Not Only, But Also – Cele-Byties

Simon Donald

Simon Donald is co-founder and co-editor of VIZ

What's in your Favourites folder at the moment?
• Men who look like Kenny Rogers

Are there any decent comedy sites out there?
• Good comedy sites, like good comedy magazines are not easy to find. Sites that try to be funny are rarely as funny as those that don't. We really enjoy finding sites that are the work of sad and lonely people, for whom the internet is a huge youth club, but for dangerous inept adults rather than youths.
TV Go Home has been constantly funny for years

Any sites you really hate?
• Tesco's website really gets my back up. Not a single laugh.

Would Viz be as funny/funnier/different if it were purely on-line?
• I often think that if we were to set up Viz now, as we did as teenagers in 1979, it would be a website rather than a comic, but that is simply because it is the medium of home-publication nowadays. I think it could be just as funny, but probably not more so.

Does the internet provide a new way of exploiting comedy?
• I don't think there is necessarily anything totally new to be had out of it, but it can all be done a lot cheaper, and on a cottage industry scale.

Anything you'd like us to plug while we're here?
• New Viz out now, £1.95. Clown's Pie - new Viz annual available now £9.99. Check out the 'Doctor Poo' free download animation at www.viz.co.uk

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Not Only, But Also - Cele-Byties
Not Only, But Also - Interviews
Not Only, But Also - Masterclass
Dave Gorman
Arj Barker
Ricky Gervais and Steve Merchant
Robert Llewellyn
Sadie Kaye

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