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When Wolverine Goes To The Hairdressers…

When Wolverine Goes To The Hairdressers...

Well, since you asked me for a story about Wolverine going to the barbers…

From the BBC Radio 4 sketch show on last night,  John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme, you get just that.

Two minutes and thirteen seconds in…

Oh and John? I'm from the second audience section. So I am happy to inform you that Wolverine is… a Canadian growly Batman.

Update:

John Finnemore has spent a couple of decades writing some of the best British comedy shows, mostly for radio. Starting his career writing for the Mitchell and Webb team, he successfully landed a couple of shows on BBC Radio 4. The sitcom Cabin Pressure, which also had the good fortune to star Benedict Cumberbatch alongside Finnemore, ran for four-and-a-bit seasons and became lauded as the best sitcom no one had heard about. While his sketch show John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme, gained a reputation as the best sketch show that even fewer people had heard of. They won all the awards going, and John Finnemore became one of the industry's favourite writers. And so he started to pop up in places.

All ten seasons of John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme are available on BBC Sounds, which starts Episode 1 with a Doctor Who sketch, but season nine remains one of my favourite things he has ever done (and also seems to be Neil Gaiman's favourite as well), and I wrote about it with all the possible spoilers over here. You can buy the CDs of Cabin Pressure, but it's also on Audible. As are John Finnemore's Double Acts, two series of six one-act plays with two actors in each. Sometimes one of them is him. And he manages to get the likes of Michael Palin, Martin Clunes, Una Stubbs, Stephanie Cole, Julia McKenzie, Celia Imrie, Matthew Bayton, Rebecca Front, Alison Steadman and more.

John Finnemore has won more Comedy.co.uk Awards than any other writer, the Writers' Guild of Great Britain Outstanding Contribution to Writing in 2020, and plenty of BBC Audio Drama Awards. Radio Academy Awards and Chortle Awards too.

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