Julia Raeside
@jnraeside.bsky.social
📚Don’t Make Me Laugh out NOW.
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🗞️ 📻 iPaper, Times, Guardian, BBC radio. Shortlisted for CWIP Prize 2025.
Presents @boxdelightspod.bsky.social
Agent: @charlotteatyeo.bsky.social
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🗞️ 📻 iPaper, Times, Guardian, BBC radio. Shortlisted for CWIP Prize 2025.
Presents @boxdelightspod.bsky.social
Agent: @charlotteatyeo.bsky.social
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Julia Raeside
@jnraeside.bsky.social
· Feb 10
The comedy scene is stuffed with toxic men — so I wrote a novel about them
Don’t Make Me Laugh is about predatory men in the British comedy industry — the author wasn’t lacking for real-life inspiration
www.thetimes.com
My piece in tomorrow’s Times about the toxic men in stand-up comedy. www.thetimes.com/culture/come...
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You can follow the tradition of leaving it up till Candlemas in February 😀🎄
www.english-heritage.org.uk/christmas/le...
www.english-heritage.org.uk/christmas/le...
Why you should leave up your Christmas decorations until February
To bring cheer to the winter months, follow medieval tradition and keep your Christmas decorations up until 2 February
www.english-heritage.org.uk
January 6, 2026 at 9:12 AM
You can follow the tradition of leaving it up till Candlemas in February 😀🎄
www.english-heritage.org.uk/christmas/le...
www.english-heritage.org.uk/christmas/le...
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Before we adopted the Gregorian Calendar, today would’ve been Christmas Day.
January 6, 2026 at 9:14 AM
Before we adopted the Gregorian Calendar, today would’ve been Christmas Day.
Taking the tree down in the midst of icy January is obviously stupid. The Pagan lighting up of the dark is the whole point of winter festivals. Trees are Victorian, not an ancient tradition but what they represent is ancient. My internal debate continues. The tree may still be up at day’s end.
January 6, 2026 at 9:08 AM
Taking the tree down in the midst of icy January is obviously stupid. The Pagan lighting up of the dark is the whole point of winter festivals. Trees are Victorian, not an ancient tradition but what they represent is ancient. My internal debate continues. The tree may still be up at day’s end.
@alicatterall.bsky.social did you see?! 😍📽️🎞️
I saw Scala!!!, a thrillingly hilarious documentary about the wild story of London's Scala cinema, and loved it so much that I had to write my own love letter to my own much-missed offbeat arthouse cultural and spiritual cinematic home...
timworthington.org/2024/01/08/t...
timworthington.org/2024/01/08/t...
There Was Always Something Different
You might not have been to the Scala Cinema – but you will almost certainly have been somewhere that made you feel the same way,,,
timworthington.org
January 6, 2026 at 9:03 AM
@alicatterall.bsky.social did you see?! 😍📽️🎞️
Joel’s doing a short podcasting course online. 🎧 🎙️
NEW COURSE! NEW COURSE!
I'm doing a new short 'how not to make a shit podcast' course, because people have asked. Shortcuts and tips for making fun microbudget pods, from a decade of experience.
Two Zoom sessions in early February.
Sign up on the website.
www.gralefrit.co.uk/podcast-cour...
I'm doing a new short 'how not to make a shit podcast' course, because people have asked. Shortcuts and tips for making fun microbudget pods, from a decade of experience.
Two Zoom sessions in early February.
Sign up on the website.
www.gralefrit.co.uk/podcast-cour...
January 5, 2026 at 6:13 PM
Joel’s doing a short podcasting course online. 🎧 🎙️
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Did NO ONE else hear Ellie say “secret Traitor” in her last interview? They say “Traitor”. The faithfuls don’t know there’s a “secret” one and they wouldn’t use that phrase because it’s superfluous. Traitors are secret. Ellie is the secret Traitor. #Traitors
January 3, 2026 at 9:12 PM
Did NO ONE else hear Ellie say “secret Traitor” in her last interview? They say “Traitor”. The faithfuls don’t know there’s a “secret” one and they wouldn’t use that phrase because it’s superfluous. Traitors are secret. Ellie is the secret Traitor. #Traitors
I’ve had the most amazing debut publication year. Now working on book two but please add #DontMakeMeLaugh to your TBR pile if you’re interested in the many trials/investigations of comedians guaranteed to be in the news a lot again this year. #MeToo #BookSky Out now in paperback.
January 2, 2026 at 10:52 PM
I’ve had the most amazing debut publication year. Now working on book two but please add #DontMakeMeLaugh to your TBR pile if you’re interested in the many trials/investigations of comedians guaranteed to be in the news a lot again this year. #MeToo #BookSky Out now in paperback.
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It’s weird that the far right could get completely unsuitable people elected by generating hysteria around an imaginary elite child trafficking ring, but a real one (involving that same guy) or a billionaire who’s running an AI child porn generating site is probably not worth making a fuss about.
January 2, 2026 at 1:25 PM
It’s weird that the far right could get completely unsuitable people elected by generating hysteria around an imaginary elite child trafficking ring, but a real one (involving that same guy) or a billionaire who’s running an AI child porn generating site is probably not worth making a fuss about.
If you are feeling blue, watch any of the BBC GHOSTS Christmas specials on the iPlayer. Absolutely perfect, every one. 😍
December 31, 2025 at 3:07 PM
If you are feeling blue, watch any of the BBC GHOSTS Christmas specials on the iPlayer. Absolutely perfect, every one. 😍
Thanks to all the good’uns who supported the book this year. I have loved 2025 a lot. #DontMakeMeLaugh #BookSky
December 31, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Thanks to all the good’uns who supported the book this year. I have loved 2025 a lot. #DontMakeMeLaugh #BookSky
They’ve got the number wrong. The number is WRONG.
Oral history of ‘Knowing Me, Knowing Yule…with Alan Partridge,’ now 30!My contribution is me saying I can’t remember very much from then because I had a terrible head cold at the time and just wanted to go to bed. www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...
Knowing Me, Knowing Yule at 30: ‘You can trace a lot of it back to Noel Edmonds’
To mark the special Alan Partridge episode turning 30, Simon Bland chats to Armando Iannucci, Patrick Marber, Rebecca Front and more about the making of a Christmas classic
www.independent.co.uk
December 30, 2025 at 10:24 AM
They’ve got the number wrong. The number is WRONG.
Reviewed last night’s festive ep of The Good Ship Murder. When you consider the state of tv commissioning at the moment, I struggle to understand money being spent on something this actually terrible.
A three-year-old could solve The Good Ship Murder's mystery
I can't tell if Shayne Ward's cruise ship-based drama is supposed to be satirical or not
inews.co.uk
December 28, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Reviewed last night’s festive ep of The Good Ship Murder. When you consider the state of tv commissioning at the moment, I struggle to understand money being spent on something this actually terrible.
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Happy Christmas to everyone who listened to or supported any of our podcasts this year.
Lots more to come in the New Year.
Now, to deal with the excess of unwanted Quality Street flavours by starting a set of colour coded local amnesty bins.
Lots more to come in the New Year.
Now, to deal with the excess of unwanted Quality Street flavours by starting a set of colour coded local amnesty bins.
December 24, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Happy Christmas to everyone who listened to or supported any of our podcasts this year.
Lots more to come in the New Year.
Now, to deal with the excess of unwanted Quality Street flavours by starting a set of colour coded local amnesty bins.
Lots more to come in the New Year.
Now, to deal with the excess of unwanted Quality Street flavours by starting a set of colour coded local amnesty bins.
Looking at the Christmas vinyl display at Rough Trade and underneath the Vince Guaraldi and Phil Spector was a square box containing a jigsaw of the cover of Nevermind, and for a minute I thought there was a Nirvana Christmas LP.
December 24, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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BREAKING TRAVEL NEWS: Anyone going to the Feast of Stephen this evening should be aware that the Snowlay Roundabout has been closed.
December 23, 2025 at 6:14 PM
BREAKING TRAVEL NEWS: Anyone going to the Feast of Stephen this evening should be aware that the Snowlay Roundabout has been closed.
Last-minute shopping for that friend or relative who always dates charismatic arseholes? Buy them this. #CreepActually
December 23, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Last-minute shopping for that friend or relative who always dates charismatic arseholes? Buy them this. #CreepActually
A happy winter solstice to all.
December 21, 2025 at 12:10 PM
A happy winter solstice to all.
If you’re in a Box of Delights frame of mind, listen to this 2-parter I recorded with the brilliant Sophie Harris about the classic children’s series. 🎄
shows.acast.com/boxofdelight...
shows.acast.com/boxofdelight...
December 21, 2025 at 10:07 AM
If you’re in a Box of Delights frame of mind, listen to this 2-parter I recorded with the brilliant Sophie Harris about the classic children’s series. 🎄
shows.acast.com/boxofdelight...
shows.acast.com/boxofdelight...
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Trying to explain to my wife why the name Tond is now terrifying to me and you must not mock Tond
December 21, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Trying to explain to my wife why the name Tond is now terrifying to me and you must not mock Tond
Thanks to whoever told me about this. Cock-a-hoop.
December 20, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Thanks to whoever told me about this. Cock-a-hoop.
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Breaking: Autistic community preemptively rejects David Walliams
June 12, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Breaking: Autistic community preemptively rejects David Walliams
If you’re going on a Christmas walk today, plug in and take this with you. Zooming back to the top of the charts.
TOND is here, and it’s put the Broken Vell podcast channel back in the top ten!
Thanks to everyone who supports us on patreon.com/brokenveil and everyone who’s listened… especially if they’ve told a friend.
It’s like The Ring. Right? You have to pass it on.
Thanks to everyone who supports us on patreon.com/brokenveil and everyone who’s listened… especially if they’ve told a friend.
It’s like The Ring. Right? You have to pass it on.
December 20, 2025 at 8:30 AM
If you’re going on a Christmas walk today, plug in and take this with you. Zooming back to the top of the charts.
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David Walliams AND the Epstein files? Truly it is a festive double issue bonanza take out the trash Christmas travel chaos Friday
December 19, 2025 at 4:52 PM
David Walliams AND the Epstein files? Truly it is a festive double issue bonanza take out the trash Christmas travel chaos Friday
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🔴 BREAKING: David Walliams has been dropped by his publisher following an investigation by The Telegraph into inappropriate behaviour towards young women.
Read more here ⬇
www.telegraph.co.uk/bluesky-tmg/david-walliams-harper-collins/
Read more here ⬇
www.telegraph.co.uk/bluesky-tmg/david-walliams-harper-collins/
December 19, 2025 at 3:57 PM
🔴 BREAKING: David Walliams has been dropped by his publisher following an investigation by The Telegraph into inappropriate behaviour towards young women.
Read more here ⬇
www.telegraph.co.uk/bluesky-tmg/david-walliams-harper-collins/
Read more here ⬇
www.telegraph.co.uk/bluesky-tmg/david-walliams-harper-collins/