The House of God

Abstract

TSMJ Issue 10 2009 52 JD’s mentor Dr. Cox is closely modelled on Basch’s mentor, ‘the fat man’. “ Rarely does comedy transcend multiple decades. However, ‘The House of God’, although written over thirty years ago, is still a laugh-out-loud piece of work. More than ever, popular comedy culture of the ‘noughties’ has been to celebrate the socially unacceptable, eccentric individuals created in programmes including ‘Black Books’, ‘Peep Show’, ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ and ‘Arrested Development’. The combination of anguish, torment and ridiculousness the characters of these shows endure is remarkably similar to that of Dr. Roy Basch on his journey through the much dreaded intern year at a prestigious teaching hospital in North America.

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