Twitter is full of jokers, both professional and amateur. Never is it more noticeable when some news event or seasonal festivity springs up to be lampooned relentlessly. This past week saw urban foxes, the horse meat scandal and the resignation of the Pope - a holy trinity of hilarity that...

Newsjack, the topical sketch show now in its seventh series, is back on the air this month and its open format means aspiring writers like me and you - yes, you over there, with a joke in your heart and Wotsit crumbs in your beard - can submit jokes or...

The Summer is well and truly over as far as my daughter is concerned, as she, along with children across the country, started her new school this week. Excited anticipation over the holidays has gradually been building and it makes me proud that she loves learning and couldn't wait to...

Yes, yes Red Dwarf X is coming to Dave in October and yes, Dave is running each previous series in a countdown-style build up but the title of this piece is about breaking free of social media.

Just like the addictive computer game, Better Than Life,...

It's all been about 'inspiring a generation', about getting kids away from the telly and playing sports, exercising, essentially facing the spectre of obesity head on by running really fast, running for a really long time, running half-way along a stage before doing handstands or just running out of breath...

Much like during the power cuts of my youth, when the candles came out and the board games were dusted off, the O2 blackout was a time to bring people together, to gather around the collective campfire - or laptops as they're now more commonly described - and make our...

Rejection is something we all have to go through and it doesn't ever get any easier. Rejection is not a nice feeling; just picture those X-Factor hopefuls who turn up dressed a bit like a holiday camp magician and sing like an adenoidal cat mewling through an inner tube. Picture...

Satire's been a bit on the quiet side in recent years don't you think? Yes, veteran show Have I Got News For You is still poking fun at the news but elsewhere it's been pretty thin on the ground.

Now though it looks like a new wave of satire...

On a freezing cold Friday morning outside the Stockwood Craft Museum, chosen for it's lack of images on Google Street View, I crossed the pebbled courtyard and saw him - unassuming, understated and under an umbrella - waiting on a bench: Alan Stoob, Britain's premier Nazi hunter.

Most people, when...

I'm not a political expert or a journalist, I write stupid jokes and I like films so here goes. Tories to me are like Donald Sutherland at the end of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, when he sees Veronica Cartwright, the flaky nervous one from Alien, and goes, 'rwarhghghghghh!' Only...

I don't do stand up. I write sketches, jokes and send them on their merry way to various shows but I don't get that instant feedback of the comic, putting his or her reputation, and indeed life, on the line in front of a group of expectant strangers. Sometimes I...

I have a confession to make. I posted recently about my leaving Twitter. Well, it's true I did but the good people at Tweet central give you 30 days in which to chew on the prospect of committing social suicide and it pains me to say I did skulk back...

Since I've started writing a new sitcom spec for radio I thought it would be rude not to blog about it. Presently it's called, Owen Crumb Lives With His Mum and does what it says on the tin; I'll not go into it too much, right now I'm at the...

You may notice there's a Twitter feed on my profile page. You'll also notice that it's empty. That's because I took the momentous decision to close my account. I've left the party, I'm Indiana Jones, machete in hand, cutting the ropes and severing the bridge. Why? Am I insane? Have...

I shouldn't admit this but I totally relate to Red Dwarf's Lister. He's a lazy, curry munching dreamer with no ambition and even less personal hygiene. I try hard not to be like him and do things like this blog, writing for radio and not being a stranger to showers....

I've been writing for Newsrevue and the Treason Show for a while and along with the edit sheets they email out, asking for sketches based on news stories that have tweaked their interest, you get the inevitable invite to 'writers meetings', usually near the end of...

Britain's Got People, created by Have I Got News ForYou writer Dave Cohen, which aired online all last week, is a daily dose of satire that's sticking two fingers up at those who said that the UK couldn't produce something as on the mark as The Daily Show. But producing...

It starts with the image of a deer in a field; it's an idyllic moment that is shattered hilariously by the gravelled yells of a man shouting, "Fenton!"

Yes it's the latest internet sensation, the Fenton the Dog video clip which has had all the social media sites...

I sat in on Friday watching Children in Need as I do most years. The irrepressible Wogan in the living room again for his annual airing, like a prized Christmas decoration your kids made at school and you can't bear to part with. Only this year I found myself making...

If you love writing, especially comedy writing, can I share a little secret with you? Write for radio. Write books, for magazines, greetings cards too, but give radio a go because radio loves writers. If you love writing scripts, love writing dialogue, if your imagination sometime gets the better of...