Mark Corrigan terrifies me. The inside of this man's head looks horrifyingly like my own! I identify with him more than I do with any other fictional character, and that cannot be a good thing. It's quite reassuring that you have experienced the same 'oh help I'm Mark Corrigan' realisation.
I suspect there's a fair number. In fandoms, I've noticed a tendency for fans (particularly intelligent young women in their early twenties who strike me as perfectly charming and socially competent over the internet) to identify with intelligent and insecure characters; often there's a degree of projection (see the number of Top Gear fans who write James May as if he were just like them), but it tends to be a consistent pattern. So if you find more people who get fannish about Peep Show, you'll probably get a decent number.
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I suspect there's a fair number. In fandoms, I've noticed a tendency for fans (particularly intelligent young women in their early twenties who strike me as perfectly charming and socially competent over the internet) to identify with intelligent and insecure characters; often there's a degree of projection (see the number of Top Gear fans who write James May as if he were just like them), but it tends to be a consistent pattern. So if you find more people who get fannish about Peep Show, you'll probably get a decent number.