“The Golden Age of Incompetence”: Ian Dunt meets TV comedy writer Jason Hazeley

The Bunker

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News, Politics, Society & Culture, Government

4.6 • 984 Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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“We’ve been kettled with our own thoughts.” Comedy writer and friend of the podcast JASON HAZELEY – Screenwipe writer and co-creator of everything from the grown-up Ladybird books to Philomena Cunk – talks to Ian Dunt about what the pandemic has done to TV, the live sitcom that is Great Britain, and the dismal poverty of Boris Johnson’s terrible, feeble jokes. “Have I Got News For You in lockdown just looks like a series of hostage videos.” “The last thing the world needs right now is a golden age of monologue.” “Boris Johnson is an ambassador of the trivial and inconsequential… but your Prime Minister should not be a figure of fun.” Presented by Ian Dunt. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producer Jacob Archbold. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:05.5	photography but I turn it into earning a living at 60. I enrolled on a day course.
0:11.8	Well college. I loved going to college. It's good you can retry. I'm enrolled on the day course. But college?
0:13.0	I loved going to college.
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1:13.0	continuity. Joining me today is Jason Hasely, a comedy writer whose work includes
1:17.5	Charlie Brooker screenwipe, Philomena Kunk, that Mitchell and Web look, The
1:20.9	Paddington Films, Radio 4's Agenda, and those Lady Bird books for adults,
1:25.3	which apparently sell more copies than the Bible.
1:27.1	Hello, Jason, how are you?
1:28.1	Hello Ian, I'm very well, how are you?
1:30.1	Yes, very good, very good.
1:31.6	I noticed that somehow during the lockdown you managed to simultaneously write and release a book about the lockdown called instructions for the British people during the emergency.
1:44.0	How does I mean, I mean, how is that possible?
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