Richard Herring was kind enough to let me guest on the latest episode of his Book Club on the RHLSTP format because he was interviewing Ian Livingstone, the legendary co-creator of the Fighting Fantasy gamebook series, and therefore the man responsible for the many hours I’ve spent fighting goblins and skeletons with dice. I jumped […]

The Happiness Chain is now out online and you can watch it here! What if the secret to happiness lay in trying absolutely everything? Alex is trying to get an ambitious podcast project off the ground – find out literally everything anybody else has ever done in order to be happy, and try it for himself […]

Thanks so much to Londonist for asking me to write this piece about why I decided to make a show about the Phantom of the Opera, refracted through the lens of Hugh Jackman. The show is back at the Pleasance from the 17th to the 19th of December, and tickets are available here.

Very soon I can finally stop posting about this pilot cos it’ll be out there in the world and that’ll be that. So to celebrate the impending end of my promotional labours, here’s a fun lil trailer! The pilot is out on Thursday. It was written by me, directed by Ben Kent and stars Kathy […]

We made a sitcom pilot that nobody asked us to make. In 2024, I wrote and made The Happiness Chain, an independent sitcom pilot created without a broadcaster, a commissioning editor or any guarantee that anyone would ever see it. It tells the story of Hannah (Kathy Maniura), whose life is falling apart, and Alex […]

I have a terrible confession to make – this year I destroyed the Leicester Comedy Festival by winning Best Show and demanding a trophy so big it bankrupted the festival. But the good folks of the Independent Comedy Festival have granted me a chance to come back and redeem myself. So this year’s Best Show, […]

I had a really nice chat with The Wee Review about the upcoming release of our indie comedy pilot, The Happiness Chain, and the ins and outs of how we made it and why. You can read the interview here – huge thanks to them for chatting to me, and thanks to everyone who’s got in touch […]

We made a sitcom pilot that nobody asked us to make. In 2024, I wrote and made The Happiness Chain, an independent sitcom pilot created without a broadcaster, a commissioning editor or any guarantee that anyone would ever see it. It tells the story of Hannah (Kathy Maniura), whose life is falling apart, and Alex […]

In 2024, me and a bunch of comedians decided to make a comedy pilot ourselves. No broadcaster, no commissioning editor, no industry backing, and absolutely no guarantee that anyone would ever watch it. This is the story of how and why we did it. The Happiness Chain is an independent comedy pilot about Hannah (Kathy […]

A couple of years ago, after a long time working on a script I was really proud of and shopping it around, I got tired of waiting for permission to make stuff. So I teamed up with director Ben Kent and a load of amazing comedians and artists, raised the money entirely from my own […]