We're here to spread the joy of Joke, a short film on Barry Cryer from his son Bob Cryer. It will premiere at #SlapstickFest 2026 (4th to 8th Feb), launching the Golden Baz Comedy Award. However they still need to raise £33k by Friday so, if you can afford to, back the Kickstarter via link in bio.

Cute date idea: we mount a production of Waiting For Godot with Sooty and Sweep as Vladimir and Estragpn

Fellow fans of Barry Cryer, the comedy legend and lovely gent, his glorious gags, japes, jokes and parrot punchlines - please help make this film happen! Thank youuu 🦜! www.kickstarter.com/projects/jok...

"He was just a very bright guy and he absolutely loved language. He didn’t just write songs, every single word had to be right..." I spoke to Yvonne Innes about life with Bonzo, Python, Rutle and comedy treasure Neil Innes: radiotimes.com/tv/comedy/ne... @radiotimes.bsky.social

🚨🌱 The Chancellor is reviewing all public spending from scratch. Please join me in signing the @campaignforthearts.org petition to remind the UK Govt: the arts make our lives happier & our communities stronger. Now is the moment to invest in them. www.campaignforthearts.org/petitions/sp...

Rewatched The Royal Tenenbaums tonight. Top form Gene, stealing every scene. Unique & irreplaceable 🖤

A theatre double this weekend! ‘Inside No. 9: Stage/Fright‘, chilling, thrilling and frightfully funny 👻. Genius level entertainment from Mr Pemberton and Mr Sheersmith 🖤 And ‘Churchill in Moscow’ aka ‘When Winston Met Josef’ - a timely dive into diplomacy, leadership and foiling fascism

This is a beautiful obituary and explains Hackman's quiet, compelling, talented charisma so well.

@jamesthresher.bsky.social & @areamancm.bsky.social 🩷🩷🩷

Most excellent news, nudge nudge wink wink 🥳

Do you love a surprise?  Mystery Cards are back! www.gailmyerscough.co.uk/product-page...

@areamancm.bsky.social music lols 🎶

Saturday is treat day

If you see this post, quote with a bridge from your gallery

Get thee to a nunnery ✝️

Today, alongside @equityuk.bsky.social + @societyofauthors.bsky.social, we have launched a petition calling on Director-General of the BBC Tim Davie to rethink plans to eradicate audio drama from BBC Radio 3 Sign the petition to Save Audio Drama at the BBC www.change.org/SADatTheBBC

Post something orange 🧡

Every museum should have a Little Guys Tour, and at the end of the tour you can buy reproductions of all the little guys

Well that’s my baubles put away… And I’ve taken the Christmas decorations down as well…

Is it time for…

Loved this farewell to #InsideNo9 - a treat to see the creativity, care, and attention to detail that went into every single aspect. A tremendous body of horribly funny and funnily horrible work 🖤 @reece-shearsmith.bsky.social @sjpemberton.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Essential Christmas ritual carried out today: my annual double bill of ‘Victoria Wood With All The Trimmings’ & ‘While You Were Sleeping’ ❤️🎄💚🎄❤️🎄💚 #perfectChristmasviewing

Boom. Fuck you pal. I AM Christmas.

New euphemism, anyone?

I would watch all of these 👇😆 Check out the replies too…

At the train station, I’ve just witnessed a man throwing up into a Santa hat. This might be the most Christmassy thing I’ve ever seen… #hohoho

@areamancm.bsky.social - a classic!

This was the reason HR issued Batman a formal warning

40 WAYS TO DIE IN THE PREHISTORIC. Enjoy! These illustrations were made as scale drawing for a book about prehistoric creatures. Thought it would be fun to have a bit more interaction between the animals and human figures

Really enjoyed #Conclave last night! Very classy, beautifully filmed, with top notch performances from the lads and scene-stealing, superb Isabella Rossellini. Surprisingly funny too!

@areamancm.bsky.social 🫎!

It’s an annual tradition, a free to download and print for yourself Advent calendar. This year it’s an Aardvent calendar.

Had a joyful time celebrating the life of the much-missed Neil Innes last night, with an abundance of musical and comic talent from the past 50+ years paying tribute, sharing memories and love. So long, Urban Spaceman 🩷

Please retweet this if you've eaten sausages in the last six weeks.

Particularly FAO @vickybookerlit.bsky.social - this is a great read encapsulating everything that spellbound us last weekend at the harrowing Robert Icke/Sophocles’ Oedipus #lovetheatre

Jane Austen toaster settings: • Indisposed • In a small way • No better than he ought to be • Discernibly young • Very nearly pretty • Five thousand a year

They're never going to top the original Gladiator.

Still in recovery from the devastating yet outstanding Oedipus from Robert Icke & co. Even though @vickybookerlit.bsky.social and I knew what was going to happen we were still utterly banjaxed 😱. Exceptional performances from Mark Strong and Lesley Manville 👏 #lovetheatre 🎭💕 #loveeyeballs 👀

@areamancm.bsky.social thought you’d like this! Makesh a change from Sean Connery jokesh 😉

Incredible thread on ALT text addressing many specific questions I've seen people ask! And this is written by a person who actually relies on it - that's so important when looking for resources on this. Always ask the people who actually need it.

I know you couldn’t possibly comment but… @areamancm.bsky.social where does this land in the Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - Edge of Darkness Spectrum? (yes that is a thing I just made up… what of it?)

Well, I feel seen… as indeed will @vickybookerlit.bsky.social

Welcome both new and old followers! Yes, we are up and running in this new place – so stay tuned for all the latest in quality vintage film and TV on TPTV. And, because it means the world to us, please spread the word 🙂 Thank you! talkingpicturestv.co.uk www.tptvencore.co.uk

Reader, I twatted him.

My cartoon for this week’s Guardian books…

My six favourite European Mr Men character names... 6. Mr Muddle in Spain = Don Confuso 5. Mr Topsy-Turvy in Germany = Herr Kuddelmuddel 4. Mr Bounce in France = Monsieur Bing 3. Mr Dizzy in Portugal = Senhor Bobo 2. Mr Greedy in Sweden = Gubben Glufs Glufs 1. Mr Bump in Norway = Herr Dumpidump

Saw the highly entertaining The Cabinet Minister at the Menier Chocolate Factory yesterday and very much enjoyed the double entendres and silliness. It would’ve been hard not to! #fnar Excellent adaptation by multi-talented Nancy Carroll 🎭💕

- So, Mr. B. what do you think of it here so far? - Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.

At the BFI last night, celebrating the imminent launch of the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band’s “Still Barking” limited edition 20 DISC definitive box set! Music, art and anarchy collide to create joy, mischief and explosions💥!