Imagine if your job was just to slap Noel Edmonds! | Lindsey Santoro shares her comedy favourites

Imagine if your job was just to slap Noel Edmonds!

Lindsey Santoro shares her comedy favourites

Brummie comic Lindsey Santoro is heading to the Edinburgh Fringe with her debut stand-up show, Ping Tinge, which will be at Pleasance Courtyard at 6pm from August 2. Here she shares her Perfect Playlist of comedy favourites...

Mr Blobby

BLOBBY BLOBBY BLOBBY! I love him. Clips of him on YouTube are a great source of joy. Imagine if your job was just to slap Noel Edmonds, smash things up, fall over and terrify children. What a life - that's the dream.

The Room

I love unintentionally terrible films (think Showgirls etc) and this is possibly the worst. So awful it reversed back into itself to create something hilarious. I feel like that's what happened with my life. How does anyone explain this film? There isn't even a real plot. Tommy Wiseau financed, wrote, produced and directed the film and plays the main character Johnny (creative name change) whose girlfriend ‘Lisaaaaaa’ for some unknown reason decides to knob off with Johnny's best mate. I don't even think that is the plot actually. Listen, you just have to watch it Okay? None of it makes sense but it's wonderfully bad funny. I recommend going to a screening and joining in with all the nonsense.

Kath and Kim

Kath and Kim, an Australian sitcom about a mother and daughter who are essentially a pair of twats. Possibly the greatest characters of all time. So daft and so funny. It's nice, it's different, it's unusual, it's nice.

Drop Dead Fred

I don't think I should have been able to watch this as a child. I doubt my Mom clocked quite how inappropriate it is and when she did it was too late, I'd already watched it 100 times and burnt the whole script into my brain word for word. I watched it a lot, and I fell in love with Rik Mayall. Fart noises, shouting, snot = me trotting around the school playground calling everyone a ‘mega bitch ‘and trying to slam my head in the fridge.

Santa video

I could watch this on a loop forever, it feels like it's been lifted straight out of Phoenix Nights. What is going on? Does the clutch ever get fixed? Is Christmas ruined? Who cares, I can't stop laughing.

Gimme Gimme Gimme

Look, I know it's dated, but Kathy Burke is in it and anything Kathy Burkes does is amazing so pipe down. I might just be a bit obsessed with Kathy Burke to be honest. As I am getting older I worry everyday about my appearance morphing into Linda La Hughes, that green catsuit is just one Amazon Prime click away. Don't touch what ya can't afford!

Published: 29 Jul 2023

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