TV review: Cunk and Other Humans on 2019

I really hope this is a one off and next year Charlie Brooker pulls his finger out and returns to the Wipe format. Or does nothing at all, as that would be better than this gigantic mess.

Philomena Cunk on the Queen's Speech

The cultural commentator ponders this year's royal message, which she argues is 'like Gogglebox, but even posher than the bits with Stef and Dom in'.

Hazeley & Morris on The Ladybird Book of Trump

The writers of the Ladybird Books for Grown-Ups vowed never to write about the President, but then they read his tweets.

Best comedy books of 2018

Some top funny tomes from this past year, featuring everything from Brexit to feminism, and daft games to theoretical musings.

Agendum is a new satirical series from ace comedy writers Jason Hazeley and Joel Morris, who wrote the Ladybird Books for Grown-Ups series, as well as the Philomena Cunk mockumentaries. The detail in these sketches is spot-on. The second, which used the longstanding - and surely now irrelevant - comedy trope of Noel Edmonds, misfired a little; but the others, on "superwater" and, especially, on how crap oranges are, really made me laugh. There are those who might want a smidgen of anger in their comedy in these divided times, but these satires concentrate more on the telling of smaller news stories, with cliche-bound reporters, idiot commentators and staged arguments. And they do make me laugh.

The 50 best podcasts of 2018

From Julia Davis's dark comedy Dear Joan to track-by-track teardown Dissect, Marc Maron to Meat and beyond, here are this year's finest audio offerings.