows the adventures of the childish and slightly mad staff at a hospital.

Despite a general lack of medical attention, Green Wing follows new surgical registrar Dr Caroline Todd through her first day at work and beyond, starting out as she means to go on - disheveled and under-deodorised having spent the night in her car.

Green Wing was written by a series of comedy writers: Robert Harley, James Henry, Gary Howe, Stuart Kenworthy, Oriane Messina, Victoria Pile, Richard Preddy, Fay Rusling. And was created with the attempt of making a sketch show that is a sitcom aswell.

The goings on in the hospital are usually childish, dangerous and egotistical which all adds up to the amazing-ness that is Green Wing. I recently watched Green Wing with someone who had never seen it before. They were constantly confused and were asking me things like "why did that just happen?" and I just shrugged and said "why not?" if it gets a laugh why shouldn't it happen? there is a broad basic plot to the series but does tend to get lost within each episode as it is filled with random goings on that bemuse and distract the audience. Such as one of the HR team weighing her breasts to see how much it would cost to post them to various countries, or the constant competitions in the operating theatre between co surgeons Mac and Caroline and egotistical anesthetist Guy.

Random sketches included this one which I personally love... the Staff Liason Officer Sue White (who is basically insane...) gets random visits from the staff throughout a day as they face various trials and worries... Guy the anesthetist walks in, leans over the desk and says:

“Do you know what I like about you?” [pause] Fuck All”

...and walks out... pure genius - of course if you haven't seen Greenwing it isn't possible for you too imagine the facial expression and over all demeanours of the characters... so I suggest you go out there today and buy the box set ASAP

Check out the characters

Channel 4 website