In 2007, Esien featured in Girls Aloud and Sugababes' Comic Relief video for "Walk This Way",[1] where she puts a parking ticket on Ewen Macintosh, a reference to the character Jiffy from the show Little Miss Jocelyn.
Jiffy – a dysfunctional Nigerian traffic warden who gives people tickets for things like sleeping in the car or breaking down.
She often appears in strange places, such as the back seat, glove compartment or boot of a car, a coffin or the screen of a cash machine.
She gives lengthy speeches about her services as a traffic warden, insisting that she works for "Her Majesty De Quayn".
Fiona – a middle-aged woman who works in an office and tries to conceal the obvious fact that she is black.
Mrs Omwokwopopo – a Nigerian woman who is constantly in marriage counselling with her several husbands, and who often tries to make a move on the counsellor, or insult them, calling them a "pimp" or "prostitute".
Helen – a woman who is often seen in important places, such as at a wedding or an interview, where she rubs her buttocks along the floor.
Gladys Kingston – an old Jamaican woman who is going through a divorce and hates men or anyone of the male gender, whether young or old.
She tells a boy to stand at the corner on one foot, and a girl that her father will run away and impregnate a postwoman.
Prim – a white South African woman, originally from Johannesburg who wanders around Brixton trying to find a black maid.
("I'm white") Hortense – a woman in her early to mid-fifties who asks people with babies to allow her to take a look at them, thinking them to be beautiful.
She attempts to add the prices of the items in her head, causing great inconvenience to customers.