Sketch - So it's not an iPad...

Happy birthday! Okay, so it's not an iPad, but...

Our latest sketch guest stars Jo Cummins and Ben Fuller.

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Sketch - Selling time travel on the doorstep

Who's that knocking on the front door? Do you have time to answer?

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Sketch - Death Star insurance claim

That's the second Death Star they've lost. Better call the insurers.

This sketch was written collectively through comments on our Facebook page, so thanks to Richard Gnosill, Stefan Sawynok, Pete Foltz, Simon Meddings and Brock Lagan.

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Sketch - Kindred of Glack

I rushed away on holiday last week, so forgot to upload this to the blog (but it was on Facebook, YouTube, iTunes and blip.tv so don't shout at me).

It's a quickie, featuring our guest star Richard Gnosill as Mike Ledgewood, Kindred of Glack.

Sketch - Pottery in the kitchen

How do you get young people interested in pottery? A bit of quick editing and a beat should do it. Meds demonstrates how he does pottery on the cheap.

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Sketch - Pirates

Pirates go looking for buried treasure. It's what they like to do.

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Sketch - New satnav, new danger

A new sketch, warning you to beware of some of the more exotic locations on your satnav.

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Sketch - Mastermind (with a crying baby)

You may have done well at your specialist subject, but how will you cope up against the crying baby? Extra joke for Latin scholars: Matermind. Sorry, Latin scholars.

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Thanks to Natalie at pdsounds for the baby sound effects.

Sketch - Got a job on the Death Star

A Star Wars sketch, in which a new job offer may not be as good as it first sounds. Missing Hen looks at the perils of working for the Empire.

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Arts and Crafts

We're back from a bit of a break, as Missing Hen looks at arts, crafts, hotel rooms, philanthropy with Bruce Wayne and a topical gag. Yes, a topical gag. Sort of.

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It's called the Death Star...

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A busy week of filming so far. At the start of the week we buried Simon alive in a coffin with an iphone and a fake moustache. We allowed enough time at the end of filming to dig him up again. It's in his rider.

And then tonight Phil and Peter got together to film a sketch set a long time ago, in a beer garden far, far away. While surrounded by cats. Who won't make it into the sketch. And the noise of planes overhead - looks like we missed the volcano window there.

We'll be editing all this and more for a set of sketches coming some time in late April/early May.

Estate Agent Hell

Who'd have thought that buying a house could be on of the most terrifying experiences of your life? Phil from Missing Hen introduces this sketch that we shot in 2006, but only just finished.

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Science and that

Here's a set of new sketches from Missing Hen, as we look at science - what is it? What's it all about? From the work of Albert Einstein to Alexander Graham Bell, join us as we put science under the microscope*.

* please note, this does not imply science is very small and hard to see.

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Motivational Posters vs. Numbskulls

Remember the old DC Thomson comics like The Beano and The Dandy? Remember how they used to hand out free motivational posters to put up in the office? No, we don't either.

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Locum Who

A new sketch from Missing Hen - what happens when your planet is invaded on a bank holiday and you call for Doctor Who?

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Is that A Bell I can hear?

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Strategic shaving has helped Phil to transform himself into Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone. We're having a burst of filming activity this Christmas holiday, all the better to bring you more Danger Signs and News@Then in the new year...

Danger Signs series 2 continues: TV Graphics

The Danger Signs is back with a good hard look at TV graphics. Featuring very little violence and no cusswords. But lots of graphics and the Open University. Which, I suppose is a bit graphic.

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It's been a bit quiet...

...but it'll get noisy and objectionable again soon enough. A good writing evening this evening as Peter and Phil got their heads together to bash out a few ideas for new Danger Signs sketches.

And there's the bulk of a new episode done - so expect some action soon. Regarding toast.

There will be blood

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Fun evening's filming with Peter and the stage blood. Well, fun for me, Peter doesn't look so happy. Don't know what he's got to complain about. He's only covered with blood-soaked cotton wool pads and air hoses underneath that shirt. Perfectly normal.

And the sketch is nowhere near as sadistic as it looks, honest. Although the blood does taste horrid. I'm told.

Radio>TV>Radio?

There's a longstanding progression route in comedy that includes a leap from radio to TV. Just like the "Fawlty Towers two series" rule, it's seems to be an immutable law with familiar examples trotted out from Hitch Hiker's Guide to Little Britain.

Mitchell and Webb are currently bucking that trend. After three TV series, they've not written off the radio version, which is back on Radio 4 for a new series. That pleases me, as I think they work well - and differently - in both media. I'd love to see it to inspire other comedians to give radio another go without seeing it as step back. In particular, much as I love the Mighty Boosh on TV, there were some moments of fantasy on the radio show that they've never reached since. I'm talking about you, Tommy Nookah.