The IT Crowd star, currently tackling Ayckbourn at the National, on why good comedy needs an element of darknessThere are only so many boxy power-suits an actor can wear without itching for a costume change: a corset, a wedding dress, anything.So Katherine Parkinson, four years in shoulder-pads as guileless office manager Jen in Channel 4 sitcom The IT Crowd (and outfitted pretty identically for her role as maitre d'…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PM on December 4, 2010