Cartoon birthday card

Letters to my Dead Dad · Dec 31, 2025 · 35m

In episode 3, Olly contemplates a recent big birthday as he looks in the Family History Box and finds a cartoon birthday card he painted for his Dad back in 1983. He can’t help feeling guilty at how savagely he’d mocked his poor old Dad’s ageing face on that card. But undeterred, he reads the letter he sent to Eddy on 29 October 1983 – in which he’s impressed by a comedy sketch in the first student performance he saw after becoming a drama student. This leads him to muse on the weirdly massive role comedy has played in his life, up to and including his current gig compering Funny Rabbit…