British Comedy Guide

We read 11-year-old Howard's newspaper article about an unusual caterpillar - called "A Green Thing that Grows..." More episodes: https://www.comedy.co.uk/podcasts/worst_writer/ Join the gang: https://www.patreon.com/manbuycow

The simple answer is "it's what BBC Writersroom are looking for this November." Dave and James return to this tricky question to help you work out your best strategy for entering the competition - with extra helpful advice from top writers who excel at the form. Submissions open Wednesday 9 November and close Wednesday 7 December 2022. Details here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/opportunities/...

Chapter 123 - Thiftle Be Ye Laft One of Ye Fummer. It's 5:23pm on 26th July 2022 and the sun is burning hotter than it looks like it'll be and a dehydrated Richard Herring barely manages to clear a stone, let alone talk about it. The thiftles cheer him on his way to Fcotchland and the bramblef magically appear for to give him fuccour. If the Stone Gods will it then we will be back in the autumn fo...

Episode 69! Goodnight Sweethearts - It's the end of the current series of Twitch of Fun and what a number to go out on! But will we return or will Richard finally have made the breakthrough to proper TV. That's right TV. Which has ten years left. Just the right time to leave the internet behind. Does Sybil see more Twitch of Fun in the future? And why didn't she see the tyre blowout that put paid...

Chapter 122 - Daify Duke. It's the evening time of 20th July 2022 and after a hiatus the stone clearing podcast is back to tell you how to clear stones when the earth's vagina is baked hard and the crops are thick. In the heat of the summer this is an exceptional sexual chapter and must not be listened to children or adults who don't like to listen to a man talking about being sucked off by stones...

Dave and James welcome back the kings of DIY moviemaking Danny Stack and Tim Clague. Fresh from their triumphant week at the Cannes Film Festival, the UK Scriptwriters team talk about making your own shows, selling them abroad, and how to make a name for yourself even if you don't know anyone in the business. More episodes: https://www.comedy.co.uk/podcasts/sitcom_geeks/

We read several stories that Howard wrote at primary school - including Haunted Hotel, Whodunnit, and the epoch-defining Nut Planet. More episodes: https://www.comedy.co.uk/podcasts/worst_writer/ Join the gang: https://www.patreon.com/manbuycow

Episode 68 - Modern Girl - Richard has been taken advantage of by Ian Pizza Express, but at least he now knows the best way to cut up a pepper. He is (eventually) joined by Ally and they discuss Richard's glittering new TV career, whether Rich is married to his mum, dolphins pooing on coral reefs, Brad Pitt being unable to recognise faces and why only three Michael Jackson records are being cancel...

Commissioners say they love them, they remain hugely popular, nobody's writing them. Surely the answer is obviously yes yes yes! Dave and James think so but be aware of the high risks - and you'll need to think creatively about pitching the idea. More episodes: https://www.comedy.co.uk/podcasts/sitcom_geeks/

Young Howard decided that The Wind in the Willows just wasn't realistic enough - so he rewrote it. More episodes: https://www.comedy.co.uk/podcasts/worst_writer/ Join the gang: https://www.patreon.com/manbuycow

Frame 147 - Maximum Break - An incredible landmark as the podcast hits its 147th frame. Sadly everyone involved is so knackered that this is going to be a total waste of 20 minutes of your life. Richard seems annoyed to be there, the players can't play, the referee can't remember whose go it is. Absolute fucking shambles. More episodes: https://www.comedy.co.uk/podcasts/richard_herring_snooker/

Our latest drunk writing challenge - to write Mister Men or Little Miss stories! More episodes: https://www.comedy.co.uk/podcasts/worst_writer/ Join the gang: https://www.patreon.com/manbuycow

TOF Episode 67 - Sex Mites. Richard is killing time before the Champion of Champions Taskmaster show airs - has he beaten the odds to win? He and Ally discuss the perverts in our pores, newly single Jerry Hall and soon to be married (?) Olivia Wilde and insensitive to people who obviously weren't witches. There's a return from the dead for an unpopular character and perhaps in exchange the loss of...

In Part 2 of the interview, Ashley Pharoah, co-creator of Life On Mars, explains the eight years of development that preceded the hit drama, and how it literally involved bags of money. And entertains us with tales of his other top-rated shows and, ah, Bonekickers. More episodes: https://www.comedy.co.uk/podcasts/sitcom_geeks/

We watched the best Superman movie ever made: Superman III (1983). Now we're going to take a very long time trying to understand it. More episodes: https://www.comedy.co.uk/podcasts/worst_writer/ Join the gang: https://www.patreon.com/manbuycow

Frame 146 - No, I'm Czechoslovakia. In a crucial frame in the contest, Me1 takes on Me2 at snooker to see who is the best at snooker. They are both tired and dizzy and there are a few fouls in this one and practically no decent play, But you have to take the rough with the smooth and snooker is a game of two halves, so shut up with your complaining and just watch or listen to it and be grateful it...

Twitch of Fun - Episode 66 - Check it! History has been made. Twitch of Fun has gone live, in front of a studio audience, full of countless fans (if you're unable to count over 60). In an impressively unprepared show on a very slow news day, Rich and Ally and the puppets that could fit in Richard's bag discuss the world's loneliest tortoise, the hands of Prince Charles, the world's most vengeful e...

We watched the best Superman movie ever made: Superman III (1983). Now we're going to take a very long time trying to understand it. More episodes: https://www.comedy.co.uk/podcasts/worst_writer/ Join the gang: https://www.patreon.com/manbuycow

TOF #65: Peanuts In My Throat. Rich is back after a week off due to illness and there's lots of exciting robot sex news for him to chow down on, and lots of peanuts. He and Ally discuss what they'd do with a sweaty finger, how long they'd wait for a girlfriend in a coma and whether they would eat poop in order to defy ageing. A Twitch of Fun fan pretends to have a wife to impress the chat room and...

There most certainly was for Ashley Pharoah, who went on to co-create of Life On Mars, one of the best comic drama series of the last 20 years. In Part 1, he talks about breaking into the industry through writing for soaps and making his own stuff, including Where The Heart Is and Around The World In Eighty Days. More episodes: https://www.comedy.co.uk/podcasts/sitcom_geeks/

Frame 145 - Württemberg. In a crucial frame in the contest, Me1 and Me2 face off on the old green board to try to determine which of them is best at snooker, whilst Richard propositions an 82 year-old woman who was widowed today and everyone gets a bit too excited about Referee 3 (can you spot the mistake she made in setting up the board?). Hang around til the end for the greatest shot ever made i...

Chapter 121 - Fometimef ye ftonef are Filent. It's about 5.15pm on 7th June 2022 and it's been a month since the last podcasted stone clear, so we have to feel our way back together. Stripped back to basics, fighting some of the most difficult conditions known to stone clearers and seeing the sprouting of this year's poppies and thistles that come from where stone friends and enemies fell. It's ce...

We watched the best Superman movie ever made: Superman III (1983). Now we're going to take a very long time trying to understand it. More episodes: https://www.comedy.co.uk/podcasts/worst_writer/ Join the gang: https://www.patreon.com/manbuycow

Frame 144 - Referee Three - In this crucial frame Me 1 takes on Me 2 at snooker to determine who is the best at snooker. And recent refereeing errors mean the frame begins with a bang, with no expense spared for the special effects. Will a new broom sweep the sport clean of claims of corruption. It's an incredibly spooky frame with thrills and spills and pills and gills. Watch to the end. You won'...

We watched the best Superman movie ever made: Superman III (1983). Now we're going to take a very long time trying to understand it. More episodes: https://www.comedy.co.uk/podcasts/worst_writer/ Join the gang: https://www.patreon.com/manbuycow