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Switching to stand-up - with Madeleine Brettingham
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It’s Edinburgh festival time, so I’m going to share some chats about the craft of comedy with a festival flavour.
This is a natter with highly experienced comedy writer Madeleine Brettingham (Harry Hill, Have I Got News For You, The Kumars) about her surprise decision to start doing stand-up, never having wanted to go on stage before.
(She’s just won the …
4 Jun 2025
The Lavender Hill Mob
Host JOEL MORRIS shares his love for the film *The Lavender Hill Mob*, exploring themes of audacious theft and its consequences in this bonus episode.
11 May 2025
Top Secret
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Some thoughts about the 1984 Zucker Abrahams Zucker follow up to Airplane! starring Val Kilmer…
17 Apr 2025
Scooby Doo: What Are You?
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This is a short audio essay that I made for Tim Worthington’s ‘Looks Unfamiliar’ podcast, now with added illustrations and bells and whistles (and guest facts). Celebrating how Scooby Doo works. The clever blend of fear, formula and fun, and what we can learn from it.
4 Feb 2025
Agendum: Banking Crisis (outtake)
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I was looking for a sketch that I remembered us doing for Agendum, because it seemed to match the mad mood of the world this week, and I found that we’d never put it out. But I had some fragments of it on the hard drive, and they really made me laugh.
So this is a quick chat about how we made these fake current affairs packages for the show, and then an …
28 Jan 2025
Closing The Factory
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The second part of our Be Funny Or Die podcast chat with Adam Tandy (Detectorists, Inside No 9, Thick of It) about the state of British comedy production, and why it’s so hard to make funny stuff… even though television’s biggest recent hits (Gavin & Stacey, Wallace & Gromit etc) have been exactly that, and, when surveyed, we all tend to choose comedy a…
29 Dec 2024
Al Campbell: The Barry Shitpeas Story Pt 2
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In the second part of my chat with top directing bloke Al Campbell, we learn why unexpected TV star Barry Shitpeas took an eventual backseat on Wipe (thanks to the actor Kevin Eldon), and how Philomena Cunk was born…
23 Dec 2024
The Muppet Christmas Carol
A quick podcast with some ideas about how a Christmas classic weaves its comedy magic by playing it almost straight…
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17 Dec 2024
Tales of Geoff
Geoff McGivern, legendary British comedy titan, shares a tale of overcoming his fear of acting on camera by working with Noel Edmonds and Mr Blobby.
5 Dec 2024
Al Campbell: The Barry Shitpeas Story
Al Campbell, directing supremo behind It's Kevin and Inside No 9, reveals the origins and secrets of the lovable dimbulb pundit Barry Shitpeas.
27 Nov 2024
Chatting to Adam Tandy: sitcom & budgets
Comedy producer Adam Tandy opens up about the challenges of sitcom budgets and the creative process behind hit shows like Inside No9 and Detectorists.
9 Nov 2024
The Dead Parrot sketch
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In this first edition of the Be Funny Or Die podcast, I’m looking at Monty Python’s Dead Parrot Sketch, broadcast for the first time 55 years ago in December 1969, and wondering what on earth’s going on in there.
I want to look at how the sketch’s accidentally perfect balance of familiarity and absurdism made it the unexpected signature sketch of the gro…
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