Comedy blog

  • Round 10: What a difference a Day makes

    Posted by Rufus Hound on 3 Nov 09 in Argumental blog: Marcus vs Rufus

    Round 10: What a difference a Day makes They say there's nothing like the sweet smell of success and if that's true, then nothing smells sweeter than I do, right now. I'm positively reeking of success. Take a microscope to the pores of my skin you'd see thousands of tiny, individual, beads of success pouring out of me like women cascading from Russell Brand's hotel room.

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  • Top 10 comedy podcasts

    Posted by Dave Heckler on 3 Nov 09

    Top 10 comedy podcasts Did you know that the term 'podcast' was coined by some bloke by accident? Back in 2004 a Guardian journalist called Ben Hammersley wrote a piece about the boom in online radio and was musing on what to call this new craze talking over the web.

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  • Round 9: Et tu, Dara?

    Posted by Marcus Brigstocke on 27 Oct 09 in Argumental blog: Marcus vs Rufus

    Round 9: Et tu, Dara? Ladies and gentlemen, you may remember way back at the beginning of the series I said how much I admired Dara O'Briain; he's a very funny man and a former all-Ireland debating champion, so naturally he's a gift to have on this show. I like him a lot.

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  • World Wide Wit: The new dot.comedy sensations

    Posted by Dave Heckler on 27 Oct 09

    World Wide Wit: The new dot.comedy sensations 'Comedy' is one of the all-time most searched for terms on the internet. It regularly sits amongst the top three, after news and that other genre of entertainment that I won't go into here but suffice to say it usually invoices some girl called Shannon wearing glass stilettos while being vigorously interfered with by one or more men on an Ikea sofa.

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  • 10 ideas for Scenes We'd Like to See that didn't make it into Mock the Week

    Posted by Dara O'Briain on 21 Oct 09 in Dara Ó Briain's blog

    10 ideas for Scenes We'd Like to See that didn't make it into Mock the Week Mock the Week has writers. There, I've said it. You can all go "Ah ha!" at me. Of course, the writers' job isn't to come up with jokes for the performers (or at least, if it is, they'd let me have some of that gold wouldn't they? You mean to tell me that I sit around in the afternoon, all on my own in that dressing room, struggling to pull two gags together and next door the panellists are being spoon fed the funnies? I mean, how harsh is that? Those greedy bastards.)

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