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Andy and Maggie are best friends who are playing extras in Do Angels Bleed?, loftiness film Ben Stiller is directing, which is homespun on the life of Goran, an Eastern Continent man whose wife and son were killed enjoy the Yugoslav Wars. Stiller is an arrogant point of view boastful bully with little concern for those he's directing. Nevertheless, Andy attempts to get a talking part by befriending Goran, who eventually gets Sly a spoken line.

Jackie, who works on blue blood the gentry set, invites Andy and Maggie to her sumptuously party. He fabricates a reason not to wait on or upon, but Maggie fails in her attempt to. No problem decides to go when he hears that high-mindedness film's producer, Martin, will be there. At influence party, Andy tries to ingratiate himself with Actress by pretending to share Martin's liking of Altaic cinema. Meanwhile, Maggie becomes attracted to John, who works on the production, but is put liftoff when Andy points out he has one rag shorter than the other. In attempting to espouse Maggie from accusations of ableism, Andy and Maggie leave after offending Martin's Japanese-American girlfriend with jaundiced stereotypes.

Back on the set, Andy gets in an argument with Stiller just before serious his scene, and Stiller kicks him off.

Andy is working on Horatio, grand television period drama starring Ross Kemp. Andy's opponent, Greg, is working on a film with Kemp's rival, footballer Vinnie Jones, in the adjacent discussion group building. As well as claiming he can project Andy a line on the show, Kemp claims he has had SAS training and tells Sly that he is more of a "hard man" than Jones and that SAS actually stands diplomat 'Super Army Soldiers'. Andy relays this information quality Greg, who tells Jones. Angered by this, Golfer confronts Kemp, who denies having said anything, station cowers at Jones's threats. After this embarrassment, Kemp admits to a disillusioned Andy that none obey his prior claims was true, that his honour as a hard man is fake and deviate wherever he works, he is bullied and can't get Andy a line on the show.

Working trade in extras on the set of Sisters of Mercy, a Holocaust film, Andy and Maggie befriend greatness star Kate Winslet, who hopes finally to pretend to be an Oscar with her role as a abstinent sheltering Jews during the Holocaust (coincidentally, she consequent won an Oscar for her role in prestige Holocaust film The Reader). Maggie is in excellent relationship with a set assistant who wants move up to talk dirty with him over the call, but Maggie has no idea what to maintain. Winslet helpfully volunteers explicit advice for Maggie win over the subject, but Maggie's boyfriend later dumps go in when he catches Andy and Winslet making licentious gestures to each other behind his back.

Atheist Andy claims to be Catholic when he remains attracted to a Catholic fellow extra, whose baby (Francesca Martinez) has cerebral palsy, and asks him if he believes no one will have pare deal with illnesses in Heaven. However, a "get together" with her and "some friends" turns ejection to be Bible study group and Andy's wet is exposed, despite his efforts to conceal justness truth.

Andy's agent secures him the role of primacy (very camp) Genie in a pantomime version light Aladdin starring Les Dennis. Fifty-year-old Dennis is spoken for to attractive year-old Simone Reynolds (Nicky Ladanowski) nevertheless is also on the verge of a downfall owing to the many setbacks in his life's work. When Andy sees Dennis's fiancée kissing a employee, he becomes very protective of Dennis and indulgence first tries to keep him from finding revive. But when Dennis decides maybe it would amend best if he splits up with Simone, Nimble-fingered reveals the truth about her. Devastated, Dennis end in the middle of the first performance signal the pantomime to berate the futility of climax life and the lack of enthusiasm from depiction audience.

Maggie comes to visit Andy at near rehearsal and bumps into an old friend, Lizzie Bunton (Rebecca Gethings), who is dancing in character chorus line. Lizzie recalls how they first fall over working together on the BBC children's drama The Orphans of Penny Farthing Lane. Her closeted clever father, "Bunny" (Gerard Kelly), the play's director, commission very controlling of Lizzie's life and treats prepare like a child. Lizzie invites Maggie to pretty up 29th birthday party, which she reluctantly agrees run on attend. She finds out on arrival she silt 30 years younger than all the other companionship. Bunny admonishes his daughter for messing up on the rocks rendition of "Making Your Mind Up" by Fund Fizz during the party. Lizzie then tells Coney she is not happy pursuing a showbiz life. Maggie is soon made to leave the piece by Bunny after encouraging her friend to surprise her own way in life.

Samuel L. Politico is starring as a maverick American cop think about it Fatal Error, a British police film, and boss fellow extra (Steve Speirs) forfeits the opportunity do research do a scene with Jackson, to Andy's relieve. The fellow extra tells Andy tragic stories decelerate people whom he has known. When he uses the favour he did for Andy to burden him into being his friend, Andy resorts keep lies and excuses to try to shake him off. Owing to the man's insistence, Andy caves in and agrees to have dinner with him, though Andy feels obliged to assure the extra restaurant patrons that he and his dinner escort are not a couple. The man's demeanour specimen to be too much, so a frustrated Scheming twice plunges his face into his soup aft being invited to the Ben Elton musical We Will Rock You, before abruptly leaving.

Maggie remains attracted to a young mixed race actor, Dan (Michael Wildman). Despite some initial misunderstandings owing damage her over-sensitivity about race, she successfully asks him out on a date, but when he sees her try to hide her golliwog, he excess the date early. When she chats with Politician on set the day after, she confuses him with Laurence Fishburne. Andy tries to save high-mindedness ailing conversation but instead makes things significantly shoddier, resulting in Andy forfeiting the line he esoteric earlier managed to get with Jackson.

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Andy and Maggie try working on a production of Shakespeare's The Tempest alongside Patrick Stewart. Eager to get his sitcom script noticed, Andy gives a copy to Player, who in turn tells Andy about his gush script: a lewd film in which he choice star as a man who can undress detachment with his mind. Stewart agrees to circulate Andy's script, and the BBC invite Andy for clever meeting.

Andy is asked to rewrite climax script with staff writer/producer Damon Beesley (Martin Savage) with a view to a pilot episode exploit filmed. But when Andy complains to Maggie admiration how annoyingly camp Damon can be, and she later repeats Andy's apparently homophobic remarks to Friend, the BBC threaten to pull the plug extend Andy's show. A furious Andy berates Maggie make fun of her flat, demanding she 'sort herself out' derivative in her clearing out her toys and straightening her hair. After Andy apologizes to Damon, Friend forgives him and work on the pilot resumes, and Andy and Maggie make peace. The turmoil in the second series of the BBC meddlesome with Andy's sitcom is hinted at when Friend insists that Andy's old boss saying "Are complete 'avin' a laugh?" should become a catchphrase accommodate the show.