Jem Roberts, Author etc.

"It is being made for Sky TV" directly translates into reality talk as "Nobody will ever see it, and it will be taken off air in no time." Can't think of any meaningful exceptions to that rule.
www.chortle.co.uk/news/2025/12...

As it happens I have a red-hot TV comedy format which has never been tried, despite over 20 years of waiting for someone to spot the obvious opportunity. But it wouldn't work in a House of Games slot, thin gruel spread out over a fortnight. That's a guarantee of shit TV.

BBC Two seeks new comedy entertainment format - BCG Pro The BBC has announced it is looking to commission a new ten-part comedy entertainment format for BBC Two.

What kind of utter dong decides on a TV scheduling format – and such a pathetically Traitors/Taskmaster-aping one as this – and then invites people to pitch ideas to fill the slot?

BRITAIN IS FULL OF FUNNY COMEDIANS. DO YOUR JOB, BBC: FIND THEM. www.comedy.co.uk/pro/news/859...

It gets earlier, and groovier, every year....

We need to invent some kind of anti-statue: permanent hate effigies, public depictions of figures we are all encouraged to despoil in every way in perpetuity, for the damage they have knowingly done to Britain.

Fiona Bruce should get the first one.

I can only presume the ludicrousness of focusing on the racist schooldays of life-long racist Nigel Farage is extremely deliberate, to win more Reform votes from dicks who think the would-be fascist and well-known bully is being victimised.

No more Mister Nice Guy. Oh hang on, wait, there’s a bit more.

Oh what a tangled web we weave at our Tangled Web Workshop, only £100 per session!

If I joined the army I'd be a Bill Murray-style slacker and kooky mocker of authority. And I'd be found bloodless in a ditch within a month.

I need to write a thriller in which the bland author of the most saccharine, mindless 'cosy murder' mysteries is targeted by the darkest, most lethal, sick criminal gang imaginable who takes them beyond the limits of horror and grief and shows them they know nothing about crime.

The truth about social media is that it was pretty much perfect and had reached its peak before 2010. Besides perhaps faster uploading/larger files and formats, there was just nothing left to do… except UTTERLY DESTROY IT IN THE NAME OF BLIND VINDICTIVE CAPITALISM.

Not sure if it's ironic or par for the course that Instagram became the world's leading image-based platform, despite it being by far the worst platform for posting images – unless you like every single pic in the same, uniformly wrong format, in limited numbers.

Only a few weeks to our traditional live YULE SHOW!

Let's keep in the festive mood this #FolkloreThursday with our retelling of the legend of the MARI LWYD! 🐴🦴❄️

Christ, I am so sick of 'cosy murder' culture – ditzy sodding amateur detectives having larks standing over light-hearted corpses in syrupy English idylls.

I wish nothing for the people who create and support this horrific genre, but their own cosy murder.

Trying to get the usual propaganda outlets interested in my article pitch – 'The Tom Stoppard I Saw On The Other Side Of The Road In Shepherds Bush That Once', but the buggers ain't biting.

Americans can look forward to years of deleting Donald Trump’s existence from every place he ever left his mark: the collaborators who survive him will die in jail, every decision he made will be joyfully reversed, his every stupid memory wonderfully traduced for the trash it is. What fun awaits.

“But her 𝖾̶𝗆̶𝖺̶𝗂̶𝗅̶𝗌̶!̶ thirst for more dead toddlers!”

My first Wild West shooting gallery since Barmouth Bay circa 1992.

Four Boys In The Wind: French Hard Day’s Night LP spotted in Dutch vinyl store. #Beatles #Comedy ✌🏽🃏🎶

… In front of 10 people
1 of whom will quite enjoy it.

Our problem is no longer the almost dead rich white men who have done all they can to destroy the world; Murdoch, Trump et al. Time will do for them. The problem is the posthumous booby traps they have left for us all to trigger when they’ve gone.

‪If Dubai was levelled, not a single thing of value would be lost. Just the tacky pads of thousands of Jim Davidsons.‬

If anywhere in the world should look like Gaza does*, it’s Dubai.

* Though of course NOWHERE should.

It’s impossible to get a Rizla between Noel Gallagher and Quentin Tarantino in the ‘YES THEY ARE UTTER, UTTER HATEFUL MORONS BUT THEY DID SOMEHOW CREATE GENUINELY BRILLIANT WORK 30 YEARS AGO’ stakes.

Chris Mason’s Johnson Gaffe Risks Trashing the BBC’s Reputation Patrick Howse reveals how a false BBC News alert that 100 Conservative MPs were backing Boris Johnson's new leadership bid spread quickly around the world

Chris Mason should be stripped and kept in a cage hung up at the O2 where visitors can pay a £5 donation to Palestine Action to shove him with a long broom. bylinetimes.com/2022/10/24/c...

Why all the consternation about Chris Mason being a clueless far-right shill? He works for genocide/child poverty propaganda machine ‘BBC News’, that’s literally what he exists to be. It’s like expressing dismay that there is pasta in your bowl of Minestrone soup.

Humans have been eating ‘processed’ food for much longer than you would think Researchers say processing plant foods was key to human spread across globe

Processed food was invented the first time an animal picked a sodding piece of fruit fruit off a tree. Time to drop this daft line of cancer clickbait. www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

Considering the foul bigotry and hate that gets batted away as 'banter' when exposed to public disgust... why don't we just illegalise 'banter'? This 'banter' seems to be something only scumbags and WWII pilots indulge in.

So embarrassing, I find it impossible to eat a sugary doughnut without licking your lips.

You know what they say, if it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, ask it how it feels.