Award-winning comedian Jordan Brookes has released a pilot of his sitcom Go Home Jordan Brookes, a classic family sitcom with an innovative mixed-media twist about what it really means to be ‘home’.
In 2020, Jordan Brookes returned to his parents’ house in the country after suffering a mental breakdown living in London. This is a fictional retelling of that story.
Go Home is described as a small-town homecoming story akin to The Cockfields & Back To Life, mixed with the surreal world of Twin Peaks. A dysfunctional family sitcom, where only one member of the family is dysfunctional.
Written by and starring Jordan Brookes, the pilot was directed by Will Farrell (Family Man from Josh Glanc, Petrichor, Nora Meadows’ Week of Wellness), and produced by Alex Cartlidge for Blink Industries, and is a taster for a mixed-media, autobiographical-fiction sitcom. The show blends reality, fantasy, nostalgia & something in between - all told through Jordan’s unique lens.
Jordan is stuck. Living in The City has left him worn out and existentially muddled. And, as he breezes past the age of 35, he’s starting to realise he might have left it too late to decide what he wants to do with his life.
So Jordan returns home to The Country, to the warm embrace of his tranquil home life and lovely, doting parents. So far, so My Family (sort of). But it’s not that simple...
Finding a treasure trove of old (and genuine) VHS tapes from his childhood, Jordan delves into his past to save his future, facing his demons in an attempt to find himself again, and work out ‘where it all went wrong’, with the help of his family, old friends & often troubling flights of fancy.
But is there any such thing as a ‘fix’ or a ‘cure’? Is there any place we can really call ‘home’? Why are his childhood toys talking to him? And why does Jordan keep having an urge to snog his mum?
Jordan Brookes says, “Please commission this. The industry’s in rude health at the moment, just ask anyone. The perfect time to commission a genre bending sitcom. And I’m willing to change any and all aspects of this concept in order to achieve it”.
Director Will Farrell adds: "Working with Jordan on 'Go Home' was a joy. We threw everything at it - puppetry, stop motion and deepfakes - to recreate his childhood memories, but nothing we created could match the unsettling energy of Jordan's actual home videos from his childhood, which go some way to explaining 'what's up' with Jordan. The short is hopefully funny and spooky, just in time for Christmas. Please commission this."
The pilot cast also includes Jan Ravens and voice appearances from Sunil Patel, Lorna Rose Treen and Eddy Hare.
Jordan Brookes is an award winning comedian & actor. He won the Comedians’ Comedian award at the Chortle Awards in 2018. The following year, he won the Main Prize at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards, and was described as ‘stand-up’s answer to Waiting For Godot’. Jordan has followed that with 2 more critically-acclaimed live shows, has written and starred in his own Channel 4 Blap, Radio 4 series, Sky Short and a series of Channel 4 shorts, and has also appeared on The Mash Report, The Russell Howard Hour, Avoidance, and Pls Like.
Watch the taster here.
