Joel Veitch (born 28 March 1974) is the showrunner and co-creator of Bad Dinosaurs, a family cartoon on

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released on March 28, 2024. He is a British web animator, singer-songwriter, and member of the humour website B3ta. Veitch is owner of the web site RatherGood, where he showcases many of his animations.

Albums

Veitch has released 3 albums of music as rathergood.com and an album with his band 7 Seconds Of Love. The rathergood.com albums are only available as digital downloads, while the 7 Seconds of Love is also available physically. Veitch sings and writes on all of these albums. * rathergood.com – Rathergood Songs (2007) * 7 Seconds Of Love – Danger Is Dangerous (2008) * rathergood.com – Spongs in the Key Of Life (2009) * rathergood.com – The Ham Machine (2011)

Movies

Several of Veitch's movies, including one featuring a remake of

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's Independent Woman by

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, are played and sung by kittens, similar to the Crusha adverts which Veitch also created. Some of Veitch's other movies feature actual songs by artists such as

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, with either slightly edited lyrics, and/or with modified subtitles, and always with fitting, and sometimes funny animations.

Commercial work

Veitch is responsible for many adverts and other spots on both British and US TV. * Half hour animated Christmas special Uncle Wormsley's Christmas, starring Steve Coogan, Julian Barratt, Julia Davis, John Thomson and Ben Baker aired on

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adverts featuring singing penguins. * Crusha adverts featuring singing kittens. *

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Subs advertised by the Spongmonkeys (through the song "We Love the Subs", based upon Veitch's earlier song "We Like the Moon") *

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viral online ads at www.littlerbritain.co.uk, featuring only-barely

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s about large things wreaking havoc on a "Smaller Britain" *

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promo spots featuring singing kittens with songs such as " Welcome to the Jungle" by

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and " I Love Rock 'N Roll" by

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. * The television programme ''Rathergood Videos'' featuring his own and others music videos, which aired early in the morning on Channel 4. * Various animations of his were featured on the Channel 4 music programme '' Born Sloppy''. * Written and composed songs for the

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series '' Jim Jam & Sunny''. * Joel appeared as the "Internet go-to guy" for Nuts TV, and appears on Sky News and BBC News as an Internet-savvy guest. In January 2007, Veitch reached a settlement with

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after they used music and video very similar to 7 Seconds of Love's song "Ninja" on one of their adverts in Argentina without permission.

Awards

Veitch has received three

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, a Webby People's Choice Award and a further Webby nomination for rathergood.com. His film ''Uncle Wormsley's Christmas'' was awarded Best Original Score at the Sapporo International Short Film Festival. ''Uncle Wormsley's Christmas'' was also nominated for Best Animated Film in the International Film Awards Berlin.

References

External links

Netflix page for Bad Dinosaurs

B3ta interview and making animations with Joel
– prior to his worldwide kitten success.
RatherGood.com

"12 Days of Christmas" fundraising song and animation for Tommy's the Baby Charity
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