The Speech (The IT Crowd)

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"The Speech" is the fourth episode of the third series of the British television sitcom The IT Crowd, and the 16th episode overall. Written and directed by Graham Linehan, it first broadcast on Channel 4 on the 12th of December 2008. In the episode, Roy Trenneman (played by Chris O'Dowd) and Maurice Moss (played by Richard Ayoade) humiliate Jen Barber (played by Katherine Parkinson) after she wins Employee of the Month at Reynholm Industries after she makes them write her acceptance speech. They lend her a black box claiming it to be the Internet, which she presents at the shareholder's meeting. Meanwhile, Douglas Reynholm (played by Matt Berry) dates a transgender woman named April (played by Lucy Montgomery), believing she is from Iran. Years after its initial broadcast, the depiction of a transgender woman with the character of April, controversially led to Channel 4 removing the episode from its streaming platform in 2020.

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