Episodes
This week we meander and muse along memory lane, stopping to consider what memories shape us and which memories we would damn well rather forget. Kirsty shudders at the recollection of her swimming costume being flown as a flag on her estate and Rebecca at her skin-coloured knickers being revealed to an onlooking pub. As usual we are educatied by our Butters' contributions - Forget the hospital when you're in need of an enema, aparently just go down a waterslide in spain. Enjoy.
Published 02/14/20
This week we chow down on the challenging subject that is cheese. We question whether a fondue should ever be shared - naked? And address the shocking revelations that Kirsty *doesn't* like pizza and Rebecca *does* like the dirty plastic-wrapped burger cheese.  The salty cheese with a squeeky intensity - Haloumi - gets a mention - like it does at every sodding bbq. Our Butters rock up with with a smörgåsbord of cheese-related tales. As one of our Butters posted CHEESE IS LIFE.... we will let...
Published 02/07/20
This week we're discussing the horrible habits that hold us back and hinder us...from hitting snooze to holding your phone in higher esteem than your family. Will Rebecca recover from essentially being a dog fluffer on one very bizarre day... will morning Rebecca ever be friends with evening Rebecca? Kirsty’s bad habits turn out to be many and varied...one is talking too much... I know we’re as shocked as you are. Then there's finding her own socks by the side of the road, being overly...
Published 01/24/20
Join us on our journey this week as we become trepidatious travellers. Trains, planes ... what could go wrong...? All kinds of crazy apparently.. from Kirsty’s light battering (which wasn't nearly as tasty as it sounds), to Rebecca's fear that the train toilet door will once again betray her. As always DLB asks the important questions such as does Finland exist? Is the problem with travel the other travellers? And is Rebecca merely a figment of Kirsty's imagination? Enjoy.
Published 01/17/20
This week we celebrate a new Don’t Laugh But decade by rambling our way through resolutions. Should we bother making them? Should Rebecca's be to dive into the dragons den with shoebuddies .com? Should Kirsty's be to stop obeying machines? Should Don’t Laugh But be your resolution? We'll leave all these life affirming questions with you. In the mean time let’s throw all the boring resolutions out the window, grab the left over Christmas cheese and chocolate, pour a Gin and enjoy...
Published 01/10/20
We pull that cracker that is Christmas and enjoy the exploding drama,  hugs,  love,  nostalgia; the damn essence of life that it is. The Quality Street is judged, the condiments listed, the music incessantly sung, the importance of being free to do what you want whilst rubbing along with everyone, wearing paper hats and eating everything in sight is muled over along with the wine. Our butters join us at the Christmas table and as always they are a very welcome guest, though, if anyone, it is...
Published 12/20/19
We fall into fate this week. Is it fate, destiny, serendipity or all three? Are you meant to be doing something in the world? Or is it all random and haphazard (a bit like every week here at DLB)? Was it fate that Kirsty’s angry corner involved her seeing red only to find out that it’s actually her own brain that needs to be in her angry corner? Is it Rebecca’s puppy’s fate to always love to eat an entire sock? We’ll leave you, our lovely Butters, to decide. ‘Cos we haven’t got a clue.
Published 12/13/19
This week we take you for dinner, lunch and a whole brunch of chat as we discuss restaurants...what’s not to love... getting fed and cleaned up by other people.. it’s one of life utter pleasures but how close should we get to the gems of humans that are waiting staff? .. Kirsty believes very close indeed. Meanwhile Rebecca gets excited about mermaids... surely they should be on every restaurant menu? Our butters join us at the table with their amusing amuse-bouche of restaurant faux pas ..
Published 12/06/19
This week we grimace in the face of guilt. Who’s feeling guilty? NOT us... Okay, now we're feeling guilty for lying.Is guilt just a useless self-destructive angry inner voice that our other seldom-heard compassionate inner voice should politely tell to buggar off?As always our Butters save the day with their beautiful, hilarious and often disturbing Guilty Pleasures including running with jazz hands, using butter as a dip and bra-warmed chocolate. (Also includes Kirsty’s tales of a joyous...
Published 11/29/19
This week we lay in the lap of laughter delving into how giggling, gaffawing and ‘PMSL’/‘ROFL’-ing (whichever makes you least nauseous) makes us more human and allows us to deal with the gravitas of horrendous situations with a bit of space and grace. Our Butters - our wind beneath - lift us up with some of the most hilarious heartwarming stories of inappropriate laughter.
Published 11/22/19
We try not to be blinded by the bright lights of celebrity as we question whether fame really should be desired, and famous people valued above others. We also throw a little glitter over the mundane with the excitement that comes from a random viewing of the great and good as our Butters share stories of sharing a toilet seat with Thora Hird, accidentally hitting Mel Gibson when dismounting a cow and sharing a hot tub with Robert Redford. Also includes indepth discussions on the dumbing down...
Published 11/08/19
This week we don’t sit by the rivers of Babylon but instead dive right in to the tempestuous sea of stress that is first world 21st century living. Is life really so overwhelming or do we bring it on ourselves? Is stress sometimes a good thing? Would it help if we collectively admitted that we’re all just shutting our eyes, putting our foot down and hoping for the best?   Whether it's the small things (Kirsty by her own admission could ‘catastrophize a bag of crisps’) or the bigger things...
Published 11/01/19
We try not to faint, fall down or poop ourselves as we stumble down the aisle of expectation towards our wonderful Don't Laugh Butters and their hilarious tales of eventful and often downright disasterous weddings. Also covers zip-up underwear, Rebecca's disturbingly alluring french accent and Kirsty's award-winning John Wayne impression . So put on your hat, fight your way to the canapés, and join us as we 'spoon the vicar'.
Published 10/24/19
This week here comes the bride and all things wedding related...we get lost in the no mans land that is the the wedding ceremony - should oversized Jenga ever be involved? Wedding rules; are they necessary or should we all be radical and do exactly what we want? Why are men getting to do all the speeches? Should the bride be made up to the extent that no one, including the groom, recognises her?   The bigger questions are not left untouched like will Kirsty learn to suck apples or get the...
Published 10/18/19
This week we’re walking those stinky school corridors again, re-visiting the highs and lows and the down-right butt-clenchingly (or otherwise) embarrassing moments we all experienced... We ponder over whether Kirsty should have been able to keep her shaved initials in her hair or Rebecca was actually well within her rights to be smoking in the school toilets. Our Butters share their most hilariously embarrassing school moments. Why is school a dystopian nightmare for some...a festival of...
Published 10/11/19
This week we ravishingly eat up all things diet related ... why do we so want to believe in them.. even the ones that make us smell like cabbage and eat deadly worms, when they seem to have the power to make us all unhappy? In our desperate attempts, filled with shame and judgement, to eat less and punish our bodies do we perhaps forget that food is life and life is fun, and that perhaps inside every thin girl there's a fat girl trying to eat her way out? Also features the joyful mental...
Published 10/04/19
In a conversation that Kirsty rates 5 stars (but then she’s easily pleased), we swallow back the fear of offending and frankly getting things all kinds of wrong and delve in to the issues surrounding disabilities. Why when 1 in 5 people in the UK are disabled aren’t they similarly represented on our TV screens? Are disabled people fed up with being either pitied or held up as heroes? Why isn't everyone valued and deemed to be exactly enough just as they are?    And why isn’t Kirsty suitably...
Published 09/26/19
This week, now with the help of our lovely listeners - the ‘Butters’, we line up the shots and vol-au-vents and discuss the very best and worst of soirees and shindigs. Should other people clear up at your party? Is there too much pressure on NYE to ever enjoy it? Will Kirsty ever leave the buffet table? And what should one do if a guest gets her breasts stuck in her zip whilst another is eating a frozen snake? Whatever the answers may be there's no doubt this is THE place to be, and you’re...
Published 09/20/19
What does it mean to be a woman? Is it ok to draw any distinctions between the genders? Are women supportive of each other? Is it insulting for a woman to be referred to as a ‘girl’? Does Kirsty’s new ‘serious’ voice mask our inabilities to grapple with such a weighty subject? And when oh when will we hear a woman fart in a movie?
Published 09/06/19
Who are you? A question of course initially posed by renowed philosopher Roger Daltrey. This week we also ponder the issues of identity;  How much of ourselves die when our loved ones die? How much of our identity is lactated away when we become a mother? What should you do when you wave at someone then realise it's your own reflection in a mirror? And will Kirsty ever be able to say 'unfathomable'? Whatever you do, the conclusion is clear - just be yourself. Unles you're a t**t. Then try...
Published 08/30/19
Rebecca and Kirsty merely scratch the surface of their known unknowns; the stuff they simply do not understand, from gravity to the hangy bits in t-shirts, from LinkedIn to the evolution of monkeys who decided they couldn’t be bothered to turn in to humans... If you’ve ever felt ignorant, give this a listen. It will give your comparative intelligence one hell of a boost.
Published 08/23/19
Six weeks of being grounded with the whole family, or maybe you’re lucky enough to brave the airless hell-hole of anxiety that is the airport so you call yell at your kids to ‘stop wielding stuff’ in a whole different continent.  Whatever your summer holds, we’re here for you, discussing the hidden perils of mashed potato on a long boat, finding out you were matched to your painfully dull exchange student Helga because of your similar personalities, and testing your marriage to breaking point...
Published 08/16/19
Join on us on the beautiful journey that is friendship as we plait each other’s hair and have feathery pillow fights yet still make time to take a detour into the similarities between parents and bras. We rip in to what bonds and ask, is it the friends who smell together stay together? If you’re a friend in need, we are your friends indeed...
Published 08/08/19
The excitement continues in this much anticipated part two of Kirsty and Rebecca tackling life’s most fundamental ‘What If’ Questions. This week we battle to keep things clean as the discussion varies from the giant sweaty ‘spoon beast’ that emerges  when canoodling in the heat, Rebecca’s distracting cleavage, and an honest answer to, ‘what if you woke up as a man, what would you do?’
Published 08/01/19
This week Rebecca and Kirsty discuss vital 'what if...' questions. Delving into the fear of pooping in Space and tackling the merits of a good wine like Shnuffly Du Blanc. We don’t even shy away from exploring the gravitas of whether Edam deserves to be considered a cheese and the mind blowing fact that out bodies will never actually turn into a cup of tea...enjoy.
Published 07/26/19