The Framley Examiner team met at school and made each other laugh. An online spoof local newspaper, every corner filled with gags, was designed to make up for the slow internet connections of 2001; every click gave you 100 jokes. Within two weeks of launching, we had a book deal with Penguin, and Framley had become a cult. Off the back of it, we variously went on to work for Viz, Mitchell & Webb, Charlie Brooker and the Paddington films. And when six of the top ten bestsellers were our Ladybird spoofs in 2015, shifting over 5 million books, you could say that all started with Framley.
