Comedy writers Jason Hazeley and Joel Morris talk to people who make comedy about something funny that they love. Guests pick something that makes them laugh. A book, a film, a tv show, a comic, a radio show, anything. Maybe we find out something about how comedy works, or we just giggle until we're finished. Both approaches are valid.
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Comedian Lucy Porter talks about Ellen Degeneres' first TV stand-up special, and how it inspired her. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Illustrator and children's author Nadia Shireen celebrates the comic voice of Smash Hits magazine, and the influence it had on her, and the way we make jokes about pop. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Comedian, writer and actor Miles Jupp ( The News Quiz, Rev, The Thick Of It ) waxes lyrical about multi-award winning sitcom Frasier and in particular, the episode Mixed Doubles . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Comedian Matt Lucas talks about his love for the surreal improvised interviews of Gerard Hoffnung, the 1950s humorist, musician and artist. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Charlie Brooker, the human behind Black Mirror , Cunk On Britain , Wipe and A Touch Of Cloth , joins us to talk about the film Airplane! Surely, you can't be serious? Yes. Yes we are serious. Also includes frank Batman and Robocop chat. You have been warned. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Musician, DJ and comedian Darren Foreman, aka Beardyman, picks Kenny Everett's legendary radio rundown of the world's worst records, and its vinyl release, as a formative and unbearable influence. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Award-winning writer and performer Sanjeev Singh Kohli (Fags Mags & Bags, Look Around You, Still Game) bids us all "oo vuj welcome" in Blue Jam, Chris Morris' experimental flu-woozy small hours head-comedy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Award winning writer and comedian Katy Brand talks about the mind-expanding effects of the first Red Dwarf novel by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor, 'Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers'. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Josh Weinstein, show-runner of The Simpsons, Futurama and Disenchantment, shares some Simpsons backstage stories, and talks about the influence of groundbreaking Canadian sketch show SCTV on a whole generation of comedy writers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Award winning comedian Dara O'Briain joins us to talk about the effect Eddie Izzard's third big show had on him as a young stand-up, and shares some trade secrets about how to get an audience on side. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
It's our second Christmas Special, as comedy writer Sara Gibbs ( Succubus, Dead Ringers, Daily Mash ) joins us round the fire to talk about the very first Peanuts TV special, 1965's A Charlie Brown Christmas, a cockle-warming mainstay of seasonal telly. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Neil Forsyth, the writer of Eric, Ernie & Me talks about Eddie Braben's writing for the 1977 Morecambe and Wise Christmas special, the ratings smasher that drew half the nation round the telly. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Award winning comedy performer, writer and director Chris Addison ( The Thick of It, Veep ) talks about the life-changing effect of Victoria Wood's 1980s sketch series As Seen On TV. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Award winning producer Caroline Norris (Horrible Histories, Tracey Ullman, Armstrong & Miller) celebrates Saturday morning telly's pant-swinging double act Trevor and Simon, and talks about the art of making comedy for children that adults can enjoy too. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Comedian Nish Kumar (The Mash Report, Newsjack) talks about his love for "the comedy nerd's Valhalla" Garth Marenghi's Darkplace , a single series of six perfectly formed horror spoofs from Matt Holness, Richard Ayoade, Alice Lowe and Matt Berry. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Comedy writer, performer and absurdist John Luke Roberts talks about his lifelong love for the acerbic songs of Tom Lehrer. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Comedy actor Margaret Cabourn-Smith talks openly about her lifelong infatuation with Fry & Laurie, and comedy writers Jason Hazeley and Joel Morris join in. An unseemly scramble to quote the most sketches ensues. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Award Winning actor and writer Mat Baynton ( The Wrong Mans, Horrible Histories) slouches in and pours himself a white Russian to celebrate the Coen Brothers' shambling masterpiece The Big Lebowski, with comedy writers Jason Hazeley and Joel Morris. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Paddington's award-winning director Paul King joins us to talk about how he brought the bear to the screen, and to show us one of his favourite films, Ernst Lubitsch's hilarious 1942 Nazis vs Luvvies comedy 'To Be Or Not To Be'. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Writer, script editor and funny person Barunka O'Shaughnessy (co-writer with Julia Davis of the award-winning Hunderby) sits down with Joel Morris and Jason Hazeley to celebrate Australian sketch comedy The Micallef Program, and in particular the sketch Spiffington Manse, giving the period drama a further stupid kicking. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Radio comedy producer Ed Morrish ( John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme, The News Quiz, Welcome To Our Village ) talks to Jason Hazeley and Joel Morris about the series that gave radio comedy production a good name: Douglas Adams' Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Comedy performer and writer Kevin Eldon ( Jam, It's Kevin, Big Train, Hot Fuzz, Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle ) talks to Joel Morris and Jason Hazeley about his love for Neil Innes and Eric Idle's pitch-perfect Beatles pastiche, The Rutles. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Comedian and writer Aisling Bea talks about how Father Ted changed her life, in conversation with comedy writers Jason Hazeley and Joel Morris. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The BAFTA award winning Tom Davis (Murder in Successville, Action Team) talks to comedy writers Jason Hazaley & Joel Morris about the heart-yanking final episode of pioneering family sitcom The Wonder Years. "And that was when it hit me..." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Recorded LIVE in front of an audience at the London Podcast Festival 2018. Writer, performer and national treasure Sue Perkins unleashes a triple-gatefold-album of praise for This Is Spinal Tap, joining comedy writers Jason Hazeley and Joel Morris in their respective onstage translucent pods. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
While we're on holiday, a chance to revisit some of our favourite bits of series one. Thanks to all our fantastic guests, and thanks to you for listening. Back soon with a load more good stuff. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Writer, comedian and director Matthew Holness (Garth Merenghi's Darkplace, Back) joins Jason Hazeley & Joel Morris to discuss the LP album version of Monty Python And The Holy Grail and the influence it had on him and his work. That's not the film, but the record*. Because that's how we do things round Rule Of Three way. (*The EXECUTIVE version of the record, naturally.) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Comedy writer and actor Katherine Jakeways (North by Northamptonshire, Armstrong & Miller, Tracey Ullman) brings in the classic cricket match episode of Esmonde & Larbey's "Ever Decreasing Circles", to lay in front of Joel Morris (who genuflects politely) and Jason Hazeley (who commits frenzied sacrifice in its honour) for the hosts both know this sitcom's awesome suburban power. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Comedy performer, writer, improviser and multi-award winning podcaster Cariad Lloyd (Griefcast, Austentatious, Murder In Successville, Comedy Store Players) talks to Jason Hazeley and Joel Morris about her love for TV's groundbreaking improvised comedy show Whose Line Is It Anyway? as well as discussing how comedy can help cope with personal tragedy, and how the hell improvisation works. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Comedy writer and actor Tony Way (Reeves & Mortimer, Fast Show, Brian Pern, Game of Thrones) brings in the classic 1980s Eddie Murphy, Dan Aykroyd, Jamie Lee Curtis comedy Trading Places for discussion with comedy writers Jason Hazeley & Joel Morris, while dressed as Father Christmas with all salmon in his beard. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
