This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit joelmorris.substack.comSome thoughts about the 1984 Zucker Abrahams Zucker follow up to Airplane! starring Val Kilmer…
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Scooby Doo: What Are You?
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit joelmorris.substack.comThis is a short audio essay that I made for Tim Worthington’s ‘Looks Unfamiliar’ podcast, now with added illustrations and bells and whistles (and guest facts). Celebrating how Scooby Doo works. The clever blend of fear, formula and fun, and what we can learn from it.
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Agendum: Banking Crisis (outtake)
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit joelmorris.substack.comI was looking for a sketch that I remembered us doing for Agendum, because it seemed to match the mad mood of the world this week, and I found that we’d never put it out. But I had some fragments of it on the hard drive, and they really made me laugh.So this is a quick chat about how we made these fake current affairs packages for the show, and then an …
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Closing The Factory
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit joelmorris.substack.comThe second part of our Be Funny Or Die podcast chat with Adam Tandy (Detectorists, Inside No 9, Thick of It) about the state of British comedy production, and why it’s so hard to make funny stuff… even though television’s biggest recent hits (Gavin & Stacey, Wallace & Gromit etc) have been exactly that, and, when surveyed, we all tend to choose comedy a…
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Al Campbell: The Barry Shitpeas Story Pt 2
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit joelmorris.substack.comIn the second part of my chat with top directing bloke Al Campbell, we learn why unexpected TV star Barry Shitpeas took an eventual backseat on Wipe (thanks to the actor Kevin Eldon), and how Philomena Cunk was born…