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Garth Marenghi is a fictional horror author created by English comedians Matthew Holness and Richard Ayoade, and played by Holness. The character has to date appeared in two successful stage shows, the Perrier Award-nominated Garth Marenghi's Fright Knight[1] and Perrier Award-winning Garth Marenghi's Netherhead,[2] and a TV series for Channel 4 Garth Marenghi's Darkplace.
Character
The character of Garth Marenghi (an anagram of 'Argh Nightmare') is self-important and displays not only a general ignorance of many subjects of which he claims knowledge (one boast made in both the stage shows and the TV series is that he has written more books than he's read),[3] but also various other unpleasant traits including sexism and xenophobia. He is also utterly convinced of his own genius, not only as a writer but as an actor. Garth Marenghi's Darkplace is based on the premise that Marenghi not only created and wrote the series, but also plays the central character, Doctor Rick Dagless, M.D. His wooden acting - and that of his co-stars - was one of the main running jokes in the series. Marenghi also stars in the first episode of Dean Learner's new series, Man to Man with Dean Learner, where he reveals that he lost an ear in an ambulance crash, has written a total of 436 books (all on offer, moulded into one extra long book named "The Oeuvre"), and has filmed a new movie, War of the Wasps[4] (based on Marenghi's hatred of the Dutch), featuring most of the cast of Garth Marenghi's Darkplace. Marenghi is married with four daughters, though he has spoken of his disappointment at never fathering a son. The Darkplace episode "Skipper the Eye Child" explains this, and includes this in its plot with Marenghi's character Rick Dagless shown having a deceased son who was half boy, half grasshopper.
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References
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace | |
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| Episodes | Once Upon a Beginning · Hell Hath Fury · Skipper the Eyechild · The Apes of Wrath · Scotch Mist · The Creeping Moss from the Shores of Shuggoth |
| Cast and crew | Matthew Holness · Richard Ayoade · Matt Berry · Alice Lowe · Andrew Hewitt |
| Characters | Garth Marenghi · Dean Learner |
| See also | Man to Man with Dean Learner |
