One of the best tv comedy series that has been on channel 4. Written and directed by Chris Morris and features the UK's best comedy group. Julian Barret, Noel Fielding, Richard Ayoade etc etc. And all these guys are all in each other programs so make sure you collect the whole set
Nathan Barley
Garth Marenghi's Dark Place
Mighty Boosh
IT Crowd
Man to man with Dean Learner
Brass Eye

Nathan Barley : bloomin' marvellous! why did this stop running? so under-rated! it's an exaggeration (or not) of our society and the england we live in today, the idiots are taking over!

Combining Chrlie Brooker (a man who recognises bad television much easier than good television - like most of us with taste) and Chris Morris (the master of social hatred) was always going to be a tongue-in-cheek affair, but I didn't really expect it to be this funny-in-an-obvious-way.

That's no bad thing of course as many times before now we've had to look for the laugh-out-loud parts in many of Morris' endeavours into 'Just How Hideous We All Are At Heart', but Nathan Barley is the most blatant by far.

Of all of the (fantastically horrible) characters on display here, even the ones that are meant to be likeable don't quite make it into the 'I wish I knew them' category.

Burns and Barratt are brilliant together; thier awkward presences making the deepest of impacts in the scenes they share together. But it's Ben Whishaw as Pingu who shines the most here; his utterly brillaint physicalities and facial expressions set the uneasy-o-meter for every episode. At first Pingu is so cute that you just want him protected from the world he so unknowingly sits in the middle of. Towards the end though you are as bad as the others, and you just think he deserves it.

This show is parts is utterly vile, but so vile you can't stop watching. Nathan Barley is such a disgusting character you have to love him, he'll make you cry laughter. At times it'll be so bad you'll be cringing away from the screen as you laugh. He's generally a disgusting, perverted little man who if you knew you'd hate. In this show you have to love him, he's just so funny. Chris Morris has done a brilliant job writing this, its without one of the best comedies of 2005. I recommend everyone to see it!