This vacant looking fella is Terry The Odd Job Man. He’s from Bristol, but he’s really ambitious, so he moved to London to seek his fortune.

“What’s new about that?” you ask, as you stand in the queue for Britain’s Got Talent auditions. Well, Terry’s ambition is to be…an odd job man. He says it’s his lifelong dream to earn more than £8,000 a year and to have his own DIY show. But he’s not going to be Britain’s answer to Tim “The Tool Man” Taylor without working his way up the ladder first (sorry, couldn’t resist!)

Terry Crouch - or Terry The Odd Job Man - is actually the brainchild of actor Jody Kamali. I met Jody Terry during my visit to the Upstaged set, and he cracked me up - he stayed in character for virtually the whole time I was chatting to him.

A native Bristonian, Terry is based on Jody’s own working class family and friends and his observations on their lifestyle and the kind of things they say. He tells me that the idea to post a sketch on YouTube was done on a whim, and that his sudden success on YouTube was completely unexpected.

Jody says that he does very little preparation in advance when he shoots his videos, so they’re mostly improvised. Having said that, some of his videos on YouTube have had upwards of 20,000 views.

Talking about the effects of Internet stardom, Terry says the funniest thing that’s happened is an adult shop owner from LA wanted to fly him across to work in her shop. Even when he explained that he wasn’t really and odd-job man, she still wanted him to come across!

If you want to get a taste of Terry’s act, here’s one of his earliest videos where he advertises his services on YouTube…