The Daily Scoundrel

Crikey, Mock The Week has gone off the boil since Glaswegian comedian Frankie Boyle quit. I’m not a knee-jerk kind of person but after five episodes of the new season it’s time to admit that the show is desperately missing Boyle’s dark, caustic one liners that coursed through MTW like a virulent strain of off [...]

I hope I’m not the only one deeply unnerved by Knorr’s recent stock pot adverts starring top chef Marco Pierre White. White made a name for himself as the youngest chef to be awarded three Michelin stars and went on to mentor bullying cunt and map faced tyrant Gordon Ramsey. Unsurprisingly these two alpha males [...]

24 is back on our screens (in my case an illegally downloaded rip on my computer screen) for season eight and it’s great to see it back. As the only TV show I’m aware of that has been referenced by the torturers at Guantanamo Bay as inspirational, 24 is a thick juicy slab of right [...]

Kitchen Confidential author and gastronomic rabble rouser Anthony Bourdain is our guide on a culinary voyage across the globe in search of authentic regional delicacies. Looking like a taller, thinner version of I’m Your Man era Leonard Cohen Bourdain is the antithesis of the boorish American abroad, respectfully rolling up at street side stalls, people’s [...]

Last week I had the misfortune of catching an episode of Dr Who on BBC3. Well, I was actually trying to read Truman Capote’s true crime masterpiece In Cold Blood but the intrusive soundtrack and screeching dialogue emanating from the TV kept drawing me from my book until I capitulated to the direness and sat [...]

Whilst watching Charlie Brooker’s Gameswipe on BBC4 I was particularly struck by a computer game ad from the 1980s featuring Morecambe & Wise. This 30 second clip managed to sum up for me something I have kept a secret for years; I don’t think they’re funny and never have.

Art Fist Editor Jon Cronshaw talks about the dark side of ITV’s flagship Saturday night sing-a-thon…
There’s something incredibly sinister about the X-Factor. I could never put my finger on it previous years, but I think I’ve worked it out: the X-Factor is like a bad 1950s science-fiction novel.

Lucky Louie was a short lived sitcom made by American network HBO that aired during 2006 and was essentially a vehicle for the brilliant comedian Louis CK. The humour in Lucky Louie is mostly derived from CK’s stand up material and often falls into the bracket of typical sitcom fare; the brutal banality of parenthood, [...]

Thank goodness for multiple categories, eh?  After a fairly long wait, Charlie Brooker’s Gameswipe airs tonight, tragically relegated to BBC4 at 10pm BST.  Charlie Brooker is a very funny man who used to be a games journalist and now is all famous and on the telly.  You’ll have probably seen him before.  Some people think [...]