To be fair, in comedy it doesn’t help much to have a bad one either, cos they’ve already fucked up the room in a different way.
All any of us want is competence. 😉

You’ve clearly never worked in stand-up.

Worked for Baldrick. 🎯

Do you remember the part Keith Allen played in ‘A Very British Coup?’ And Ray McNally’s PM’s absolute insistence he needed someone like him.

Basically, what I’m saying is Keir Starmer needs to employ Keith Allen.

Interesting definition. 🤔

You thought a garage couldn’t sink?
Wait til you’ve been Graylinged!

I’ve just reached the ‘Epstein’ chapters of ‘Entitled’ about the Yorks, which I started reading as a guilty pleasure, but is now simply making me feel slightly unwell. Like binging on The Mail online at a Bullingdon Club lunch.
Really not sure if I would recommend or not.

This does rather presuppose the idea Grayling was capable of charging a phone in the first place.
It’s more like finding the starting crank for an old motor car amongst your phone chargers and wondering what on earth it’s doing in there.
(Before it inexplicably explodes & sinks your garage.)

(And yes, that was my opening gag. 😁)

If I’d ordered a martini in a Travelodge I’d be the one at fault. My bedroom in this place is bigger than my first flat. No, scrub that. The bathroom. 🤷‍♂️🤣

Because he’s working in a rather wanky hotel and when I went to ask him before my show if he would be able to make me a martini afterwards he very cockily said ‘I can make whatever you want’.
I am staying in what looks like a nice place but is massively style over substance. He was just one example.

Temper Wolf: OH. SO YOU WANT A BIT MORE FROM THR DIAPHRAGM DO YOU? YEAH? YEAHHH? OWWOOOOOOOOetc

(Superbly written though. Gripping, tense and thoroughly believable. Well done that man. Obviously.)

How ON EARTH is a black trans lesbian dwarf going to carry off such a complex & demanding role?

This WOKE MADNESS, involving a fictional actor I have furiously made up, is RUINING British cinema, not to mention Britain itself and all its dominions, colonies, protectorates, tributaries & mandates.

Exactly what I thought when I read the article. I mean being both ‘charming’ and monstrous are hardly incompatible. And NOT loving your kids is surely a fairly charmless position…

(PLEASE send this to Elon to see if he gets it. Just add a couple of swastikas and a meme of Tommy Yaxley-Hooligan beating up Keir Starmer to make sure he reads it.)

Oh COME ON Alex! Give the man a break. What are you? GREEK??? 🤪

Yeah. I was going to say - the story is every bit as much about the simpering idiocy of his sycophants as it is about the Emperor’s foolishness. The retinue are, if anything, worse.
(Even more so in this case, because a lot of them are not stupid. They are fully aware the ‘boss’ is naked.)

Isn’t it simply a self-consciously clever way of saying ‘The French House’ without understanding the history of the pub, the Huguenots or the fact it is still, um, open?
(But discourages dickheads. Which may explain why our learnéd correspondent remains unable to ‘get a decent drink’ there.)