Mail Bonding
Comedy writers Al Devey and Drew Lovell explore some of the stranger stories from recent editions of The Daily Mail newspaper in the UK, with help from Ian Cowmeadow and special guests. Disclaimer: This podcast contains fruity language as well as mature (and immature) themes. Caution should be exercised if listening in the company of younger children, angry pensioners or the easily offended.
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Episodes
Saturday Mar 07, 2026
Saturday Mar 07, 2026
Comedy writer and filmmaker Michael Magarren joins our trio of Mail Bonders to discuss recent stories from the Daily Mail. This time out we cover the nine types of father at the school gate, whether or not you should hire a pet psychic, the Art of the House Whisperer and what makes a really great petrol station.
Disclaimer: This podcast contains fruity language as well as mature (and immature) themes. Caution should be exercised if listening in the company of younger children, angry pensioners, or the easily offended.
Wednesday Feb 04, 2026
Wednesday Feb 04, 2026
In this bonus installment of Episode 12 - 15 outtakes, our Mail Bonders explore an Emu bought off eBay, why men put their hands down their trousers, a Pensioner's Pot Plant Parking PowerMove and Pixie Balls vs. Vladimir Putin. Featuring guests Lesley McGlynn, Amy Xander, Alex Kennedy and Nina Crane.Disclaimer: This podcast contains fruity language as well as mature (and immature) themes. Caution should be exercised if listening in the company of younger children, angry pensioners, or the easily offended.
Tuesday Dec 23, 2025
Tuesday Dec 23, 2025
Comedy writer Amy Xander joins our trio of Mail Bonders to discuss recent stories from the Daily Mail. In this bumper end of year episode we touch on swingers at Butlins, a horrifying A.I. mural, the Ten Sexiest Slapheads, a treasonous fake admiral and Ted Binns' playground adventures.
Disclaimer: This podcast contains fruity language as well as mature (and immature) themes. Caution should be exercised if listening in the company of younger children, angry pensioners, or the easily offended.
Tuesday Nov 18, 2025
Tuesday Nov 18, 2025
Comedy writer and filmmaker Nina Crane once again joins our trio of Mail Bonders to discuss recent stories from the Daily Mail. This time out we explore horribly lifelike pretend infants, whether Busted were right about the year 3000, the world's tallest Tory, being a gentleman in 2025 and how to work Bradley Walsh to death.
Disclaimer: This podcast contains fruity language as well as mature (and immature) themes. Caution should be exercised if listening in the company of younger children, angry pensioners, or the easily offended.
Tuesday Oct 07, 2025
Tuesday Oct 07, 2025
Comedy writer and filmmaker Alex Kennedy joins our trio of Mail Bonders to discuss recent stories from the Daily Mail. This time out we ask why the dad of TV's Ryan Thomas was reincarnated as a pigeon, explore life in the Sugababes' old tour bus, join the world's first Karen Convention and work out how to get an annoying song out of your head.
Disclaimer: This podcast contains fruity language as well as mature (and immature) themes. Caution should be exercised if listening in the company of younger children, angry pensioners, or the easily offended.
Thursday Aug 28, 2025
Thursday Aug 28, 2025
Comedy writer Lesley McGlynn joins our trio of Mail Bonders to discuss recent stories from the Daily Mail. This time out we explore the Hot Priestfluencers, JD Vance's love of free bread, the 2026 Cliff Richard calendar and a trend for cats to go Scouse.
Disclaimer: This podcast contains fruity language as well as mature (and immature) themes. Caution should be exercised if listening in the company of younger children, angry pensioners, or the easily offended.
Friday Jul 18, 2025
Friday Jul 18, 2025
Actor and writer Grace Morgan joins our trio of Mail Bonders to discuss recent stories from the Daily Mail. This time out we explore the £2.50 breakfast at the world's first Reform UK pub, Hyde Park's resident swan whisperer, a 'Hotel Boss' who soils nectarines and readers' opinions of Emmanuel Macron.
Disclaimer: This podcast contains fruity language as well as mature (and immature) themes. Caution should be exercised if listening in the company of younger children, angry pensioners, or the easily offended.
Tuesday Jun 17, 2025
Tuesday Jun 17, 2025
In this bonus installment of Episode 8 - 10 outtakes, our Mail Bonders explore a customised Royal Sex Chair, Disney Princess health conditions, the unrelenting evil of Gail's Bakery and The Ian Cowmeadow Beef Experience. Featuring guests Nina Crane, Nick Briggs and Miki Basu.
Monday May 12, 2025
Monday May 12, 2025
Comedy writer Nick Briggs joins our trio of Mail Bonders to discuss recent stories from the Daily Mail. This time out we explore the working schedule of a naked cleaner, Brits who proved that aliens were real, how to turn your dead pet into leisurewear and Walton Goggins in the Postman Pat reboot.
Disclaimer: This podcast contains fruity language as well as mature (and immature) themes. Caution should be exercised if listening in the company of younger children, angry pensioners, or the easily offended.
Tuesday Apr 01, 2025
Tuesday Apr 01, 2025
Comedy writer Miki Basu joins our trio of Mail Bonders to discuss recent stories from the Daily Mail. This time out we explore entitled dog walkers on Hampstead Heath, sex noise louder than a lawnmower, Bill Gates infecting our butter and an embittered bowls player revenge spree. Sound effects by the Jiu-Jitsu class upstairs.
Disclaimer: This podcast contains fruity language as well as mature (and immature) themes. Caution should be exercised if listening in the company of younger children, angry pensioners, or the easily offended.
The Daily Mail - A Short History
The Daily Mail is the most popular newspaper in Britain, with a readership of around two million people. Launched in 1896, the tabloid has a controversial history, celebrating Oswald Mosley’s Blackshirts in the 1930s and opposing the UK taking refugees from Nazi Germany. But the paper has now moved on from overtly Fascist ideology, as well as its early opposition to women and lower class men having the vote. These days the Daily Mail is more obsessed with property prices, pseudo-science, celebrity cellulite and whatever it is the Royal Family does all day. But there is a stranger side to this newspaper, one so divorced from reality that, in 2017, Wikipedia banned it as a source due to unreliability. Today many condemn the negative effects of social media, but no legacy outlet has been more influential in shaping the antiquated mindset and reactionary values of older Britons than the Mail. The average age of those who buy a physical copy is around sixty, and the vast majority of its readership votes come election time. This means the Mail still sets the British political agenda, even as its readership makes up less than 3% of the population. Younger listeners. or those from outside Britain, may not understand quite how surreal the paper’s ideology really is. In an effort to rectify this, comedy writers Al Devey and Drew Lovell will take you through some of the more oddball or obscure stories from recent editions; attempting to unpack its strange worldview, helped and overseen by writer Ian Cowmeadow, and with special guests from the London comedy writing scene. This, is Mail Bonding.