Radio Nonsense: A Comedy Club 4 Kids podcast · Comedy Club 4 Kids Ltd

What is butter made out of? With Kit Finnie and Ciaran Chillingworth

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The non-flying aeroplane is sold with 24 hours of cartoons, “loads of butter,” and enough jet lag to feel like being poorly.

Tiernan opens by acting like a deeply serious reader of business news. He unfolds a huge newspaper and lets its sheer size become part of the joke. The page turns into a game of categories. Show business gets a sing-song treatment. Monkey business gets its own nonsense rhythm. Funny business and bodily business show up too. The bit keeps the word business in circulation until it stops sounding normal. From there, Tiernan moves into a pie-heavy conversation. The pie talk treats baking time as a kind of unit of work, with the idea that pies take time, pile up, and even help give dinner. It is a silly idea, but it is followed with real commitment. The logic keeps stacking one practical detail on top of another. Pies are talked about as something that can give time, depth, and a useful shape to the day. The show then shifts into its family-friendly warning routine. Tiernan checks for rude words with exaggerated seriousness, and a forbidden-sounding name becomes a joke trap. The guests play along with the idea that some words are simply too awful to say. That same deadpan approach carries into the final stretch. A pie-throwing range appears. Money changes hands. More pies arrive than anyone expected. The targets are no longer safe targets at all. The closing scene turns into a mess of flying dessert and panicked shouting. Business, pies, and pretend danger all collapse into one last burst of chaos.

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A business-magazine bit that ends in pie chaos and all-out nonsense.

Radio Nonsense turns a business-magazine read into a steady stretch of nonsense, with Tiernan drifting from show business to monkey business, funny business, and the sort of grown-up business nobody wants to hear about.

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