In 1936, music hall comedian Hector Thaxter caused uproar by becoming the first person to say "arse" on the radio. This afternoon, I heard somebody on Radio 4 say "sh*tting hell" Hector Thaxter, we salute you for getting the ball rolling ninety years ago to lead up to this moment.

Prog 450 Merry Christmas 1985 everybody! It comes around so quickly. Complete anarchy going on here, love it!

I've just had to fill out a health insurance form for my next TV job. Christ, I'm dull.

Prog 449 Those who suffer from a combination of trypophobia and spasmenagaliaphobia... Look away... NOW!!!

I picked up this 1980 French single in a record store scavenge yesterday. I'm a sucker for obscure post-punk first revival ska tunes, because there isn't much of it. Not for everyone. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZPl...

Prog 448 Yawn. Sláine. Agáin. I much preferred this prog's back cover character from the long distant past. A bleedin' goldfish. You can tell my subscription was on thin ice at this point.

More LAY 2 remix joy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCTj...

More 20th anniversary Look Around You (2) February celebrations. This remix is fantastic, and always makes me get a bit teary eyed. Saline. Write that down. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyd1...

Twenty years ago this very month this Look Around You episode went out. Or is it forty five years ago? vimeo.com/1151265811?s...

Prog 447 Alternatively in 1985, 'You are Bono in Cilla Black's dungeon."

My favourite beginning to a 1970s TV mystery drama of the week. Going by their smugness and the title of the story, that’s them both dying horribly at the end then.

Chazza shop vinyl find of the week. I'm a sucker for novelty covers of pop songs played in an anachronistic style. I love Big Daddy; they were the '80s Mike Flowers Pops of their day. So, sue me. A doo-wop version of Devo's Whip It, anybody? youtube.com/watch?v=emNt...

Prog 446 Nice pastiche of the old Commando war comics, although the pilot should've cried out the fuller, "Gott in Himmel!" oft exclamation, and perhaps added "Donner und Blitzen!" for extra authenticity.

I'm not sure about the casting choice for Ernie Bragg in this new reboot of Carry on Behind.

Prog 445 As the late, great, Frankie Howerd would say, "Oh, shut your faces!!"

Prog 444 A lovely example of 'Indiana Jones' dry humour here.

I've just watched another one of those morbid AI videos where the cast of a beloved old movie takes a selfie with their future dead self. Peter Cushing wonders why the ghost of Bing from Brookside has rocked up instead.

R.I.P. Catherine O'Hara www.youtube.com/watch?v=k09a...

Prog 443 This 2000AD predicting stuff is now getting a little bit too on the nose, eh?

Recent chazza shop LP find. Titti Sjöblom. Swedish songstress 1974. "Oh, stop sniggering at the back there, Simpkins!" This is my fave track, so far. youtube.com/watch?v=HjpS...

Prog 442 You don't get double crossing, murderous, talking robot Cuban cigars in comics anymore. Crying shame.

Yesterday, I purchased two library music LPs from Camden Town's Out On The Floor. I've only just noticed they both feature lavly cats on the cover Track linked from one of the albums very much captures a 'don't give a f***' feline spirit, dont'cha think? youtube.com/watch?v=vdd_...

Prog 441 Poor 2-Ton Tony. Wasn't last week's prog cover not humiliating enough?

Prog 440 Tony needs a Dick Porker belly wheel. That's a sentence I never imagined typing today. Old 2000AD readers will know what I'm referring to.

R.I.P. To the great Sly Dunbar. SPASTICUS AUTISTICUS!!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWf1...

Here's a recent chazza shop find. A novelty 1976 charity fund raiser single. I prefer the B-side instrumental version. Seriously funky. You could tell composer Bill Oddie was a fan of Parliament and Funkadelic. youtube.com/watch?v=JO7G...

Happy birthday to Evil Edna who turned a hundred years old today. She usually celebrates it at Halloween, but if you ask me, that is an affectation.

Prog 439 Well done Ian Gibson. The leaning over a drawing board at midnight back breaking detail in this cover art is truly magnificent.

I spotted this Dad birthday card in Sainsburys today. The pun doesn't work and the illustration is diabolical. This card wouldn't even be acceptable if my own child designed it. I'd even go as far to say if I received this card from my child, they would be put up for adoption.

Some back cover pin-ups from 2000ad progs during the mid-80s. Editor, Tharg realising the 10 year old boys who started reading from issue one in 1977 will now be teenage lads.

Prog 438 His really close friends get to call him 'Nem Nem'. That warning sign and banner would've made a great t-shirt design back then.

I picked up this 1979 LP for a song in Spitalfields record market last Friday. 'Make It Safe' poem still resonates. Linked below. "They're selling hippy wigs in Woolworths" - Danny The Dealer in 1969 from the film, 'Withnail & I' (1987) youtube.com/watch?v=TBcM...

Lunchtime. Finally, 2026 has turned a corner for me. If only Roy Castle was still alive to see this.

Prog 437 Sounds like a typical 1985 comedy movie "In a world when you have 5 men!" John Candy, Judge Rheinhold, Steve Guttenberg, Arsenio Hall & Phil Collins "Plus 1 Droid!" Roddy McDowall "Plus 1 Alien" Danny de Vito "Plus 1 Panther" Whoopi Goldberg "it equals?" THE MEAN TEAM!!

Prog 436 A cover that brings back a bad memory for me. I read this copy in my bedsit the day I got thrown out of a class in my 2nd week at drama school. We were doing trust exercises & I rocked up wearing my round mirrored sunglasses and dressed like I'd stepped out of the Madness Our House video 😄

Recent LP find. £1. Which TV characters here would get on? Sgt. Major & Cpt.Mainwaring - deference Frank Spencer & Spike - chaoists Fawlty & Tim Goodie - snobs Perrin & Graeme Goodie - mavericks Steptoe & Son & Bill Goodie - I dunno, I just think Bill would enhance their miserable lives

Prog 435 At first glance I thought Dredd's knees were his feet. Great. Now I can't unsee that and neither will you. Sorry. Judge Munchkin?

A snap from the More Specials album photo session off a 2Tone zine FB page. Here's their website 2tonefanzine.bigcartel.com The band look strangely contemporary. Apart from Horace and photographer Carol Starr, they all look like they're on their smartphones. youtube.com/watch?v=TXm_...

A new Brazilian movie about sentient killer lavatories is released this year. Privadas De Suas Vidas AKA Bowels Of Hell. This is annoying to the ten year old me who genuinely had this same idea for a horror film fifty years ago. I shouldn't have sat on it for so long.

Prog 434 There was actually a punk band from the late 70s called The Zits. These 2000ad cover lyrics are not too dissimilar to The Zits actual numbers such as: Sick On You, Beat Your Face, Bertha Was A Slut and Euh Baby Euh. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tp3i...

Here's a soundtrack I picked up cheaply yesterday. I've never seen this 1975 thriller before, much cop? "Connery won't pay" as certain folk used to say in Marbella. I'm saying no more. youtube.com/watch?v=Ni1e...

I rolled my eyes when I saw who was speaking but I’m glad on this occasion I took the time to listen.

Finally finished Stranger Things (or Smugger Things coz this season was very pleased with itself). Two thoughts: 1) Too many people in it all scrabbling for screen time. It was like The Expendables. 2) I could've sworn Brett Gelman channelled Phil Silvers into his character for his own amusement.

Prog 433 "COME HERE, FOOD!" was in fact the original title of Peter Benchley's best selling novel, Jaws.

My pitch to Danny Boyle for his expanding horror franchise, a prequel to 28 Days Later (2002) 28 Years Earlier: Ballintemple Set in S.Ireland in 1974, Cillian Murphy's character, Jim is going through the 'terrible twos'. His mammy is knackered. That's as far as I've got.

Prog 432 I miss Rogue Mayall. The speech bubble should actually say, "I bloody warned you, Dredd, you fascist Tory. No one tells me what time to go to bed!"

I learnt tonight that the lead singer of Toto, Joseph Williams is the son of the prolific soundtrack composer, John Williams. As you were.

Prog 431 Is it me or is Rogue looking rather hench these days? But, of course he is! The mid-80s was the zenith of movie action heroes being absurdly muscle bound: Stallone, Schwarzenegger, Van Damme, Lundgren, Moranis. It's 2000AD going for the pop cultural zeitgeist yet again.

Another top recent chazzer shop find. A "12 from 1978. Fonky! Although, I prefer the B-side, 'Party Song' partly because it has a nod at Grieg's 'In The Hall Of The Mountain King' (1875) which is always welcome in popular culture. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxtZ...

Prog 430 This cover makes me feel decidedly queasy. Job done then.