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The following is a list of fictional characters from the British television sitcom The IT Crowd, which was broadcast by Channel 4 from 2006 to 2013. Overview   = Main cast (credited main cast member)   = Recurring cast (3+ appearances in a season)   = Guest cast (1–2 appearances per season) Main characters Roy Trenneman Chris O'Dowd Roy is a work-shy Irish IT technician and geek who spends much of his time playing video games or reading comics in the office. His work attire is casual compared to his colleagues; choosing to wear jeans and geek chic T-shirts. Prior to his IT job, he worked as a waiter; he said he would carry the food of rude customers in his trousers before serving it to them. When answering phone calls, he often uses the phrase "Have you tried turning it off and on again?", even using an automated recording of this phrase in "Fifty-Fifty". The series 4 episodes reveal Roy to have globophobia (fear of balloons) and being extremely uncomfortable when a masseur planted a kiss on his bottom. In the episode special "The Internet Is Coming", Roy says that his new girlfriend described him with the phrase "artistic spectrum" although it is later revealed she probably said "autistic spectrum". Roy's last name was not given in the first three series. Following the broadcast of the episode "The Speech" in 2008, Graham Linehan (the show's writer) blogged a graphic showing Roy's last name as Tenneman, and later changed the spelling to Trenneman for the broadcast of the series 4 episode "Something Happened" in 2010. Roy's family do not appear in the series, but in the episode "Aunt Irma Visits", he finds the resemblance of Moss's psychiatrist to his own mother disturbing. In the documentary "The IT Crowd Manual", Roy is described as a worker who is engaged beneath his capabilities. O'Dowd said that Roy is slightly more capable of talking to people than Moss, but is still a man-child and slightly socially inept. Critic Boyd Hilton has said that Roy thinks he is on the cool edge of nerdiness. Author Cory Doctorow said that Roy's snark and misanthropy is identifiable to a certain tribe of nerds. Regarding his friendship with Moss, O'Dowd said that it seems as if they met in college. Linehan likened the two to 14-year-olds who like spending time with each other. Linehan said he originally thought the role should not be played by an Irish person, but that O'Dowd was the best man for the job, especially appreciating his physical performances. Maurice Moss Richard Ayoade Maurice Moss, or simply Moss, is a computer nerd with a side-parted afro and dark-rimmed glasses. The humour in his character is derived from his socially awkward comments and his complex and in-depth knowledge of specialised technical subjects, including chemistry and electronic engineering. Moss has some quirky habits: He switches through glasses of various sizes in reaction when he and Roy scheme; when his ears get hot, he sprays them with a bottle; he uses inhalers; he can detect chemicals such as rohypnol by smell. When faced with conversation concerning women's topics such as bras, he faints; he also spaces out when confronted with sports topics such as football. He lives with his mother, who sends him to work with an apple each day, and had sued him when he was eleven for breaking a window. He admits he is horrible at lying, and demonstrated this with his lies concerning Jen in the episode "The Haunting of Bill Crouse" when he tells Bill that Jen has died. He suppresses his urges to cuss and does not like to break the rules, with an exception in the "Bad Boys" episode when he and Roy ditch work after lunch and he gets in trouble for shoplifting, consequently having to do three hours of community service and give a Scared Straight! talk to some kids. In "The IT Crowd Manual", Linehan said that Moss was an amalgam of various stereotypes with some uniqueness brought together by him and Ayoade, and described him as a really nerdy guy and a geek. Parkinson said Moss was a classic square, a timeless nerd. Ayoade said Moss was very childlike and positive. He had used his normal voice for Moss, and he liked that Moss sometimes adopts a confident persona like a child would do. Linehan said that he built the show around Ayoade so it was appropriate that he ended the show by turning out the light in the final episode. Jen Barber Katherine Parkinson Jen becomes the relationship manager of the IT department, having been assigned by Denholm at the start of the series because she had impressed the latter by listing computers on her curriculum vitae. She knows very little about electronics and computers, pretending to work even when her desktop and landline phone were revealed to be unplugged or disconnected, making statements at executive meetings such as searching "Google" on the Google website would cause the network to crash, and believing that the Internet resides in a physical box. In "Tramps Like Us", during a job interview, she struggles with not knowing what IT even stands for. She becomes obsessed by pursuits such as buying cute shoes even though they are far too small for her feet, and trying to impress good-looking men, but her attempts to start relationships turn out to be disastrous. In series 2, Jen reveals that she was a heavy smoker several years prior; she briefly takes up the habit again, but quits when she realises the anti-smoking regulations have made her more socially isolated. In an interview with The Independent, Parkinson said that Linehan originally wanted Jen to be "likeable" but "I know what he wanted now – he wanted her to be the more normal person people could relate to.” Although she would act as the straight woman to the two guys, her klutziness was well-received by the audience. Arts critic Rupert Christian describes Jen as the normal person going against the new technology. Parkinson also said that Jen is sometimes shallow and egotistic. Denholm Reynholm Chris Morris Denholm is the director of Reynholm Industries at the start of series 1, having started the company with "two things in my possession: a dream, and six million pounds." He openly boasts about employing attractive people who do very little work and who engage in adulterous relationships. In his office, he had a picture of himself on the wall, and of the members of The A-Team on the desk. Whenever he hires a new member of staff, he likes to give them a long, hard stare to assess them. He enjoys setting up initiatives intended to boost performance in a company; for example, he "declares war" on stress, mandating employees to attend a stress management seminar, after which he threatens to fire anyone who does not pass a stress test that same day. In the series 1 finale where he celebrates the success of Project Icarus, he forgets to acknowledge the IT department which did most of the work on the project, preferring to thank everyone else including the janitors. In "Return of the Golden Child", during a company .... Discover the Blair Denholm popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Blair Denholm books.