Facejacker

Did You Know?

• On 16 August 2012 as part of Channel 4's Funny Fortnight, Novak in his real-life guise of Terry Tibbs hosted a chat show titled Verry Terry.
• Verry Terry featured guests Mickey Rourke and Anthea Turner, and Terry's son from the Facejacker series appeared alongside his father on a breathing mask in a wheelchair.

Characters

Augustus Kwembe is a polite Ugandan scammer from the Republic of Uganda, based on the Fonejacker character George Agdgdgwngo. His catchphrase is "Scam the UK, the Augustus way" and he attempts to obtain bank account details by impersonating a hypnotherapist, traffic warden, checkout assistant, Beefeater, and others. Brian Badonde is a charlatan art critic who ineptly presents his fictional television show Voyage into Art with Brian Badonde, which explores pottery, glass blowing, wine tasting, and dancing. He is a parody of art critic Brian Sewell and suffers from a speech impediment called "Bourettes" that forces him to begin certain words with the letter B, occasionally losing vocal control and spluttering noises such as "Bwah", "Boh", and "Bah". He is an overt homosexual who often flirts with men he meets, wears a trademark pashmina and extravagant shirts in bright colours, and has been involved in a life drawing class, throwing pottery, an MC battle with a street youth, writing poetry, and attempting a documentary about Andy Warhol. Brian also appeared in a mini-series promoting the web search engine Bing titled The Art of Technology. Terry Tibbs is a bald, Cockney second-hand car salesman from Rickmansworth who hosts a TV show called The Real Terry Tibbs to distinguish himself from the Fonejacker character. He appeared on Come Dine with Me, Secret Millionaire, Price-drop tv, and his own show Lizard's Lair, a parody of Dragon's Den; he originally wanted the show called Terry's Hole so he could say "Are you man enough to enter Terry's Hole?". Aziz Azizzi is a journalist for a fictional show named World Modern Developments for Iraq TV. Like Mr. Doovdé from Fonejacker, he believes acronyms and initialisms are how words are spelt and not pronounced, mistaking them for pronounceable words such as "Joovc" (JVC) and "Puck" (PC). He is accompanied by a man known as "Translator", and the Arabic subtitles displayed are English words written in a faux-Arabic font reversed to look authentic. Along with Patrick, Aziz is one of only two Facejacker characters played by Novak without prosthetics.