Don’t Laugh But...

Laughter

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.

Fame!

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 of the whoopee cushion and how to cope with poop shaming.

Stress

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 like winging it at parenting and suffering eco-guilt  that make you want to scream into the night we’re here to help. Or at least distract you for a bit with our own ineptness.

Weddings Part 2

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'.

Weddings - part 1

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 chance to slide across the dance floor and will our invention of the bumbrella ever take off? 

 

Also includes two new and exciting sections alongside the our much beloved 'Overheard Corner' - 'Awkward Moments' and the, a-hem, 'Lovely Hole - it's a whole lot of lovely'.

School Days

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 delights for others?... we don’t know but we spend a lot of time talking about it.

Dieting

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 image of Rebecca and Kirsty romping around in full-body jegging suits.Enjoy.

Disability

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 impressed by Rebecca’s Stephen Hawking story?

Parties

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 all invited. Bring a bottle. Or two.

Womanhood

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?