Like every-other writer on God's Earth, I've written a thing on Substack. Reassuringly it's about sourdough baking hot cross buns, and the contents of the mysterious cross bit. substack.com/profile/1381...

Fancy some family-friendly comedy goodness? Come see: ⭐ @naomipaxton.bsky.social's Ada in Epsom & Folkestone ⭐ @katiepritchards.bsky.social in Colchester & Hornchurch & Folkestone ⭐ @howardread.bsky.social in Colchester & Hornchurch ⭐ Dov Citron in Tonbridge & Epsom www.comedyclub4kids.co.uk/gigs/

Colchester! FAMILIES OF ESSEX! Join us at #ColchesterArts on Saturday 7th March for an hour of excellent entertainment with @katiepritchards.bsky.social, @howardread.bsky.social and @matricardo.bsky.social! Comedy! Music! Games! Daring feats! 🎟️ colchesterartscentre.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...

Sold out today; join us in April!

More Stan & Gran episodes on #Channel5 #Milkshake this week youtu.be/gFN9P5ufawo?...

#MarketHarborough! FAMILIES! Are you joining us for our @leicscomedyfest.bsky.social @kidscomedyfest.bsky.social show on Sunday 15th? Comedy, games, music, magic and a rootin- tootin' cowboy, with @howardread.bsky.social, Lil Wenker and El Baldiniho! 🎟️ events.comedy-festival.co.uk/events/comed...

#Hornchurch! KIDS! Fancy a giggle? Join us at @queenstheatreh.bsky.social to see: ⭐ Feb 17th: @sandling.bsky.social, @drucripps.bsky.social , and sketch duo Shelf ⭐ April 8th: @katiepritchards.bsky.social, @vanderlaugh.bsky.social and @howardread.bsky.social 🎟️ queens-theatre.co.uk/whatson/come...

Some of my favourite episodes of Stand & Gran coming up next week. Ashley Joseph, Seyi Odusanya and myself. They’re looking and sounding so great Simone Giampaolo and Julie-Ann Dean. Congrats to Jon Mason and Natalie Adams youtu.be/EHa1Wx3JQfQ?...

Plastic surgery by Tim Burton.

I’m play this lovely club in Leeds on the 28th! Tickets here! www.sevenleeds.co.uk/event/silky-...

Have a lovely one all. Here’s a festive cartoon I made this year. youtu.be/0LD-TSwKFHE?...

The last @comedyclub4kids.bsky.social Radio Nonsense podcast of 2025 and it’s our Xmas special with @howardread.bsky.social helping answer festive Qs. Does Santa really poo off the Santa Monica pier on his summer holidays? Get your kids to listen! pod.fo/e/3681bd Available all places podcasts are

I’ve recorded lots of these, but this was the most fun. An improvised conversation answering daft questions sent in by listeners. It’s a really funny one.

Hello everyone. Hope you have a lovely one despite *gestures around vaguely*. I made a festive cartoon for you in lieu of a Christmas card. Hope you like it. Howard x youtu.be/0LD-TSwKFHE?...

Come to the 5pm show of this if you’re in North London! A few ticket left!

Tomorrow afternoon!

This is really sad. Robin is one of the most intelligent and caring people I know. But, just like him, he’s standing up while so many other people are bowing down.

Flying visit to Dublin to celebrate the wrap of Adam Loves Adventure, a lovely RTÉ I had the joy of helping develop and write and get in a spot of Christmas shopping.

Is there a Most Christmassyist Garage competition? If there is Can someone enter this big jingly carport into it, because it’ll win hands down. After most of the day up a ladder, discovering problems with both the guttering and the roof tiles, Christmas is well and truly started in this house.

The Muppets Christmas Carol is the best telling of anything ever. A masterpiece in adaptation, every key line delivered brilliantly, great songs, genuinely funny and emotion, rewards repeated viewing (trust me on this) and every single shot of the film has at least one joke in it. Thead

This is the nichest of niche jokes that was even niche when you were at the show when it was explained.

I’d like to think he’s still there.

Finsbury Park! Families of North London! See you at @parktheatrelondon.bsky.social on Sunday 14th December for comedy excellence from Rachel Watkeys-Dowie, Dave Chawner and @howardread.bsky.social! 🎟️ parktheatre.co.uk/events/comed...

Cannot BELIEVE the trains in this country wanted to stop Tunbridge Wells from seeing this today. HOW VERY DARE, etc. Hat tip @howardread.bsky.social for driving, @alexanderybennett.bsky.social for photographing, and @matricardo.bsky.social for derring do.

Doing this on Saturday! Right up the Tunbridge!

There’s a full episode of Stan & Gran eps on YouTube for anyone who can’t see them outside the UK (or can’t get up at 7:55am or work MY5). youtu.be/8NJEUcNtO0o?...

Tunbridge Wells! Families of Kent! Join us at Trinity Theatre on Saturday 22nd for comedy excellence with @alexanderybennett.bsky.social, @howardread.bsky.social and @matricardo.bsky.social! 🎟️ trinitytheatre.net/book/501801/

If you have mini people aged 4-7, there is a lovely new show out today on C5/Milkshake from today called Stan and Gran. It's full of gags and nature facts. Also I wrote some of it, and it's all expertly head written by @howardread.bsky.social. My first ep is out next Monday (its all about worms 🪱🪱🪱)

Heaps of fun things coming up before Christmas, join us for classes at The Phoenix in London, and gigs at: ⭐ Tunbridge Wells, Trinity Theatre* ⭐ Brighton, Komedia ⭐ Worthing, Connaught Theatre ⭐ Finsbury Park, @parktheatrelondon.bsky.social* ⭐ Bedford, Quarry Theatre * with @howardread.bsky.social

Another sneak peak of Stan & Gran. This was the first episode where we really nailed where the comedy came from in the show, and Simone Giampaolo and the team have done such a great job at nailing all the gags (one of which was suggested by the one and only Jon Mason). youtu.be/_S0YPCA1ryI

Finsbury Park! Families of London! Join us at our next @parktheatrelondon.bsky.social shows: November 9th: @robkemp.bsky.social, Mandeep Singh, @tommayhew.bsky.social, Helen Duff December 14th: Rachel Watkeys-Dowie, Dave Chawner, @howardread.bsky.social 🎟️ parktheatre.co.uk/events/comed...

That's why birds are scared of them.

Just in time for *Stan & Gran* hitting the Milkshake screen next month I've got a new website including all the things a writer needs on a website, and several things a writer really doesn't need, like a 360 degree tour of my head! Find it at www.howardread.com if you'd like an explore. Thread…

This on toast, presented on a tiny cake stand, rotating slowly on an old record player used as a lazy susan.

Finsbury Park! Families of London! We gots TREATS for you at our next @parktheatrelondon.bsky.social shows: November 9th: @robkemp.bsky.social, Mandeep Singh, Sam Eley, Helen Duff December 14th: Rachel Watkeys-Dowie, Dave Chawner, @howardread.bsky.social 🎟️ parktheatre.co.uk/events/comed...

Rugby! KIDS! Join us on Wednesday 29th October for: 👏 a 2pm Hallowe'en show at Macready Theatre with @howardread.bsky.social, Callum Straford and Duncan Oakley 👏 a 3:30pm kids comedy workshop with all the wisdom +/ ridiculousness Howard and Callum can muster 🎟️ www.ticketsource.co.uk/rugby-arts/c...

Here’s a clip of the show I head wrote for Milkshake. This is from one of my eps. #Stan&Gran youtu.be/WDXjcTze5HA?...

Worcester! We're bringing comedy excellence to Huntingdon Hall this Saturday, with @katiepritchards.bsky.social hosting Darryl Carrington and @howardread.bsky.social! Join us for stand-up, songs, and spectacular physical silliness! 🎟️ worcestertheatres.co.uk/huntingdon-h...

I have a third cartoon in the current Private Eye. I'm fully expecting to appear in Pedants Corner with this one.

Brighton! Families! Join us at #Komedia on Saturday 18th, for comedy excellence from @katiepritchards.bsky.social, @joshuaseigal.bsky.social, @annasoden.bsky.social and sketch duo Shelf! (Then December brings Sunjai Arif, Lil Wenker and @howardread.bsky.social!) 🎟️ www.komedia.co.uk/shows/comedy...

Finchley! KIDS! See you at #artsdepot on Sunday 19th for double gig goodness with @alexanderybennett.bsky.social, @zafarcakes.bsky.social, @jamesrosscomedy.bsky.social and @bechillcomedian.bsky.social! Stand-up! Silliness! Really impressive eyebrows waggling! 🎟️ www.artsdepot.co.uk/event/comedy...

Here’s a 3 minute sneak peak of Stan & Gran. Amazing work Simone Giampaolo and team, Natalie Adams Executive Producer Original Kids and Family, Peter Griffiths and everyone at Tiger Aspect Kids and Family! First ep on Milkshake in 10th November! youtu.be/d6p09lbR3wA?...

The Spectator (owned by GBNews owner Paul Marshall - estimated wealth of £800 million) doesn’t like taxing wealth fairly. I wonder how they got to this editorial decision? Let’s tax wealth fairly, fund front line services & make hope normal again. join.greenparty.org.uk

This is a show I was head writer for, launching on Milkshake, Channel 5 next month. Comedy mysteries with a natural take-home - WHOOP! youtu.be/Fo8qVeos2v0?...

Glad to see Nigel Farage has finally remembered Nathan Gill, former leader of Reform in Wales - found guilty of taking bribes from Russia. Maybe he'll now remember how much he took from Putin's propaganda broadcaster Russia Today for all his TV appearances when he was a MEP?

Someone should charge the phrase “living rent free in-“ some rent, so it can afford to live in fewer sentences.

@cerysmatthews.bsky.social hey Cerys. Re White Cain day: Are you aware of the brilliant CBEEBIES/RTÉ animation Maddie & Triggs which is made for partially sighted and audio impaired children. Both can “watch” it and have the same experience because of the visual and sound design.

For me running isn’t about the beating Adam Woodiat off of EastEnders, it’s about the taking part. But I did beat Adam Woodiat off of EastEnders.

Brighton! Join us at #Komedia on October 18th to see @katiepritchards.bsky.social hosting @joshuaseigal.bsky.social, @annasoden.bsky.social and Shelf! And then Sunjai Arif (MC), rootin' tootin' cowboy Lil Wenker and @howardread.bsky.social on December 6th! 🎟️ www.komedia.co.uk/shows/comedy...