Catching up with the latest Good One pod with comedian @jayjurden.bsky.social : a thoughtful discussion about the Riyadh Comedy Festival and how comedians help launder the reputation of an oppressive regime while staining their own:
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Tremendous digging by @jayirichardson.bsky.social and @chortle.bsky.social

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Revealed: The review website secretly owned by a Fringe publicist. Story @chortle.bsky.social : www.chortle.co.uk/news/2025/08... #EdFringe

What a great photo! It’s so important this history is unearthed – proud of what the community trust is doing
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Can any Hatters confirm these signatures I just found in an old library copy of The Luton Town Story (I think it’s Rob Johnson, Ricky Hill and David Preece – but could be Pleat)?

He makes himself big

Very sad to see Rob Edwards leave Luton. But congratulations to Mikel Arteta who is now the most handsome manager in football

Clock set for an extra hour of insomnia

It's publication day for my new novel, JULIA, a retelling of Orwell's 1984, and as basically never happens, today it got a long rave review in the Washington Post.
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Victor and Barry are the epitome of ‘big in the 80s’. Annoyingly, they were also a little big in the first bit of the 90s too, so that phrase doesn’t really pan out very satisfactorily.

They wrote a book all about it that can be pre-ordered now!: linktr.ee/404ink

Cover by Luke Bird

I wrote an article about Brand & rape culture in the comedy industry over 10 years ago, I was hounded even back then by his distraught fan boys. Once the fuss died down I decided to quietly removed it to protect myself. It was too terrifying.

Whatever Dispatches have, it won’t be the half of it

What number is ‘an obscene amount of high profile comedians’?