Comfort Blanket Cheese & Pickle
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Talking about the films, TV shows, books or music which people go to again and again to feel safe, happy and welcome.
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"Brilliant... A lovely listen" - Sunday Times
"Highly recommended" - The Week
Selected as one of the Sunday Times' TOP 25 PODCASTS TO MAKE YOU HAPPY
Presented and produced by Joel Morris.
Part of the Cheese And Pickle family of podcasts.
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Ben Stokes' 2019 Ashes Innings - with Ed Morrish
Comedy producer Ed Morrish (Non-Censored, Soundheap, John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme) brings his personal comfort blanket, Ben Stokes' 2019 Ashes innings at Headingley against Australia (and more broadly "all sport") to try and persuade Comfort Blanket umpire Joel that it's allowed - and makes a case for sport as the perfect improvised long-form narrative. It's all about the story...
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Allo Allo - with Tom Price
Actor, comedian and broadcaster Tom Price (Torchwood, Magic FM, My Mate Brought A Toaster) talks about the lifelong comfort he draws from Allo Allo, Perry & Lloyd's broad and shameless French resistance farce. Listen very carefully, we will say this only once: it's actually brilliant.
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Kind Hearts And Coronets - with Naomi Alderman
Writer Naomi Alderman (The Power, The Future) chooses as her comfort blanket, the 1949 Ealing black comedy 'Kind Hearts And Coronets', with its mixture of revenge (served cold, of course), and vicious social satire, managing to possess, one might say, "all the exuberance of Chaucer, without, happily, any of the concomitant crudities of his period..."
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Friends - with Larry Rickard (PART TWO)
In the second part of our two part look at definitive 1990s sitcom Friends, Larry Rickard (Ghosts, Horrible Histories) talks about how comedy reflects its times, how audiences want (and don't want) things to change for their favourite comedy characters, and when it's time to say goodbye.
This is PART TWO of a two part episode. If you haven't heard PART ONE, please go back and start there...
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Friends - with Larry Rickard (PART ONE)
Writer and actor Larry Rickard (Ghosts, Horrible Histories) talks about his love for the smash hit 1990s sitcom Friends, and the craft of making warm, gag-filled, ensemble television comedy with your... er... friends.
This is Part ONE of a two part episode.
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Don't Look Now - with Danny Robins
Writer and broadcaster Danny Robins (Uncanny, 2:22 A Ghost Story) talks about the unexpected comforts of Nic Roeg's classic 1973 supernatural thriller Don't Look Now, a masterful study of how humans try and make sense of life, death and the unexplained.
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Customer Reviews
Welcome back
For some time I had been mourning what appeared to the demise of Rule of Three, my absolute go to pod die, which i ‘discovered’ just before Covid and consumed the lot. Well this is the able replacement, and it’s just brilliant. Joel’s enthusimgs will enthuse you too. You’ll learn about some thing you’ve never heard of before (for me D&D) and or here someone you’ve never heard of talk passionately about you’re aware. Not the usual set of contributors necessarily either. I love it. Not enough to bring in another pandemic, but not far off! Orchard363
No but yes but no
Joel’s great and everything he says is usually funny and on point. I wish he’d pay more attention to the interviewees though. Is it supposed to be a comic bit? Maybe these would be better as lectures.
The host constantly interrupts with their opinion
It’s an ok podcast and is well produced.
However…
Every time a guest is about to say something interesting, the host will usually disregard it and just say something else. It’s like they have decided what they are going to say and will steamroller anything a guest says until they’re reduced to just repeating “mm.. yep… mmm…” over and over. I want to hear about what the guest thinks not constant summarising from the interviewer.
It’s like desert island discs except instead of the host asking questions to their guest they just answer questions that no one has asked.