
He co-wrote the show with Robert Popper, whom he met on the set of Spaced. In 2002, the critically acclaimed Look Around You, a series of 10-minute 1970s school science video spoofs, debuted on BBC Two in which he played a scientist. He appeared in The Junkies, an Internet sitcom. In 2001, he took the lead in BBC Two sitcom World of Pub, playing the same character as he had done in the show's run on Radio 4.

He made another cameo appearance in the series when it returned in 2001. In 1999, he had a few guest appearances in the Channel 4 sitcom Spaced, playing protagonist Tim Bisley's ( Simon Pegg) nemesis, Duane Benzie. He also had a role in the sitcom How Do You Want Me? penned by Simon Nye. In 1998 he appeared on TV in Comedy Nation and You Are Here. On, he appeared in The Election Night Armistice as Moz Bingham, the fictional press secretary to the then shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown, who verbally abuses the BBC's Nick Robinson in a spoof phone call over the politician's news coverage. From there he went on to perform in Radio 4 shows Week Ending, Harry Hill's Fruit Corner, Grievous Bodily Radio, The Two Dannys and A Whole New Ball Game. Serafinowicz made his broadcasting debut in 1993 on Radio 1 show The Knowledge, a spoof documentary about the music industry. Serafinowicz at the 2010 San Diego Comic-Con It wasn't really that much posher!" Career Gateacre is traditionally seen as one of the posh areas of Liverpool. But it was a very poor area, and it became scruffy quite quickly.

I was only about three when we moved there, but I can still remember it looking very shiny, and it was all landscaped. He later said, "I had a very happy childhood, but Belle Vale was very rough. The family moved back to Gateacre when he was 14, and he attended St Francis Xavier's College in the neighbouring Woolton suburb. Īt the age of three, Serafinowicz moved with his family to the Belle Vale area of Liverpool, where he attended Our Lady of the Assumption Primary School. Serafinowicz has a brother named James, who became a film producer, and a sister named Helen, who became a writer and was married to Irish comedy writer Graham Linehan from 2004 to 2021 after Serafinowicz introduced them. His father, who was born and raised in Surrey before moving to Liverpool, was half Belarusian and half Polish. Peter Szymon Serafinowicz was born in Gateacre, Liverpool on 10 July 1972, the son of post office worker Catherine (née Geary) and scaffolder Szymon Serafinowicz.
