Joel Morris

Joel Morris has been one of Britain’s busiest comedy writers for over 20 years. He has worked with Charlie Brooker, Mitchell & Webb, and just about everybody else, winning a BAFTA for 2016 Wipe and a Broadcast Award for A Touch of Cloth. He co-created and writes halfwit TV documentarian Philomena Cunk, worked on the Paddington films, and was behind the best-selling Ladybird Books for Grown-Ups series, as well as brooding Scandinavian detective Knut Angstrom for Radio 4, and the radio news punditry satire Agendum. He co-created spoof local newspaper The Framley Examiner (described as ‘the funniest book ever written’ by everyone from Bob Odenkirk to the showrunner of the Simpsons) and co-wrote the Bollocks To Alton Towers travel guides. Joel is a contributor to Viz magazine as well as the presenter and producer of the comedy analysis podcast Rule Of Three (Best Arts podcast British Podcast Awards 2020) and the pop culture podcast Comfort Blanket. He is currently writing Comedy Basic, a book on the daft craft and hard science of comedy.