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Christmas playlist starts today. And ok, I'm putting it out there. Little Things by Abba is the best Christmas song of the last 30 years

My second-most listened to song this year turns out to be the Howard’s Way theme. Not quite sure how I feel about that

Four days without water here in Tunbridge Wells now. Schools shut again. Bit of a bummer, to be honest

Glorious, from a pal on FB

This is the worst thing I have ever seen

Very excited about seeing Radiohead tomorrow. But my only other two significant gigs this year have been Oasis and Pulp. And I realise I'm now at the point my parents were in the 90s watching Gerry and some of his Pacemakers

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That really moving Marseillaise scene in Casablanca is now 400% more moving youtu.be/CbWgOpG1988

We’ve reached the Stevent Horizon

Jasper Carrot - Animal, vegetable & mineral

My final day with my daughter before she goes to uni - and after three years or so, her starting word came up on Wordle today. Feels slightly poignant somehow...

The irony of jumping through multiple hoops to convince Radiohead I'm not a sodding robot is not lost on me

I was looking for photo resource of "imps" the other week and found an incredible image from 1796, with some superb "tag yourself" opportunities for you and your friends. If this gets three likes and one re-post, I'm done with this place.

POP TRIVIA - Former UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon named his son Mark after the album by Television #poptrivia

Maine Road was my first big gig and I'll be in Cardiff on Saturday. My predicted 20 tracks is remarkably similar to this. They'll definitely play Songbird for Liam and would expect Columbia & I Am The Walrus. Hope they'll throw in something leftfield like Married With Children.

Oh man. Brian Wilson. That's a blow. Can't believe it's 20 years since I saw him at Glastonbury. After a biblical deluge and two days of thick mud and drizzle, the sun rightly came out for his set

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POP TRIVIA: Gordon Sumner adopted the name Sting in tribute to Bergerac actor John Nettles #poptrivia

POP TRIVIA: David Gray's hit Babylon was released closer in time to the reign of Hammurabi than the present day #poptrivia

I've absolutely no love for Man Utd. And yet I find myself cheering for them tonight. Spurs fans seem to think they have a monopoly on bad luck. They really don't. But let's let them carry on believing. Also: Tottenham insisting we call them 'Tottenham Hotspur'. Nonsense

It's always nice seeing Ronnie O'Sullivan on the TV. And a chance for me to say smugly that on my only visit to the Crucible, I saw young Ronnie hit a 147 in 5 minutes against Mick Price #snooker

I'm putting it out there. Legend from Gladiators is genuinely one of the funniest people around. Can he and Barney swap places?

Post your favourite Dr Who (wrong answers only)

Fancy winning a free signed copy of Volumes 1, 2 & 3? Over 70 former Taskmaster contestants lovingly drawn by myself collected in 3 handy A5 booklets! To enter simply RT this post! I'll pull a name on Friday night Good luck! richdonethis.bigcartel.com

Counter offer. How about Canada's 10 provinces become states 51 to 60... thereby securing the senate for Democrats (forever) and then immediately bring back Trump's impeachment proceedings?

As ever, most of the comments here and (especially) the other place are negative. But there's loads of good stuff on the line-up as always. Shakey in 2009 at Glasto remains my favourite-ever gig. I'll definitely be trying for the re-sale

Does anyone remember that time the BBC ran a poll to find the greatest British people of all time and Michael Crawford came 17th? Utterly bizarre. Anyway, I managed to get 63 of them on Sporcle - some other rogue entries on there too. www.sporcle.com/games/g/grea...

Happy Transfer Deadline Day to those who celebrate. This is my 42nd at Sky Sports. The first saw a young lad called Wayne Rooney move from Everton to Manchester Utd. Wonder what happened to him...?

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Can't believe these people don't appreciate their pint sized champagne bottles

YouGov find just 30% of people think we were right to leave the EU. The lowest number yet. Just 10% of 18-24 year olds think it was the right decision.

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Does this make Baynton the first to complete the Taskmaster/Ghosts/ Inside No 9 triple crown?

Feels about right...

Neil Young at Glastonbury in 2009 remains my favourite-ever gig. Missed out on tickets for this year. Doubly gutted now. Hopefully will catch Shakey somewhere else.

It appears we now have an entire Marmite family - Mr, Ma and two little Mites

Lovely to get a little 'inside' Inside No 9 glimpse. Really looking forward to seeing the stage show in London next year

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Hello! Ringo's in town. Excited to be taking the gang to see Paul McCartney tomorrow - last time I saw him, he brought on Ringo for Get Back. He couldn't do it again... could he?

Need sound on.

One upshot of having my Spotify account as the default one for the home computer and on family car journeys is a rather skewed yearly Wrapped. Apparently my most-listened to song was Man... I Feel Like a Woman, which I'm pretty sure I never actually chose myself

Re-post for a chance to win this brilliant prize: 2 x tickets to the show A room at Leven (liveleven.com) 2 x return train tickets from anywhere in the UK I’ll present you with a signed print after the concert Winner picked at random: THURSDAY 3pm Tickets on sale: THURSDAY 4pm

a) I have too many of my books b) nearly Christmas so c) I'll give away a set of Stockwell Park Orchestra titles: Life, Death & Cellos Bold as Brass Continental Riff The Prize Racket Will post anywhere. Share this by 9.00 GMT Mon 2 Dec & I'll draw a random winner. farragobooks.com/book-series/...

A great thing that John Kearns said on the Always Be Comedy podcast. When you get the end credits on films these days that go on for ages, why don’t we tell kids that those are all jobs they could do? Like, you can be part of this, it’s real.

Have discovered some rogue Xmas Number 2s over the years. Chuck Berry's My Ding-a-ling (In 1972!), Slade with a soft-rock power ballad called My Oh My in 1983, a toe-curling Cliff song called Daddy's Home and I'd never even heard of McGuinness Flint. But quite like their 'When I'm Dead And Gone'

Post you from a different era. This was from Hillsborough media centre at Euro 96. I laminated Eusebio’s accreditation pass