My favourite single of the year was that catchy piece of shimmering dance pop by that female singer that i hadnt noticed till i started making an effort on Spotify, in a lame attempt to slow the ageing process. That narrows it down.

The actor Timothy Chaletmaid took his stagename from his love for unfulfilled 1980s uk sitcom characters.

These Test matches are like episodes of Everybody Loves Raymond. The narrative and the reason they all get angry is slightly different each time, but by the end we're back to where we started, and nobody has genuinely learnt any lessons. And Australians find it much funnier than the English.

For those of you that get Andrew Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln and Andy Abraham mixed up, they fight, respectively, zombies, vampires, and the short memories of the British public.

I had great fun telling my 10 year niece yesterday about Boko Haram, the melting of the polar ice caps, and how it wasn't actually Santa who delivered her gifts that morning.

Christmas Day. I really love my difficult family and all its imperfections. They're the ones that taught me to fight.

Belfast Child might be worse than The Living Years #totp

Q: What kind of cow is waterproof? A: A gaberdine Angus. #CrackerJoke

Bravo

Presented without comment.

Biggins shows off a magic trick he learnt from his Rentaghost days.

A propos of nothing, Church by Jade is a monumental pop song.

Don't forget thst the true spirit of Christmas is watching smug broken narcissists trying their absolute best to stop money going to charity. The Chase Christmas Celebrity Special 1755 itv1 today.

Ok ill give you that one, Colin Firth in Love Actually.

I really enjoyed Dire Straits duet with Chris Rea. Telegraph Road to Hell.

I would suggest that throwing a shoe over a pub is the real Ashes, but Stokes and McCullum would probably try and win that by blowing up the pub.

6 years post Parky, two years post MI. I've worked aĺl year, Radio 4 series, full Edinburgh run, maintained my quiz levels and recorded some of the fastest Chases of my career. We're all gonna die of something. Taking your meds gives you more chance of enjoying the ride.

Joshua vs Paul was the best boxing fight betwèen the authors of the sixth book of a Testament.

By contrast this is me with a Brilliant Youtuber. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

A fine month of life lessons and acting lessons.

The life of a stand up is similar to that of a pro boxer. You'll get chances to punch a Youtuber, but you won't emerge with your dignity intact. Oh, and watch out for Parkinson's.

Our 50 Favourite Funny Bluesky posts of 2025. www.thepoke.com/2025/12/17/o...

Tonìgḥt.

wegottickets.com/DatchetCrick... this thursday night

Navigating the year-end best album lists

take a guy with a history of mental health issues. put him in front of a crowd actively trying to push him over the edge. throw in some petty English nationalism and a recent bereavement. and you get what happened to cameron menzies, today www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/d...

Goes up to Xi. Goes up to 11.

Next on Trump's hit list. Roger Federer's backhand. Michelangelo. Toy Story 1-3. The polio vaccine. Common People.

Rob Reiner. One of the alltime great imperial phases. A man who made sophisticated classics that were accessible and funny for people like me who like their films accessible and funny. 2025 seems to beggimg 2016 to hold its beer in an increasingly awful, attention seeking manner.

Statistically the history of this species is the oppression or slaughter of humanity by a minority of men in the name of personal profit or deluded ideology. This will never change. And we'll always have science, culture, art and God Only Knows to remind us of the species we could have been.

One day it will be recognised that in 2024 Eurovision was won by a stone cold pop classic.

Six years ago today. If you have any curiosity at all in how i got there, buy my memoir. If not, that too is a valid and understandable position.

Im an above average quizzer. Well i had an expensive education, parental love and encouragement. I was a doctor. See previous. I headline comedy clubs for a living. Honestly,nobody i know saw that coming. It's a miracle. I still struggle to make sense of it all.

How can i express my support for Robin Ince while still showing the cowardice and craven self promotion that defines my social media output? By offering him an Ince Sinha Lifeline.

Tonight's the night! The Weatherley Centre, Biggleswade! 13th December Paul Sinha @paulsinha.bsky.social Angela Barnes @angelabarnes.bsky.social Jay Handley and your host Paul Revill! Tix castlecomedy.co.uk/event-details/the-big-christmas-show

i first worked with @robinince.bsky.social in 2003, having first seen him as a stand-up in 1998 (in the glastonbury cabaret tent!) and you won’t find a kinder or funnier person in the comedy industry

Reform UK. Allegedly stupid people, members undoubtedly racist people. (2,4,4)

Really? The greatest opportunity ever to call yourself Focaccia in the Rye and you didnt take it?

Three best picture oscar wimners are listed in the lyrics of We didnt start the fire. The actor Jack Hawkins starred in all three.

On̈ the one hand the Chase,was the most watched show in the UK yesterday. On the other I wws rexently mistaken for Gok Wan.

At this time of year im reminded of the kindest review of my one go at panto.

Thanks to Parkinsons my handwriting is now slow, carefully and methodically constructed to maintain legibilty. Which makes me the one GP whose handwriting improved.

From thursday to monday i recorded two chases in elstree, hosted an awards night in coventry, and a pub quiz in warrington and did six stand up gigs in Liverpool. I came out on top in all ten. Thank you medication, husband, snd those bookers who can see past iillness and disablity.

Boris Pasta-Snack

"And the boy from the NYPD fired,and said 'YIPPE KI YAY' And he saw his wife and kids for Christmas Day" Definitely a Christmws movie.

What connects the award winning choreographer of Praise You, and the 1966 murder suicide committèd by actor Milos Milos. That was this morning's rabbithole.

Krypton Fsctor meets Kinder Surprise