Celebrating the Majestic Theater in Gettysburg, which opened its doors exactly 100 years ago! 🥂🎬🎭🎼🎶

Was hoping for another Terry Jones event at Slapstick itself :(

It's all because of you

With the world record breaking performance of Sousa's Stars and Stripes Forever. 239 piccolos!

The Adventure Game (2nd November 1981). Graeme Garden falls foul of the treacherous Mole (Lesley Judd).

At the Arts Council Ball

Enjoying spending this weekend with the American Cusanus Society @cusanussociety.bsky.social

Celebrating 100 years of the Majestic Theatre with Charlie Chaplin's "The Gold Rush" with music by the Paragon Ragtime Orchestra. And wearing my @slapstickfest.bsky.social merchandise, of course!

Sparks!

So pretty

Weevil time

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Playmobil hog confirmed

Jeremy looks different somehow...

My wallet is sad but I am happy :)

I deal with 18th/19th century records every day, but this feels like holding an ancient relic

Brought some deaccessioned archive materials to use as kindling for the bonfire and it was very cathartic 🔥📃

"The bishop!"

My friend is getting ordained this weekend and I crocheted him a stole

Presenting at the American Theological Library Association in Pittsburgh

Cursed archive findings

Two weeks without this boy was hard

Pennsylvania CiderFest

🥁 Announcing the Silent Comedy Gala for 2026! Join us on Fri 6th Feb at @bristolbeacon.bsky.social for an evening of timeless comedy and live music - the sparkling centrepiece of Slapstick Festival (Wed 4th to Sun 8th Feb). Book now via the link in bio to receive an Early Bird discount!

"I never see you at the club" okay? I never see you copying the Epistle to the Romans in 18th century German script

What does it even mean to "win" at Vogon Poetry? Should the poem be good? Or bad? Or so bad it's good? The important thing is: email your vogon poetry to ZZ9 for a chance to win membership. Now in day 3 (of 4) of round 1 (5 memberships total to win!) zz9.org/2025-towel-d...

A successful day

Bonding with the geezer next to me who flew over from Bradford for this final solo tour. I first saw Wakeman solo in Halifax!

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“Fuck your single-sex spaces and fuck your Supreme Court. If I see you calling the police on a trans person in a public restroom I will personally flush your phone down the bog whilst pretending it’s Wes Streeting’s head.”

Love being a performer and a patron at the Majestic all in the same day

The Goodies - Kitten Kong (9th April 1972). There's a monster loose in London and Michael Aspel is right in the thick of things.

Superior Keemun

It's Jermy

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Book tickets for screening (with Q&A) of new documentary about DOUGLAS ADAMS. 20 March in London UK. Tickets: www.genesiscinema.co.uk/event/95343

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Horrified Woman Swears Off Ambien After Seeing Number Of Library Books She Reserved Last Night

Also it was quite dark when I asked Rick Wakeman to sign and he wrote over the top of Ryland Tews, which I think is fucking hilarious

2025 @slapstickfest.bsky.social poster on the wall. Didn't get as many autographs as I'd hoped but I am debilitatingly shy... But can't complain with Peter Lord, David Sproxton, Rick Wakeman, Mike McGear, Robin Ince, Lucy Porter, Paul McGann, Ryland Tews, and of course Graeme Garden!

@slapstickfest.bsky.social Day 5 -Keaton's Go West -Dr. Strangelove with panel about satire with Mike McGear, Anil Gupta, Harry Enfield & Samira Ahmed -Robert Ross talking about Peter Sellers -Celebration of Rik Mayall with Nigel Planer, Ben Elton & Robin Ince

Forgot to take a "before" but here's the state of me post-Slapstick Festival, after a few overstimulated tears, in my Funky Gibbon dungarees. Today was back-to-back shows from 9:30am to almost 11pm (and now I never want to sit in a theatre again) #SlapstickFest25

@slapstickfest.bsky.social Day Four -Rick Wakeman talking about Dad's Army and Ian Lavender -Anil Gupta, Myra Syal and Sanjeev Bhaskar talking about Goodness Gracious Me -Harry Enfield's Norbert Smith -Stephen K. Amos' Comedy Heroes -Blazing Saddles

@slapstickfest.bsky.social Day Three -Soviet Silent films with introductions from Lucy Porter, Pamela Hutchinson, and Paul McGann -Robin Ince smashing melons for science -the Gala with Martin Freeman, Rick Wakeman, and fantastic music from Günther Buchwald and co.

@slapstickfest.bsky.social Day Two -Silent Movie w/ Robin Ince & Chris Daniels -Oh, What a Nurse w/ Lucy Porter -Keaton's Saphead w/ Polly Rose -The Railrodder & Keaton Rides Again w/ his granddaughter, Melissa Talmadge-Cox -Laurel & Hardy and Chaplin's The Great Dictator w/ Alasdair Beckett-King

@slapstickfest.bsky.social Day One! -W.C. Fields' "Running Wild" (1927) introduced by Harriet Fields, his granddaughter -"The Freshman" (1925) with Harold Lloyd introduced by Paul McGann -"Hundreds of Beavers" (2022) with Q&A with Ryland Tews

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