Me with Andy Hampel, one half of B13.

This isn't easy to explain, so pay close attention! Unlike other comedy acts there is a whole concept behind it, some would say it's a bit of a fantasy, I'd say it is and I like it!

B13 was set up in 1972 by the Ministry of Defence. The job of B13 was to use temporal biology to analyse the psychology, sociology and behaviour of situations, and meetings to generate a greater understanding of trivial human needs. This was done by creating clones of members of B13 staff, and genetically coding their personalities to be specific to given situations. Once experiments where over, the clones where kept in utopian housing blocks away from the real world.

By 1979, the Department boasted one of the largest staffs on the Government Pay role and its research was respected and envied globally. However, in 1985, It was revealed that the clones created in the experiments where forming there own ideals, opinions and cultures and had started to wander from their safe houses into society.

In 1987, the department was all but closed leaving a skeleton staff of two. Those staff are Andrew Hampel and Sean Wilson. A combination of boredom and neglect has lead them to use their experimental facilities to ponder the important questions of popular culture.

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Related Links:

• B13's website.
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