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A weekly creative newsletter. The Tapes function as an interactive notebook/sketchpad exploring comedy, art, creativity, making stuff, etc.. Sign Up Below, or click for More Info.

Tape 198: The Best “Cultural Highlights Of 2025” Newsletters Of 2025

Tape 198: The Best “Cultural Highlights Of 2025” Newsletters Of 2025

Joz Norris • Sunday, December 28th, 2025

Well, it’s that time of year again. As the New Year rolls around, here at Joz Norris Towers we like to look back at this year’s crop of “My Cultural Highlights of 2025” newsletters written by comedians on Substack and choose a winner. Or at least, that was the plan. But last night, after eating […]

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Tape 197: A Christmas Karl

Tape 197: A Christmas Karl

Joz Norris • Thursday, December 11th, 2025

Rob Scratchit took a deep breath. You can do this, Rob Scratchit, he said to himself. With a trembling webbed hand (he was a frog, by the way) he knocked on Karl’s door. “What?” yelled a voice. “Mr Snooge, sir…” Rob began. “Open the fucking door if you want to talk to me, I can’t […]

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Tape 196: Another Year In The ODEON

Tape 196: Another Year In The ODEON

Joz Norris • Thursday, November 27th, 2025

It’s Black Friday Week, a week that I used to not give one solitary shit about until I started going out with someone with a great nose for a deal. Since then, Black Friday Week has come to be about one thing and one thing only – big discounts on the ODEON MyLimitless Plus subscription, which […]

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What People Say?

Utterly unique, very weird and a wee bit wonderful.

Fest.
★★★★★

The Morning Star.
★★★★★

Young Perspective.

A comedy legend.

To Do List.

Joyously silly.

The Evening Standard.
★★★★

A brilliant show that is not short of ambition…it packs a terrific punch.

The Evening Standard.

A sort of absurdist Simon Amstell…seldom can half an hour have been so densely packed with meta comedy and existential…

The Guardian.
★★★★

Beyond The Joke.

Really does capture the spirit of creative Fringe comedy.

The Guardian.

A skilful and thoughtful writer who fastidiously avoids boring or obvious choices and excels at being unselfconsciously daft.

TV Bomb.
★★★★

Totally brilliant.

Chortle.

A beautifully fully-fleshed depiction of the human experience.

Shortcom.