About FuCU

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When you get old, you think about the things you left undone.

Or never got made. Or commissioned. Oh, the injustice.

The solution: Future Comedy Unit.

Within these hallowed web pages, you will discover a comedy journey like no other. It's a deep dive into silliness and you are our travelling companions. Explore with us. Or Something. Click on things.

The FuCU Story

Look, Alistair Lock and Simon Messingham aren't, frankly, getting any younger. So when they discovered they had the technical means to produce and deliver all their BRILLIANT ideas that should have, but never did, see the light of day, Future Comedy Unit was born.

We present 10 comedy podcasts, fully cast and produced. Well, they're more like scripted episodes with an introduction and a brief chat at the end, but the word podcast is what you have to call them, APPARENTLY.

FuCU has also made a short film: OSTRICH SUIT, which is currently doing the festival rounds, so we've thrown that in for free.

Meet The Future Comedy Unit

Simon Messingham

Writer and Actor. Simon has been about.

In 2023, he was commissioned by Black Mustang Productions to write the feature film 'Toj', about racing car designer John Tojeiro, currently in development.

Simon has also written eight Dr Who books for the BBC, his own novel 'Sirens' was published in 2017, and back in the day he wrote a series for Rik Mayall called 'Tales of Uplift and Moral Improvement'.

Liz Downes

With a distinguished acting career, Liz is a loyal (and long-suffering) collaborator alongside Simon and Alistair.

She starred most recently in Simon's scripted show Liz & Jessie's Undiscovered Country, for Button Pressed Productions, which can be found here: buttonpressedproductions.co.uk

Amy Crosby

Amy Crosby is a British actress and author who has a penchant for the dark and curious even when she's not playing occult-shop-owners-turned-supernatural-investigators.

You can find her online at: www.amy-crosby.com and www.imdb.com/name/nm4447238/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk

or follow her at: www.twitter.com/red_little_rose

Does she believe in time-shifting ditties and demonically possessed facial accessories? She's keeping an open mind...

Alistair Lock

Alistair Lock is an actor and sound designer best known for his work on B7 Media’s reimagined Blake’s 7: A Rebellion Reborn and Dan Dare audio adventures and the Big Finish series of classic Doctor Who audio dramas and audiobooks.

More recently he did the sound design for various B7 Media audio dramas, including BBC Radio 4 Drama’s courtroom drama Barred and for Audible Originals the psychological sci-fi thriller The Effect.

Alistair is also an accomplished composer and has provided scores for Big Finish’s Blake's 7, Sapphire & Steel, Doctor Who and Bennie Summerfield audio adventures.

Alistair has appeared on TV as Dennis Nilsen in a dramatized documentary and as a terrified doctor in the Joe Johnson movie: “The Wolfman”.

Megan Bay Dorman

Megan is a British presenter, actor and producer. She presents a wide variety of video content, livestreams and podcasts, with highlights including work with the BBC, the Open University, Jo Whiley, and more.

Megan also has almost two decade's experience as a broadcast television, radio and podcast producer. She started in radio before becoming an accomplished television producer for the major broadcasters, including the BBC, Channel 4 and Sky. For the last six years she’s mainly turned her attention to podcasts.

Megan has also been acting since her teens. She's appeared in stage productions, films, a Netflix series and audio dramas, and has enjoyed working with Simon Messingham over the last ten years - or has it been fifteen? She can't remember.

Megan now mainly splits her time between her presenting work and producing award-winning podcasts.