Tony

Never is a long time but I’m glad to hear it nonetheless and I hope all of comics follows

That's funny (not in a ha-ha stand up way), I thought the headlines focussed on whitewashing the human rights' abuses, inequality and state censorship in comedy

A TV guide listing The Repair Shop 8pm BBC One The season finale climaxes with a helmet

Wow, they've really had to go in a different direction since the host was arrested, eh? 👀

For a non-American, what actually is section 10 of the US code. Because 'The US code' is a very ambiguous term so I dunno what to look up

Ah I see, they want to kill our business and we have to help them.

Shouldn't the focus be on the care provided rather than pay? 👀

Weirdo British view, I guess

One of my favourite artists played my favourite song by him, having omitted it on his previous three shows, and dedicated it to me at the gig because I tweeted him

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Imagining Dennis Taylor sat down with an SAE filling in a form and popping a tape in the post

David Davis standing between two women wearing t-shirts that read: it's DD for me

Very surprised to see that the Tory pledge to scrap stamp duty would only apply to primary residences and so won't benefit multiple home owners. Although I suspect loopholes will be forthcoming #CPC25

'Reform promising free beer tomorrow. Jeremy Corbyn promising free jam. Lib Dems promising free lentils.'

Conservatives promising no stamp duty #CPC25

Who could have seen this coming(?)

Oh yes, everyone

It doesn't quite fit into the category but any excuse to mention it:

John Major's dad was a Victorian music hall entertainer

This morning I turned on my phone only to find that it had changed my user name to Shirley, and when I tried to enter a simple Google query it came out as "Do you like gladiator movies?"

Then I realised it was in Airplane! mode.

Was that meant to be pin break-up? The ref didn't look confident making that third count, so presuambly the announcer was thrown?

the wave of weaponized nostalgia for 90s-style multiculturalism and political correctness is gonna hit different

The association of stylised directors as 'true directors' has made a lot of people mistake director of photography with director, as if the director doesn't also work with the actors to dictate/negotiate acting styles, character motivations, dialogue delivery, physical expression etc

Can we just get Derren Brown to build a fake 10 Downing Street and hypnotise Kemi and Farage into thinking they've won a general election for a Channel 4 special?

Talking of the Covid pandemic, she says 2,000 people a day were being signed onto sickness benefits - calling it a "national tragedy". Now, "5,000 new people are signing on every single day," she adds.

Maybe do a little critical analysis there, Kemi and figure out what poverty and sickness begets #CPC25

Way too colourful and appealing for pre-1980s Britain, shurely(?)

It's a shit business

a man in a suit and tie is dancing in a room . Alt: a man in a suit and tie is dancing in a room .

People who use the phrase Overton window...

Obligatory Jenny Nicholson Tweet

'Hi Dave, yes I know we have the kind of hatred for each other that would burn a thousand suns but I wondered if you wanted to bury the hatchet by climbing Mount Everest together?'

Tome?

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

John "The Baptist" Cena

It's a hard sell, but my father-in-law can't hear films that well but his eyes aren't strong enough for subtitles.

He's bought a bluetooth audio splitter so that the TV can still broadcast sound but he can also use headphones to listen. It's really helped.