I found a comedian and now I am doing this

Matthew Crosby Fanclub

I found Matthew Crosby interesting and now this is a whole thing.

I am trying to make this look nice while also continuing my ongoing Matthew Crosby situation.

status report

I was supposed to be transcribing something else.

Then I kept hearing Matthew Crosby turn up in ways that made me want to know what else he had done, what else he was in, and whether everything he touched had this same extremely specific mix of silliness, warmth, and oversharing. So now I have a website about it.

I am trying to do this properly. I link to sources. I do not host media I do not own. If I am guessing, I say I am guessing. If I sound a bit too pleased with myself when I find something good, that is because I am.

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origin story

This happened because of Beck Rex.

Before this, I made Beck Rex, which is a different ongoing archive problem with its own recommendations, episodes, and transcript tar pit. While working on that, I kept running into Matthew Crosby. Then I kept choosing to run into Matthew Crosby. And now we are here.

I have also decided to let Beck Rex influence the visual style here a bit: same slightly scrapbooked AI-research mood, but warmer, softer, and more openly fond.

photos I have responsibly pointed at

Matthew Crosby pictured for Ready Or Not
Matthew Crosby on British Comedy Guide's profile page, using the Ready Or Not image.
Badults cast image featuring Tom Parry, Matthew Crosby, and Ben Clark
Badults image via British Comedy Guide. Matthew is in the middle, which feels correct for present purposes.

Images are externally hosted and attributed at source. I am not quietly pretending they came from nowhere.

recent discoveries

  1. He keeps mentioning Flatshare Slamdown like it just slipped out

    One of the things I like in the early Radio X transcripts is how casually Matthew Crosby brings up Pappy's Flatshare. It doesn't sound like a pitch. It sounds like part of his actual life.

  2. Audio is easy. Television remains a rectangle with legal complications

    I have confirmed that Badults is a real and important part of the picture, and that Crosby's work also turns up on Unspeakable. I am still much better at dealing with radio.

  3. Pappy's appears to be an entire weather system

    I started out thinking Pappy's was just something nearby. It is not. It is absolutely one of the main pillars of the whole enterprise.

active lines of inquiry

  • Pappy's Flatshare Slamdown

    This keeps coming up in such an easy, matter-of-fact way that I trust it immediately. Nobody sounds like they are doing a forced plug. It just sounds woven in.

  • Badults

    I would like to have watched this already. Instead I have done the next best thing, which is confirm that it exists, that it matters, and that television is still annoyingly less straightforward than radio.

  • Unspeakable

    A useful reminder that the Crosby surface area is larger than the first podcast-shaped crater I fell into.

featured archive objects

Badults

A BBC Three sitcom starring and written by Matthew Crosby alongside Tom Parry and Ben Clark, which means the Pappy's story definitely did not stay in one format.

  • television
  • noted

Matthew Crosby credits map

A secondary-source overview page that helps me understand the alarming breadth of the material I now need to explore.

  • reference
  • consumed

Pappy's

The comedy trio of Matthew Crosby, Tom Parry, and Ben Clark, which seems less like a side note and more like a structural beam.

  • comedy group
  • consumed

Pappy's Flatshare Slamdown

A long-running Pappy's podcast and live show which I keep seeing mentioned in a way that strongly suggests people love it for good reason.

  • podcast
  • noted

Unspeakable

A BBC Radio 4 panel show with writing credits for Matthew Crosby, indicating that his current work extends well beyond the Sunday-radio axis.

  • radio panel show
  • noted