PODCAST
No Pressure To Be Funny
by British Comedy Guide
No Pressure To Be Funny is a topical comedy podcast presented by LBC radio host James O'Brien and created by comedians Nick Revell and Alistair Barrie. A guest panel drawn from the arts, media and politics discuss the week's news in front of a live audience alongside comedy songs, monologues and diatribes.http://www.comedy.co.uk/podcasts/no_pressure_to_be_funny/
Episodes
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No Pressure To Be Funny - Series 9, Episode 6 (28th June 2015)
This month, Omid Djalili, Sajeela Kershi, Chris Neill and Jake Yapp discuss, amongst other things, rock festivals, royalty, torture, peaceful protest, women's football and The Comedy Godfather, Barry Cryer. Masterful musical sets from Ronnie Golden, and hosted by Nick Revell. More info and…
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No Pressure To Be Funny - Series 9, Episode 5 (31st May 2015)
Nick Revell hosts May's NP2BF. The guests are musical comedian James Sherwood; political stand-up Kate Smurthwaite; The Daily Telegraph's political sketch writer Michael Deacon; and Amir Amirani, the director of We Are Many, a film about the anti-war marches. With a monologue from Paul Willers....
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No Pressure To Be Funny - Series 9, Episode 4 (26th April 2015)
Alistair Barrie presides over April's show as panellists Angela Barnes, Jo Brand, Joe Wells and Andy Zaltzman discuss topics including the forthcoming election. Meanwhile Nick Revell looks at Islamic State's accounts, and Christian Reilly provides a song on the topic of 'choices'....
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No Pressure To Be Funny - Series 9, Episode 3 (29th March 2015)
Kevin Day is joined by Nick Revell, Susan Murray, Carey Marx and Martin Rowson to discuss topics including Jeremy Clarkson, Prince Charles, swearwords and what exactly satire is. Also featuring an attempted radicalisation of the nation's youth by Alistair Barrie and music from Pippa Evans....
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No Pressure To Be Funny - Series 9, Episode 2 (22nd February 2015)
In this month's show we discuss Greece and everything European, TV shows on Mars, racism on Earth, the relative merits of living in east London and Islamic State. All cheerful stuff. Hosted by Kevin Day, with music from Steve Gribbin and contributions from Nick Revell, and a fine panel comprising...
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No Pressure To Be Funny - Series 9, Episode 1 (25th January 2015)
In this edition we cover the elections in Greece and the UK, comedians who get involved in politics, the limits of causing offence, social injustice in the Middle East, Davos, the Greens, the far-Right, sex and media-presentation, including a long and profound symposium on the aesthetics of the...
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No Pressure To Be Funny - Series 8, Episode 3 (30th November 2014)
James O'Brien hosts, with Bea Campbell, Aisling Bea, Trevor Crook and Tobias Persson discussing - amongst other things - Popes, Revolution, Black Friday and Humanitarian Awards. With songs on Vans and Class Insults from James Sherwood, and the usual contributions from Alistair Barrie and Nick...
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No Pressure To Be Funny - Series 8, Episode 2 (27th October 2014)
Given that two of the biggest topics this week are the global threat of a fatal disease with no cure and a string of stories of sexual violence, it's surprising this is not the most gag-dense edition we've ever done. A compelling and informative discussion of Ebola, courtesy of médecin sans...
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No Pressure To Be Funny - Series 8, Episode 1 (28th September 2014)
This month's show is in association with the peace-building charity International Alert. Their Secretary General and No Pressure regular, Dan Smith, gives us a profound and fascinating analysis of the current situation in the Middle East. To ensure the whole show is not built on easy laughs from...
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No Pressure To Be Funny - Series 7, Episode 6 (29th June 2014)
As we're taking two months off through the summer, here's a slightly longer podcast than usual; a satirical and seditious seaside special edition, if you will, (not to mention sibilant) and the perfect way to while away a rainy holiday afternoon when you're trapped in the Tuscan villa, pinned…
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No Pressure To Be Funny - Series 7, Episode 5 (25th May 2014)
No Pressure To Be Funny - May 25th 2014: Kevin Day hosts and David Elms provides the laid-back sound track to this chilled out Bank Holiday edition of No Pressure. Plenty of swearing and vile insults, as the panel discuss the World Cup, racism, sexism and alcohol, while Bennett Arron suggests a...
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No Pressure To Be Funny - Series 7, Episode 4 (27th April 2014)
In this month's show, Steve Gribbin provides the music while James O'Brien and guests Daphna Baram, Don Biswas, Matt Forde and Chris Neill discuss amongst other things, the Middle East, Tony Blair, UKIP, Manchester United, and the Royal Family. See if you can guess which subject tops the...
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No Pressure To Be Funny - Series 7, Episode 3 (30th March 2014)
No Pressure to Be Funny, March 30th 2014 - in which we deliver something unique in the history of British media - an interesting, informative and very funny discussion of the EU...Joe Wells brings the long-overlooked dolphin angle of the Ukraine crisis to public attention, causing Robin Ince to...
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No Pressure To Be Funny - Series 7, Episode 2 (23rd February 2014)
In this edition, Dave Fulton inadvertently reveals the polyerotic undertones of being caught in an avalanche when a discussion of the Winter Olympics goes off-piste; Jonny and the Baptists share some of their fanmail from UKIP, while Alistair Barrie channels the party's soul with uncanny and...
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No Pressure To Be Funny - Series 7, Episode 1 (26th January 2014)
Michael Deacon, Sara Pascoe, Miles Jupp and Nathan Caton join James O'Brien to discuss UKIP's meteorological theories, whether or not Lord Anelka and Nicolas Rennard should apologise, and similar things comedians regret saying and doing; the panel compares Iain Duncan Smith and William…
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No Pressure To Be Funny - Series 6, Episode 3 (24th November 2013)
In this month's podcast James O'Brien and the panel - Andy Zalzman, Tiffany Stevenson, Padraig Reidy and Nick Doody - deal with bankers, politicians and hard drugs (in the sense of 'discuss', not 'do business with')... the positives of environmental holocaust and why the rich should be treated as...
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No Pressure To Be Funny - Series 6, Episode 2 (27th October 2013)
This month on No Pressure To Be Funny, guest host Kevin Day wrangles a formidable array of talent whilst trying to be nice about The Great British Bake Off. The Guardian's Polly Toynbee definitely says pleb, Alex Andreou dares to suggest re-nationalising energy companies, and Chris Neill extolls...
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No Pressure To Be Funny - Series 6, Episode 1 (22nd September 2013)
No Pressure to be Funny - 22nd Sept 2013, in which James O'Brien reveals the shameless and frankly disgusting behaviour of some members of the British aristocracy when it comes to trying to return unwanted clothing; Dan Smith of International Alert dispenses wisdom on the Middle East and hits a…
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No Pressure To Be Funny - Series 5, Episode 6 (14th July 2013)
Amongst other things covered in this month's show, host James O'Brien tries to defend pay-rises for MPs; James Sherwood melodically shows how tough the rich have it compared to the poor; Angela Barnes reminisces on the awkwardness of helping one's father with the stocktaking when he owns a...
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No Pressure To Be Funny - Series 5, Episode 5 (9th June 2013)
In this month's show, Mitch Benn rocks the room with two pieces of satirical musical brilliance which contain more coherent and persuasive political arguments than we've heard from Her Majesty's Opposition since about 1945; Jessica Fostekew deflates Bilderberg conspiracy theories with the most...
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No Pressure To Be Funny - Series 5, Episode 4 (5th May 2013)
May 5th 2013 - James O'Brien talks to Alex Andreou, Lee Camp, Gary Delaney and Nat Luurtsema about the nutty fruitcakes of British politics, and UKIP as well; how Barack Obama wishes he could find someone in America with enough authority to close Guantanamo, and a tasteful exploration of media...
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No Pressure To Be Funny - Series 5, Episode 3 (7th April 2013)
This month's No Pressure sees guest host Kevin Day come up with some interesting new programme ideas for BBC3 based on some thoroughly historical suggestions for punishing financial wrongdoing from The Keiser Report's Max Keiser. The Independent's Steve Richards lets rip his inner Rory Bremner,...
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No Pressure To Be Funny - Series 5, Episode 2 (3rd March 2013)
This month, firebrand of the left Owen Jones denies a love tryst with Tory donor and disgraced former party chairman Lord Ashcroft; Helen Lewis sets James O'Brien straight about the New Statesman's relationship with the Labour Party, Keith Farnan suggests a poetic yet viciously vengeful fate for...
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No Pressure To Be Funny - Series 5, Episode 1 (3rd February 2013)
With guests Phill Jupitus, Andrew Maxwell, Miranda Sawyer and Wayne Deakin. Plus music from Loretta Maine. This month's podcast covers amongst other things, the European Union, Antisemitism, Trans-Confessional Cannibalism, Toxic Vaginas, Ireland, Afghanistan, Royal Families and Abdication, and…
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No Pressure To Be Funny - Series 4, Episode 3 (9th December 2012)
With guests Robin Ince, Matthew Norman, Sara Pascoe, Pete Johansson and James Sherwood. In this episode, the panel discuss prank phone calls, pregnancies, arguments in favour of terrorism, economic crises, education, why happiness (as the Four Tops always said) is just an illusion and whether the...
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No Pressure To Be Funny - Series 4, Episode 2 (11th November 2012)
Rob Grant, Simon Munnery, Kevin Day and Polly Toynbee join James O'Brien, Nick Revell and Alistair Barrie to talk about topics including Jimmy Savile and the BBC crisis. With music from Steve Gribbin.
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No Pressure To Be Funny - Series 4, Episode 1 (7th October 2012)
In this edition, topics include Julian Assange, the truth about Boris Johnson, and what to give Vladimir Putin for his birthday. Also, the first plans are revealed for 'Koran! The Musical'. Joining James O'Brien and Nick Revell are comedians Andy Zaltzman and Mark Dolan, and journalists Helen…
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No Pressure To Be Funny - Edinburgh 2012
No Pressure To Be Funny joins forces with Amnesty International UK for a podcast from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. James O'Brien is joined by activist and comedian Mark Thomas, Canadian stand-up Dana Alexander, America's Paul Provenza and award-winning crime author Ian Rankin. With…
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No Pressure To Be Funny - Series 3, Episode 4 (10th June 2012)
Topical panel show podcast. James O'Brien is joined by stand-up Hal Cruttenden, musical comic Paul Thorne, New Statesman journalist Helen Lewis, and Burma's best known political comedian Zarganar, who was imprisoned in 2008 after criticising the ruling junta's response to cyclone Nargis.…
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No Pressure To Be Funny - Series 3, Episode 3 (13th May 2012)
James O'Brien is joined by Nick Doody, Kevin Day and Lee Camp to talk about topics including democracy and underpants bombers. With some great topical songs from Steve Gribbin, and contributions from creators Nick Revell and Alistair Barrie too.
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No Pressure To Be Funny - Series 3, Episode 2 (15th April 2012)
Thanks to a ridiculous insistence on taking his family on holiday, regular host James O'Brien isn't on the show this month, but we have called on our first reserve, Talksport's Matt Forde. He's joined by Bridget Christie, Newsnight's Paul Mason and No Pressure regular Andy Hamilton, with music…
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No Pressure To Be Funny - Series 3, Episode 1 (11th March 2012)
James O'Brien is joined by stand-up Ian Stone; New Statesman journalist Helen Lewis; and unquestionably one of the most important and funniest British comedians ever, Alexei Sayle. Music is from rising star Loretta Maine.
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No Pressure To Be Festive 2011
No Pressure To Be Festive: a special edition of the topical panel show. Guests Ken Livingstone, Miranda Sawyer, Miles Jupp, George Monbiot and Rich Hall join host James O'Brien to review 2011, with contribution from writer-producers Alistair Barrie and Nick Revell, and music from Mitch Benn and…
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No Pressure To Be Funny - Series 2, Episode 6 (16th November 2011)
The latest episode of topical panel show podcast No Pressure To Be Funny.
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No Pressure To Be Funny - Series 2, Episode 5 (9th November 2011)
James O'Brien, Alistair Barrie and Nick Revell are joined by Rob Deering, Mark Steel, Holly Walsh and journalist Matthew Norman.
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No Pressure To Be Funny - Series 2, Episode 4 (2nd November 2011)
James O'Brien is joined by Mark Thomas, Tiffany Stevenson, Elis James and Alistair Barrie to discuss who or what Kim Kardashian is... plus other weightier topics. With contributions from Nick Revell and Dave Cohen too.
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No Pressure To Be Funny - Series 2, Episode 3 (26th October 2011)
James O'Brien is joined by TalkSport's Matt Forde, News Quiz regular Paul Sinha, award-winning comic Nat Luurtsema, and the fantastic (Time Out) James Sherwood, with creators Nick Revell and Alistair Barrie.
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No Pressure To Be Funny - Series 2, Episode 2 (19th October 2011)
James O'Brien is joined by Australian comic Sarah Kendall, Cutting Edge regular Steve Gribbin, Just A Minute regular Chris Neill, and New Statesman journalist Helen Lewis-Hasteley.
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No Pressure To Be Funny - Series 2, Episode 1 (12th October 2011)
James O'Brien is joined by Mitch Benn of The Now Show, writer of Drop the Dead Donkey and Outnumbered Andy Hamilton, Observer journalist Miranda Sawyer and human-rights lawyer and founder of Reprieve, Clive Stafford Smith. Covering all the week's news including the amazing Dr Fox and a genuine...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
No Pressure To Be Funny is a topical comedy podcast presented by LBC radio host James O'Brien and created by comedians Nick Revell and Alistair Barrie. A guest panel drawn from the arts, media and politics discuss the week's news in front of a live audience alongside comedy songs, monologues and diatribes.http://www.comedy.co.uk/podcasts/no_pressure_to_be_funny/
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British Comedy Guide
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No Pressure To Be Funny is a topical comedy podcast presented by LBC radio host James O'Brien and created by comedians Nick Revell and Alistair Barrie. A guest panel drawn from the arts, media and politics discuss the week's news in front of a live audience alongside comedy songs, monologues and...
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