mallory ortberg

Hello there, It's me, Alan. As you may have heard. I'm not going to be HeadStuff's Humour editor for much longer. Basically as soon as the new person says yes I'll vanish in a puff of smoke. What I'm saying is this is probably my last…

Hello, Alan here. Ellen will be along later. We have many rich and varied offerings this week. I was reading back over some Digests from this time last year and I was very worried about climate change and sure that the world was going to…

Hello, I have a cold so I can't lavish the same love and attention that I normally lavish on you all once a week. This is an inbetween sort of Tittererer's Digest. We won't count it towards the running total but hopefully there's something…

Hello. Once again, I'm changing up the format of your beloved Tittererer's Digest. We'll see how it goes. This week we have a new podcast from Giles Brody, sketches from Dangerfarm, We Are Thomasse, and Peter McGann, and some particularly…

Hey there, ho there, yo there, how are we all doing? I have some thoughts about this new Twitter hearts thing and I'm going to share it with you now. Basically, red is a very distracting colour and my poor millennial brain can't handle the…

The world is a horrible place right now; the global economy is doomed, Irish Water have your phone number and won't stop texting like some creepy rando, and apparently the IRA are back? I just don't know. I think the IRA are only back for a…