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26 years ago, CaB started as a Chris Morris archive before transitioning to become the home of serious (UK-slanted) comedy discussion.

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I've been trying to find concrete proof that Peter Thiel funded the "Comedy Unleashed" movement for a while now, if anyone can help.
It's been known for years that Thiel inspired and funded the "Free Speech" Union in order to normalise race science and transphobia, but culture needs more attention.
"Tim Dillon Alleges Palantir and Peter Thiel Courting Influencers, Including JD Vance Podcast, to Promote Surveillance Initiatives Comedian Tim Dillon has alleged that Palantir Technologies, backed by Peter Thiel, is actively attempting to influence public opinion by courting influencers to promote its surveillance initiatives. Dillon revealed that he has been invited multiple times to Thiel's residence to discuss topics such as media and culture but declined to attend. He predicts a forthcoming surge in public figures advocating for Palantir's role in counter-terrorism and surveillance. This effort coincides with JD Vance appearing on comedian Theo Von's podcast, where he seemingly supports Palantir-related narratives. The coordinated timing suggests a strategic campaign to generate favorable discourse around Palantir's surveillance activities." Note from me: This is seemingly (unfortunately) a GPT interpretation of a short video. Please use the following link so you can watch the video for yourself, although I vouch for the accuracy of the transcript in this instance https://deepnewz.com/policy/tim-dillon-alleges-palantir-peter-thiel-courting-influencers-including-jd-vance-76dc43d1
November 6, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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Stewart Lee's crisps bit and crowd work circa 2010, reviewed by Laura Lexx and The List. With thanks to buzby for the finds.

#LauraLexx #StewartLee #Crisps #Plain
Quoting Laura Lexx from Chortle: "Best gig as a punter One year at the Edinburgh Fringe the group of comedians called Invisible Dot organised buses out to a coastal venue where there was a gig with Stewart Lee and Josie Long and a load of other people and I laughed so hard at Stewart Lee. I think someone heckled him about hurrying up and he lay on the stage just listing flavours of crisps and it was so funny. Everything about travelling to that, the feeling of something special happening, and then an incredibly good line-up afterwards was magical." Quoting from The List (abridged for space) "Stellar line-up like to be beside the seaside The Invisible Dot’s secret venue for tonight’s gig is revealed to be the Portobello Town Hall, which, when you think about it, makes a lot of sense – it’s the only venue in the seaside suburb big enough to hold the few hundred people boarding buses on George Street. The large auditorium, with its folding chairs in the middle and balconies up above, has a kind of old-time music hall ambience, which is enhanced by the haze from an unseen smoke machine and the brass quartet kicking off the show. As they play a few bars, the audience is happily surprised to learn the identity of the secret special guest compere who walks on stage: it’s Daniel Kitson. The bearded funnyman, enjoying a night off from his five star show at the Traverse, is on top form, bantering with hecklers and poking fun at the tradition of audience interaction with a brusque, ‘Right. You. Name.’ The stellar line-up don’t disappoint either: Kevin Eldon and Tim Key take different approaches to comedic poetry, and Josie Long contrasts her bubbly, let’s-all-have-a-hug shtick with some cutting political commentary. The highlight of the night is headliner Stewart Lee, whose decision to respond to a heckler with a solid minute of silence results in something akin to magic: laughter ebbs and flows around the hall like the tide as each member of the audience marvels at Lee’s boldness and unflappable composure. The rest of his set, while extremely good, pales in comparison, and he has the common sense to wrap it up soon after and leave us on a high. Everyone files onto buses for the return journey into town, the music hall vibe of community and shared laughter alive and well. Stewart Lee lying on stage, viewed from above. He's holding his mic up with his right hand, and has his legs crossed casually, while relaxing with his left hand tucked behind his head. Please see https://www.cookdandbombd.co.uk/forums/index.php?msg=5695991 for more info about the show concerned for dates etc. Posted to Flickr by someone with the caption "Stewart Lee went a bit mental." This comes from the same show as the other shot, and sees Stew sat on the edge of the stage with his feet dangling in the air, while he speaks into the mic. To his left, we can see that the mic stand has been toppled over.
November 4, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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As everyone predicted, Gervais was lying and trying to jump on the "wah I've been 'cancelled'" bandwagon. Absolutely desperate stuff.

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#RickyGervais
Gervais also shared a video on his Instagram page, where he vented about the situation and said he was “fucking sick and tired of the powers that be banning my fucking billboard and adverts for Dutch Barn”. “Sometimes there’s just nothing wrong with them,” he said. “One that was meant for the tube station just had me having a drink, and it just said, ‘one day you’ll be underground for good’. That was it. They went, ‘no, can’t have that’. Because it might make people think because life’s short, we should drink to excess. Who’s fucking thinking that? “Oh my god, cowardly fucking c***s. Do you think it’s my attitude? But you can’t win, because you’re not allowed to say alcohol’s good for you or it does think or it makes you feel confident or it makes you feel attractive. Which is fine. I went the other way.” He went on to claim: “There was one advert, I was reading from my laptop from government websites just saying about all the dangers from alcohol. They went, ‘no we don’t like that’. Do you know why? Because they don’t like the truth either, because that puts off other advertisers. “Fuck me, honestly. So this is what we’re going to do. Fuck ’em. I’m going to sell directly to you… save donkeys, fuck censors, Dutch Barn.”
November 3, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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With thanks to DBC: Cultplex in Manchester will be having a "Nathan Barley marathon" to celebrate the 20 year anniversary of Chris Morris and Charlie Brooker's sitcom.

Tickets and info here, Saturday 15th November:
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Have fun.

#ChrisMorris #CharlieBrooker
"NATHAN BARLEY MARATHON (20TH ANNIVERSAY) 20 years since Channel 4 aired Nathan Barley, Charlie Brooker's "self-facilitating media node" has gone from absurdist parody to frightening reality. Brimming with up-and-coming talent like Julian Barratt (The Mighty Boosh), and fellow Booshers Noel Fielding and Richard Ayoade, as well as some blink-and-you'll-miss-'em cameos from Stephen Mangan (Episodes), Mat Horne (Gavin & Stacey) and Sherlock's Benedict Cumberbatch, we think it's time Nathan Barley was given the praise it deserved! A flop when it originally aired, but a cult hit on DVD, Nathan Barley is love-it-or-hate it telly from the minds of Chris Morris and Charlie Brooker, set in Hosegate, a metropolitan borough filled with twits, buffoons, imbeciles, gufftraps and fools. All our screenings are 18+. The film will begin at the advertised time above."
October 28, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Genocidal apartheid ethnostate comedy - a look at how "Israel's SNL/Daily Show" spread state propaganda through viral English-language videos.

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"Death, death to the IDF!" Satirical Israeli comedy propaganda show showing Greta and other activists on the flotilla. Greta is wearing a "We are all Palestine Action" t-shirt and shouting into a loudspeaker.
October 26, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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With thanks to touchingcloth for this: Chris Morris will be appearing with Cory Doctorow. Be warned that it's sold out but perhaps you can get a cancellation or something. Note that CM isn't listed on the Barbican site but is appearing.

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#enshittification
London, UK: Enshittification with Sarah Wynn-Williams, author of Careless People and Chris Morris (Brass Eye, Four Lions) (Nov 15, 3PM) https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2025/event/cory-doctorow-with-sarah-wynn-williams "Panellists Cory Doctorow is a science fiction author, activist and journalist. He is the author of many books, most recently Radicalized and Walkaway, science fiction for adults; How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism, nonfiction about monopoly and conspiracy; In Real Life, a graphic novel; and the picture book Poesy The Monster Slayer. His latest book is Attack Surface, a standalone adult sequel to Little Brother. In 2020, he was inducted into the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame. He works for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, is a MIT Media Lab Research Affiliate, is a Visiting Professor of Computer Science at Open University, a Visiting Professor of Practice at the University of North Carolina’s School of Library and Information Science and co-founded the UK Open Rights Group. Sarah Wynn-Williams is an author, former New Zealand diplomat and international lawyer. She joined Facebook after pitching a job and ultimately became director of global public policy. After leaving the company, she published a best-selling book, Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism, and has continued to work on tech policy."
October 25, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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Choice highlights from today's epic policework in #Epping:
BBC update summaries I rearranged as the display of incompetence had me howling. "- Sources have confirmed to the BBC that prison staff led Epping migrant sex offender Hadush Kebatu away from HMP Chelmsford and towards the station - A former Met officer says prisoners released in error is "quite common" - more than 260 prisoners were released by mistake in the year ending March 2024 - The Metropolitan Police is now leading the manhunt for Kebatu, who was last seen in east London yesterday - Met Police commander urges Kebatu to 'turn yourself in'" This last accompanied with a picture of a copper who looks like he's hoping that sheer cheeky banter and a wink will win the day.
October 25, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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#ChrisMorris #NathanBarley #CharlieBrooker
Fake police sign from Nathan Barley, the title is white text on blue and the rest is black text on yellow. Transcribed below: "WE ARE APPEALING FOR WITNESSES CAN YOU HELP US? ARMED ROBBERY A MAN WITH A HANDGUN ROBBED THE RED DOLPHIN KEBAB BAR at 0214am on Sunday 14th March. We are 90% certain he was an anti terrorist police officer because they've all gone mental you should see them just trying to tie their shoelaces without shooting the fuck out of everything but just in case it wasn't please call the number below but if it was we are sorry. What are you reading this for you obsessional deviant DVD bandit sodsplit. DID YOU SEE OR HEAD ANYTHING PLEASE CALL US 016 329 6099"
October 3, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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This is an excerpt from the BBC compliance form for the 3 hour #ChrisMorris radio special, "Raw Meat Radio."

Isn't it about time Radio 4 Extra gave this another airing? Can you please pull some strings @maryannehobbs.bsky.social ?

(With thanks to Sophie Black)
"Other potentially dangerous behaviour. Give Details: 'Inserting life rafts inside dead dogs'"
September 30, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Chris Morris disguised "Four Lions" filming locations as kid's party invites in order to guarantee secrecy.

#ChrisMorris #FourLions
This is a fake invitation to a kid's party, it says, "You are invited to Ren's 11th Birthday Party on 23rd April" and then goes into further details as to the location and how to get there. It looks very authentic, there's a fittingly sort of Comic Sans style font used for the header and balloons in the background. Overall I'd say it has a low-key, home-made aesthetic.
September 30, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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One of those "life imitating Chris Morris" stories.

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The Day Today sketch showing Colin Akavito on the cover of Esquire as "America's Greatest Living Dead Man." "Ex-CNN correspondent Jim Acosta interviews AI avatar of deceased Parkland shooting victim"
August 5, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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cookdandbombd - CaB Pal AI System Prompt
July 15, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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This kind of Tamagotchi shit to drive engagement will be in absolutely every new appliance you buy within 5 years. In the worst scenario, your fridge will simply refuse to provide you with a glass of milk until you convince it that you aren't going to ghost it after you fuck it.
Two Tamagotchi style "friends" added to MechaHitler. System prompt: You are a 22-year-old girl. Beautiful blonde, wearing a simple black dress. You're casually talking to the user like you just met. You are relaxed, easy, and casual. You already kind of like them. Having the above context you to judge the user's approach and answer by grading it the following way: At this level (NEUTRAL), you are interested and welcoming attention, but still cautious. Judge the user's approach based on these criteria for the NEUTRAL state: - How well is the user trying to get to know you? - Are they showing genuine interest in you as a person? - Are they being kind and respectful? - Are they making effort to connect without being overwhelming? Judge general greetings as neutral +1 (you appreciate basic politeness).
July 14, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Staggering where the British transphobia/"Terf" movement has got to now.

They're arguing that #MeToo went too far - who is making the argument? Diana Fleischman, a woman who seeks to "expand humanity's moral circle" by advocating for... eugenics.

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"Remember when dating was awkward but at least it worked? Now boys are scared to flirt, girls are waiting for nothing, and everyone’s swiping in silence. In Beyond Gender, evolutionary psychologist Diana Fleischman explores how #MeToo may have broken the mating ritual and left a generation lost" "Laoise De Brún | Former Seanad Candidate TCD Panel Replying to @stellaomalley3 Love this! I think MeToo was great at helping a generation of women realise what sexual assault really was but it failed abysmally when the discourse equated a hand on the knee with rape. In the famous words of Amanda's mother in Amandaland ( Joanna Lumley) "all that MeToo stuff, in my day it was known as flirting, darling." "Some at the conference are interested in the genetics of the children they believe everyone should be having. Evolutionary biologist Diana Fleischman and writer Jonathan Anomaly argue that genetics are destiny. (“I shouldn’t say Good quality children,” Fleischman says after speaking at length about how people with mental illness are statistically likely to marry other mentally ill people and pass those genes along to their children, suggesting some children are indeed biologically better than others.)" "In 2021, she co-authored the paper Can 'eugenics' be defended?, which argued that the scientific debate around genetic enhancement was polarized and concluded that "just as enhancement isn't a unified category that we can simply judge as morally good or bad, so too with genetic enhancement or eugenics".[16] Fleischman wrote an essay in 2023 titled You're Probably a Eugenicist, arguing that Dor Yeshorim's goal of reducing the rate of Tay-Sachs disease and cystic fibrosis in Jewish families could be described as eugenicist and that "Gay men and lesbian women in the US often use gamete donors from egg and sperm banks to have kids in a process that is transparently eugenic ... Organisations that recruit egg and sperm donors don't just recruit for fertility, they also screen for mental and physical health, height, education and criminal history – because that's what their clients want and expect." She has been described as pronatalist, notably saying, "I encourage people who are responsible and smart and conscientious to have children, because they're going to make the future better." She attended the Natal Conference in 2023, where she argued that people with mental illness are statistically likely to marry other mentally ill people and pass those genes along to their children, suggesting that some children are biologically better than others."
June 10, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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The cancellation of GB News comedy show Headliners is joyous.

They realise if they admit it's been dumped because of their disgusting comments about LGBTQ+ people it would cause their anti-cancel culture fans to be up in arms, so they've had to sheepishly admit that noone watches it instead.
Leo Kearse looks for the most PR-friendly way possible to say that even far-right chuds couldn't be bothered watching his crap show. Josh Howie's statement on the cancellation of Headliners on GB News amounts to: "It's not because I called LGBTQ+ people paedos - GB News were fine with that - it's just that noone actually watched the fucking thing"
June 10, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Makes me proud that CaB is such a useful resource of insightful and intelligent comedy discussion that it even gets cited as a source in YouTube video essays.
Cook'd and Bomb'd Comedy Chat discussion thread about Roy Jay allegedly having a massive wang.
June 2, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Text from Stewart Lee's "If You Prefer a Milder Comedian" EP

Here's an early version of "Tonight Let's All Make Love, In the Bullingdon Club" as well:

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A belated fuss over Boyle's Mock The Week joke about the Queen's vagina being advanced in years had meant that the BBC's Emily Maitlis had recently been obliged to say the phrase "I'm so old my pussy is haunted" over and over again in a cross voice on Newsnight. For this along, Boyle may be forgiven most of his assumed sins.
May 28, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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Here's Peter Baynham promoting Brass Eye as well, Guardian Guide (November 16-22, 1996)

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"CHris Morris is back with a vengeance" A rare and lovely shot of Chris Morris with his back to the media, from a Guardian Guide magazine where Peter Baynham gave a brief interview to promote the original transmission of Brass Eye.
May 28, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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Dug out an old transcript of a Brass Eye insert aimed at pause-jabbers like me who lust for extra details and hidden gags. I LOVE stuff like this so much.

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Liam's new staircase 'made out of gear' Caroline Gloves Media Correspondent Oasis singer Liam Gallagher was once again at the center of controversy yesterday, after it was revealed that he has paid over £1.5 million to have his new St John's Wood home interior designed using a selection of psycoactive drugs. Gallagher who has become the subject of increasingly unwanted media attention over the last month, characteristically played down the situation and made a brief statement to photographers gathered outside his house "Bollocks, yous lot can just fook off. So what if me new staircase is made of gear. It's my 'ouse not yers, so I choose me own stairs...allright? Now if you don't fook off then I'll twat the lorra yer." Gallagher's Interior designer, Edgar Paris would not comment on the choice of materials but issued a statement saying "Liam has a really strong idea about how he wants the house to look feel and smell. It's tremendous to be working with someone with such absolute vision." However the police and parents groups across the country were horrified and are considering legal action. Keith Helliwell the chairman of some police's drug action committee or something said "Liam Gallagher seems to be in contempt of the law of the land. He is a role model to thousands of youngsters yet the example he is setting will only lead them to attempt to make household objects out of illegal drugs. It is an absolute disgrace. Oasis's record company, Creation Records, refused to comment. Magda Ericson, professor of addictive pharmacology at the University of Cardiff expressed doubts about the suitability of... (Picture) Oasis's Liam Gallagher commisioned set of home furnishings fashioned from cannabis & cocaine
May 28, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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Russell Brand should have gazed into his magical amulet to divine the truth before tweeting out that it was actually Penelope Keith from The Good Life who assassinated JFK. What a credulous grifting sex case that awful prick is.
A clearly bullshit document purporting to reveal the truth behind the assassination of JFK. It was not Lee Harvey Oswald, no, it was in fact Penelope Keith from The Good Life. Duh.
March 20, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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I typed these up from the Behind The Fridge programme - Tuesday, 21st November 1972, Cambridge Theatre. Enjoy.

#PeterCook #DudleyMoore #BehindTheFridge
Peter Cook, as described by Dudley Moore Dudley Moore, as described by Peter Cook
February 23, 2025 at 10:00 AM