Fresh Meat
Jesse Armstrong, Sam Bain
  • Published: 25 October 2018
  • ISBN: 9780241985984
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 192
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Fresh Meat

The Essential Guide for New Undergraduates/the Future Unemployed

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Lashtacular! A 'real' freshers' guide to university based on the award-winning hit comedy TV series

What's the secret to JP's sexual prowess? How does Howard beat the buffet every time? What does Vod really think about drink, drugs and Salman Rushdie? And will Kingsley's diary spill his true feelings for Josie? (hopefully not as stomach-churning as Oregon's sext messages with Professor Shales ... )

This is a real guide to the first year of student life - the one the preachy official brochures and prospectuses don't tell you about. From UCAS applications to moving into a student house, from freshers' week to choosing courses and, more importantly, friends, the book records every detail - disgusting, exciting, tragic and triumphant - as the young ones stumble through university life. A scrap book of diary entries, emails, manifestos (including Howard's Rules for Everything) and guidelines it is crammed with saucy text messages, music playlists, facebook profiles, essays, poems, photos, drawings and paintings, as well as the housemates' musings on life, uni and everything.

From Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain, the acclaimed writers of Peep Show, this is the ultimate companion to Fresh Meat, the Best New British Comedy of 2011, starring Jack Whitehall, Robert Webb and Joe Thomas.
  • Published: 25 October 2018
  • ISBN: 9780241985984
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 192
Categories:

About the authors

Jesse Armstrong

Jesse Armstrong is the co-creator and writer of the BAFTA Award-winning Peep Show, as well as Fresh Meat, Bad Sugar, Babylon and, with Chris Morris, Four Lions. He was also co-writer of The Thick of It and the Oscar-nominated In the Loop, and wrote the Entire History of You for Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror.
Love, Sex and Other Foreign Policy Goals is his first novel.

portrait photo of Jesse Armstrong

Sam Bain

Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain met at Manchester University on a creative writing course. As well as seven series of Peep Show for Channel 4 they have written for a variety of TV sitcoms and sketch shows. Their recently co-wrote the Bafta-winning film Four Lions and the Oscar-nominated In The Loop.

Praise for Fresh Meat

A worthy successor to The Inbetweeners ... the best programme about students since The Young Ones

Daily Telegraph on FRESH MEAT

I never thought I'd enjoy reliving the abject horror of my student days quite as much as I have

Guardian on Fresh Meat

***** A superbly crafted comedy hit

Observer on Fresh Meat

***** Brilliantly observed . . . An excellent cast

Heat on Fresh Meat

A first-class opening episode ... Fresh Meat's characters may be a year older, but thankfully, JP, Kingsley et al are showing no signs of evolution ... a witty, sordid delight

Metro on Fresh Meat (series 2)

Fresh Meat is back and celebrated its return with a magnificent running joke about old meat. Howard started working at the local abattoir and is jubilant at the main perk of the job: "It's spare meat.. from the loose meat bin... It's all right. It's from animals." ... I'm so looking forward to the new term

Independent on Fresh Meat (series 2)

***** The first successful comedy about students for almost 30 years, and judging by the second series opener, it could easily be sustained for a long time yet ... If Jack Whitehall shone during the first series, he positively dazzles here; the boy is clearly destined for Hollywood, or rehab, or both. But his is not the only strong performance; each and every member of the cast is so wondrous that watching Fresh Meat feels like being privy to something special ... Fresh Meat is for anyone who has ever gone to university, and not just for people who happen to be there now. It's also well-crafted, poignant and very, very amusing - let's hope we don't have to wait another 30 years for something just as good

Telegraph on Fresh Meat (series 2)

A comedy that's actually funny. It could catch on

Guardian

This book's main purpose is to encourage having a laugh, but, like the best laughs, it is based on facts that ring true

Evening Standard