The Bad Smell of Bob Mortimer
Should Bob Mortimer atone for his career of racist comedy?
FEATURE: The VALENTINA VALENTINO Starter Pack: Get To Know Capers Magazine’s New Lifestyle Guru
Valentina Valentino Joins Capers Magazine
LIST: 7 LGBTQ+ Comedy Shows To Watch This Pride Season
Rebecca Sayce breaks down the top LGBTQ+ comedies to watch this pride season
FEATURE: Graham Norton Is… Mother Teresa of Calcutta! The Story of Britain’s Favourite Chat Show Host Dragged Up as India’s Favourite Saint
Graham Norton as you’ve never seen him before… or since… and probably never again!
LIST: Gay Icons of Comedy: Frankie Yates Selects Her Favourite LGBTQ+ Comedy Performers
Frankie Yates’ top pick of the LGBTQ+ comedy crop – and some funny pics of them as children (for no real reason).
LIST: 6 Comedy Legends Who Were Gay Before Safe Spaces
The Editor takes a look at a more difficult time for gay comedians in Britain
FEATURE: Barefoot to Dundee: The Attempted Suicide of Alan Partridge and Other Sitcom Characters
As we continue our exploration of mental health and comedy, The Editor ponders the reasons we find humour in the most tragic of circumstances…
FEATURE: Capers’ Newby, Frankie Yates, Casts Her Insightful Eye Over Brit-com’s Dealings With the Mind…
Frankie Yates drops her first piece for Capers Magazine and its a corker!
FEATURE: Turning Tragedy into Tee-Hees: Rebecca Sayce’s Top Comedies for Mental Health Awareness Month
Rebecca Sayce runs down her top picks of British comedy programmes to enjoy this Mental Health Awareness Month… because laughter IS the best medicine!
FEATURE: Putting the ‘Cape’ into Capers: The Rarely-seen Superheroes of British Sitcom
Our editor, David E.J.A. Bennett, takes a dive down into the concept of ‘capes’ in British comedy
FEATURE: The Meaninglessness of Verbosity: Meditations on The Deeper Meaning of Liff by John Lloyd and Douglas Adams (1983)
John Lloyd and Douglas Adams’ unnecessary and brilliant contribution to the English language.
Bottling It: Bottom S2, E2 – ‘Culture’: The Comedy Doctor gives her prognosis on the importance of boredom in this classic Bottom episode
Imagine the scene. You’re skint. There’s nothing to do. You only have one friend, and you live together. And you hate him. The bastards have taken the telly away, and you’re incapable of completing a crossword. You’re bored. Dangerously bored. Why is this so funny? Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson’s ‘Culture’ episode of Bottom, is…