Season 3 • Episode 6
LatestLily’s plan to scam the venue for a free wedding is thrown into jeopardy when Tim tries to help. Someone unexpected comes to Idris’s rescue during an existential crisis.
Jerk follows the life of acclaimed stand up Tim Renkow, who plays a heightened version of himself; an American art school dropout who needs to get a visa to stay in the UK. The only problem is that Tim has cerebral palsy. This means that people judge him… all the time. Although usually they judge him wrongly, because what they don’t realise is that inside that severely disabled, vulnerable body is a bit of an asshole.
Writing
Tim weaponizes pity against everyone, including you.
Acting
Renkow's physicality is the punchline and the point.
Production
Zero sentimentality — refreshingly brutal for disability representation.
Creator
Tim Renkow
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Renkow wrote Jerk after moving to the UK and realizing British politeness made his disability invisible in all the wrong ways — he weaponized that awkwardness into comedy.
The show directly confronts 'inspiration porn' — the media trope of framing disabled people as heroic simply for existing. Tim's entire personality is 'what if that guy was a jerk?'
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