It’s the quality of the cast. “He’s a genius, but he’s an idiot”, Dan Ashcroft says at one point.Early on the head of Sugar Ape “Jonatton Yeah?” (he got the question mark added by deed poll) describes what sort of “content” he is looking for: “Stupid people think it’s cool, smart people think it’s a joke which is cool”, and this sentiment is echoed throughout the series. The character of Dan is decidedly darker and gets one up on Nathan and the idiots more often. Jones is a musician and early dubstep pioneer, whose hallmarks are his late night, caffeine-fueled, 160dB+ mixing sessions, which constantly keep Claire awake at all hours. He is a white man who calls other white men “my n*****” because he thinks it makes him relevant.

The British sitcom Nathan Barley is ten years old, and it is still painfully, searingly relevant.. First appearing in the TV Go Home book in descriptions of a fictional series named Cunt, this fictional series was adapted for a real Channel 4 series. He lists regions, ending in “Dutch.” At this moment I always want to pour some ketchup on my knuckles and proceed to eat my own hand.I write about videogames for a living.

His main method of transport is a child’s neon yellow bicycle. Had the question mark added to his name by deedpoll.The receptionist at Sugar Ape.

Toby, the receptionist) and often bluffs that he can get unknown talent through its doors.Toby is Nathan's housemate and a part-time receptionist at Place.

Dan asks Nikolai to get rid of his Geek Pie, but it doesn't go well.A sullen, tattooed, intimidating-looking barber at Stanley Knives, who gives Nathan an excellent Geek Pie despite having almost nothing to work with.TVTropes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

Keep it livid. But essentially he has made Sugar Ape more popular just by writing about how much he hates the Sugar Ape culture. He tries to leave his mark on the publication by poaching Dan from Sugar Ape, in an effort to make his magazine 'cool'.An executive at TV station Channel Seven. His acerbic, anti-hipster article "The Rise of the Idiots" unexpectedly earns him praise and worship from hipsters and rival newspaper editors, which only makes him more miserable and alienated. Crestfallen, he realizes he is one of them, and all he can do is participate in the culture of oneupmanship by trying to take down the worst of the competitive, jerk-obsessed culture’s culprits: Nathan Barley. Ashcroft tries to escape Sugar Ape to write for the Weekend On Sunday, and the interview is probably one of the most painful interview scenes ever committed to television; Ashcroft realizes that writing about anything other than the facile culture he is already immersed in is way, way out of his depth. Nathan likes to show off his extensive connections at Place. This device was advertised as being exceptionally loud, with several hugely annoying ringtones, a giant key for the number 5 (allegedly the most commonly used digit), a powerful projector, a business card printer and miniature turntables for scratching The DVD of the series was released in October 2005, featuring all six episodes, a number of extras (including the pilot), and a booklet written by Nathan featuring his artwork. He is portrayed in a constant state of stress and anxiety, due to the uncontrollable losses and reckless spending that Doug Rocket indulges in.Other hipsters, wannabes, tryhards, douchebags and mental-cases that Nathan bumps into throughout the series.Dan and Claire's housemate, and a part-time DJ at the trendy barber's shop Stanley Knives. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/NathanBarleyThe loss-making, garbage-producing amateur film studio, managed by Nathan out of a grotty flat on Textile Street, Hosegate. The character played by the now incredifamous Richard Ayoade suggests that “cock muff bumhole” is “good because it looks like it’s good because it’s rude.” The division between the tech-fetishist Nathan Barley, a character who is hugely unaware of how transparent and hollow he is, and the disinterested Dan Ashcroft, who is completely aware of how transparent and hollow he is but sees no way of making money outside of the weird symbiotic relationship he has with the culture around him, represents a kind of horrible reality. He rarely ever speaks, and seems deathly afraid to stand up to Nathan, who bullies and harasses him almost to the point of 1984-style psychological torture.Stylized as "sugaRAPE", and then just "RAPE", Sugar Ape is a local, popular magazine on the forefront of fashion, arts and counter-culture.

The culture becomes centered around what Nathan, a man child, does and what he thinks. "The series features two other central characters, siblings Dan (Julian Barratt) and Claire Ashcroft. Other recurring characters include Nathan's idiot flatmate Toby (Dan Ashcroft's flatmate is a DJ called "Jones", who appears blissfully unaware of the antisocial cacophony he creates. For her own part, Claire is perfectly willing to drop Nathan like a hot potato every time she gets an offer from an actual TV studio.Pingu is the only other employee of Trash Industries: a painfully shy and nerdy hipster tech geek, who does all of the behind the scenes work on the Trashbat.co.ck website that Nathan gleefully takes credit for. Nathan Barley is a British Channel 4 television sitcom written by Charlie Brooker and Chris Morris, starring Nicholas Burns, Julian Barratt, Claire Keelan, Richard Ayoade, Ben Whishaw, Rhys Thomas and Charlie Condou.The series of six weekly episodes began broadcasting on 11 February 2005 on Channel 4. The website consists of stupid pranks caught on camera, photos of him with attractive women and famous figures (some of them digitally edited to insert himself), and photos of him standing on street corners in major cities around the world.