A Short History of the Apocalypse

Frankie Boyle is one of the UK's premier comedians and writers and is the author of three bestselling non-fiction books includingMy Shit Life So Far, andWork! Consume! Die!Boyle is also known for his showsNew World Order(BBC2),Tramadol Nights(Ch4),Frankie Boyle's Tour of Scotland(BBC2), and his best selling DVD's and Netflix Special. Frankie also regularly contributes articles for the broadsheet press. He has topped the podcast charts with the first three volumes of his eight volume Promethiad sequence.

Charlie Skelton is a comedy writer and journalist, who was script editor of Frankie Boyle'sNew World Order. Mostly he writes jokes for TV shows, but sometimes writes for theGuardian, covering the elite Bilderberg Conference since 2009. Back in 2003 he co-wrote a book with Victoria Coren Mitchell,Once More, With Feeling, a book about making a pornographic film in Amsterdam. More recently he organised two academic conferences on comedy and AI, and is preparing for the apocalypse by raising chickens and growing olives. In 2024 he produced 53 litres of olive oil and killed five roosters.