Legit was a Scottish

Scotland

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 sitcom produced by The Comedy Unit

The Comedy Unit

The Comedy Unit or known sometimes as just Comedy Unit is a Scottish company that produces sitcoms, comedy sketches, live shows and other comedy productions...

, written by Robert Florence

Robert Florence

Robert Florence is a Scottish presenter, comedian and writer from Glasgow, Scotland, best known for starring in the popular BBC comedy sketch show Burnistoun, and the video-game review shows Consolevania and Videogaiden. He was a core writer of Chewin' the Fat and with Iain Connell wrote the...

 (of videoGaiden

VideoGaiden

VideoGaiden is a Scottish computer games television show broadcast by BBC Scotland. Its creators and presenters, Robert Florence and Ryan Macleod, are responsible for the internet-distributed videogaming show Consolevania, upon which the show is based...

) and Iain Connell and broadcast on BBC One Scotland. The pilot episode aired on 16 September 2006 to much critical acclaim and positive reviews. The first series started on the September 7, 2007 with the pilot episode being aired first and then the remaining episodes. The show was shown every Friday night at 9:30pm. In May 2008, BBC made the decision not to renew the show for a second series, instead Dear Green Place

Dear Green Place

Dear Green Place is a Scottish comedy programme set in a park in central Glasgow. It first aired on 19 October 2007 on BBC One Scotland. The second series has just finished airing on the same channel....

 was renewed.

Situation and plot

Legit is set in and around a fictitious black market, where main characters Sammy Fox and Danny work selling illegal DVDs and pirated computer software. Fox has recently split up with his girlfriend Kelly-Ann and is trying to win her and her children back off her new boyfriend John McCann. Danny is living with his mother and Fox is currently living in their backyard in a caravan until he 'wins her back'.

Cast

• Sammy Fox : Steven McNicoll
  Steven McNicoll
  Steven McNicoll is a Scottish actor, playwright and comedian.McNicoll was born in Edinburgh. He is probably best known for his work in TV comedy...
  
   - Sammy Fox has recently split up with his girlfriend and wants her and her children back but John McCann - her new boyfriend - is standing in the way. He lives in Danny's back garden in a caravan until he can get her back. He works in the black market alongside Danny.
• Danny : Jordan Young
  Jordan Young
  Jordan Young is a drummer, and currently plays for Maryland rockers Cinder Road. Jordan started playing just like the rest of them, every sunday with the church band, it wasn't until he joined jam band Injoy in 2005 that he started playing in the club scene. In 2007, he joined the nationally...
  
   - Cocky and always on the lookout for a girl, Danny still lives with his mother. He works in the black market alongside Fox selling illegal DVDs and knows how to get anything he needs from there. In contrast to Sammy who is very self-conscious about his body, Danny is something of an exhibitionist.
• May : Clare Grogan
  Clare Grogan
  Clare Grogan is a Scottish actress and singer. She is sometimes credited as C. P. Grogan.-Early life:...
  
   - Danny's mother, has a thing for Fox.
• John McCann : George Drennan - The subject of Fox's jealously, he who enjoys the competition between him and Fox over Kelly-Ann who is his girlfriend. He is better than Fox at almost everything, much to Fox's constant dismay.
• Happy Boab : Raymond Mearns
  Raymond Mearns
  Raymond Mearns is a Scottish actor and comedian who is best known for his part in Scottish comedy sitcom Legit where he plays "Happy Boab". He has also appeared in Ae Fond Kiss... and It's a Free World... which were both directed by award winning Ken Loach...
  
   - a fellow market trader, Boab is always happy and optimistic and says "Happy days". As seen in the episode "Night of the Lobster", he is incapable even of pretending to possess any emotion other than constant happiness. He is not very bright and was abused in his childhood.

Episodes

1. Birthday : When Sammy's son says he wants a monkey for his birthday, Sammy goes to great lengths to obtain one, including posing for an artist and staging a fake robbery at a local zoo.
2. Manitoba : Danny helps Sammy in an effort to make Kelly-Ann jealous by pairing him up with his cousin, Manitoba - a scheme which backfires spectacularly when her father and a bust of Lionel Richie
   Lionel Richie
   Lionel Brockman Richie, Jr. , is an American singer-songwriter, musician and record producer. Since 1968, he has been a member of the musical group Commodores signed to Motown Records...
   
    become involved.
3. Night of the Lobster : Danny fakes a legendary "lost" horror movie.
4. The Old Team : Fox is jealous of his old friend making a successful career in comedy stand up and is angry that he has made money out of fox's history. Danny has a rival at the market.
5. Danny, Champion of the World : Danny is pleased with his mother's new boyfriend (played by James Fleet
   James Fleet
   James Edward Fleet is an English actor. He is most famous for his roles as the bumbling and well-meaning Tom in the 1994 British romantic comedy film Four Weddings and a Funeral, and the dim-witted Hugo Horton in the BBC situation comedy television series The Vicar of Dibley.-Personal life:Fleet...
   
   ) and sets out to mould him into the perfect man. Meanwhile Locatelli (played by Hugh Ross), the artist previously seen in "Birthday", hires Fox to install a security system at his house.
6. Removals : Even the simple task of emptying a deceased woman's house is too much for the hapless Fox and Danny. What starts as loading boxes into a van ends up in kidnapping, cross-dressing and considering the meaning of life. Robert Florence, the writer for the show and star of Consolevania
   Consolevania
   Consolevania is a video games TV show filmed in and around Glasgow, Scotland. It is notable as one of very few online TV shows to make the leap onto broadcast TV as the show videoGaiden, which has had three series shown on BBC Scotland....
   
    appears in this episode. This episode has a similar set-up to Florence and Connell's subsequent sitcom, Empty.