Jo dB

“Make more comedy!”

“Ooh, this comedy is popular”

“No! That’s the wrong sort of comedy!”

A breed of comedy fan in a nutshell.

Completely.

Just reminding myself that this brilliant test series has been made more brilliant by the British supporters of both teams and joyful to see the family and friendship groups wearing both shirts next to each other.

Fuck Tebbit and the bastards of today he spawned.

Ombudsman and Ombudsmanability.

First time Power Station have had a play on television since July 1985.

Isn’t cricket boring? #TheCricket

Must have had a good sleep. I seem to have woken up in late October.

This is a fantastic listen and we should put @athenakugblenu.bsky.social in charge of television immediately.

I own this record.

The replies to this post, even on here, even moreso on X, are so depressing to me. We live in a world where cities have never been safer and a minority of people are denying themselves a lot of delightful experiences because they’ve gone mad online.

Oh you and your rational, drama-free solutions.

Cover of Rebecca Goss poetry collection all set in Suffolk, Latch.

Thanks to Frank Skinner’s poetry podcast, I’m #nowreading

Kermode hated it too.

It did feel like moral superiority gone mad.

I was open-mouthed just reading it.

I know Bluesky has more than it’s fair share of purity scolds but I’ve just seen a dead person taken to task for a guest at their actual own funeral.

I’m delighted. I gave up after about five episodes, and then I got FOMO at all the hate watching but now I know there’s a finite number of episodes, I can dive in.

BBC Proms - 2025 - Rachmaninov and Copland - BBC Sounds The BBC Philharmonic Orchestra with Joshua Weilerstein and Martin Fröst.

And I didn’t expect to enjoy this Prom as much as I did. A day of aural surprises. The first half encore is wonderful too.

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Henry IV and V obviously. The great Ted Willis too, almost too prolific in that I’m not sure what would stand out for him…

Desert Island Discs - Monica Dolan, actor - BBC Sounds Monica Dolan, actor, shares the soundtrack of her life with Lauren Laverne.

I rarely enjoy Desert Island Discs when the interviewee clearly has little or no interest in music, but I did enjoy Monica Dolan because she’s just so brilliant at the old acting and she’s refreshingly unsentimental and straightforward.

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How to save a London caff London's favourite greasy spoon plans to go global. Is it such a bad idea?

My newsletter this week is about precarious London caffs.

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We stood up and cheered when we saw that. Also Madame Butter Pies is one of the great gags.

A butter pie round here, lad, and bloody better than any Yorkshire pie.

Social media post from Ribble Valley Police making a point of telling us a criminal in Downham (lovely village, where they filmed Whistle Down The Wind) was from just over the border. BLOODY YORKSHIRE.

Enjoying the local police force making a point of highlighting the REAL crime in this…🌹

Wow

Can’t be as bad as the music, surely?

I think it’s only the over 18s who are interested in my bunions and arthritic ankles.

Not now, I’m trying to listen to the online men kicking off about having to provide ID to have a wank over a stranger on the internet.

Can tell you by my deep research*, they are saying that lefties will only show pride in country when it’s women and lesbians involved. I kid you not.

*my family member (not blood) extremist and my best friend’s racist brother. Sample size: 2.

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