Dear Joan and Jericha (Julia Davis and Vicki Pepperdine) · Hush Ho and Pepperdine Productions.

S1 Ep Six

June 4, 2018·21 min·1 clip

Joan and Jericha reveal that moles can sprout tiny penises and some people carry living twin siblings inside their organs.

Joan and Jericha present themselves as expert advice columnists responding to listener letters with outrageously inappropriate medical and relationship guidance. The hosts open with casual chat about Jericha swimming in London's Regent's Canal through boat defecation and Joan placing her centenarian mother in a home, discussing whether to have her "exploded" as a new Russian funeral trend. They examine a letter from Amy Dearman about three moles on her upper lip, claiming the moles have developed "phallic shapes" extending from the circles indicating serious concern. The discussion spirals into claims about medical mutations, asserting that women have grown twin sisters inside lungs and bones inside eyes. Joan and Jericha state that cysts commonly contain teeth, hair, and fully functioning tiny troll-like people called "kinder cyst" creatures who can speak and have reproductive systems. They claim one friend keeps such a creature in her daughter's dollhouse, while others live in sewers after being discarded down waste disposal units or sold on the black market as slaves. They assert that most people carry twin siblings within organs, stating this causes the majority of lower back pain cases worldwide because these "rogue siblings" burrow into spinal columns, livers, and bowels. For a seduction dinner question from Miriam Burley, they recommend serving dark organ meats including heart, tongue, brain, ileum, cecum, pancreas, and rectum, which they claim are "melt in the mouth" when cooked properly. They advise serving creamy puddings to represent "moist vagina" and warn against over-moisture causing slippage during intercourse. The hosts discuss period sex as a lesbian-pioneered trend, referencing David Bellamy and Paul Daniels as practitioners with "funny habits and clicks and ticks." They address a widow's letter about an affair with her godson, noting she meets him for sex behind bins, in cars, and on disused trains. Joan and Jericha question whether she's paying him for sex and warn that rat tails near campus bins could whip waste into vaginas and anal canals during intercourse. The tone is relentlessly deadpan, with both hosts delivering increasingly grotesque and medically impossible claims with clinical authority and complete seriousness. The format parodies agony aunt columns through escalating absurdity while maintaining the veneer of helpful expertise. The humor targets middle-class British women's magazine culture, medical authority, and relationship advice conventions through sustained commitment to the satirical characters. The show suits audiences who appreciate dark comedy, sustained satirical performances, and Julia Davis's signature blend of grotesque imagery with mundane domestic concerns.

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