Talking about the films, TV shows, books or music which people go to again and again to feel safe, happy and welcome. To join our Patreon, with access to exclusive companion podcast 'Home Comforts' visit www.patreon.com/comfortblanketpod "Brilliant... A lovely listen" - Sunday Times "Highly recommended" - The Week Selected as one of the Sunday Times' TOP 25 PODCASTS TO MAKE YOU HAPPY Presented and produced by Joel Morris. Part of the Cheese And Pickle family of podcasts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Signup to Generate a PitchTalking about the films, TV shows, books or music which people go to again and again to feel safe, happy and welcome. A lovely listen" - Sunday Times "Highly recommended" - The Week Selected as one of the Sunday Times' TOP 25 PODCASTS TO MAKE YOU HAPPY Presented and produced by Joel Morris.
Comfort Blanket is hosted by Cheese & Pickle. The show has published 76 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "When Worlds Collide" (13 October 2026, 39 minutes), "The Day The Earth Stood Still" (6 October 2026, 41 minutes), and "The Thing" (29 September 2026, 40 minutes).
Comfort Blanket publishes roughly monthly, with episodes averaging 62 minutes across 76 episodes.
Booking probability for Comfort Blanket is 33%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Comfort Blanket requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Comfort Blanket's contact route on record: verified email.
The strongest fits for Comfort Blanket are Film & Video and News, Magazine & Book Publishing. Comfort Blanket has a tv audience.
Cheese & Pickle hosts Comfort Blanket, a tv show with 76 episodes published.
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Episode #5
Rewatching and reconsidering the greatest SF films according to the list published in 2000AD comic in 1980. This time: George Pal smash! It's When Worlds Collide, in which the puny Earth is spectacularly knocked about...
Episode #4
Rewatching and reconsidering the greatest SF films according to the list published in 2000AD comic in 1980. This time: Robert Wise sets Michael Rennie loose with a giant robot, and teaches the world to say Klaatu Barada...
Episode #3
Rewatching and reconsidering the greatest SF films according to the list published in 2000AD comic in 1980. This time: The Thing. Howard Hawks sends his usual capable men to deal with an intelligent carrot from outer...
Comfort Blanket
THE THING! (1951) A preview of the limited run exclusive Comfort Blanket series on The Top Ten Sci Fi Movies (as chosen by 2000AD comic in 1980). A celebration of a fondly remembered series from my childhood, where the...
Episode #7
Writer, comedian and YouTube star Jay Foreman ( Map Men ) returns to talk about another vivid and unique cartoon world: Cosgrove Hall’s wild and crazy Dangermouse offshoot Count Duckula , and celebrates the subversive...
Episode #6
Writer and comedian Madeleine Brettingham ( Harry Hill's TV Burp, Have I Got News For You ) talks about the cyclical comforts of wicker-basket obsessed hedgehogs-and-pumpkins glossy Country Living Magazine, and becomes...
Episode #5
Writer and comedian Athena Kugblenu ( Frankie Boyle’s New World Order, Horrible Histories ) talks about the family-all-together-on-the-sofa comforts of 90s sitcom Keeping Up Appearances, the comedy of class, the thorny...
Episode #4
Author Hattie Williams ( Bitter Sweet ) talks about Nick Park’s lovable Oscar-smashing plasticene cheesepunk technologists, the joy of vegetable puns, silent villains and doomed romances, and the comforts of...
Episode #3
Writer Gabby Hutchinson-Crouch ( Horrible Histories, Cursed Under London, Darkwood ) talks about Hayao Miyazaki’s 2004 beautiful animated adaptation of Diana Wynne Jones’ Howl’s Moving Castle, and how the...
Episode #2
Actor Geoffrey McGivern ( Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, Ghosts, Back ) talks about the bittersweet Viennese comforts of Graham Greene and Carol Reed's blackly comic thriller 'The Third Man'. Support us making these...
Episode #1
Writer John Finnemore ( Cabin Pressure, Souvenir Programme ) talks about the comforts of Alexander Mackendrick's classic 1955 Ealing comedy 'The Ladykillers' , and explains how the film cleverly subverts the audience's...
Episode #9
Comedian John-Luke Roberts picks the 1990 LP by They Might Be Giants (the one that contains their hit single Birdhouse In Your Soul, and 18 other wildly inventive songs) and talks about the idea of ‘too much’, of...
Episode #8
Writer and comedian Robin Ince ( The Infinite Monkey Cage, Cosmic Shambles Network ) talks about the comforts of Carol Reed’s masterpiece The Fallen Idol, the beautiful film he made between Odd Man Out...
Episode #7
Writer Neil Forsyth ( The Gold, Guilt , Bob Servant ) talks about the comforts of Molly Dineen's 1989 fly-on-the-wall documentary 'Heart Of The Angel', a surprisingly deep study of the people working in a failing London...
Episode #6
Writer Will Maclean (The Apparition Phase) talks about John Carpenter's classic 1982 sci-fi horror film The Thing, and why its tale of gruff short-tempered men failing to deal with an impossible situation in a pitiless...
Episode #5
Sunday Times bestselling author Beth Morrey ( Saving Missy, Lucky Day ) talks about Sue Townsend's definitive comic coming-of-age novel The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4. Support us making these podcasts by...
Episode #4
Comedian and writer Sara Barron ( Firecrotch & Normcore, They Like To Watch ) celebrates the comforts of 30 Rock , Tina Fey's sitcom skewering of network TV, and the joy of seeing relatable character Liz Lemon surviving...
Episode #3
Comedy producer Ed Morrish ( Non-Censored, Soundheap, John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme ) brings his personal comfort blanket, Ben Stokes' 2019 Ashes innings at Headingley against Australia (and more broadly "all...
Episode #2
Actor, comedian and broadcaster Tom Price ( Torchwood , Magic FM, My Mate Brought A Toaster ) talks about the lifelong comfort he draws from Allo Allo , Perry & Lloyd's broad and shameless French resistance farce...
Episode #1
Writer Naomi Alderman ( The Power, The Future ) chooses as her comfort blanket, the 1949 Ealing black comedy 'Kind Hearts And Coronets', with its mixture of revenge (served cold, of course), and vicious social satire...
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