James Walton

Beyond a joke | 3 December 2015

Plus: two properly great sitcoms, Detectorists and Catastrophe, reach the end of their second series

issue 05 December 2015

Let’s start this week with a joke: ‘You know Mrs Kelly? Do you know Mrs Kelly? Her husband’s that little stout man, always on the corner of the street in a greasy waistcoat. You must know Mrs Kelly. Well, of course if you don’t, you don’t, but I thought you did, because I thought everybody knew Mrs Kelly.

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