Jam

Jam: The experimental black comedy by Chris Morris

Life is fragile and baulked about by difficulty. Still, through a series of disturbing and surreal vignettes, Morris provided an experimental critique of our modern ills while making the whole human enterprise the absurdist comedy that it undoubtedly is.

From Python to The Young Ones, how British comedy and music became forever linked

As he releases a new book looking back at the history of British comedy, writer David Stubbs explains how it's always found an unlikely friend in music.

The show that shaped me: Jamie Campbell on Jam

Chris Morris' fearless, subversive sketch show taught the creative director of Sex Education producer Eleven Film that nothing was off limits.

7 clips that prove Chris Morris's also a musical genius

Looking back at Morris's body of work, 20 years after the first episode of Brass Eye was broadcast on January 29, 1997, it's clear that few people have combined music and comedy quite as successfully. Whether he's creating strung-out ambient music for a short film about a talking dog or parodying Eminem to highlight the media hysteria surrounding paedophilia, Morris's use of music strikes the balance between creating black comedy and something that's actually listenable. Below are seven of his finest music moments - just be careful not to find yourself jazzing to the bleep tone of a life support machine.

Either way, though, jam became too predictable - something you could never ever accuse of either On The Hour, The Day Today or Brass Eye.

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".