AUDIENCE PLEASURES IN CAR SHARE

AUDIENCE PLEASURES

In Car Share there are lots of audience pleasures like: 

• Snowballing narrative- this is tied with transgressive humour for the most common audience pleasure used in Car Share. An example of where it is used would be in episode two the joke that is snowballed is the crude joke about dogging. It is continually mentioned throughout the episode then the joke peaks at the end where the eighty year old neighbor Ken meets Jonathan and Kayleigh whilst in the car.
• This also links to the pleasure of anticipation when John and Kayleigh pull over to talk to the stranger about dogging and then to Ken. The audience felt anticipation when they saw Ken approach the car and when Jonathan pulled over to talk to the stranger. 
• The audience experiences recognition and familiarity when the two pull over to talk to the stranger because the actor who played him also featured in Phoenix Nights, an older Sitcom than Peter Kay produced. 
• Familiarity is also developed earlier on because Peter Kay has already appeared on television as a stand-up comedian and in Sitcoms like Phoenix Nights so the audience already know what kind of comedy to expect.
• There is more familiarity with the radio show that is played as a diegetic sound. Every episode there are innuendos involving adverts on the radio so the audience recognises the style of jokes that would be told. For example, one advert refers to 'putting meat in your mouth'.

• Performance unpredictability is seen in the last episode when Kayleigh comes out the toilet in blackface because although is was hinted at the fact she was wearing a costume at work, the episode never explicitly said what she was dressing up as. 
• Specific pleasures associated with performers or personalities is seen because Peter Kay's style of humour is the same 'down-to-Earth' and normal, everyday language throughout each episode of Car Share. it is also in his other sitcom Phoenix Nights and it's similar to his stand up work.
• In the last episode, Tony, the man John sees in the cafe, played a character in Phoenix Nights.
• More transgressive pleasures were seen in the last episode when Kayleigh wore blackface. This could please an audience because racism is a taboo subject that, in the show, is used as a comedy element. 
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