Peter Kay's Car Share:

Audience Pleasures-

The audience pleasures in Car Share include a range of things such as:

• Situational comedy (where the episodes take place in one particular place or situation). This sitcom is situated in a car throughout each episode.
• Two main protagonists who get majority of the screen time (Peter Kay and Sian Gibson).
• Natural conversation with comedic values.
• The radio in the car- recognition of music and relatable to an older target audience as the songs are from an older generation.
• Crude humour and jokes used (innuendo comedy).
• Reference to contemporary norms with comedy not to be taken too seriously or offensively (e.g. sexuality/racist remarks)
• Usually a snowballing/perpetuating joke lead on throughout the episode until it reaches its peak.
• Conversational comedy in a chatty tone with humor added in to make it recognizable.
• Sarcstic commentary on the car radio (innuendo jokes).
• Pleasure in viewing Peter Kay in a different perspective as some viewers may have seen Peter Kay from other TV programmes and enjoy seeing him in other situations than ones he has already been in.
• Easter eggs, little secrets in the programme if you look closely e.g. a missing sign in the background read "missing husband".
• Aimed at an older generation target audience with older references and music.
• Anticipation of the reactions and jokes; when the comedy reaches its peak.
• Transgressive humour - on the radio an ad for a butchers "meat in your mouth" - sexual innuendo.
• Relatable content and characters (seen from other content) through conversations and parodies of songs re-interpreted in the same music video style.
• Mature themes e.g. drinking, sex, crude slang.
• Over exaggeration and repetition as well as tone in voice.
• Fart/fat jokes, puns, racist and sexist remarks.
• Comedic impressions and parodies of other well-known things in the media.
• Music reflects situation- intense music with a built up situation.
• Singing with the music on the radio- funny to watch and hear. (Someone saw John singing and he realized and stopped- awkward and cringe).
• Music on the radio- jump cuts to next scene.
• Offensive language and remarks ('spastic' 'gay') - something you wouldn't get away with saying- funny but also rude.
• References to old bands/ comedy duos - reminiscing old music - pleasurable to an older audience. 
• Talking with mouth open- funny as you can't understand what he is saying and it makes him look ridiculous. 
• Hypocritical comedy -  Kayleigh said she wouldn't eat all of the food and then eats it all as well as some of John's.