Abigoliah Schamaun learns British comedy from Tom Salinsky
3.4 The Thick Of It Explained
All British Comedy Explained… to Abigoliah Schamaun, by Tom Salinsky
3.4: The Thick of It. Released 22 October 2026.
Armando Iannucci and an amazing team of writers and actors, plot, swear, improvise and panic their way through government in this sweaty sitcom which updates Yes Minister for the Blair years. Essential viewing. We’ll be watching the first ever episode and then we’ll meet Nicola Murray in series three episode two.
Next time we’ll focus on the House of Commons as the centre of power and meet Alan B’Stard aka The New Statesman. We’ll watch series one episode six “Three Line Whipping”, and then series three episode five “Natural Selection”.
Here’s a long list of social media systems where you can find the podcast and us.
The podcast
- https://patreon.com/BritishComedyPod
- https://www.youtube.com/@AllBritishComedyExplained/join
- https://substack.com/@allbritishcomedy
- Mailing list: http://eepurl.com/jnPC56
- allbritishcomedy@gmail.com
- https://allbritishcomedy.com
- https://www.instagram.com/britishcomedypod
- https://www.tiktok.com/@britishcomedypod
- https://bsky.app/profile/allbritishcomedy.bsky.social
- https://www.threads.com/@britishcomedypod
- https://www.facebook.com/groups/allbritishcomedy
Abigoliah Schamaun
- https://abigoliah.com
- https://www.youtube.com/Abigoliah
- https://www.instagram.com/abigoliah
- https://www.tiktok.com/@abigoliah
Tom Salinsky
- https://thegangofthree.co.uk
- https://tomsalinsky.co.uk
- https://www.facebook.com/tomsalinsky
- https://www.instagram.com/tomsalinsky
- https://www.tiktok.com/@tomsalinsky1972
- https://bsky.app/profile/tomsalinsky.bsky.social
- https://www.threads.com/@tomsalinsky
All British Comedy Explained is produced by The Spontaneity Shop. If you enjoy this podcast, why not check out The Guilty Feminist with Deborah Frances-White, Tom’s other podcast Best Pick all about movies, or Abigoliah’s other podcast Neurodivergent Moments.
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