Talk:Mark Corrigan (Peep Show)

Character
mark corrigan is the everyday average man - spoiled by his own intellect and tragicly awkward. the best sitcom character possible - my hero but at the same time everything i strive not to be.

Orientation
In what sense is Mark a 'fictional bisexual'? I mean they did do that one article where he had a man-crush on Johnson but if you classed everyone, fictional or otherwise, who'd ever had a man-crush, then the classification would loose all meaning. 80.177.170.112 14:48, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

Just watched the episode again, Mark is "possibly bi, but basically un-curious". I'm changing the article...never done that before though, hope it's o.k.77.44.50.57 11:39, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

Quotes
Most of the quote section seemed pretty pointless to me - none of it really illuminated the character or, indeed, made any sense unless you're a regular Peep Show viewer. I've deleted it for the time being. HonestTom 23:28, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

Political leaning
OK, here's a problem I have with an otherwise well written article:

"Interestingly though, he has expressed scepticism of right wing policies such as the Iraq war."

It's wrong to describe the Iraq war as a "right wing policy", surely? There seems to be massive confusion about what left/right wing means anyway (i.e. in academia and the media), but this really doesn't seem right. In fact, do we even need this line? If so, I propose to change it to:

"He has shown more liberal traits, such as scepticism of the Iraq war."

I also changed "Conservative" to "conservative", as the former implies his support of the Conservative Party (wasn't there an episode where he said he didn't "necessarily think that money or Tony Blair was a bad thing"? In any case, "small c" conservative seems to make sense here). Opticrom (talk) 13:41, 12 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Hi there. Yes, I think your edits are an improvement. I threw those additions in the other week and I admit I wasn't 100% on the wording for that particular sentence at the time, but had a bit of a mental block on how to improve them. I think your proposed sentence adds a lot more clarity, so i'll rephrase it as such.


 * On the subject of "Big C/Little C" conservatism, that's fine too, that was just a typo, I did mean 'conservative' in the literal sense.


 * Thanks for your help. VWOzone (Talk) 18:48, 12 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Ok, good stuff - I've just done one minor correction of "He" to "he". Looks good now. Opticrom (talk) 14:17, 13 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Just to throw in my own two cents; it looks as if the writers go out of their way to avoid explicitly stating Mark's political affiliation. He's obviously a bit personally conservative (though whether that translates to being politically conservative is another matter) though as noted above he's said he doesn't necessarily think Tony Blair is a bad thing, and (as I've updated the article to mention) he has favorably compared Jeremy's dad to Paddy Ashdown. I guess you can read into him what you want: I see him has a fence sitting Lib Dem/Tory swing voter who voted for Labour in '97. I base this on nothing at all.

I always felt that Mark and Jeremy were too politically ignorant form proper political beliefs. For example neither have any idea what political correctness actually means. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.125.197.123 (talk) 15:20, 29 May 2008 (UTC) Bugger, I just saw Episode 2 of the new season and it disproved pretty much everything I just said.