The Future Comedy Unit

02/04/2026

02/04/2026

So here it is, Merry Brighton Fringe. The crunch. The sharp end. What it’s all about, Alfie.

02/04/2026

Okay. This is the business end. The crunch. The facts. Come to this great show.

14/09/2025

A mere year and whatever since our last audio episode, 'Austin County' is now listenable via a link from our fun and informative FuCu website.

As ever, we've also chucked in a brief introduction and a little discussion at the end.

A highly sophisticated piece of historical fiction, Austin County is a profound 'world upside down' satire, wittily refracting the 19th Century novel through a feminist looking-glass.
But mainly it's a shameless excess of crude double-entendres, straight out of the gutter.

'Austin County' is produced by genius sound and music magician Teddy Brown, and stars Dr. Helen Grime, Liz Downes and Megan Bay Dorman. Written by Simon Messingham. The guilty. It's too late to back out now.

Enjoy here:

As Simon was writing these audio comedy scripts, he realised he was becoming far too literary and tasteful. So he wrote ‘Austin County’, a lowbrow, lowest common denominator, lowest everything, reworking of a 19th century romance.

12/09/2025

The FUTURE COMEDY UNIT presents · Episode

12/09/2025

If you’re bored, why not check our latest about ruddy time audio comedy? It’s fair to say, this one makes a Carry On movie feel like Moliere. Welcome to Austin County! Coming soon…to our website.

The FUTURE COMEDY UNIT presents · Episode

28/08/2025

It’s been ages but Ostrich Suit has landed on our website! Check it out.

FuCU made a little film. It’s called Ostrich Suit. You can’t see it yet as it’s still on the festival circuit. Ostrich Suit has already won some stuff at the Sykehouse Film Festival – Alistair as Best Actor, Simon as Best Supporting Actor and the film itself is semi-finalist Best Short. Watc...

14/08/2025

A night shoot for a new short. It’s fair to say we were probably a little reckless thinking it would be a good idea with our resources. But it all worked out in the end.

06/07/2025

https://www.amazon.co.uk/The-FUTURE-COMEDY-UNIT-presents/dp/B0D4VPDRJY We can be found here. Had no idea. Luckily, the formatting of the blurb is all over the place, all done deliberately to sustain the marketing concept that FuCU is nothing more than a bungling old man with little understanding of how on-line media functions.

Listen! Like! Share!FUTURE COMEDY UNIT is the home of 10 episodes of audio comedy with a genre, fantastical sensibility, written by Simon Messingham, recorded and produced by Alistair Lock. From the classic TEEN PEOPLE, to the gothic heart of the New Forest in BLANDER THINGS, surreal deranged cri...