The story so far... Six top-selling comedies!
NEGATIVE FEEDBACK
Jasper and Annie are a pair of jobless no-hopers who have dropped into the cracks between the paving slabs of life. Rather than bothering to climb out, they have embraced their situation and created a life based around doing pretty much nothing. That is, apart from visiting various chronic illness clubs for the free refreshments and selling old cassette tapes online. But when a customer leaves negative feedback for a month old purchase without first making contact, Jasper seeks retribution.
Bernd Tost is a wise old German punk who lives on the top floor and is reputed to have been a Stasi agent during the Cold War. Together they form the Negative Feedback Retribution Squad and discover they have a talent for striking a comical blow for the little people. When their first mission is a massive success they decide to advertise their services online. What follows are a series of increasingly more elaborate revenge windups involving television celebrities, politicians, pop stars and even the clergy. Until predictably, they bite off far more than they can chew and things take a sinister turn. All set against the story of Bernd's former life and exactly how he came to be living at the top of a tower block In a little town called Oldbury.
THE CHEESY DIPS
Middle-aged Martin has a sexless meal-for-one life and a boring job in a DIY superstore. After a chance reunion with his old muso mate Craig, he begs him to form a covers band to spare him from being pressganged into a fell-running bromance with Nigel, his nerdy supervisor - a real Billy no mates who has a thing for irritable Polish women but still lives at home with his elderly mother and a fridge full of soft cheese.
Meanwhile, down in London, the Dafoe twins are busy wrecking their once stellar musical career with a rock-and-roll lifestyle guaranteed to finish them, too. That's until their exasperated manager stages a furious last-ditch intervention and forces them to quit London and record their next album on a North Sea island hideaway. Where he prays they will be safely tucked away from everything that has turned his once lucrative cash cow into an absolute nightmare!
THE SARDINIAN JOB
Charlie Stroker's Mini Centre lies in the backstreets of a small Black Country town just a few miles from the gates of the factory that built them. But now, the best years of the business are behind him, and his dreams of making a fortune from his lifelong passion are slowly ebbing away.
After a chance encounter of the deep-fried variety, Charlie learns of a long-forgotten stash of valuable Mini spares languishing on a remote Mediterranean island. Ever the opportunist, he immediately recognises his chance to turn everything around and embarks on a quest to bring them home. For Britain! For glory! But most of all for the money!
Will this barmy enterprise be Charlie's making? Or will his first-ever foreign holiday be the straw that breaks the camel's back? Either way, it's sure to be a bawdy comic caper because only a chancer called Stroker would attempt The Sardinian Job!
OPERATION PENANCE
After a chance meeting in a local café, cake-loving Father Pat Gallagher has a shapely secret he would rather not share with his flock. Fortunately, The King of Kings is cool with it, provided he drops him off at the traffic lights and keeps everything else on the level back at St. Mildred’s. However, it's not long before his filthy little adventures are dragged into the light by an anonymous text and it comes as quite a shock to learn that his new friend isn't quite all that she seems. New information that forces our fledging Romeo to risk everything in order to return his faith to factory settings.
OPERATION CORNWALL
Joe Bytheway is a middle-aged taxi driver whose life is only made bearable by the ten minutes he spends each day chatting online with his secret internet lover. She’s a lusty Cornish redhead who believes he’s a wealthy widower, rather than a downtrodden cash cow hitched to a spendthrift interior design addict named Sharon. A situation Joe can only dream of escaping until fate makes him witness to a murder and his deep longing for Lizzie from Looe spurs him into action.
Now with good reason to vanish off the face of the earth, he hatches a ruthless plan to begin a new life on the South Coast of Cornwall. Blissfully unaware that events unfolding in his wake might just scupper his dreams of alfresco beach BBQs and a wife-free future. Will this broadband Casanova finally ‘man up’ before his waxy temptress gets tired of waiting, or will Operation Cornwall simply end in calamitous disaster?
OPERATION TANGY FILTH
Tommo once dreamed of opening a restaurant and cooking on the telly, but when a failed kitchen romance turns his culinary passion to pain, he finds himself stuck in a carvery slicing roast meat thinner than tissue paper. One night, he has one over the odds and stumbles on a barmy way to turn his limited kitchen skills into a global moneymaker. Now with this culinary brainchild burning a hole in his apron pocket, his quest for fame and fortune eventually takes him South, where he soon discovers that bursting onto the fine dining scene won't be as straightforward as he thought.