Why good jokes are hard to remember
22/03/2009 … Good jokes are harder to remember than bad ones, scientists have discovered.
2009 Archives
Sun 22 March 2009
Festival: The Movie
22/03/2009 … You probably wouldn’t have noticed her among the hundreds of desperate performers thronging Edinburgh’s Royal Mile during last year’s festival.
I'm not that interested in comedy..
22/03/2009 … Small Time Crooks is more reminiscent of your earlier films, more slapstick and less serious.
Apocalypse now
The League of Gentlemen talk about their big-screen debut
22/03/2009 … The League Of Gentlemen’s first movie Apocalypse opens next month; and yesterday some of the team held a Q&A session for invited journalists in central London.
Meet the makers
22/03/2009 … It might seem like sacrilege to its legions of fans, but the new Hitchhikers’ Guide To The Galaxy movie has taken liberties with the characters, lines and script…
'It's hard not to become the Chucke Brothers...'
Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon in A Cock And Bull Story
22/03/2009 … Late autumn light filters through the great oaks surrounding Felbrigg Hall in Norfolk, a little-known National Trust gem that is one of the most authentic 17th Century…
Filth sells!
Interview with Aristocrats director Paul Provenza
22/03/2009 … It’s changed Hollywood attitudes and altered the landscape of stand-up comedy.
Pure filth
22/03/2009 … Can you explain the joke that’s the subject of The Aristocrats for those who haven’t heard it? PENN: You get to hear it a lot in the movie, so why ruin it here.