At the end of last year my friend made the finals of the BBC New Comedy Awards... And received literally thousands of hateful comments because she happens to wear the hijab. It's been so nice hearing the stories of acts who've reached out to support her during this time. Sometimes comedy is good.

douglas adams was our most accurate futurist

No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.

Suzy Izzard's Dress To Kill is nearly two hours long. Imagine being that good non stop for the length of two full Edinburgh shows, and managing to build an audience being that surreal and also, you know, trans.

The talk to your friends app and the witness the horrors app being the same app is not great for the mental health is it

Got my first stand up gig of the year next week. I should probably re-learn my set.

Actual footage of Vince Guaraldi performing "Linus and Lucy". I'm gobsmacked that this exists, but utterly thrilled too. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EMf...

What????????? youtu.be/YMmOMfu6znk?...

AI proponents: Claude is self aware it has feelings. Me: Fuck you. It's a speak and spell! Jim Henson: Kermit was originally made of my mother's coat. His eyes are made out of... Me: Don't talk about Kermit like he's not there, Jim. You've worked together too long for that.

I can't believe this is how I'm finding out about a new Rika Suzuki game 😭

The rivalry with Mighty Morphin Power Celtic seldom gets mentioned.

I miss physical media releases for standup shows. I know it's a lot more work and a lot less accessible for most acts than just releasing shows digitally but it's just nice to have a fancy little box sometimes.

An autistic woman has chosen to fill the pockets of her new skirt with whimsical little oddities while continuing to lose all the items that she actually needs, sources have claimed.

Today I am learning just how many of my friends went to Gaulier.

Today I learnt about the actual, canonical sequel to 101 Dalmatians. Every single paragraph of the synopsis makes me feel like I've lost my mind a little bit more. I am so sad that this never got a film adaptation.

I 💜 Bradford

Was sitting around earlier thinking how I'd like to play another heist type game. This looks a lot of fun.

How do I stop my wife referring to the group bereavement counselling they've been referred to as the Suicide Squad.

hey quick question how do we fix whatever cultural circumstances made this sentence possible

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I don't like how violent a lot of the terms around comedy are. Smashing a gig, bombing, killing it, dying etc. Trying to take them out of my lexicon.

It's been HOURS. Still thinking about the child who today told @joewellscomic.bsky.social that comedians are "sad people who make people laugh". Oh. OW.

XS is my favourite club in the country. It's such a kind, welcoming space with an audience that truly loves comedy. Comedy friends, you should absolutely apply.

I can't believe the church turned out to be right about both JK Rowling and Richard Dawkins.

...I gave in and bought the Crystals.

Going down to Leicester for the last weekend of the festival. This is my current schedule. If anyone is around doing a show or fancies a drink, please let me know!

@leicscomedyfest.bsky.social for PWYW shows do we need to book a ticket in advance or just turn up and donate on the way out?

production of The Muppet Show should not be dependent on petty vulgarities like “ratings” or “revenue.” it should be preserved as a vital function of american culture. it should have a taxpayer-funded budget rivaling the CIA

If you like Piña Coladas and getting caught in the rain you should move to Ireland. It rains all the time here and you can just buy a premixed bottle of Piña Colada at Tesco and walk around by the canal taking a swig between showers. Idk why anyone would wanna do that, but I didn't write the song.

If the new Muppet Show is picked up for a full series, please can we correct the universal wrong that is that Ricky Gervais got to do a Muppet movie and not Tim Vine.

What I played of Big Hops was charming, loved the movement, it seems really fun... But then the QA curse struck and I managed to softlock myself before I'd hit any sort of save point and now I'm grumpy.

Today in ways I am a parody of myself: When getting ready to go see my therapist to discuss the sudden and unexpected passing of a friend, I panicked realising that I hadn't sent him a trigger warning in advance.

Oooooh new Metric album out two days after my birthday. That's some nice news.

If anyone has recommendations for non-violent games/books/shows that would be appreciated. Don't necessarily feel in the best headspace to continue my X Files watch, just want gentleness and not just the simple but repetitive puzzle game I've been playing the last few days.

I don't really have any competent or coherent thoughts but bereavement fucking sucks, please be kind to yourselves and hold your loved ones close.

@gralefrit.bsky.social Watching Cunk is bringing joy in the space of a bereavement, so thank you for your work on it 💜

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You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs) Good tech. Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales) Bad tech.

People in the Arts Use Public Domain Materials for Something Other Than "Thing That Was Cute -- now it's SCARY!" Challenge

Occasionally people come up to me after my set and tell me how important it is and whenever that happens I write one extra stupid joke to put in. Let me just be a silly person trying to bring joy.

I really need to get better at asking for quotes from people when I perform, given the number of promoters increasingly asking for them.

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

Television began on this day in 1926. Shortly after that, Doctor Who fans started a campaign to get rid of the current producer.

A few days ago, I stood in the graveyard of an 1100 year old church, getting damper and damper in the drizzling rain. A woman walked into the graveyard, waved, said hello, and, as we had previously arranged, handed me a paper bag full of human bones. The life of a churchwarden is a strange one...

everyone wants another Concord they can point and laugh at and feel smug about while forgetting the fucked up state of the industry that pushes talented people to chase trends and not make what they want

I commissioned Lian to do a stage portrait of me after seeing his femme Tintin art and I love it so much!