Peep Show: Mark's greatest humiliations

'Yes Charles, this is Camilla'

Robert Webb as Jeremy Usborne and David Mitchell as Mark Corrigan (Channel 4)

Whether it's attempting to get his book ('Business Secrets of the Pharoahs') published or trying to hide in a church on the day of his wedding, it's never quite worked out for the eternally-experated Mark Corrigan.

Over the course of Peep Show's eight series David Mitchell's character has, among some stiff competition, faced perhaps the most routine humiliation of anyone. We recap his most spine-achingly cringeworthy moments throughout the show so far.

1. The answerphone message (Season 1 episode 2)

No 15 little words have spelt out the ignominy of falling in love quite like Mark’s horrifyingly awful impromptu voicemail to Sophie: “Then I go and spoil it all by saying something stupid like ‘I like you.’”

2. The public defecation (Series 3, episode 3)

There are office embarrassments, and then there is having a diarrhoea attack in front of your boss after he has come to rescue you from bedroom imprisonment by your housemate.

3. The wedding (Series 4, episode 6)

A great spin on the “jilting at the altar” soap story standard – hiding upstairs in the church, a wavering Mark marries Sophie after his cover is blown by best man Jeremy wetting himself over the guests below, only for Sophie to burst into tears and ditch him immediately afterwards.

4. The Hitler moustache (Series 6, episode 1)

Fawlty Towers was an obvious touchstone for the moment when Mark dressed as a Fuhrer to leads a satirical sketch attacking his company’s German paymasters – with one of them, inevitably, among the audience.