Who’s laughing now? The gags that derailed comedy careers
Kyle Gass’s ill-judged Donald Trump assassination jibe has put Tenacious D on ice. Will he be for ever cancelled, or bounce back like Billy Connolly and Jo Brand?
September 2022
Day Today ‘Pound stolen’ sketch goes viral after sterling tanks
Social media users post sardonic British humour after Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini-budget
March 2022
Brass Eye’s outtakes show the brutal TV comedy was the tip of an iceberg
With rare footage and personal insights, the documentary Oxide Ghosts is a must-see for fans of Chris Morris’s satire, which is 25 years old
August 2021
The Day Today: prophetic parody that’s still funny in the fake news era
Armando Iannucci and Chris Morris’s satire first aired 27 years ago. These days the media is almost too shameless to satirise, but – as the cast reunite – the show’s hilarity remains
October 2019
Mark Kermode's film of the week
The Day Shall Come review – Chris Morris’s overcooked FBI farce
Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
The Day Shall Come review – Desperate Feds take on cult in sly Chris Morris satire
September 2019
'This isn't a paranoid future nightmare': the explosive return of Chris Morris
The satirist’s new film was inspired by the FBI’s attempts to manufacture terrorists. He talks about the problem with white liberals – and his duty to provoke
March 2019
First look review
The Day Shall Come review – Chris Morris returns with wild farce
The mysterious writer-director travels to Miami for a short but sharp comedy about an idealistic preacher targeted by the FBI
January 2019
'You've lost the news!' How The Day Today changed satire forever
25 years ago, Chris Morris and Armando Iannucci’s uproarious news spoof unleashed Fake News on the world (not to mention Alan Partridge)
October 2018
Beyond Bodyguard: can the BBC's Informer finally subvert the Muslim stereotype on TV?
From oppressed wives to crazed jihadists, TV’s Islamophobia is rife. Nabhaan Rizwan stars in the new BBC thriller hoping to change the narrative
July 2018
'Always go slightly too far': what makes ambush TV work?
Sacha Baron Cohen’s Who Is America? follows a long line of TV troublemakers who fooled guests into self-sabotage, but his scattergun approach risks missing the mark
December 2017
The most exciting comedy and drama films of 2018
Wes Anderson’s dog-filled dystopia arrives, Christian Bale does Dick Cheney, and gay-conversion therapy stories show alongside supernatural thrillers
October 2017
Twenty years on … how comedy genius Chris Morris invented ‘fake news’
Out-takes from Brass Eye have been made into a film to mark its birthday – but fans of the cult show can only view it at rare live cinema screenings
October 2016
Is satire dead? Armando Iannucci and others on why there are so few laughs these days
It’s hard to poke fun at politicians in an era when they’re held in contempt and every joke is policed for offence, say top television writers
August 2015
Alex Edelman: how I learned to love the British sense of humour
The New York stand-up was named best newcomer at 2014’s fringe. Here’s what he’s learned about British humour (and humorists)…
February 2015
Totally Mexico! How the Nathan Barley nightmare came true
Charlie Brooker and Chris Morris’s 2005 TV series was a comedy about a ludicrous ‘self-facilitating media node’ in east London. But 10 years on, it looks more like a documentary about the future
December 2014
Media Monkey
Where’s that missing Chris Morris sketch?
The week in radio: The Frequency of Laughter; Raw Meat Radio; Holdfast Network
TV and radio blog
How Chris Morris's radio comedies electrified the airwaves
Chris Morris returns to airwaves with new sketch on BBC 6 Music on Sunday
