Hello, you may have noticed the links on the Blue Jam page have stopped working. Sorry about this, unfortunately the space Toby was donating to host the shows is no longer available. If anyone out there can donate space to store them then please
get in touch, it's simply not fair of us to put the entire burden of the site on Nick Mailer (the awfully generous chap from
Positive Internet who hosts this site) so c'mon, help us out, will you? Until we can get some more space sorted for the Blue Jams, I'm going to stick the whole lot on Bit Torrent. So, consider this a warning that in exactly two weeks from now, on the 3rd of June, myself or TJ will be updating this site with torrent links for each series of Blue Jam. If you've not used Bit Torrent before, then please try and find out how it works within the next couple of weeks, there are plenty of FAQ's for it on the net. Torrents are great as everyone helps upload while downloading, however they're fairly transient. Toby has offered to help me "seed" the shows for a good while, however for the best download speeds you're going to want to get in there at the start, before all the selfish bastards close their windows. If you think you'll forget about this happening on the 3rd then you might want to join one of our
mailing lists so you get a reminder through email (we fire out an email to each list every time the site is updated.)
Anyway, we've opened up another couple of new sections, I finally got round to converting all the old articles over to the new site design, you can read them all
here, note that you can only post comments if you are logged in to a site/forum account! Oh, this also lets you post new articles, although they won't appear until a moderator approves them. TJ has written a
Chris Morris FAQ which you might want to read as well.
Now then, are you as disappointed as we are with Peter Baynhams new unfunny and badly-animated series, "I Am Not An Animal"? Remember when he was doing genuinely hilarious and inventive comedy writing on shows like Brass Eye, Fist Of Fun, Friday Night Armistice etc? Well then you'll no doubt be glad to hear that we've got four new
Harpoon episodes for you to download, the fantastic Radio 4 comedy series he wrote with Julian Dutton.
Why is it that British comedy is going through such a dismal period of late? Oh if only we Brits were knocking out shows of comparable quality to stuff like Arrested Devlopment, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Daily Show, Penn and Tellers Bullshit, Scrubs etc. Instead we have to endure engine-faced cretin Jimmy Carr, cynically using stand-up comedy to manouevre himself into a position where he gets paid huge amounts of money to front insultingly awful Channel 4 shows like "Distraction," where women get their fingers broken...and this is what passes for entertainment? Christ only knows why the Beeb haven't stuck Rich Halls Fishing Show on terrestrial TV as it's one of the few gems knocking about on British TV of late. If you haven't heard or seen any of his Otis Lee Crenshaw stuff yet then
please do so, and while you're at it seek out Lewis Black, a genuinely angry American comic who is one of the few people keeping the comedy album alive. Oh, and BBC2 are finally showing the second series of the fantastic Sean Lock sitcom, "15 Storeys High", watch it and
make Iannucci happy ...Anyway, it seems the worse British comedy gets, the lower peoples standards become, I'm so sick and tired of seeing phrases like "Well I didn't laugh, but I really enjoyed that anyway!" being used more and more. Ugh, it just sounds like those tiresome Brass Eye Special apologists who never bother talking about the comedic failings of the show, and instead point to the fact that "it hits all its satirical targets!"
What a terrible decade it must be for teenagers, having to grow up with a Radio 1 that eschews comedy but keeps talentless fucks like Chris Moyles and Sarah Cox out of the dole queue, and a worthless dumbed-down Channel 4 that regularly broadcasts
four episodes of Friends in a single day (and if you thought that was gutless enough then you'll no doubt he tearing your hair out to hear that the last ever episode will be preceeded by
six episodes.) It makes Iannucci's "We're so good at Telly" sketches seem far too tame..
Bah, let's hope the chaps on the Comedy forum are right about the
return of Spitting Image pissing on sub-standard nonsense like Dead Ringers, 2DTV and The Impressionable John Culshaw...