Stay ConnectedComedy 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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Comedy writer and author Gabby Hutchinson-Crouch (News Quiz, Now Show, Darkwood) on the all-singing all-dancing mental-health-and-toxic-romance sitcom Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, looking at how brilliantly the pilot episode sets up the show's themes and gags.
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Jack Docherty (Absolutely, Scot Squad) celebrates the unique and inspirational comic voice of Ivor Cutler, and in particular his 1974 album 'Velvet Donkey'.
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Comedian and writer Rosie Jones (The Last Leg, Sex Education) brings a sofa-full of love for game-changing domestic sitcom The Royle Family and in particular its BAFTA winning special The Queen of Sheba.
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Writer Sarah Morgan (Not Going Out, Intelligence, Tracey Ullman)dances like a sugared-up nine-year-old in honour of the joyous female buddy comedy Romy & Michele's High School Reunion.
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Writer Robert Popper (Friday Night Dinner, Look Around You) shares his love for a definitive slice of a definitive sitcom, the Hotel Inspectors episode of Fawlty Towers.
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Writer and comedian Sarah Kendall (Australian Trilogy) celebrates Sydney Pollack's hit 1982 comedy where Dustin Hoffman learns to be a better man by being a woman.
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Award-winning children's writer Andy Stanton (The Mr Gum Books) talks about the book that taught him how to write funny stuff: the Young Ones tie-in Bachelor Boys.
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Laurence Rickard (Ghosts, Horrible Histories, Yonderland) talks about Monty Python's Life Of Brian and the lessons it has for anyone else who might be trying to make historically textured silly comedy with a six-strong team of comedians.
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Comedian Phill Jupitus drags in an Acme crate containing the animation director Chuck Jones, loads of dynamite, some hair restorer and an anvil, to celebrate the great man's work on Daffy Duck, Bugs Bunny, Road Runner and many more.
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Comedian, writer and actor Anna Crilly (Anna & Katy, Lead Balloon, Sorry I've Got No Head) discusses her love for Julia Davis and Rob Brydon's often-overlooked masterpiece Human Remains.
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