The Framley Examiner
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Type of site
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Newspaper parody, humor website |
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| Available in | English |
| Slogan(s) | Framley's traditional favourite since 1978 |
| Website | framleyexaminer |
| Launched | 2001 |
The Framley Examiner (Framley's traditional favourite since 1978) is a parody of a newspaper in a small provincial English town. Very little happens in Framley, so the highlights in the newspaper are the absurdist classified ads (for items such as second-hand Dachshund stabilizers, a child's Paul Simon costume, and a set of nested bunk beds that sleep eighteen progressively smaller people), firmly in the absurdist British comic tradition of The Goon Show and Monty Python. It has been noted that Framley and its surrounding villages are actually based upon the town of Chelmsford, Essex and surrounding settlements such as Writtle.
The Framley Examiner originally began as a website, started around 2001. Its success then spawned a book The Framley Examiner () described on the cover as "the book of the website of the newspaper". A second book, Historic Framley (), was later published, produced in association with Framley Museum.
The writers are Robin Halstead, Jason Hazeley, Alex Morris and Joel Morris. The four are regular contributors to Viz magazine. The book Bollocks to Alton Towers (), published in April 2005, by the same authors, is a non-fiction book unrelated to The Framley Examiner. The website was last updated on 23 July 2013, but more recent posts have been made to social media accounts.
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