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Gareth Gwynn
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Comedy writer, presenter & producer which sounds like three jobs but these days is nearly one
📺 Tourist Trap
📻 Ankle Tag / Gareth Gwynn Hasn't Fin-
🎙️ I'm So Not Over It (https://pod.fo/e/26fdd9)
🕸️ https://www.garethgwynn.com
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I'm sure they'll correct it but right now, the fact that when you google Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, it describes him as a "Member of the Mountbatten-Windsor", singular, is spot-on.
Results of a Google search. We see the taskbar with AI Mode, All (Highlighted), Images, News, Videos etc. along the top. Then we see "Andrew Mountbatten Windsor" as the headline and the subheading "Member of the Mountbatten-Windsor".
November 3, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Yeah, I know, but that doesn't fit the tune.
Headline reads "Andrew had 40 prostitutes brought into five-star Thai hotel within four days".
November 3, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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(VERY hastily designed) Flyer Reveal!

Obviously I'd love to give you all one in person, but time is of the essence and logistics may not allow - so please print off and fling in a bin at your earliest convenience.
And then come along!

Cyril (WIP)
4pm, 20-24 August, Hotel Indigo York Place (PWYW)
The front of a flyer for an Edinburgh show. There is a colour image of Gareth Gwynn in the centre in a circle. The background is blue, and you can faintly see an elderly man taken from the cover of a book. The text on the flyer reads... Cyril Gwynn 1897-1988 was "a tall sunburnt, unsmiling farmer". Gareth Gwynn 1983-present is none of these things. Gareth Gwynn: Cyril Pay What You Want A work-in-progress show from the writer of Ankle Tag, The News Quiz, The Now Show (BBC Radio 4), Tourist Trap (BBC One Wales) and much more, as heard on... BBC Radio 4 BBC Radio Wales I'm So Not Over It 4pm, 20-24th August Venue 79 - Hotel Indigo York Place 51-59 York Place, EH1 3JD The Hotel Indigo logo is then in the bottom right. Back of the flyer for the same show. There is an image of Gareth on the right. The initial text is similar to the front. The longe blurb reads... Gareth did not spend the First World\nWar in the navy, nor has he ever been shipwrecked, run a farm or tried to emigrate to Australia - but he's found a book of poems by his great-grandfather and is determined to find something they have in common. Gwynn (1983 ed.) has written for The News Quiz, The Now Show and Have I Got News For You. He is the co-writer of Ankle Tag (BBC Radio 4), Tourist Trap (BBC One Wales) and The Goodies: The Big Ben Theory (Audible). On BBC Radio 4 he presented Gareth Gwynn Hasn’t Fin- ("Hilarious" - The Guardian) and is the co-presenter of the multi-award nominated comedy/history podcast I'm So Not Over It. This is a work-in-progress, but some of it is over 80 years old - so it’s safe to say, those bits are run-in. It probably balances out quite nicely. Venue details are the same as on the front of the flyer.
August 19, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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I regret to inform my writer friends that the Best Big Book has been written. You need to make your book smaller or settle for second best. Sorry.
A boy, a girl, a parrot and a dog are on the front of a large 1930s children's book called "The Best Big Book".
August 9, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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@scriblit.bsky.social Is there a prize for the coolest place to spot one of your books? Because I saw two copies of "Wish You Were Here" in this horror/vampire/zombie themed alcove of Addyman's Bookshop in Hay-On-Wye called the BatCave.
An alcove in a bookshop, about the width of a door - and the depth of a cupboard with bookshelves on all sides. Books with titles like "Zombies" and "Macabre Stories" fill the space. A sign hangs from the top saying "BatCave" in red. There is a model of a mouse running along the top. A copy of Gabby's book is visible on one of the shelves on the right.
August 2, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Hmmm, new Ts&Cs for the post just dropped. I dunno about this...
6.3 License to RoyalMail. In order to allow us to operate, provide you with, and improve the Service (and develop new ones), you hereby grant us license to have a little sneaky-peek at your post before we put it through your door. Or parcels. We can open them too. We’ll have a root around, see what’s in there, pop it back in the box and then it’s yours. You’ll still get the stuff, God, obviously, but you’ll be granting us a worldwide transferable sub-licence to copy all the good bits down so we can use them in our own letters. Or we could show them to other people if they’re trying to write a letter too, because let’s be honest, letters are hard and we’re all tired. We might not even copy your letter directly, but just pick-up on the vibes and use that so I don’t even know why you’re going on about it. The processing of personal data is carried out in accordance with our Privacy Policy which means no-one will even know it’s your letter, unless the person writing to you put your address on the top left, like they tell you to do in school, in which case there’s not much we can do and anyway, we’re covered due to something we call the “dweeb tax” (see paragraph 7.3).
July 16, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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It says a lot about AI that I'm working my way through some 100+ year old editions of the Radio Times, read the first paragraph from this advert from 1924 and thought "Bah, they've got to you too".

Also, in para 2, those look like m-dashes to me. Can't be too careful.
Advert for a radio from the Radio Times. Headline: As only an Amplion can do Image: A drawing of a wealthy couple listening through a large, ornate speaker. Text: The broadcast may be A1 and you may have the bst possible receiving set, but without a genuine Amplion, realism is lacking. With an Amplion the actual performance-speech as well as vocal and instrumental music-is brought right into the Home. Prices from Two Guineas.
July 15, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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I can't believe it has taken until 2025 for this to happen - but you can now buy Kenny from South Park's coat. You can't deny, he's a good looking lad with the hood down.
www.paramountshop.co.uk/products/sou...
A man is modelling Kenny from South Park's coat on the Paramount Shop website. He's a male model in a black bucket hat, bright orange coat and orange trousers.
July 9, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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If I can make sense of my late father's handwritten notes in time, it's going to be great! Today's note in question - I need to double-check with my uncle what "Beer - Police - Pig" might mean.
Handwritten notes which read "sailed an oil tankers off the coast of Mexico and South America where he had another lucky escape - beer - police - pig"
July 2, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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"And if you ask your doctor for a weight loss drug and they say yes, you'll hear this noise..."
Vic Reeves at the Shooting Stars desk about to say "Uvavu". The caption reads "Mounjaro".
June 23, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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The surest sign yet that the YouTube recommendation algorithm has completely given up on me.
A screengrab of the YouTube suggestion panel, usually on the right of the screen. It is for a 30 Minute Timer which has had 7.1 million views. The image is just of white text on a black background reading "30:00". The length of the video is 30:09.
May 21, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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I stared at this image for a little bit too long, thinking they'd circled something for our attention.
BBC News headline and image. Headline is "Birmingham declares major incident over bin strike". In the image of piles of rubbish is a discarded, pink basketball hoop which looks like part of the image has been circled for emphasis.
March 31, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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When the group chat has got out of hand but you can't face scrolling back for the details.
From the infamous Signal chat. JD Vance's reply saying "I will say a prayer for victory".
March 26, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Weirdly, I think bad-mouthing Penelope Keith might have been WHSmiths' red line.
Russell Brand's Booky Wool reduced to 50p in the WH Smiths bargain bin (Chiswick, if you're wondering).
March 23, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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POV: You turn up to a radio recording and are the only one with a highlighter.
Promotional photo for the BBC Radio Cymru show "Clonc". In amongst all the microphones and cables the seven cast members are in a line, staring at you, smiling.
March 22, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Mistook this aerial view of Cheddar Gorge for post-apocalyptic EastEnders.
Aerial view of Cheddar Gorge. The road looks weirdly similar to the route of the Thames in the Eastenders title sequence, but with craggy rocks and foliage either side.
March 12, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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Hattie Jaques holding a daffodil in the final scene from Carry On Nurse. For those in the know, she's just pulled it from a man's bum.
March 1, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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I popped some late-1980s items around it so it felt at home.
An M&S jumper, folded. It's mainly dark greens, blacks, dark blues and grey with a variety of different patterns on it. A close up of the St Michael label inside the jumper. The jumper surrounded by items from 1987/88. The Beano Book 1987, The Smiths album "Strangeways Here We Come" and the Public Enemy's "It Takes A Nation Of Millions...", Victoria Wood's book "Barmy", a Viz annual and Screwball Scramble.
February 22, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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Excited about the new improvements to Bluesky.
Image laid out like the announcements of improvements to the Bluesky app. Heading: Bluesky 1998 Subheading: Improvements Burn your favourite posts onto CD-R Solitaire and Spider Solitaire Dark mode for when posting about Princess Diana (And then finally, in a purple, Word-Art style font) "And we've got fucking WordArt lads!"
February 21, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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I'm guessing whoever put this cover together was not old enough to vote on 23rd June 2016.
Hello magazine front cover featuring Holly Willoughby and the headline "Taking Back Control".
February 13, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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Oh wow! I didn't see that one somehow! I did take photos of other eggs while there, because they were all so frighteningly realistic.
A convincing model, made from pvc, of a fry-up in a metal pan - consisting of streaky bacon and two eggs, one of which has yolk pouring out. A knife and fork are somehow suspended, coming out of the dish.
February 10, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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Went to an exhibition in Japan House yesterday dedicated to replica food, only to see the Masked Singer team out on the bloody lash. #maskedsinger
A very realistic PVC model of a crab downing beers.
February 9, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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I've only just seen this headline. Surely the only way Kay Burley can be compared to Liz Truss is if one of them was travelling near the speed of light.
Telegraph headline: Farewell Kay Burley, TV's answer to Liz Truss.
February 7, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Quick reminder that Google's 1998 mission statement was to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.
Google's AI Overview informing me of the following: "In 1466, Prince Philip visited the Falkland Islands and Dependencies on the Royal Yacht Britannia. During his visit, he visited the government station at King Edward Point, the cemetery, and the beach. He also watched fin whales being flensed and visited the grave of Sir Ernest Shackleton."
February 3, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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My favourite bit about the International Year Of The Potato website is what happens to the header when you click "Hey, Kids!"
Screengrab of the website for the International Year Of The Potato 2008. A header has the nam of the website. There is a banner of pages to click on (The Year, The Potato, Potato World, Hey Kids, etc). The left hand side has links to articles about the Root Crops Symposium, New Light On A Hidden Treasure and Beyond 2008. The right hand column featres a small vido and links to other parts of the website. In the centre, a topless man wearing jeans looks amazed at a collection of glowing potatoes. Screengrab of the website for the International Year Of The Potato 2008. This time I've clicked on "Hey Kids" and a cartoon potato wearing a baseball hat has appeared in the header. There is a photo of children holding potatoes. A header says "Potato Facts" and you can click on questions to reveal answers. Question one is "Who are these kids and why are they smiling?"
January 29, 2025 at 1:13 PM