Chris Morris (I)

The distorted world of Chris Morris

A rare interview with the reclusive agent provocateur of comedy.

If you like and respect the cult of Chris Morris then jam will please you. If you are in any way suspicious of his motives, talent or genuine ability to innovate then you will find much here to support your viewpoint. Either way, this is undeniably different, although perhaps not different enough.

Whatever my personal feelings might be (and I thought series three of the radio show was substandard, and quite predictable in places), I'm glad it exists, jam. It makes you think that there are other ways of being out there, that there are lives a million miles away from what most of us would regard as "normal".

Arts: Chris Morris is dead... funny

The anarchic 'Blue Jam' show is a blunted sword on stage, but his disciples don't care.

Kind of Blue

It's melancholic. It's dark. It's like nothing you've heard on radio. Chris Morris tells John Mulholland how his brilliant show was inspired by a desolate mood.

Blues in the night

A more thoughtful Chris Morris is back on the airwaves, says Stephen Armstrong.

But what finally convinced me that On The Hour had made its own mark on radio comedy was its effrontery in taking a hefty lunge at its stablemate The Week Ending, "The long-running, irreverent romp through the week's news". An inside glimpse of the planning meeting, mild sneers at the pace, the students' union flavour - and, unkindest cut of all, a crack about giving "Old and middle class people in the south-east something to chuckle about".