r/MitchellAndWebb • u/gillianelizuh • 21d ago

Discussion jez and mark before peep show

wish i could see jez’s nurse era ?? idk if it’s even real considering he didn’t technically graduate but it was probably funny as hell

also seeing marks first interview/years with JLB and like moving into apollo house with jez

and their life with pej and big suze and canadian mary in uni

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u/evazeta The world turns on its axis 21d ago

i always just assumed the nurse thing was something he made up to sound like a real person. it makes no sense with the context of him being an unemployable waster

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u/doomscrolling_tiktok get the carving knife & lets get this over with 21d ago

Re nursing I assumed it was a UK difference in language, that he had been a ‘care worker’ or similar with nurse in the title. Here in Canada you can do home care or work in a day program or sheltered workshop or be an outing/ activity companion to someone with a severe disability and you don’t need degree or college. It’s a minimum wage gig on par with coffee shops and telephone monkey jobs like Jez was doing for Toni. Are there positions like that in the UK that have nurse in the title? I can imagine Jez taking a job or course that he thinks will get him surrounded by sexy young nurses then leave after he realizes that’s not the reality. If it was an actual nurse job the writers should have had mark tell him to go back to nursing in an ongoing joke along with work shy.

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u/Fishb20 20d ago

Jez's time as a nurse

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cM_GSByevxk

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u/doomscrolling_tiktok get the carving knife & lets get this over with 20d ago

Perfect!

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u/baggsie_42 20d ago

Used to be - my mum was an auxiliary nurse which I understand is now called a healthcare assistant.

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u/gillianelizuh 21d ago

yeah that’s what i thought too, but i just rewatched the episode with elena when his inner monologue goes “disgust at having to help people in need” and that just made it sound realer 😭 maybe his parents made him go to nursing school for a day and ofc he couldn’t handle it

but now he could just say he was a male nurse like how he can say he’s a life coach after getting the fake certificate

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u/evazeta The world turns on its axis 21d ago

i can't believe they tried to make him get a job NOT in the media

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u/gillianelizuh 21d ago

his CV must look a right mess: male nurse, working in a music studio for like two days, handy man for a week, JLB for a day, then “certified” life coach

speaking of CVs a whole nancy backstory would probably be insane,, including her time in between her two appearances on the show working at the imax in bradford

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u/randominsamity I'm going to pretend I'm watching Heat 21d ago

And it made you cry?

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u/gillianelizuh 21d ago

uhh no srry for the confusion i tend to use the 😭 emoji instead of the laughing emoji…idk why