All You Need To Know About JBD

  1. It is a chick comedy that is mainly written for guys.

  2. It is not a documentary. Jaquie is acting. That’s not her real house. Those aren’t her own clothes. That wasn’t her real mum.

  3. Jaquie is nothing like the character she plays on the show. She would never share a flat with anyone that doesn’t have a job.

  4. Jaquie doesn’t actually write it, Gerard does*. He’s amazing. He writes, directs, edits and when he is at home and no one is watching, he likes to perform entire episodes in front of the mirror where he plays all the parts. He even wears different outfits.

    *Series 1 co-scribe Jodie Molloy also lends her pen to a couple of episodes this series. She would have written more but did not care for Gerard’s insistence that she perform the scripts for him. She currently resides in the United Kingdom.

  5. Jaquie does all her own stunts. Not because she wants to, because we can’t afford a stunt double and Gerard likes to see her get hurt.

  6. We probably only get about half the celebrity cameos that we want on the show. And then we usually see the ones we couldn’t get on Pulp sport.

  7. Lots of our friends appear in the show as actors and extras. Jaquie’s friend Karlya is the stylist. Gerard’s best mate Luke is also the post production supervisor. He lets us use his edit suite for as long as we like but we do like to remind him that we are still his clients and should be getting coffee and biscuits.

  8. It is not made for very much money. In fact, it is made for less than a saturday afternoon kids show and around 1/2 to 2/3rds the cost of a regular NZ sitcom. The first series was made for half that and was quite possibly the lowest budgeted sitcom in history. But now thanks to us, lots of new comedy shows are being given smaller budgets and the creators will probably have to sell their house, work multiple jobs to repay their debts and have a nervous breakdown.

  9. You don’t have to work in television or live in Auckland to understand The Jaquie Brown Diaries In fact, we know plenty of people in both these categories that don’t.

  10. If you don’t like the show. That’s totally fine. But ponder this, fuck you.