Comedian and writer Rosie Jones (The Last Leg, Sex Education) brings a sofa-full of love for game-changing domestic sitcom The Royle Family and in particular its BAFTA winning special The Queen of Sheba. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Writer Sarah Morgan (Not Going Out, Intelligence, Tracey Ullman) dances like a sugared-up nine-year-old in honour of the joyous female buddy comedy Romy & Michele's High School Reunion. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Writer Robert Popper (Friday Night Dinner, Look Around You) shares his love for a definitive slice of a definitive sitcom, the Hotel Inspectors episode of Fawlty Towers. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Writer and comedian Sarah Kendall (Australian Trilogy) celebrates Sydney Pollack's hit 1982 comedy where Dustin Hoffman learns to be a better man by being a woman. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Award-winning children's writer Andy Stanton (The Mr Gum Books) talks about the book that taught him how to write funny stuff: the Young Ones tie-in Bachelor Boys. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Laurence Rickard (Ghosts, Horrible Histories, Yonderland) talks about Monty Python's Life Of Brian and the lessons it has for anyone else who might be trying to make historically textured silly comedy with a six-strong team of comedians. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Comedian Phill Jupitus drags in an Acme crate containing the animation director Chuck Jones, loads of dynamite, some hair restorer and an anvil, to celebrate the great man's work on Daffy Duck, Bugs Bunny, Road Runner and many more.

Comedian, writer and actor Anna Crilly (Anna & Katy, Lead Balloon, Sorry I've Got No Head) discusses her love for Julia Davis and Rob Brydon's often-overlooked masterpiece Human Remains.

Comedian Lucy Porter talks about Ellen Degeneres' first TV stand-up special, and how it inspired her.

Illustrator and children's author Nadia Shireen celebrates the comic voice of Smash Hits magazine, and the influence it had on her, and the way we make jokes about pop.

Comedian, writer and actor Miles Jupp (The News Quiz, Rev, The Thick Of It) waxes lyrical about multi-award winning sitcom Frasier and in particular, the episode Mixed Doubles.

Comedian Matt Lucas talks about his love for the surreal improvised interviews of Gerard Hoffnung, the 1950s humorist, musician and artist.

Charlie Brooker, the human behind Black Mirror, Cunk On Britain, Wipe and A Touch Of Cloth, joins us to talk about the film Airplane! Surely, you can't be serious? Yes. Yes we are serious. Also includes frank Batman and Robocop chat. You have been warned.

Musician, DJ and comedian Darren Foreman, aka Beardyman, picks Kenny Everett's legendary radio rundown of the world's worst records, and its vinyl release, as a formative and unbearable influence.

Award-winning writer and performer Sanjeev Singh Kohli (Fags Mags & Bags, Look Around You, Still Game) bids us all "oo vuj welcome" in Blue Jam, Chris Morris' experimental flu-woozy small hours head-comedy.

Award winning writer and comedian Katy Brand talks about the mind-expanding effects of the first Red Dwarf novel by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor, 'Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers'.

Josh Weinstein, show-runner of The Simpsons, Futurama and Disenchantment, shares some Simpsons backstage stories, and talks about the influence of groundbreaking Canadian sketch show SCTV on a whole generation of comedy writers.

Award winning comedian Dara O'Briain joins us to talk about the effect Eddie Izzard's third big show had on him as a young stand-up, and shares some trade secrets about how to get an audience on side.

The Great Big Owl family of podcasts is sort of a year old-ish!

It's our second Christmas Special, as comedy writer Sara Gibbs (Succubus, Dead Ringers, Daily Mash) joins us round the fire to talk about the very first Peanuts TV special, 1965's A Charlie Brown Christmas, a cockle-warming mainstay of seasonal telly.

Neil Forsyth, the writer of Eric, Ernie & Me talks about Eddie Braben's writing for the 1977 Morecambe and Wise Christmas special, the ratings smasher that drew half the nation round the telly.

Award winning comedy performer, writer and director Chris Addison (The Thick of It, Veep) talks about the life-changing effect of Victoria Wood's 1980s sketch series As Seen On TV.

Award winning producer Caroline Norris (Horrible Histories, Tracey Ullman, Armstrong & Miller) celebrates Saturday morning telly's pant-swinging double act Trevor and Simon, and talks about the art of making comedy for children that adults can enjoy too.

Comedian Nish Kumar (The Mash Report, Newsjack) talks about his love for "the comedy nerd's Valhalla" Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, a single series of six perfectly formed horror spoofs from Matt Holness, Richard Ayoade, Alice Lowe and Matt Berry.

Comedy writer, performer and absurdist John Luke Roberts talks about his lifelong love for the acerbic songs of Tom Lehrer.