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April, 2012

Why ITV Should Look to America For Inspiration

With the recent appointment of Myfanwy Moore as ITV’s new Commissioner for Comedy, the channel has taken up the challenge of Sky’s recent big budget injection into…

Sightseers to open in Cannes

For quite some time we’ve had our own sights set on this dark comedy feature from beardy genius director Ben Wheatley. Written by and starring two brilliant…

The Key of Awesome

TKOA is a comedy web series that has been watched over 600 million times on the internet. Wowsers! It was started by Ben Relles and Mark Douglas…

What the Olympics Really Needs

Hark Charlie Brooker’s wise words on the Olympics published this weekend. Since the moment the countdown clock started dropping digits we have whinged and bitched – as…

Something Picasso

A sigh of relief from Funnies this morning for those passengers aboard MS Balmoral who have finally made it to the New York coastline. Whilst some dress…

Victorious Sponge

Ah today is taking longer than we expected at Finite Towers. So it must be cake time! The time when your body says don’t worry about how…

Top Comedy At Sundance UK

This weekend the inaugural Sundance London Film Festival opens at the O2. Earlier this month, John Cooper, director of  Sundance, explained to The Guardian  “We’re a mission-driven organisation,…

Funniest Film Poster Parodies

A dear friend, who’s more than a dab hand with Photoshop posted this delight on my friend’s Facebook last night (I believe he was inspired by a…

Forget the Grand National – it’s all about Boris, Ken and Ian

For those of you who aren’t yet familiar with Ian Bowler let me enlighten you. Sir Ian (as he likes to be known), MP for Buckland and…

Simon Amstell’s Numb Tour

Nob off Parky and Wogan, since the days of Pop World we’ve all come to accept Simon Amstell as the best interviewer of all time. Those tustles with Winehouse,…