The #punliners continue. Here’s July’s batch:

1st-31st July

Making a stew out of corpse meat is, when you think about it, quite goulash behaviour.

He misplaced his mother’s collection of chimes and never quite got over it. Such a shame to lose one’s ma bells.

My mate who breeds large rabbits fought off some thieves who were trying to airlift them away – hare raising stuff!

I couldn’t decide whether to get a job in the north or south, so I went and spoke to my koreas advisor.

Sir Boris would be a living knight mayor.

My gym’s started offering discount memberships to ghosts, but they still don’t seem keen on exorcising.

Learning about atomic structure (my teacher’s a bit of a Bohr).

Just fixed my blender – hip hip purée!

Getting close to creating a forest of loose-fitting provocative dresses with my chemise-tree set.

Old Macdonald needed some help finding the right medication for his livestock, so he went to the farm assist.

New training initiative: England squad sings eleven-part harmonies during matches. Quite hard though, esp. if the pitch is dodgy.

Am I secretly an Olympic athlete who’s really good at throwing things? Sorry, I can’t discus that.

My mother’s sister runs a business bringing top-secret luxury goods into the country. All I know is that she’s import aunt.

Working out the national average shoe size was no mean feet.

“Just bought a car with a belly button.” “Is it an innie or an Audi?”

I think there’s some truth to the minotaur legend. But about half is definitely bull.

Looking back, the most stressful part of my graduation ceremony (BSc Torture) was the mortarboarding.

SUMMER TIP: Put tea leaves on your face when sunbathing for the best tannin experience.

Used to be employed by the Round Table, but now I joust for charity. It’s much better going freelance.

I wanted to ask some bees to share their honey with me, but you know how stingy they are.

Just saw some medieval jesters sailing along the Thames, rocking out to “Dr. Feelgood”. Quite the motley crew.

I defeated the criminal mastermind (and former henchman) using only a thin, light sheet of metal; alumni-minion foil!

Beethoven, Mozart, Bach. These great musicians don’t die, they just decompose.

Was asked to teach English at Wormwood Scrubs. Currently weighing up prose and cons.

Every week my mum used to dip me in paint and make me do the hoovering: “For getting carpets clean, nothing beats a dye son!”

I keep checking my bank balance online hoping it’ll go up – definitely a problem with my cache.

Started playing monopoly with my pheasant and partridge mates, but unsurprisingly they lost interest quickly. Stupid bored game.

David Mitchell and Robert Webb star as a 17th century diarist and talking pig forced to cohabit in new sitcom Pepys Sow.

Bought a parachute embellished with some gathered lace before I went base-jumping today. Such is the life of a frill seeker.

“I can’t get the petroleum out of this deep hole – it’s being blocked by all those hives.” “Well oil bee dammed!”

Aladdin electrocuted his father-in-law by feeding him a packet of duracell – a classic case of a sultan battery.

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I filmed this here interview and performance with the rather brilliant Ed Sheeran for my presenter pal Aissetou’s blog.  He’s quite disgustingly talented, and a nice person too, so I expect massive global success before too long.

(Directed by David Smith, who doesn’t have a personal webby but does make a very good games review show)

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Just in case anyone wants to predict something other than the football results, I’ve set up an interactive webcam feed to Paul the Psychic Octopus.  Yes, THE psychic octopus.

You can ask him to use his INCREDIBLE AND DEFINITELY REAL POWERS for whatever you want (preferably not for evil, though).

If you want it bigger, click here, innit.

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For the last six months I’ve been working with a bunch of very talented friends on a set of rap videos starring Doc Brown for BBC Comedy.  As of today, all four are online and READY TO VIEW (hurrah).  Here’s one wot I directed:

Now go and watch the rest of them! Thanks.

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Making Doc Brown

Around this time last year we (by which I mean Team Popcorn Comedy) made a short, no-budget rap video starring Doc Brown, Hood Sportz.

A lot of people seemed to like it, and we really enjoyed working with Doc, so it was absolutely brilliant when BBC Comedy asked us to make four more, only this time with a bit of budget.

You can watch them here.

This afternoon I came across some of the really early concept work I did in Jan/Feb for a couple of the videos and it was really interesting seeing how those ideas had translated into the final versions six months later.

Well, I found it interesting anyway.

For Handz Up, Kanye West and Busta Rhymes were big influences:

And for Jimmy Wiggz (superbly directed by Barry Pilling) there was obviously more than a touch of the Puff Daddy…

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Well, I’m half way through my new year’s resolution to pun every day in 2010 and  it’s going about 180 days better than any other new year’s resolution I’ve ever made before.  That said, June was the hardest month so far, so fingers crossed I’ll get a second wind.  Come on brain, let’s have some inspiration for July’s #punliners

1st-30th June

Hairy insects that pupate in volcanos often end up as moulting larvae.

I cheated on Wonder Woman with Supergirl, then on Supergirl with Buffy. And all because of my heroine addiction.

I had to dash, but hit my colon on the side of a posh trophy. It brought me to a full stop and I slipped into a comma.

Brought up by the riverbank, yet afraid of water, he was an otter disgrace.

Vera Lynn is sick of having burgers for dinner: “Wheel meat again?!”

When gigging to an audience of cannibals, never ask them to throw their hands up.

Stressed castaways long for a massage in a bottle.

What’s wrong with air-brushing? I ate messy air. It’s orrible.

Can’t remember what I should do after doodling a bullet. I’m drawing a blank.

Jim Carrey tries to recruit Matthew Broderick into a shadowy organisation in new film ‘The Cabal Guy’.

Want to plot out how the size of electrostatic generator affects maximum voltage produced, but can’t find any Van de Graph paper.

“I wonder what my next guide on how to hustle people should be about?”, he con templated.

Thomas the Tank Engine hoarded all the coal because he had trouble making friends (selfish steam issues).

I’m playing ‘Earth’ in a demonstration of the Solar System. Should I make up the orbit as I go along or planet properly?

I howled with rage after being beaten by my girlfriend in an online algebra exam. Totally e-maths ululated.

Gordon Brown is devoted.

Davy Crockett once pierced his ear and shoved his head in a pork pie, misinterpreting a request to see some ‘pioneering spirit’.

Robot 1: Did you just emit a noxious gas as a byproduct of extracting pure iron from its ore? Robot 2: Whoever smelt it…

Someone’s embroidered insults over the Bayeux Tapestry. How crewel.

Ewww, don’t touch the blacksmith’s son, he’s got the metallurgy.

Rubbing fresh garlic onto a coarse sweater doesn’t actually ward off vampires. It’s another case of the hemp aura’s new cloves.

Illustrating a children’s story about a drunken rabbit pool hustler. A regular beer tricks potter.

Looking out of my fishfinger helicopter, getting a Birds Eye view.

Mass was wondering when gravity would arrive: ‘Why do you always make me weight?’

Scientists have built a sentient robot using exoskeletons from creative crabs. The first genuine arty fish shell intelligence.

Invited Edgar Allan Poe to an all-night acid house party in an aviary, but it turns out he doesn’t like raven.

Two weeks investigating the Case of the Unrestrained Canines and still no leads.

I threw a party in a deciduous tree, but no-one came (it wasn’t poplar).

Betting on which lamb will jump the highest is a big gambol.

Trying to make a lightweight, yet solid, cloth-covered sun hat, but someone keeps sabotaging me. Are they taking the pith?

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Ahh, the Glamour Awards nonsense. Much as my sympathies lay with Patrick Stewart, neither of them came off well and it ended up being terribly awkward. And then James Corden showed us his belly, which he really does far too much. So I made a silly thing.

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May Pundemonium

Happy June!

To celebrate, I’ll be posting all of May’s #punliners, archived for future generations to dismiss as a waste of everybody’s time.

1st – 31st May 2010

Dendrophiliac witches go to Coventry.

Criminal words should be sentenced.

Earlier I was wondering if I might be a vampire but, on reflection, realised I’m not.

A wave of love for all humanity suddenly washed over her. Her jaw dropped, agape.

Our most treasured family heirloom is a magic lamp. Wish I could trace where it came from, but I’m no genieologist.

She got a phone call about her brother as soon as his kidney problems flared up again. Hurrah for dial-a-sis machines.

Light Brigade Batteries: Always Charging

Bedlam Lip Care: Totally Balmy

MENSA commandos: Swot Team

Just joined an organisation that keeps you fit by running alongside queues, staring at the people in them. I love wait-watchers.

Prehistoric rivers are meanderthals.

Trying to write a sentence praising the government’s new VAT increase on immoral goods, but I’ve got issues with the syntax.

Burned my tongue on a cup of Earl Grey, then recorded and autotuned my scream. For all you fans of tea pain.

Everyone knows about this mysterious rodent – he’s fey mouse.

Sending in my application to get approval for a new haircut. Getting a permit would be nice.

Your sickly textile factory workers may be productive, but can you live with your ill cotton gains?

There’s a hole in my sock, darn it!

Finding a decent corset in Spain is difficult because of all the basque separatists.

My backpacking travel agency has just been the victim of a hostel takeover.

Mythological creatures craving an adventure holiday go to Centaur Parks.

Spending ALL DAY in a gruelling semaphore class and already starting to flag.

I’ve invented a fabric that predicts the future; Nostradamask.

My German sausage business has gone from bad to wurst.

I’m often asked to assess the quality of people’s luggage and I try to judge it on a case by case basis.

Wanted to buy a discount boat, but I couldn’t find a decent sail price.

Dating a jug of water; she’s pretty as a pitcher.

That’s the best sushi place I’ve ever bento.

WHAT! My neighbour plans to drill lots of tiny holes through the wooden barrier between our gardens! Frankly, it’s a fence sieve.

There are only so many Mattel dolls I can grill at once, hence the need for a barbie queue.

Criminal knights must be brought to joustice.

When called to resign from the district school board after another super glue incident, he refused, sticking to his principals.

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My self-imposed new year’s resolution based mission to pun every day through 2010 continues apace.  Only eight more months to go…

1st-30th April 2010:

Went to get petrol yesterday. …Not really, I’m going today! April fuel.

Ancient Greek etiquette: always say polis and phalanx

Zombie Mussolini… what the duce?

Ever since I drank the last of her fresh orange juice, relations with my girlfriend have been cordial at best.

Measured out a portion of pasta, but might as well finish the whole bag. In for a penne…

Just heard that the Queen’s dissolved Parliament. Don’t worry – if we ever need it again she can just evaporate off the water.

Deliberately exposing endangered birds to diseases is illeagle. Even ones that only affect the talons are against the claw.

If chocolate could scream, would we eat so much of it? We might if it was only a wispa.

“Finally told my girlfriend the news about how much I’d spent on a TV/fridge combo.” “How was it?” “It got a frosty reception.”

Solar Ellipse

Someone’s run off with my condiments, but thanks to a tip-off from an anonymous sauce I still might be able to ketchup.

Don’t worry if you have a crush on an open door. It’s easy to get entranced and is something that most of us have gone through.

Wasn’t sure if my in-character DeForest Kelley autograph was fake. Don’t worry, I’ve checked and it’s the real McCoy.

Noel Fielding and Julian Barrett can’t stop laughing at my small savoury appetiser. Amuse-bouche, innit.

He got hit so hard he flew across the border and landed in Texas. He’s in a right state now.

It was a bad idea to wear the 1950s Buddy Holly glasses he realised retrospectively.

Made a fortune investing in gravy on the stock exchange. Now I’m a bouillonaire.

During this bad weather, my pets are in charge. It’s reigning cats and dogs.

Addicted to docking my boat. It’s very moorish.

An angry rhotacist drove up to me, painted my face blue and charged me a fiver. Never thought I’d suffer from woad wage.

Ever play whist with musical instruments? If your opponent’s hand is winning, you’ll need to trumpet.

Too much booze and I end up moaning about old grievances – I just can’t resist a vintage whine.

St. George, patron saint of user interface design (he invented dragon-drop).

I’ve been asked to use 100 famous phrases a day. Who doesn’t love a quota?

Whitney Houston is launching a range of neutral coloured egg-shaped hand coverings. They’re the grayest glove oval.

Qualm Trees

Sadly, my business selling advice to Americans doesn’t make a lot of cents.

They say he was killed by a male goose trained by MI5. The government blame a rogue swan, but I know propaganda when I see it.

Will Smith and Martin Lawrence float around in the sea fighting crime in new action film Bad Buoys.

The ThunderCats are designing me a new kitchen, but I’m not very confident about Lino.

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When a crack deal goes sour, it’s time for something sweet…

Filmed by me, written by Little Albert.

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