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Much news, I'm going to collect all the info that's been posted to Comedy Chat over the last while. 

Firstly, Four Lions premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on Saturday, the 23rd of January 2010 - you can see the full list of screenings at that link, and Warp also have an official site.  The first clip of the film surfaced, courtesy of The Guardian, here's an embeddable YouTube version if you haven't yet seen it, although the Guardian link is better quality:


It's an excellent clip and certainly bodes well for Four Lions.  The performances and jokes are obviously very good, and certainly appear to be operating at a much higher level than those in Nathan Barley.  Nigel Lindsay, it's been pointed out, was actually briefly in Brass Eye as Peacecap Johnson, and also appears in the excellent The Armando Iannucci Shows. 

Morris has been out and about to promote Four Lions, and there have already been a huge amount of press reviews and interest generated ahead of it's UK screenings in May.  Be warned that many of the reviews feature huge, hideous spoilers!  There's a full list scattered throughout this forum thread (reviews start from here, and weirdbeard has mostly parsed them for spoilery content, so thanks to him).  I'll start archiving them in the Morris Articles section of the site, but in the meantime I'll pick out some of the most important for you. 
Firstly, this has Morris answering questions at Sundance, this is probably the first non-spoilery review, and there's a bunch of great pics at gettyimages.  Film4.com have
diary updates from Four Lions producer Mark Herbert at the Sundance film festival, and The Guardian features similar content from co-writers Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong. 

Most excitingly of all, is that Morris did a podcast skype interview with movie site GreenCine, you can read and post reactions in
this thread.  It's an excellent interview, and answers a lot of questions I was personally interested in.  Similarily, you might also like to listen to the recent Radio 4 profile, we have a download of that courtesy of joeyzaza, and you can
follow the thread as well. 

Mentioned in that discussion, and in the profile itself, is the forthcoming book about Chris Morris written by "Ginger Geezer: The Life Of Vivian Stanshall" author Lucian Randall.  It's going to be called "Disgusting Bliss: The Brass Eye Of Chris Morris", and you can have a look at the cover, or ask Lucian questions, in this thread.  Release date is the 1st April. 



As an interesting coincidence, forum poster geeef passed on a GLR show from April Fools day 1991, which has the Trevor Dann prank call mentioned in the R4 profile.  You can download that from the CaB megaupload account, as kindly managed by sirhenry.  Thanks to geeef and his friend for encoding and supplying that, and to weirdbeard for the accompanying episode guide.  If all that fails, then try watching The Persuasionists.

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Hello, I've now got most of the old site content back online, and there's even more than there was before.  Must single out weirdbeard for the absolutely excellent job he's done researching and adding new material to the site, see for instance the lovely new Radio Cambridgeshire page.  A wonderful level of dedication to improving CaB for the benefit of others, there, thank you so much for that, and thanks to everyone else who's worked on the wikified CaB (particularly All Surrogate for his level of dedication to the CaB Radio side of things.  I'm still adding new content, radically improving the design, and programming custom bits and pieces - it's a long, hard slog, as the site is very large now, and quite irritatingly complicated.  There's ten years of content to be categorised and re-added, plus I want to add more new sections to the site, and go right through all the old stuff to make sure I find material I never quite got round to adding before.  You'll notice that the Image Archive and Article Database are finally back online, and I'll be plugging the gaps in those as time and interest permits.

I'm now fully moved over to www.cookdandbombd.co.uk so please do update your bookmarks and links.  The old chilled.cream.org site will be changed to point over here.  Many thanks once again to all the forum posters who quickly and kindly got the money together for me to buy some hosting, I'm extremely grateful, and it affords me the opportunity to keep improving this old place.

The Image Archive now houses a Four Lions section, ditto for the Article Database.  I will store the Funding Mentalism emails that are sent out, along with any press coverage, photos etc. about the forthcoming Morris film.  In fact, a new email was sent out from Warp this afternoon, you can read and discuss it here.  After asking for people's money, before turning it down, then provoking people to get physically fit, but then later saying that was for nowt too, Morris and Warp Films are now redeeming themselves by offering to send out free film cells and stuff...hooray.  Not on the list, and want to keep availed of info and freebies?  Happy to continue chomping at the dangled carrot of inclusive, chummy, Web 2.0, Popbitch-endorsed 'you're a real part of something here' viral marketing bullshit?

Me too!  Fire off an email to fundingmentalism@warpfilms.com to feel involved, and ultimately be more adroitly marketed at.  I'm back working on CaB more frequently, so if you want updates about that then the old mailing lists are still going on yahoogroups.  If you aren't on there already, simply fire off an email to thecabal-subscribe@yahoogroups.com (for very occasional chat) or therealcabal-subscribe@yahoogroups.com (for a message from me any time I update CaB, and nothing else.)  I suppose I should be using Twitter, or something, but I'd really rather not. 

Think that's about it, so I'll leave you with a rather lovely bootleg of a recent Armando Iannucci Q&A session, in which he promoted his new book "The Audacity Of Hype".  This is a very nice quality boot, and Iannucci is as amusingly avuncular and charming as you would expect - many thanks to Little Hoover for recording and supplying this rarity.  Please do get in touch with me if you have similar goodness to share through the site, I'm ALWAYS on the look out for rare Morris and Iannucci...particularly Chris Morris GLR shows (and the pesky Radio 1 1990 material).  Some new encodes coming very soon, by the way, just need some more hard drive space first.  Get in touch at waynecarr@gmail.com or use the contact page, thanks.

Armando Iannucci - Audacity Of Hype Q&A at the Roundhouse - 12th October 2009 - 18mb (Encoded by Little Hoover)

If you'd like to discuss the new series of The Thick Of It or read about the recent Scottish Bafta awards that In The Loop won, then keep an eye on Comedy Chat.

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Just a quick note that today is the tenth birthday of Cook'd and Bomb'd...I'd like to thank everyone who has contributed to it over the years, and all those who have visited, and kept the forums buzzing for all this time.  I'm genuinely thrilled at how the site and community have developed over the years, and so grateful for the amount of rare Morris material you lot have helped me surface and make available over the last decade.  I'd hoped to have the total redesign of the site finally completed by now, but am still waiting for some new software releases.  So please bear with me, I've a lot of new Morris encodes and the like to put up in the not too distant future.

There is going to be a birthday bash today in the Penderel's Oak, in High Holborn...feel free to come along if you're in or around That London, I've travelled over from Norn Iron myself.  It kicks off around 2, and Louis Barfe is planning to do a CaB Radio show from the venue today, so listen in if you can't make it down. 

It will be the second birthday of CaB Radio in another week or two, and I'm thrilled with how it's developing.  I have some really great nights listening to the shows and talking crap in the chatroom, and you're more than welcome to join in.  Don't forget that you can have a bash at it yourself, too, it's open to anyone, and you can submit mixes, call in on Skype, send voicemails (to 02895 811976), or do some live hosting if you feel up to it. 

There are now four regular shows, and they are as follows:

Mondays, 9pm - TotalNightmares impressive mix of comedy and music.
Wednesdas, 9pm - Louis Barfe, the jazz Danny Baker.  Fantastic pair of ears on him.
Thursdays, 9pm - SirHenry, a differently themed show each week, always interesting and entertaining.
Sundays, 6pmish - The Neil Bomb'd Pretend Radio Show, me living out my life-long desire to be a talk radio host.

You can send bits and pieces to me at waynecarr@gmail.com as well, if you wish.  Get involved, we have an absolute blast...feel free to drop into the chatroom as well, even if you're not interested in our pretend radio shows.

Incidentally, I'd like to draw your attention to the second episode of RadioFace, which has been put together by some very talented members of the community.  I think it's remarkably good, and am very keen to watch them continuing to develop their comedy.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgU1CFNH__E" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgU1CFNH__E</a>

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4iPWcGzP90" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4iPWcGzP90</a>

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEVSP3qNF5o" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEVSP3qNF5o</a>

See also the new videos by Doug Sklenki, perhaps my favourite purveyor of home-made comedy...wonderful, life-affirming stuff.