Big dreams... bigger laughs

Five TV hospital workers who prove that laughter really is the best medicine!

Dave’s hilarious new comedy Porters seems a bit farfetched at first glance. NHS worker Simon is a humble hospital porter who dreams of making it big as a highflying surgeon. This cracking new comedy from Dave puts a hospital’s underground world under the microscope. Porter Simon weaves between the world of medics, party-throwing mortuary attendants and baton-happy security guards. Proof that when you need a good dose of hearty comedy, it’s not always where you’d expect to find it… US hospital comedy Scrubs follows the lives of newlyqualified doctor JD and his pals Turk and Elliott as they start work at Sacred Heart Hospital. But many of the show’s most memorable moments come from JD’s nemesis Janitor, who prowls the wards and corridors with his mop, and is always looking for new and increasingly inventive ways to make JD’s life a misery.

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Even in the madcap world of Green Wing’s East Hampton hospital, staff liaison officer Sue White stands out as particularly hilarious. Utterly obsessed with handsome surgeon Mac, she’s determined not to let little things like a restraining order get in the way. A generation of youngsters eagerly tuned in to Children’s Ward to follow the lives of the young patients at the fictional South Park hospital. Many of the funniest moments of the show came courtesy of – and at the expense of – grumpy porter Mr Crossley, who was also responsible for the ward’s sweet trolly.

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Porter Jason, the nephew of consultant surgeon Serena Campbell, has Asperger’s Syndrome. Actor Jules Robertson, who also has Asperger’s, said: “I’m hoping my character on Holby will inspire parents of kids that have autism or Asperger’s that their kids can make it as well.”