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Adam Buxton and Joe Cornish revisit 30 years of sketches and pranks
Adam Buxton and Joe Cornish reunited at the Royal Albert Hall for a three-hour show marking 30 years since their cult TV series began. They revisited its sketches, pranks and homemade parodies, recalling how its fast-moving mix of pop-culture jokes anticipated the short-form online comedy that later became widespread.
Buxton showed a preview of a toy-based spoof of Christopher Nolan’s *The Odyssey*, while Cornish recalled Steven Spielberg briefly laughing at one of their parodies before the joke ran out. He also told of Patrick Stewart saying his house was heavily haunted, and the pair discussed how Louis Theroux influenced their early work. Their Channel 4 show was once considered for titles including *Stüffe* and *Nocturnal Emission*.
In short
- Adam Buxton and Joe Cornish reunited for a 30th-anniversary stage show.
- A new toy parody takes aim at Christopher Nolan’s *The Odyssey*.
- The duo recalled encounters with Spielberg, Patrick Stewart and Louis Theroux.
Explained simply
Adam Buxton and Joe Cornish are British comedians who first worked together on a Channel 4 comedy series built around sketches, pranks and parodies of films, music and television. Their homemade style and quick shifts between different jokes helped the programme attract a devoted following.
The pair drew on popular culture and interviews, including the work of documentary maker Louis Theroux, to shape their comedy. Their series is often seen as an early example of short, fast-changing humour that later became common online, making its influence part of the interest in looking back at it.
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Originally published by The Guardian as “Adam and Joe on spoofing ‘Christopher No-Laughs’ with a toys’ Odyssey – and Patrick Stewart’s haunted house”.