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Sometimes I find it hard to believe a person like Robert Smigel actually exists.

"Black Beauty? He was a dark horse." Perhaps making an entire career out of telling jokes so reliant on punning and wordplay could only ever happen in England.

As a writer and an actor, Buck Henry has one of the most interesting profiles in the history of television. Uncommonly, he also occupies that same position in 60s and 70s American film.

If you travel far enough north along the border between Norway and Sweden, you’ll eventually be in the Republic of Jämtland. Jämtland is a self-proclaimed state that started in the 1960s as a spoof on Sweden’s centralized...

Gerald Scarfe is the English illustrator and artist who is pretty much solely responsible for the existence of those scratchy caricatures flanking serious political commentary in your newspaper.

The story of Viz’s early days at the turn of the 1980s is the kind of tale that would bring a tear to the eye of any elderly gentleman who remembers a time before the internet.

Modern Toss is our favourite British cartoon by miles. It’s as if Johnny Ryan’s strips have been transplanted into a jobcentre in Slough

MURDAH ON THE PLAINS

The largest soccer fan club in the world belongs to São Paulo’s Sport Club, Corinthians Paulista.