IT laughs at itself

A British TV show has taken the best and worst of IT administrator stereotypes and packed them into a clever, side-splitting comedy.

'The IT Crowd' features Jen, who has been appointed as a supervisor in her company's IT department but knows nothing about computers. When asked during her job interview what she knows about IT, she says, "You know, e-mail. Sending e-mail. Receiving e-mail. Deleting e-mail. Um, I could go on."

But Jen's social skills are sorely needed to raise the profiles of Moss and Roy, two hopelessly geeky IT administrators banished to a dingy basement office strewn with hardware detritus. Roy arrogantly advises computer-challenged employees who call him with a problem to turn their computers off and on again, which usually allows him to go back to reading his comic books.

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