The Focus Group

An absent-minded traveler arrives at a Spanish beach where chaos is about to break out. (Followed by Mad in Xpain, 2020.)

An outcast duckling's search for a family to accept him leads to constant rejection before learning his true identity as a swan.

On December 17th 2019, I, James Acaster, filmed my 2019 tour show Cold Lasagne Hate Myself 1999 at EartH in Hackney. It was a show about the best year of my life (1999) and the worst year of my life (2017), I wore a very nifty jacket for it and I looked extremely cool.

Two maneaters collect the souls of their friends at a house party for Satan

Since all over the world the dead have risen, it seems like the end of the world. Billions of glassy gazing zombies roam about limply, decomposed as they are, and regain a little liveliness only to run after the last survivors who have the misfortune to come out of their lair. In Paris, three losers realize that ultimately all this does not change much in their lives. Deciding to take their destiny into their own hands, they open a pizza delivery and home video business. After a difficult start, their success grew as soon as they promoted themselves by stapling leaflets on the faces of the dead. But then one morning, they discover that it has just opened, right in front of their shop, a Captain Pizza HD franchise: the world's largest chain of delivery of pizzas and HD movies on USB key... Curse! Will our heroes triumph over this unfair competition?!

Follow three students over the course of one night as they try to evade and outrun their deranged professor.

A cautionary tale about what happens to men who underestimate women in the horror genre.

A dog runs away with a length of sausage. Chaos erupts as the butcher chasing the dog collides with bystanders who angrily follow.

A boy spreads glue all over town.

A grenadier had come to see his lover, a servant in the homes of wealthy bourgeois people. Hearing a noise, he is afraid of the masters and allows himself to be locked in a cupboard so as not to be seen. This is a hiding place that will spark many adventures.

A piano entices anyone who comes near.

God presides over a modern metropolis.

A great animated short story about opportunity and helping each other.

Two sisters seek diversion after repeat disappointments with men.

I just broke up... bloody society.

A young woman's plans to propose to her girlfriend while at her family's annual holiday party are upended when she discovers her partner hasn't yet come out to her conservative parents.

As a woman stands alone beside a Greek or Roman column in an outdoor park, a dracula-like figure rushes her, mouth open, teeth bared, as if to bite her neck. The victim holds up a sign - a safe-sex diagram - and Cunt Dykula jumps back, mortified. There may be a way around this impasse. Can Dykula and the solitary woman figure it out?

The curtains of a theatre open onto a smaller puppet theatre presided over by Marianne. The ringmaster waves her baton at three shadowy acrobats that climb one by one out of her hat. Each performs his number, although not without some difficulty. The clumsiness of the first, the mischievousness of the second, and the fieriness of the third trigger a few clashes that ultimately lead to chaos. How can Marianne create harmony without losing control? Will her show flop? Who's really calling the shots, the little puppet or her acrobats?

A man is put in charge of organizing a children's soccer team, but he doesn't know anything about the sport.

After breaking up with her boyfriend, Lillian moves in with married couple Julia and Don only to overhear them arguing in the night. The front door slams as Don moves out, and the following days sees Lillian, selfish and irresponsible, having to earn her keep by cooking for Julia, a reclusive, distrustful writer who rarely emerges from her room. Though communicating largely through notes, the odd couple gradually forge a bond and help one another to negotiate the foibles, phobias and obstacles that have long hindered their happiness.