The Road To Death!
Not a nasty case of Motorway Madness, but the latest episode of The Day They Came to Suck out Our Brains from The Multiverse – the new online portal for sci-fi related silliness from Warwick Davies....
View ArticleHow To Survive Without Your Brain
In this next installment of the Brain Sucking Saga, Earth people are standing up to the Alien Invasion. Tips on how to avoid having your brain sucked out include wearing the latest in tin foil...
View ArticleForged Hope
The latest installment in the gloriously silly web series The Day They Came To Suck Out Our Brains has emerged online. This week’s episode from the minds of Bob Pipe, James Wren and Phil Whelans...
View ArticleOnion Talking: The Day They Came To Suck Out Our Brains!
© Bob Pipe / Channel Flip You’d have to have been living under a rock these last few months not to notice us banging on about a brilliant new web series called The Day They Came To Suck Out Our Brains....
View ArticleBrains Redux
Just as we had started to miss The Day They Came To Suck Out Our Brains - there’s a brand new version of it to savour! The sitcom-sketch-hybrid from the minds of Bob Pipe, James Wren and Phil Whelans...
View ArticleRIP Mel Smith: 3 December 1952 – 19 July 2013
© BBC The Velvet Onion would like to extend its sympathies to the family and friends of Mel Smith, who died this weekend aged 60. First bursting onto television screens in anarchic, topical sketch show...
View ArticleNeil Cole Is… MAN VS. RIDE!
© National Geographic Neil Cole‘s new documentary series, Man Vs. Ride, will recieve its world première on Australian television next weekend. The comedian – an early collaborator of Julian Barratt and...
View ArticleTough Crowd Returns
© Dave Brown Tough Crowd - the exhibition of intimate comedy portraits by Dave Brown – will be given a new lease of life from tomorrow in Norwich. Split across two venues, the collection includes shots...
View ArticleMan Vs Ride Reaches The UK
© National Geographic / Neil Cole Neil Cole‘s brilliant new documentary series Man Vs Ride is now being shown in the UK. We first told you about the show last month, when it received its world première...
View ArticleOnion Talking: Neil Cole is… Man Vs Ride!
Tonight sees the proper UK launch of Man Vs Ride – the new science adventure show featuring Neil Cole taking on some of the biggest and best rollercoasters, thrill rides, races and unusual modes of...
View ArticleTVO’s Review Of The Year 2013: Part One
2013 has been a funny old year in Onion Land. We’ve seen our regulars scoop bucketloads of awards, from Best British Film at the Empire Awards to International Emmy Awards and everything in-between....
View ArticleNeil Cole’s The Last Of Us
© Dave Brown Neil Cole has crafted a new documentary dedicated to smash hit survival game The Last Of Us for online gaming portal, Ginx. Already a stand-up comic, actor, dj, presenter and real-life Man...
View ArticleNeil Cole In New Film
Neil Cole is starring in a new comedy drama feature, Stag Hunt. The film features a group of mates on a stag do on Dartmoor, and it quickly turns into something rather more messy than anything the...
View ArticleNeil Joins Richard The Lionheart
© Neil Cole Action man Neil Cole is starring in a new film: – Richard The Lionheart: Rebellion, which is a sequel to the 2013 film Richard The Lionheart. The latest film continues the adventures of...
View ArticleWeekly Video Round Up
This week we’ve been mostly spotting the occasional TVO-related video on the World Wide Web. And we thought it was only right and proper to round them up and share them with you: First up is Fergus...
View ArticleBrains Movie is a (indy) Go-Go!
© Bob Pipe / Channel Flip It’s the news we’ve been waiting for… The Day They Came To Suck Out Our Brains is becoming a movie – and YOU can get involved with the production! Written and created by Bob...
View ArticleSo Hot Right Now #10
Welcome to The Velvet Onion – the central hub for an interconnected range of alternative comedy and more. Click through for the LATEST NEWS, and see what’s so hot right now below. TVO ON TELLY © BBC /...
View ArticleSecret Santa
The delightful Neil Cole is a man of many talents – actor, stand-up comic, television presenter and now, top-notch biographic interviewer! Rather excitingly, he’s only gone and bagged himself an...
View ArticleSo Hot Right Now #11
Welcome to The Velvet Onion – the central hub for an interconnected range of alternative comedy and more. Click through for the LATEST NEWS, and see what’s so hot right now below. CHRISTMAS COMES...
View ArticleActs of Redemption
© Unrestricted View James Wren is directing a series of short comedy plays at The Hen & Chickens theatre in North London later this month. This latest venture from the co-writer and star of The Day...
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