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Alex Cartlidge

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Jordan Brookes pilots dark, mixed-media sitcom Go Home Jordan Brookes

Jordan Brookes is piloting Go Home Jordan Brookes, an offbeat, loosely autobiographical sitcom, described as "the small town homecoming story of The Cockfields and Back To Life mixed with the surreal world of Twin Peaks". Co-starring Jan Ravens and Sunil Patel, the boomerang generation sitcom features an ambitious mix of animation, puppetry and deepfake technology, as well as home video footage of Brookes as a child.

British Comedy Guide, 28th November 2024

Jazz Emu announces visual concept album Ego Death

Comedy musician Jazz Emu is releasing a "hubristic" visual concept album, a "self-indulgent" 30-minute music film featuring a host of comic talent, including Harry Enfield, Alex Horne, Al Roberts, Charly Clive, Ellen Robertson, Phil Dunning, Ed Jones and Will Hislop.

British Comedy Guide, 22nd November 2024

Jazz Emu pilots musical comedy series

Archie Henderson stars as Jazz Emu, his musical character, in new comedy pilot which has just been released online.

British Comedy Guide, 25th May 2022

E4 pilots animated dating comedy

E4 is to trial a new comedy dating show, matching singles by phone and animating their encounters in a series of YouTube shorts.

British Comedy Guide, 26th January 2021

Interview: David Mitchell

David Mitchell talks the credit crunch, Footlights and saying fuck on BBC Radio 2.

Alex Cartlidge, Varsity, 28th November 2014

John Cleese interview

The book has taken two years to write by hand, although he tells me "The thing that takes the time is trying to think of something that you think is worth saying, and then the way that you like to put it down is totally secondary."

Alex Cartlidge, Varsity, 31st October 2014

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