Steve Steen, playing Bob Pinciotti Palmer was a regular on the British Whose Line Is It Anyway for a bit. I'd watch more to dispense some further little tidbits, but I have better things to do, like hang myself watch old British Whose Line Is It Anyway episodes.

Cheers for the recommendation - will seek it out immediately.

Great article, really been looking forward to this. Dunno if it's going to be focusing solely on American punk, but I've been finding my way through 90s British punk like Leatherface, Snuff, Guns 'n' Wankers and Skimmer lately. Leatherface in particular would be worthy of at least a mention, probably when Mush comes…

It was on Sky1, but barring that minor spot of pedantry, yeah.

That's how long each episode of the Wright Way felt, I guess.

Yeesh. That's even grimmer than my fanfic, The One Where Chandler Snags His Glans.

"If Friends were a British sitcom—or perhaps a Netflix sitcom—I doubt we would have ever met Marcel."

@avclub-650791898dd05ac4d665569d95c8ba08:disqus Looking online it appears Eric Idle is a Chelsea fan, which I suppose should lead to jokes about money-grabbing or somesuch. John Cleese supports West Ham, Michael Palin supports Sheffield United and I couldn't find anything about Chapman, Jones or Gilliam.

Prebendary 'Chopper' Harris being a reference, of course, to legendary footballer Ron 'Chopper' Harris.

Also, the idea of anybody wanting to go to Luton in the first place.

And at Al's insistence, Ian recorded his vocals naked but for one of those hard hats with two cans of beer on the side.

I have a confession to make: I was Wistful Simpsons Memories.

I dread to think what could happen if Lard were to reunite these days. I really think modern day Al and Jello Biafra would come up with a punning title so mind-bending that even Public Enemy would consider it too contrived for public consumption.

Both Lee and Herring are worth checking out, as is Tony Law, who's Canadian but British-based. At the more mainstream end, Frank Skinner's very good and very bawdy. I'm sure other commenters who are more on-the-ball than myself could pile in with other, better suggestions.

"Stewart Lee, who has become one of the best stand-ups in the U.K., and Richard Herring, his writing partner, is also very funny."

I listened to some of the earliest ones that I'd missed first time round after this week's episode and he used to butt in a lot more, but he seems a lot more relaxed and is generally a better interviewer now, plus he mentioned being in awe of Fry a fair bit on Twitter, his blog, etc. It didn't show a huge amount but I…

Say now!

One minor correction: Brass Eye didn't receive a record number of BBC complaints, because it wasn't on the BBC. It was on Channel 4. BBC isn't just a general umbrella term for all British TV.

I'll go one better than @avclub-454a7bfd685393329597fdb7a92b7969:disqus: my all-time favourite Simpsons joke.

Burt Kwouk could bring his grill pens.