Rachel Parris: The Commission
03/08/2013 … Any of the surprisingly small number of people who have seen Rachel Parris’s YouTube video Amazing, a spoof X-Factor winner’s song, would need no further convincing…
2013 Archives
Sat 03 August 2013
Rhys Nicholson: Dawn Of A New Error
03/08/2013 … Rude, corrosive and cheerfully appalling, Rhys Nicolson’s bittersweet journey into his past certainly isn’t for the faint hearted.
It's the joke, not the animation, that matters
Howard Read chooses his comedy favourites
03/08/2013 … Danger MouseDanger Mouse is one of the reasons I’m an animator.
Fri 02 August 2013
Campaigning Burmese comic dies at 67
U Pa Pa Lay had prostate cancer
02/08/2013 … U Pa Pa Lay – the Burmese comedian twice jailed for criticising his country’s ruling junta – has died at the age of 67.
Medals for comedy
Stand-ups honoured for entertaining troops
02/08/2013 … Comics Barry Castagnola, Mark Walker and Sean Collins have been awarded medals for entertaining frontline troops.
'It's basically a stupid face and noise...'
Joe Lycett chooses his comedy favourites
02/08/2013 … DomesticThis little beaut from YouTubers Hammonday was the hardest I've laughed at anything on the internet.