BE FUNNY OR DIE PODCAST

Launching a new audio series to accompany the book

I’m launching a new podcast - BE FUNNY OR DIE - to explore some more of the ideas I spend my time mulling over about comedy, and how it works.

This has been inspired by conversations with fellow writers and comedy people (as well as the lovely participants on my Writers’ Room course), and will, I hope, act as a fun companion to the book. It’s a place to put new ideas and to do some deep dives, along the lines of my Two Minutes Of The Simpsons video, and some of the articles here.

If you fancy more podcast content that takes comedy apart, as a craft, as an art form, as an industry, as something to do for half an hour, that’s what I’ll be doing.

It’s going to be an importnat part of this Substack becoming a channel for more series in this vein. I want this to become place to put new stuff, especially for people who like that sort of thing.

So if you’re one of those people who like that sort of thing, then sign up to the Substack and upgrade to a paid subscription. You’ll get this new Be Funny Or Die podcast, plus all the Comfort Blanket pods early and ad-free, plus the intimate domestic side-pod Home Comforts, and a couple of exciting forthcoming series (like Discomfort Blanket, the new companion pod we’re putting together, with a weird horror bent, cos comedy and horror are fine bedfellows). I’ll also use it as a space to try out new writing for any forthcoming books. It’s going to get busy.

The first episode of the BE FUNNY OR DIE podcast will be a 55th birthday analysis of Monty Python’s Dead Parrot Sketch, in which I spend half an hour carving up a Norwegian Blue and serving it as the centrepiece of a sumptuous analytical roast.

If you fancy the sound of that (and like the idea that there will be more where that came from) sign up here…