HAPPY 60TH BIRTHDAY, would have been nice to say, RIK MAYALL! When Rik's final jog spoiled everything back in 2014, I wrote a blog all too soon, and was honoured to also provide a short Flashheart-themed obit for the BBC, but today seems an auspicious occasion to muse a bit more about missing The Late…
SOUPY TWISTS! First Bit
Dear Madam, or Sir – This is to introduce, in a needlessly twee way, the officially authorised book SOUPY TWISTS – the fourth work of comedy history by Jem Roberts, and the first ever print celebration of the tickling, maddening, frothing and frankly filthy comedy of STEPHEN FRY & HUGH LAURIE, to officially mark the forthcoming…
BATH COMEDY FESTIVAL 2015: The Party’s Over
Waking up on Bank Holiday Monday after a week of frenetic activity for the Bath Comedy Festival has felt a little like being Wile E. Coyote several yards over a cliff edge, with no ground beneath. Back to the workaday author's world, of staring at email Sent boxes lighting candles and praying to the God…
BATH COMEDY FESTIVAL 2015
The Bath Comedy Festival originally took me by surprise, when it kicked off several years ago. For a while, I felt like I was the only person in the city running any kind of local comedy scene, with The Unrelated Family sketch shows (there was Mirth Control, but this tended to be very catholic stand-up…
THE FROOD: Fit The Fifth
THE FROOD – Fit The Fifth First things first – come along to a very special BFI DOUGLAS ADAMS & HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE RETROSPECTIVE on Sunday 14th December! There shall be rare material and cosplay and Trillian and GargleBlasters and fun! More details follow... One of these froods is hoopier than the other – me and the…
I Don’t Have To Believe It, Farty-Breath
I'm really sorry if anyone thinks it's just too bloody soon to be posting this – but the truth is, writing it is the only thing I can bring myself to do right now, and once it's done, I can turn off the computer and just get utterly wrecked while watching the best comedy ever…
What I Would Like To Have Said To Mel Smith
Now I will never find out whether Colin Watkins made it in Hollywood. I would somehow like to think that he didn't. RIP is too glib, so let's try: Eternally Grateful, Mel Smith.
The Unrelated Family: Rutles Megamix
It's been a long time, now I'm coming back home – I've been away now, oh how... Hm. But I thought I'd just underline the point that I have next-to-no shame by openly sharing this video on what we might call this 'blog' affair. We in The Unrelated Family do aim to one day follow in…
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