Total #BTN for the week: 34. Usual mix of some easy to write for, and others not so easy, but all the rounds hit #Writing #Comedy #ComedyWriting #WritingCommunity

That's 22 on the way to #BTN. Normal service resumed #writing #writingcommunity

Offices in England this morning after the Ghana game.

No Daz Doorstep Challenge for Andy Burnham, no need to prove he's whiter than white

Back on Newsbiscuit with some Andy Burnham related silliness www.newsbiscuit.com/post/sky-new... #satire #writing #comedy

Great to hear this is back. You can watch us in Series One discussing the attractiveness of Sylvester McCoy, Writing for an ensemble, Dalek time systems, and a lot more. youtu.be/xM8W94AHQsU?...

Very pleased to have won this week's @bcgpro.bsky.social Gag of the week I was fired after wallpapering Michael Jackson's mansion because I left Bubbles between the paper and the wall

I presume hiring a helicopter was cheaper than buying an on-the-day ticket from Manchester to Luton

A trip to Germany, where they can still smoke in bars, proves this advert to be completely false. Though it does remind me to recommend watching Thank You For Smoking, as it's brilliant.

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Is the ruptured testicle a consequence of non payment?

Whoop, my own #Eierschalensollbruchstellenverursacher for #FathersDay

Next week trying to do anything.

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An entire adventure game set in Ever Decreasing Circles: Make exactly 50 copies of the Badminton Newsletter on the Gestetner as Martin Infuriate Martin as Paul Groom Howard's moustache as Hilda

An off license in Boston has become an unlikely hit with the Tartan Army due to its name. Fans are getting pictures outside Jobi Liquors along with its neighbours, gun shop Absolute Weapons, and Star Wars themed cosmetics store Yoda Sells Avon. #BTNNB #BTNRejects #BTN #Jokes #WorldCup

England fans woke up in Dallas will think their great performance against Croatia was all a dream, which wasn't helped by going for a shower and finding Bobby Ewing already there. #BTNNB #BTNRejects #BTN #Jokes #WorldCup

Gianni Infantino has said that Donald Trump will be allowed to celebrate with the winners on the podium. If England win, having someone there with no football skill and business being with the squad will be like when the managers used to pick Carlton Palmer. #BTNNB #BTNRejects #BTN #Jokes #WorldCup

Boston is the home of Paul Revere, who rode through the night to warn the British were coming in 1775. There was no need for a repeat of this since the start of the World Cup, as you could hear the Tartan Army’s bagpipes from miles away. #BTNNB #BTNRejects #BTN #Jokes #WorldCup

Scotland have been celebrating their first World Cup in 28 years alongside Norwegian fans, who also haven’t been to a tournament since 1998. The joint partying has been enjoyed by Boston, and watched with fear by churches and monasteries in Northumberland. #BTNNB #BTNRejects #BTN #Jokes #WorldCup

Visiting Scots have made Boston feel like home by putting a traffic cone on a statue of first President George Washington. A large orange warning making a mockery of 250 years of American history, Donald Trump is the 45th and 47th President. #BTNNB #BTNRejects #BTN #Jokes #WorldCup

Tunisia have sacked their head coach after losing 5-1 to Sweden in their first game, which is the most extreme act from getting turned over by the Swedes since my uncle lost his temper at the checkout in IKEA. #BTNNB #BTNRejects #BTN #Jokes #WorldCup

The United States’ 4-1 win over Paraguay became the most watched soccer game in American TV history, mainly because added time meant it overran and people tuned in expecting to watch The Price is Right. #BTNNB #BTNRejects #BTN #Jokes #WorldCup

Scotland's John McGinn is nicknamed Meatball, apparently due to his large head, and not because for years he was found amongst the subs. #BTNNB #BTNRejects #BTN #Jokes #WorldCup

A not too shabby 24 for #BTN this week. Not bad for a football special

I've just written the most Scottish joke I've ever done in five years of doing #BTN . It'll either bring the house down, or cause tumbleweeds. #Writing #AmWriting

Christ. What a mess Radio 4 risks becoming.

A possibly unlucky 13 jokes on their way to #BTN. More very likely to come, especially with England playing tonight. #Writing #WritingCommunity

Strawberry flavour. The completely artificial stuff in cheap strawberry yogurts and jams. It's an abomination.

I have played a man planning to urinate in a phone booth, and Internet Explorer making a booty call. I miss the DM's Are Open voicenotes.

mycrossword.co.uk/quick/399 Another crossword from me. I feel pleased with this one, think I've got the parsing right on all the clues.

"And now, we move on to liars."

Framley did Jeremy Bearimy fifteen years before The Good Place

So #BTN won an award from @rtsmedia.bsky.social for the best of 2025 show. I think I'll update my bio to 'Writer for award winning shows' Ride on those coat-tails

This is, on the whole, what defence is all about. The procurement cycle is so long that things are out of date when they arrive or direction changes with new governments, but we need home grown stuff, or we're just a customer of the Americans and hugely under their thumb.

ukdefencejournal.org.uk/raf-rivet-jo... It's been pining.

My BlueSky group chat.

A better Superman than Dean Cain

Some lovely feedback from the BTN producers this morning, giving me a little bit of a gee-up just in time for the new series starting next week.

Very pleased my favourite sketch of the bunch submitted made the stage at last month's run of @treasonshow.bsky.social in Brighton

I do like local translations of films www.babbel.com/en/magazine/...

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I'm certain the writer of this follows me with a notebook

Douglas Adams's rules of tech apply: 1. Anything existing when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just the way the world works 2. Anything that's invented between when you’re 15 and 35 is new and exciting 3. Anything invented after you're 35 is against the natural order of things

This is like the court case where a barrister had to describe The Beatles to a judge and called them 'a popular beat combo'

So our chief weapon is surprise, surprise and fear, fear and surprise! Our two weapons are fear and surprise...

Over on 🧵, I had the wonderful entitlement of Americans regarding the Asian theatre in WWII. Do they think Sir Alec Guinness played a British Colonel in The Bridge On The River Kwai because he couldn't do an American accent?