Hullo everyone!

Just a quick one to say Happy New Year to all our lovely friends. You are all very lovely.

We’ve got a busy 2010 planned, including a bit of stand-up from one of us, a feature documentary from another, and more glorious sketches from all of us. Huzzah!

See you all next decade.

RocketSausage x

The lovely peeps at Together.com (the climate change awareness website) asked us to produce a new sketch for them highlighting the number ‘1431′, which is the amount of money (in £’s) you can save by employing simple energy saving practices at home.

Joe and Andy put together a script, and we shot it on a rather windy Saturday morning in Yorkshire. It’s called ‘Hero’, and it’s featured on the front page of YouTube as we speak.

Also, head here to vote for our sketch to appear on the tellybox. As good a reason as any to waggle your digits once more, we reckon:

http://www.youtube.com/whatsfunnyabout1431

If we could be even one half of the man this guy is when we’re his age we’ll be very happy (courtesy of @glinner on Twitter.com…). What an utter tit.

Had a busy weekend on a farm in Yorkshire watching a good friend of ours repeatedly thrust his groin into the face of another good friend of ours.

Fortunately we had a camera there, so we might turn it into a sketch.

Hard to believe as it is, we somehow managed to win the People’s Choice Award at the Virgin Media Shorts Awards last week for our comedy short, ‘CGI-Brows’. Hurrah!

As a consequence, it’s been subject to a little bit of chatter and random web bibblings on various internetitudinally-based forums. By far our favourite is this one, from internet film giant Rotten Tomatoes.

What we love about this discussion is the fact that there appear to be a few people involved who haven’t realised that CGI-Brows is a joke. Maybe they’re joking, and just being so deadpan, so super-duper dry that even sensitive comedy receptors such as ours and yours can’t pick it up. We bloody well hope so, but somehow it just doesn’t seem likely.

Good news!

‘CGI-brows’ is going to be shown on Virgin1 and Bravo on the following dates:

# 13 September, Bravo, 2.50pm and 11.30pm
# 17 September, Virgin 1, 11pm
# 18 September, Bravo, 11pm

So keep your boxes tuned.

That is all for now!

Yep, it’s official, we’ve been shortlisted for the Virgin Media Shorts Comp 2009, our biggest achievement so far.

You can view the shortlist here:

http://virginmediashorts.com/shortlist/

The Grand Prize is decided by a panel of esteemed judges (headed by none other than Keyser himself, Kevin Spacey), but we’re also up for the ‘Peoples Choice Award’, which means we really want to see those fingers!

You can vote for us by visiting this lovely link:

http://virginmediashorts.com/films/film/cgi-brows-2/

And clicking on the big ‘VOTE FOR ME’ symbol. Easy.

Myself, Andy, Dan and Rob will be attending the official bunfight at the BFI on the southbank in September, so expect more news, views and shrews between now and then.

In the meantime, get those voting digits waggling!

http://tinyurl.com/kmb3pk

This sketch we like. It was filmed by a friend of ours, but we’re not being biased, honest:

Check out Little Albert for more gold of this nature.

Take a look at this:

What’s particularly baffling is her explanation at the end (”I thought it was pepper!!”), as if it’s the most natural misunderstanding in the world.

Still, at least she’s not this utter fruitloop:

Seems microphones and women of a certain age don’t mix. We’ll research this further and report back.