Dave Gorman: Modern Life Is Goodish

British Sell-A-Con: BT and the Brit Method

BT provide their email in collaboration with Yahoo and, at the top of my inbox, there's an ad. It's normally for something innocuous. In the example above it's for Californian holidays. I don't mind that. I do mind when it's an ad for something that's altogether less wholesome... an ad for something called The Oxford Method. ... and if you saw the fourth series of Modern Life Is Goodish last year, it might be ringing a faint bell or two. Because last year, one of the episodes had a section about something called The Brit Method. And also the Aussie Method and the Canuck Method and the Irish Method and a whole lot more.

Dave Gorman explains Mickypedia

The thing people most want to know about is Mickypedia...

"King of PowerPoint comedy" isn't a viciously contested mantle, but Gorman deserves praise for having mastered his craft. His fourth series of lectures begins with a look at "extractor fans", people so keen to project expertise, they suck the joy out of the thing they like. He has a pleasing streak of curmudgeon, and is as skilled with a comic callback as he is with his slides: his climactic anecdote about an online quiz is sublime.

Dave Gorman: Modern Life is Goodish review

Is modern life good? Sort of. Is it good to see Modern Life is Goodish back on the box? Definitely.

Online abuse? It's water off a comedian's back

"It's sort of like writing a letter to McVities saying 'I hate your biscuits'"

Babymetal fans are intense aren't they...

There was another part of the show that seemed to attract quite a lot of feedback... the part in which I referred to the number of retweets given to some of Harry Styles tweets... a lot of people were aghast at the fact that I said "Baby Metal" was just two random words...

Martin Roberts finds out about Dave Gorman

So Series 3 of Modern Life Is Goodish kicked off last night... and there was a fair chunk of material involving Homes Under The Hammer in general and one of its presenters, Martin Roberts in particular. When a show like that goes out, it's obvious that anyone being talked about is going to find out about it...

Dave Gorman: Modern Life Is Goodish review

The show was a little tour de force, terrific-ish.