Comedians Ribs Norman and Neil David Alexander Dillon chat about the lighter news stories of the week, including how KFC will soon be printing your next bucket of food, the correct order in which to schedule your day (but they've got the mornin

Episode 61: 400 Parrots and Nowhere to Go

Jul 9th, 2020 59m 2s

Comedians Ribs Norman and Mel Byron* chat about the lighter news stories of the week, including how we actually smell in stereo (bad news for owners of elderly pets), the poor Florida man who is trapped with 400 mean parrots, how the public are

Episode 60: Let Sleeping Owls Lie (Face Down)

Jun 25th, 2020 58m 24s

Comedians Ribs Norman and Neil David Alexander Dillon chat about the lighter news stories of the week, including how flying robots with bubble guns are going to save the world, the fact that owls really do sleep face down, the man who sued a da

Episode 59: Fruity Scofflaws and Books By The Yard

Jun 18th, 2020 58m 43s

Comedians Ribs Norman and Mel Byron* chat about the lighter news stories of the week, including how Brexit means we can soon import cheap Tim Tams (Ribs had never heard of them either), the 104-year-old stud tortoise who has finally been given

Episode 58: The Man Who Sat On A Fish and other unlikely stories

Jun 11th, 2020 54m 44s

Comedians Ribs Norman and Neil David Alexander Dillon chat about the lighter news stories of the week, including the dying man who buried $10M-worth of treasure and then didn't die, how your favourite Looney Tunes characters are swapping guns f

Episode 57: Beware Dolphins Bearing Gifts

Jun 2nd, 2020 54m 12s

Comedians Ribs Norman and Neil David Alexander Dillon chat about the lighter news stories of the week, including something exciting that happened to Neil when his boyfriend was on his knees (actually perfectly SFW), the liquid French bread (nic

Episode 56: Lobsters With Squeegees and Live Sudoku

May 26th, 2020 53m 21s

Comedians Ribs Norman and Neil David Alexander Dillon chat about the lighter news stories of the week, including the spurned lover who sent a tonne of onions to her ex, the personalised present that went wrong, how lobsters repel predators with

Episode 55: The Wholesome Hole In The Wall

May 18th, 2020 58m 28s

Comedians Ribs Norman and Mel Byron* chat about the lighter news stories of the week, including a wholesome whole in the wall, why Ribs is going to try to get a job at Twitter, the rise of saucy stories during lockdown (plus the impromptu Ribs

Episode 54: Lockdown Cocktails and Asparagus Fortunes

May 12th, 2020 53m 35s

Comedians Ribs Norman and Neil David Alexander Dillon chat about the lighter news stories of the week, including the discovery that even people in comas don't like the smell of rotten fish, the new language of lockdown (pinot fridgio, anyone?),

Episode 53: Eels Seek Humans for Facetime Fun

May 4th, 2020 53m 14s

Comedians Ribs Norman and Neil David Alexander Dillon chat about the lighter news stories of the week, including the rise of the rebel botanists, the lonely eels seeking cam-chats, the joyful end of food sharing (Ribs is writing this and she do

Episode 52: Angel Delight and the Mushroom Canoe

Apr 27th, 2020 55m 33s

Comedians Ribs Norman and Mel Byron* chat about the lighter news stories of the week, including the nostalgic joy of Angel Delight, how to swim indoors, the story of the dopey cannabis grower, the fungal canoe (turns out there is "mushroom" in

Episode 51: Flamingo BFFs and the Super Size Siphonophore

Apr 20th, 2020 53m

Comedians Ribs Norman and Neil David Alexander Dillon chat about the lighter news stories of the week, including how flamingos have BFFs, the chandelier-loving woman suing for discrimination, the longest creature ever found (a siphonophore* tha

Episode 50: Pregnant Pandas and Naughty Czech Nudists

Apr 12th, 2020 58m 31s

Comedians Ribs Norman and Neil David Alexander Dillon chat about the lighter news stories of the week, including the goats who've taken over a Welsh town (all Welsh people are thankful it wasn't sheep or they'd never hear the end of it), the pa

Episode 49: The Pub Where Nobody Knows Your Name

Mar 18th, 2020 1h 3m

Comedians Ribs Norman and Neil David Alexander Dillon chat about the lighter news stories of the week, including the glorified cake tester (at the glorified rate of £50 an hour), the Spotify lullaby playlist with added terrifying clown laugh, t

Episode 48: Cordon Bleu and the Duck Army of China

Mar 9th, 2020 53m 51s

Comedians Ribs Norman and Neil David Alexander Dillon chat about the lighter news stories of the week, including the shocking alleged behaviour of men in Indonesian swimming pools (involving their little swimmers), how Neil is employing dogs in

Episode 47: Champney's Magic Apple Pies & the Great Henge Heist

Feb 25th, 2020 55m 49s

Comedians Ribs Norman and Neil David Alexander Dillon chat about the lighter news stories of the week, including 50 things girls should do before they're 5 (pressure much?), the great henge heist (but really how Greece wants their marbles back,

Episode 46: Cunning Cuttlefish and The Great Potholes of Blackpool

Feb 14th, 2020 1h

Comedians Ribs Norman and Neil David Alexander Dillon chat about the lighter news stories of the week, including the world's largest collection of pizza boxes (it's inside Neil's flat - only joking), how cunning cuttlefish leave room for desser

Episode 45: The Not-So-Little Owl and the Billboard Dater

Feb 6th, 2020 54m

Comedians Ribs Norman and Neil David Alexander Dillon chat about the lighter news stories of the week, including how people have got up a real head of steam over a new job at the Tate, a high tech way to feel the weather (no, not Windows), bill

Episode 45: When Needlefish Attack!

Jan 28th, 2020 1h 7m

Comedians Ribs Norman and Neil David Alexander Dillon chat about the lighter news stories of the week, including when needlefish attack*, why Ribs should get a job on the new men's makeup counter at John Lewis, the daring rescue by three masked

Episode 44: The Angry Arsonist Tortoise

Jan 10th, 2020 1h 7m

Comedians Ribs Norman and Neil David Alexander Dillon chat about the lighter news stories of the week, including job news for polite weirdos ("civil" service, innit?), what we'll be buying in 2020 (it all sounds all very middle-class - baba gan

Episode 43: The Triumphant Return of the Codpiece

Jan 3rd, 2020 1h 2m

Comedians Ribs Norman and Neil David Alexander Dillon chat about the lighter news stories of the week, including the triumphant return of the codpiece (Danny Dyer must be thrilled), the disappointment of the presents (except for Ribs who loves

Episode 42: Hipster Armageddon and the Hapsburg Jaw

Dec 9th, 2019 55m 4s

Comedians Ribs Norman and Mel Byron* chat about the lighter news stories of the week, including the Apostrophe Society's full stop, hipster Armageddon in the form of a halloumi shortage, the black market in used makeup (OK, we might have made t

Episode 41: The Philanthropist and the PARP-inhibitor

Nov 29th, 2019 55m 42s

Comedians Ribs Norman and Neil David Alexander Dillon chat about the lighter news stories of the week, including when leaves on the line is a good thing, why the BBC canteen is not the best place to get fish and chips, how slow whale heartbeats

Episode 40: Non-Bear Rescues Other Non-Bears

Nov 22nd, 2019 58m 43s

Comedians Ribs Norman and Neil David Alexander Dillon chat about the lighter news stories of the week, including the origins of the term "drugs mule" (quite possibly not factually correct), how a bear rescued koala bears from the charred remain

Episode 39: Eggs On A Train

Nov 16th, 2019 59m 43s

Comedians Ribs Norman and Neil David Alexander Dillon chat about the lighter news stories of the week, including what Rod Stewart was really doing in swanky hotels while on tour (clue: it involved lots of models, but not the leggy kind), how de