The Guardian’s set of British Band Top Trumps is a dud in terms of production values – uneven cards, poor paper stock and you have to photocopy the newspaper in order to make a full pack. They get the mechanics of Top Trumps exactly right[…]

Living on the East London borderland between the Turkish Quarter and the Vietnamese Quarter (and should you choose to accept your mission) you get to discover lots about real actual Turkish Delight in all its flavours and forms. Here is a warning for[…]

A few months ago, a prominent TMFDer was on Radio 5’s breakfast show, interviewed by none other than Victoria Derbyshire. I’m not a fan of Victoria Derbyshire, she seems to embark on brief breakfast radio interview slots with a clear idea[…]

QI continues to blot the midweek BBC schedules, sloshing around the comedy quiz genre in an entirely pointless, middle class way. Not that there are any comedy quiz shows that aren’t middle class; Radio 4 remains their spiritual home, where an[…]

I have never liked Turkish Delight. It tastes like jellified bubble bath (no I have never eaten jellified bubble bath, I am using my imagination). I have tried, honest I have – I’ve had the Fry’s stuff and the stuff covered in talc […]

I don’t really know why I still go to open mic poetry nights, as I reached the age where other people’s earnestness becomes anathema quite a while ago. But as Paul Stones, host of Howling at the Moon, said last night (though in slightly […]

Since I was a child, I’ve been certain that our planet is not the only place where life exists. I can remember staying up with the covers pulled around my head in bed, with my eyes glued to shows like Nova on late-night public television. Seein[…]

Celebrity is what most people aspire to, thinking that fame is only about the click and whir of the camera lens. This is true, though it also allows television advertisers an avenue to sell their products. Old Navy and Gap are the old guard at this, […]

Then again, perhaps I will just…
I just went from watching Grass, a Fast Show spinoff on BBC3, to reading the final story in the Essential Human Torch volume that I mentioned below. This story features the Watcher, and I realised that I see him[…]

Remember option two of how to expand a comedy show, especially for a movie? Option one was always send the cast on holiday together, but a close runner-up was to add a weedy crime thriller plot, usually where our hero(es) witness some awful crime. Th[…]