Night out to see @samnicoresti.bsky.social and her current show is a big big recommendation from me. Really funny, joke filled, great storytelling, skirt suits, finding yourself, Gollum, polycules, names for pets and surprise Katamari Damacy.

don't look up how long it's been since series 1, it'll only depress you (excellent news though)

Alas BAFTA have got this wrong, the most memorable TV moments of the year were - Bob Mortimer picking up the wrong dog in Gone Fishing - James Acaster smashing up Saturday Kitchen - Only Connect slagging off NYT Connections - Boris Johnson's weird pronouncing of AI and ChatGPT

I mean I don't think it's like ombudsman worthy but weird to decide the personality of your brand should be "that catty bitchy person who thinks insulting is the highest form of wit but is actually insufferable and rude who would get slapped in the face if they said it to a stranger"

just off to tesco to pick up some bits for the brits anyone want anything? xx

Well done for ITV deciding to bleep Free Palestine, but also, doing it so late that it was pointless to

Everyone wondering what politics joke ITV just muted at the Brits, but the real surprise was is that Lisa Nandy briefly remembered she's responsible for culture and showed up

Pleasure to be the person handing out the certificates for the @audioacademyuk.bsky.social @aiir.com 30 Under 30. I'm like Princess Anne at the Olympics, where you go "sure, they're there to hand it the honours apparently"

And we go again, the homosexuals have been given some more cocaine

Between regular, celebrity, professionals and junior I didn't think there were any spinoffs left in the franchise but the BBC has made a bold call

I've clearly been misinformed as I had the ice hockey final on and none of them were fucking?

Tim and Ed on the Winter Olympics commentary have lines that in any other world would be pure Partridge, but it's delivered with such genuine joy and enthusiasm that you cannot help but love it

Good and clear on what the Supreme Court's judgement, and the High Court's, means for trans people. As much as we shoud send back the EHRCs guidance, the only real solution here is to change the law and that's what we should be driving towards.

Let's mash up some daytime television with 90s hip hop! It's Homes Under The Hammer Time.

One Guardian interview where they read out to her the satirical piece that suggests she has no interest in her brief and she suddenly remembers she's culture secretary

The summer Olympics should also have more sports where you get to wear glittery costumes and choose music to go along with it, maybe 800m artistic hurdles or rhythmic tennis

Excellent nonsense that thanks to the BBC no longer requires you to know which YouTube channel is the one that links to the relevant Dailymotion page www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

I now have a plush Natural History Museum* *with plush Pikachu attached

i love european olympics opening ceremonies. the second the ioc names a european host city the prime minister calls the culture minister into their office and says "find me your strangest homosexuals. give each of them a period of our great nation's history, a kilo of cocaine, and Ten Million Euros"

BBC Sport team in Italy already heavily on the campari by getting Zlatan Ibrahimovic to say "Zlatan knows about Eddie the Eagle" and facetime Torville and Dean

The new Muppet Show is excellent and also adds evidence to my ongoing theory that Sabrina Carpenter has pursued a pop career as a cover and excuse to explore her true love, performing sketch comedy

Meanwhile on Drag Race UK

Further to this, Ofcom's update on its own investigation neatly illustrates what a fucking mess the OSA is: www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safet...

paddington's wario would be called baddington

Your parents trying to remember the name of that singer you like, that pink pony one, what's she called

Turns out @ucl.ac.uk have a gorgeous observatory pretty local to me. It'd be rude not to see it. Huge thanks to the UCLO team for their tour - loved seeing the systems first built over 100 years ago as well as the latest systems and learning about their work. Great stuff.

xbox live took stronger action against jeffrey epstein than the entire us government

I think my favourite line in Katamari Damacy is when a cousin attempts an explanation of why they're on earth, and the King replies "We have no idea what you're talking about." Excellent.

Similarly, I've had Google Search AI summaries prioritize Grokipedia over Wikipedia for citations a few times and that just seems insane as a product decision. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

please refer to your Davos phrasebook www.ft.com/content/ab4f...

Almost sounds trite, but... if you like something, or want it to exist, it does help if you pay for it. It's so easy to assume someone else will, or there's money from elsewhere, but... if you can, it makes a difference. So, scripted audio comedy? I like that, I'll buy some.

Should have called it Pretrol Station

In barbaric UK its a violation of dignity and harassment to share a space with a trans woman

I'm just saying you could leave a few fake Tory MP defection speech drafts around parliament and see what fun happens when Kemi finds them that's all

Will Amol Rajan leaving the Today programme stop me from joking he's applying for every BBC job going each time one comes up? Absolutely not, I'd need to come up with a new joke and I only have about three.

"A new video podcast… exclusively available on Netflix" as Netflix describes it is especially not a podcast.

They’re already lining up a John Virgo spin-off called The Rest is Where the Cueball’s Going.

Hello and welcome to my new snooker podcast The Rest Is What You Use When You Can't Reach The Cueball

My recommended starter pack

An absolute blistering editorial from The Verge. Incredibly bluntly put over the abject failure of Google and Apple.

This thread is a dizzyingly high benchmark for the rest of the year's shenanigans.

There we go. That there’s a headline.

"you don't have to be a celebrity to take part in the regular mastermind series" well yes it'd be weird if you had to be a celebrity to be in that one wouldn't it clive I'm so sorry this has been bugging me the last two weeks

Sadiq Khan's commitment to firework based trolling remains unparalleled, bravo

pound for pound this might be the funniest thing ever written

Such insight over on X (and not anything very silly that I suggested a name for)

A rare exception to University Challenge's splitting of all music into "popular music" or "classical music" tonight, as "country music" has clearly been deemed never to be popular enough to count as that

Time for Herbie Goes Bananas youtu.be/VRU2ujV2fDw