The Max Headroom character originated in 1985-86 as an announcer for a Music video programme on the British television channel, Channel 4, called Max Headroom (TV series). The intent was to portray a futuristic computer-generated character. Max Headroom appeared as a stylized head on TV against harsh primary color rotating-line backgrounds, and he became well known for his jerky techno-stuttering speech, Wit, and Puns ("Like they say when you're buying suppositories, 'With friends like that, who needs Enemas?'"). The Original Max Talking Headroom Show was made by Cinemax in 1987.