Facejacker (2010)
Facejacker is a Channel 4 comedy series which started on 16 April 2010. It follows the similar show Fonejacker. Kayvan Novak adopts various disguises, including several characters heard in Fonejacker. To promote the show, Novak appeared at Channel 4's Comedy Gala as Terry Tibbs on April 5. Series 2 finished filming in July 2011 and premiered on 27 March 2012. The series concluded on 1 May 2012. Novak plans to create a film based on the show's characters, and is currently in talks with Film4 and Hat Trick Productions.
Seasons & Episode
In this episode, the organisers are in for a surprise when Terry Tibbs takes over as judge in an American beauty pageant in Philadelphia. On this side of the pond, Augustine Kwembe (Augustus's oversexed female cousin) poses as a minicab driver inspector in order to groom unsuspecting male candidates, while testing their minicab skills. Meanwhile, our balaclava-clad bandit takes over a supermarket self-service checkout, causing a lot of inconvenience to innocent shoppers.
Dufrais Constantinople gets the chance to spend the day behind the scenes at a baseball game in Los Angeles with three other competition winners. New character Ray, who has recently been released from prison, offers careers advice to school leavers. Plus the programme catches up with Augustus, this time in the guise of a river patrol officer issuing fines and extracting credit card details from fishermen and boatmen, and Brian, who has a severe reaction to cheese in a gourmet food shop in LA.
In the third episode, Dufrais visits locations from the Rocky movie in Philadelphia with a local trolleybus tour. The Fonejacker takes over the GPS system of a special car for tourists in San Francisco, while Brian has a one-on-one poetry lesson in New York. Meanwhile, back in London, scamster Augustus tries to extract credit card details from members of the public as they try to rent 'Boris' bikes.
Terry Tibbs hosts his own Jerry Springer-style studio chat-show in America with his son Lionel. Dufrais wins yet another competition, to go to the set of a glamour calendar photo-shoot featuring girls with guns in Los Angeles, while Brian gets a lesson in hip hop from three rappers on Venice Beach. Back in the UK Augustine is disguised as a lollipop lady at Abbey Road, helping tourists recreate the famous Beatles album cover by stopping traffic for a small fee.
Dufrais wins a visit to a Star Wars-themed porn set in LA. Meanwhile, recently released convict Ray Fakadakis continues to give careers advice to school leavers, while French fast food photographer Zulfi visits an ice cream parlour to photograph their specialities for the menu board.
Terry Tibbs launches his own American version of The Apprentice entitled The Apprentibbs in a bid to find a new business partner, but the search is undermined by Patrick, another Facejacker character. The Fonejacker hijacks an American fast food drive-thru, much to the frustration of the customers, and Brian Badonde bids farewell to America with a final fling at an art gallery.