Late to the party here, but Icklewick FM by Amy Gledhill & Chris Canrtrill is absolutely incredible. Has the spirit of Down the Line and the studied silliness and layered sound design of On The Hour. The first three minutes had me hooked, it's really, really funny. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...

Links to the latest Stewart Lee media appearances. www.cookdandbombd.co.uk/forums/index... He was on the Gilles Peterson show, 40 minutes in, listen before it drops off iplayer, GP is always great: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... Enjoy!

There's a "Yes, Minister" quote for everything. "Sir Humphrey Appleby: Think of it as a child's tantrum over a rice pudding. Won't touch it today and yet wants two helpings tomorrow."

This is what "cancellation" actually looks like, but I bet you won't hear Toby Young/Free Speech Union, Spiked, Triggernometry, Andrew Doyle, Piers Morgan or any of those other chancer pricks covering this story. Props to Robin Ince for leaving the increasingly institutionally transphobic BBC. <3

We're following the last day of the Graham Linehan trial: "Bumhole of the Bailey: Kamikaze transphobe Graham Linehan, divorced from reality" www.cookdandbombd.co.uk/forums/index... #Glinner

I've been trying to find concrete proof that Peter Thiel funded the "Comedy Unleashed" movement for a while now, if anyone can help. It's been known for years that Thiel inspired and funded the "Free Speech" Union in order to normalise race science and transphobia, but culture needs more attention.

Stewart Lee's crisps bit and crowd work circa 2010, reviewed by Laura Lexx and The List. With thanks to buzby for the finds. #LauraLexx #StewartLee #Crisps #Plain

@thejudyroom.com Hi I'm hoping you can help me with a query. Are messages like this one just engagement-farming, or was the Judy Garland Show almost wiped? I can't find anything to verify this claim so far, just loads of dodgy accounts all seemingly farming engagement. Ta. bsky.app/profile/paul...

As everyone predicted, Gervais was lying and trying to jump on the "wah I've been 'cancelled'" bandwagon. Absolutely desperate stuff. www.cookdandbombd.co.uk/forums/index... #RickyGervais

The utterly incomparable Nichols and May.

David Hockney : Nichols Canyon, 1980 Acrylic on canvas | 84 x 60" More info in the alt text 👇

Btw, if you want to follow Glinner vs Sophie today, the best way where everything is all in one place is Cookd & Bombd. Starts around page 34... www.cookdandbombd.co.uk/forums/index...

With thanks to DBC: Cultplex in Manchester will be having a "Nathan Barley marathon" to celebrate the 20 year anniversary of Chris Morris and Charlie Brooker's sitcom. Tickets and info here, Saturday 15th November: cultplex.co.uk/Cultplex.dll... Have fun. #ChrisMorris #CharlieBrooker

It's a joy to listen to the bedazzled soundtrack again, I'd entirely forgotten Bob Efford's extraordinary tenor saxophone on Goodbye George. I just love Dudley; incredibly talented jazz musician & one of the single greatest and most likeable comedy performers ever. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eIJ...

Genocidal apartheid ethnostate comedy - a look at how "Israel's SNL/Daily Show" spread state propaganda through viral English-language videos. www.cookdandbombd.co.uk/forums/index...

With thanks to touchingcloth for this: Chris Morris will be appearing with Cory Doctorow. Be warned that it's sold out but perhaps you can get a cancellation or something. Note that CM isn't listed on the Barbican site but is appearing. www.cookdandbombd.co.uk/forums/index... #enshittification

Choice highlights from today's epic policework in #Epping:

Hetty Vein-Throb presents: Missed Marbles in "Privates Inspector; Public Dick." #Glinner #GrahamLinehan www.cookdandbombd.co.uk/forums/index...

The Liberal Abandonment Of Greta Thunberg www.donotpanic.news/p/the-libera...

Yeeesssss, I'm so happy about this! I missed the Observer columns sooooo much, thanks for bringing him back and good luck with @thenerve.news I love it!

#ChrisMorris #NathanBarley #CharlieBrooker

@cheeseford.bsky.social I'd totally forgotten about this til I was hunting through my Twitter the other night, but did you get them CM tapes done? I think someone gave a stash to you as I was already swamped, but can't remember what happened to them. Getting everything pulled together and upgraded.

New! Cassetteboy vs Keir Starmer. This took absolutely ages, so if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi.com/cassetteboy we'd really appreciate it. Thanks!

This is an excerpt from the BBC compliance form for the 3 hour #ChrisMorris radio special, "Raw Meat Radio." Isn't it about time Radio 4 Extra gave this another airing? Can you please pull some strings @maryannehobbs.bsky.social ? (With thanks to Sophie Black)

Chris Morris disguised "Four Lions" filming locations as kid's party invites in order to guarantee secrecy. #ChrisMorris #FourLions

A timely reminder that Cook'd and Bomb'd has ongoing, comprehensive discussion regarding the continuing massive public breakdown of professional transphobic recidivist, public toilet enthusiast & potato-headed stain on Irish culture, Graham Linehan. #Glinner www.cookdandbombd.co.uk/forums/index...

I wrote about Ultra Processed Foods, this has been a huge, life-changing passion of mine over the past two years. #UPF #UltraProcessedFood www.cookdandbombd.co.uk/forums/index...

Yeehaww, new 5-part Stewart Lee radio show starting tomorrow about counter-culture, with some superb guests appearing. This is going to be epic. www.cookdandbombd.co.uk/forums/index...

One of those "life imitating Chris Morris" stories. www.cookdandbombd.co.uk/forums/index...

This kind of Tamagotchi shit to drive engagement will be in absolutely every new appliance you buy within 5 years. In the worst scenario, your fridge will simply refuse to provide you with a glass of milk until you convince it that you aren't going to ghost it after you fuck it.

Please watch the videos in this thread. It's unbelievable that a Labour government is forcing disabled people out of work #LabourIsn'tWorking

@touretteshero.bsky.social JESS! I was looking up cassetteboy and there you were at the top of their feed. What a pleasure to see you, I hope you're doing well. I haven't caught up on the full story re: Sir Kid Starver yet.

Staggering where the British transphobia/"Terf" movement has got to now. They're arguing that #MeToo went too far - who is making the argument? Diana Fleischman, a woman who seeks to "expand humanity's moral circle" by advocating for... eugenics. @katymontgomerie.com @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social

yo @helenlewis.bsky.social, absolutely tf not. you are responsible for every god damn thing the trump administration, and the starmer government, are doing to us. you don't get to pretend that you didn't cause all this shit with your paranoid bullshit, alternate facts, and medical disinformation.

The cancellation of GB News comedy show Headliners is joyous. They realise if they admit it's been dumped because of their disgusting comments about LGBTQ+ people it would cause their anti-cancel culture fans to be up in arms, so they've had to sheepishly admit that noone watches it instead.

There's a great discussion about The Armando Iannucci Shows at the minute, hard to believe it's almost 25 years old. It's a real joy to revist this gem of a comedy. www.cookdandbombd.co.uk/forums/index...

Toadying establishment "manosphere" lickspittles like Theo Von www.cookdandbombd.co.uk/forums/index...

Makes me proud that CaB is such a useful resource of insightful and intelligent comedy discussion that it even gets cited as a source in YouTube video essays.

There's a bunch of great comedy discussion going on at the minute on CaB, I pushed a few examples to the front page if you fancy a read. Covers Andrew Lawrence, an ongoing look back at Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle, a history of spit-takes etc www.cookdandbombd.co.uk

Text from Stewart Lee's "If You Prefer a Milder Comedian" EP Here's an early version of "Tonight Let's All Make Love, In the Bullingdon Club" as well: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwB4...

Dug out an old transcript of a Brass Eye insert aimed at pause-jabbers like me who lust for extra details and hidden gags. I LOVE stuff like this so much. www.cookdandbombd.co.uk/forums/index...

@carolecadwalla.bsky.social I don't mean that in any kind of snide "gotcha" way. I've been running my own websites for over 25 years and don't understand why advocates for a better information age are still putting their eggs in other people's baskets, to use a seasonally appropriate metaphor :-)

@carolecadwalla.bsky.social Hi! As a fan of your work, I'm confused regarding your usage of Substack. You advocate for building a better internet, then endorse a Nazi transphobe platform. Why prop up the next corporate monopoly instead of building your own infrastructure? What am I missing?

Today marks the 9th anniversary of the passing of comedy legend Garry Shandling. Here's a look at how Ricky Gervais exploited Shandling's death at the time, rewriting history and casting the great man as "troubled" and "struggling", in order to change public perception of their notorious meeting.

"oh dear me, what a flaming palaver and no mistake! Turns out her royal poshness Penelope Keith, wot resides in your honest to goodness Surbiton with him out of Yes Minster, only flaming well assassinated John F. K, the president of the united flipping states. Couldn't make it up, could yer, sirrah"

Russell Brand should have gazed into his magical amulet to divine the truth before tweeting out that it was actually Penelope Keith from The Good Life who assassinated JFK. What a credulous grifting sex case that awful prick is.

Leopards ate Supertanksiii's face WATCH HERE: youtu.be/iri7LEMxR80

This is a seminal moment: a Labour government cutting disability benefits. Not just continuing Tory levels. Cutting. This comes after a week of speculation, itself an act of cruelty by a government toying with people’s dignity. These cuts are disgraceful - and they will cost lives.

Chris Morris discusses The Day Today on a new show about @aiannucci.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p... To be broadcast Monday 3rd March at 10:40pm on BBC1 #ChrisMorris #ArmandoIannucci #TheDayToday

"Make sure you tweet where it looks like you won" This is the most villainous shit I've ever seen Ricky Gervais do. Within 48 hours of the passing of the great Garry Shandling, the chubby funster started to publicly rewrite history in a very cruel way. #GarryShandling #RickyGervais #JuddApatow