This bonus Comfort Blanket podcast was originally made for a select few of the top patrons for the crowdfunder for the Be Funny Or Die book.In the end, that meant only a very select handful of the world’s most excellent people heard it, and since it’s a film that I love so much, and since I loved putting this episode together, I thought (a reasonable enough time after the book launch) it might be nice to share it a little more widely.Given the terrible situation that all Unbound’s authors have been left in, following the shameless theft of our earnings, and all the distress surrounding that, maybe this could be seen as an attempt to lift the mood a little, by celebrating a film about an audacious theft by seemingly nice middle class people, and the terrible mess that follows. I make no comment on why that might have occurred to me.Regardless of the shitshow at Unbound, and the dire position it’s left us all in, everyone who supported the release of Be Funny Or Die did a lovely thing. You helped a book exist, one that I’m really proud of, and which lots of people have enjoyed.So here’s something back. Maybe it can remind us of three things:ONE: Making stuff for people who like it is always a good thing to do.TWO: Supporting the things you love is a generous and noble act (thank you).And most importantly:THREE: Crime doesn’t pay.Cheers!Joel xPS: This bonus episode is being put out as part of my Be Funny Or Die podcast project. If you want more bonus podcasts like this, including thoughts on comedy, analyses of funny stuff, and some fairly unguarded chats with mates in the comedy world about the state of it all, then simply become a paid Substack subscriber. Ta.To support my work, do consider becoming a paid subscriber. Otherwise, simply subscribe to be kept up to date… This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit joelmorris.substack.com/subscribe
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Top Secret
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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