"We were always told comedians are often sad or depressed – but if you meet many male stand-ups in real life they are really angry" @jnraeside.bsky.social in Metro about her brilliant debut novel, Don't Make Me Laugh, and the scene that inspired it. metro.co.uk/2025/11/09/i...

Thanks to Metro for the interview about my @cwip.bsky.social short-listed novel Don’t Make Me Laugh.

Had a go on a red carpet (brown floor). Delighted by the results. That photographer did some wizardry.

Lovely times at the @cwip.bsky.social awards last night. Just so stoked to have been on a shortlist with such amazing people.

"Threats on the phone, threats to my child... packages at my house." Epstein survivor Anouska De Georgiou describes her experience since waiving her right to anonymity in 2019 - insisting she will not be silenced. #Newsnight

Add in the fact that narcissism is designed to defend against anyone seeing it’s an act - furiously denying anyone access to the twisted little core - and that it precludes self examination for the narcissist themselves, and it’s swimming-with-sharks time.

We should teach our kids this stuff like we do road safety. (And to identify the behaviour in the first place. A narcissist is not what most people think - in the colloquial sense - and they’re all much the same, the boring little boilerplate toxic toddlers.)

Had a brilliant day in Berkhamsted today, doing the book festival with Jenny Evans and Robin Ince. Really engaged crowd.

I hate Virgin WiFi really a lot.

Our WiFi is down and we will struggle to watch Strictly on 5G. Ho hum.

Spooky listening thread for Halloween. 🎃

Me talking about my favourite film.

Coming up tomorrow, author Hattie Williams relives the trauma of Angel’s death in Buffy. #BoxOfDelights

Amazing that, even now, we’re still nodding and buying the ‘sex addiction’ thing from men who absolutely cannot go without sticking their dick in another person. It sounds like something a child would make up.

Nice mention for the audiobook of #DontMakeMeLaugh in today’s @theguardian.com #BookSky

NEW EPISODE: today the author Kate Weston tells me about the trauma she suffered watching Gemma touch the dodgy plug on Byker Grove. Search Box of Delights wherever you get your podcasts. 📺

This is a curious one. Sometimes the thing writes itself.

After the Unbound shit show in which we lost a lot more than “some money”, I’m so delighted that Joel will get to relaunch his brilliant book - Be Funny or Die - next year in paperback. E-book will be out soon for those studying it on media courses, but the PB will be mega.

Out Today! timworthington.org/2025/10/23/t...

Splendid.

See?

He won’t stop saying this in a silly voice.

Jenny Evans is at Berkhamsted book festival and I will be in conversation with her and @jnraeside.bsky.social - Nigel Planer, @shappikhorsandi.bsky.social @lucia-oc.bsky.social Rebecca Ajulu Bushell, David Hepworth , James Haynes, Nigel Barden, Jakko Jakszyk and me bookfestival.berkofest.com

I voted for Balvinder FIVE TIMES. That paso was spectacular. I know there are loads of others to vote for in these early weeks and you only get five votes, but why don't we get behind non-white women when they're good? Hers was one of the dances of the night. #Strictly

In addition to retaining the "prince" in his title, Prince Andrew remains (very aptly) a 'Vice' Admiral in the Royal Navy and also remains eighth in line to the throne. And there's nothing you plebs can do about it. But something something about tourists...

NEW EPISODE: Liz Bower talks to me about Zammo’s lowest moment in Grange Hill. Search Box of Delights wherever you get your pods. 📺

@jnraeside.bsky.social I just listened to your Box of Delights ep about Zammo. I interviewed Lee McDonald a couple of years ago, so I've attached some of what he told me about life post-Grange Hill. Hope it's of interest.

In Foyles Charing Cross and spied this facing out. @danrhodes.bsky.social

Watching Alan Carr and the gang in ep 3 of #celebritytraitors tonight? Catch up with @jnraeside.bsky.social’s analysis for the Nerve of why this series might just be the ultimate version of a reality TV show…

Ahead of ep 3 of Celebrity Traitors tonight, brilliant analysis by Julia Raeside for the Nerve on why this might just be the ultimate version of a reality TV show…

Cock-a-hoop to be writing for @thenerve.news and we kick off with a piece about why Celebrity Traitors is era defining television.

It is so easy to not be a sex pest, it is actually so much work to be a sex pest, and yet

Post you from a different era.

Uff.

Cosy crime! Duffel-coasted, curly-haired hero! Hot chemistry! Windmills! I had a hoot talking about the magic of Jonathan Creek (and its connection to my own debut novel, The Dogwalkers' Detective Agency) with @jnraeside.bsky.social on @boxdelightspod.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...

NEW EPISODE UP NOW.

Box of Delights, first new episode teaser. (An easy one, sound on.)

After the world’s longest hiatus, my TV nostalgia podcast - The Box of Delights - is coming back for a real actual series of new episodes. And you don’t have long to wait!

Woohoo! Broken Veil got a trophy at the British Podcast Awards. 🏆

If you’ve read and enjoyed Don’t Make Me Laugh, you could vote for it in the @cwip.bsky.social Comedy Women in Print prize People’s Choice award. But only if you felt like it. I thank you. #BookSky

All it takes to turn a project I’m desperate to do into a project I’m desperate to avoid doing, is for me to get a day where I finally have the time to do it. It’s magic!

To make this brilliant Aitchison painting work for the cover for The Dad - a last minute change - I had to flip the image, so the dad’s face wouldn’t vanish under the Ladybird colophon. Which then meant cutting out and reversing the label on the custard tin. The things we’d do…

Just think for a minute. A man lost his job for being friend with Epstein. The same week, Epstein's BFF gets a state banquet. I can't get over it

SCREAM Don’t Make Me Laugh is now decorated with the beautiful CWIP sticker on the Waterstones website. It’s official! I’m awards shortlisted. Please buy ALL the books on the Comedy Women in Print shortlist and support funny female writing. #BookSky

I reviewed Michael Portillo and his red trousers which seem to me even more offensive than usual at the moment. (In the picture, he is turning into one giant red trouser.)

Absolutely thrilled to be shortlisted for the Comedy Women in Print Prize 2025. An insane line-up to be part of. Thank you so much to the judges. Don’t Make Me Laugh is out in paperback now! #CWIP @cwip.bsky.social

Oooooh. Spooooooky.

Be generous. Now be more generous. Share your privilege. We need creative professionals to step up & volunteer to mentor a young person who doesn't have the connections or financial backing to believe they could access a creative career. Sign up to mentor in 2026 👉 www.arts-emergency.o...

Every person of colour I know in London felt unsafe yesterday. More so because no one in Government has even slightly called out that march for what it was. Why are they appeasing racists?

breaking news: in response to a chant of “shoot keir starmer” at the fascist parade in london, the government has announced plans to shoot keir starmer