Sitcom idea: 4 Weddings and a Welfare Cheque

Here’s an idea for a new sitcom based on a recently-enacted British law which decrees that a man who has many wives can receive welfare payments for up to 4 wives as long as they were married in a country where polygamy is legal.

So, our main character — a straight, lazy man (yes, they do exist) thinks he has discovered a loophole to working — takes a trip to Dubai and marries four different women and brings them back to London.

The twist is that the women are not all Muslims; one is, but the other three are from various different ethnic and political backgrounds. Perhaps a white Buddhist, a Chinese Jew, a black atheist (or whatever the network executives want).

So as if it isn’t difficult enough to be married to 4 women, our straight man is surrounded by four women from different faiths, races and of varying levels of women’s liberation.

The beauty of this premise is that the show can make fun of every political, religious and gender-specific debate and not get in trouble because it hits all targets in every episode. Either that or the show gets in trouble every week and the network cashes in on the controversy. It’s a win-win situation (Win-win is the Chinese Jew).

Possible titles for this sitcom could be: