After appearing in Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace but before Man To Man With Dean Learner aired, Matt Berry teamed up with Rich Fulcher (who he’d met whilst working on The Mighty Boosh) to unleash on the world Snuff Box, a short lived sketch show that originally aired in the graveyard slot in 2006 but eventually gained a cult following through Internet sharing and a 2008 DVD release.
The framing device of the show, such that it is (they rarely hold to it very closely – right down to throwing in cliffhangers at the end of episodes they have no intention of following up on in future episodes) is that Berry is Britain’s last hangman (anachronistically in an alternate mid-2000s where the death penalty is still a thing in the UK), scion of a long line of executioners, and Fulcher is his apprentice.
Executions, however, are basically besides the point – they occur, but they’re rarely the actual focus of the scenes they are in, with Matt and Rich carrying on an irrelevant conversation as they shuffle a condemned prisoner off this mortal coil; they spend more time in the well-appointed gentleman’s club founded by one of Berry’s forefathers drinking and scheming. Often, this entails Berry deciding that Fulcher is not being properly grateful for taking him in, feeding him, and giving him a job and access to the club, and plotting to kill him, whilst Fulcher is gleefully ignoring social boundaries and trying to scam extra money here and there.
Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy 