From the world’s rudest agony aunts to pirate radio DJs and mock-celeb chat, if it’s comedy you’re after, there’s a podcast for that
Julia Davis has spent the past 15 years cementing her position as the doyenne of dark British comedy, and Dear Joan and Jericha may be her most disturbing work to date. This two-hander with her actor pal Vicki Pepperdine (Getting On, The Windsors) sees the pair play agony aunts who tackle their listeners’ relationship problems with relentless misogyny – the woman is always, always at fault, while the invariably wonderful “guys” get off scot-free – and constant recommendations for some variety of incest or bestiality, however tenuous its link to the topic at hand. Always troubling, occasionally terrifying, this is character comedy at its most thrillingly transgressive.