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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Comedian Lucy Porter talks about Ellen Degeneres' first TV stand-up special, and how it inspired her.
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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.
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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.
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Comedian Matt Lucas talks about his love for the surreal improvised interviews of Gerard Hoffnung, the 1950s humorist, musician and artist.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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'.
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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.
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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.
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