Julia Raeside
@jnraeside.bsky.social
📚Don’t Make Me Laugh out NOW.
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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...
This is fascinating. Macbeth witches not originally old hags at all.
So, the witches in Macbeth may be a later reworking by playwright Thomas Middleton. Someone who attended the play in 1611 described 3 'beautiful' "feiries or Nimiphes," not “filthy hags”. Holinshed's Chronicles, Shakespeare's source, also describes 3 "creatures of the elderwood.. nymphs or fairies"
November 14, 2025 at 10:06 AM
This is fascinating. Macbeth witches not originally old hags at all.
Re Unbound/Boundless, it’s a question worth repeating. The money they lost belonged to other people. Other people who did NOT sign up to gamble on AI.
Still not something any of the news coverage has tackled. Publishers go under due to unwise spending and investments, but the money they are investing is their own. Not mine, and other people’s, whose funds they were supposed to be holding in escrow.
If a solicitor did that, they’d be in prison.
If a solicitor did that, they’d be in prison.
November 14, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Re Unbound/Boundless, it’s a question worth repeating. The money they lost belonged to other people. Other people who did NOT sign up to gamble on AI.
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They are really going for the "Well, ACTUALLY..." defence
November 13, 2025 at 8:48 AM
They are really going for the "Well, ACTUALLY..." defence
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Fine, I will write the next James Bond.
INT: SEX CASINO, NIGHT
BOND: Hello I am Bond James Bond my car goes NYOOM
CUT TO: ten minutes of a chase in a sports car
BOND: Also my watch is a special watch that makes ladies blouses see through
EXPLOSION
BOND: This film is for grown ups
INT: SEX CASINO, NIGHT
BOND: Hello I am Bond James Bond my car goes NYOOM
CUT TO: ten minutes of a chase in a sports car
BOND: Also my watch is a special watch that makes ladies blouses see through
EXPLOSION
BOND: This film is for grown ups
November 11, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Fine, I will write the next James Bond.
INT: SEX CASINO, NIGHT
BOND: Hello I am Bond James Bond my car goes NYOOM
CUT TO: ten minutes of a chase in a sports car
BOND: Also my watch is a special watch that makes ladies blouses see through
EXPLOSION
BOND: This film is for grown ups
INT: SEX CASINO, NIGHT
BOND: Hello I am Bond James Bond my car goes NYOOM
CUT TO: ten minutes of a chase in a sports car
BOND: Also my watch is a special watch that makes ladies blouses see through
EXPLOSION
BOND: This film is for grown ups
Coming this Friday, the brilliant actor Stephen Oswald joins me to talk about his favourite moment in the Hammer House of Horror series. Can you guess from the picture? #BoxOfDelights #podcast
November 10, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Coming this Friday, the brilliant actor Stephen Oswald joins me to talk about his favourite moment in the Hammer House of Horror series. Can you guess from the picture? #BoxOfDelights #podcast
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FUN FACT: Sir Charles Curran was forced to resign as Director-General after Pyramids of Mars implied Sutekh, god of violence, was bad.
November 10, 2025 at 8:12 AM
FUN FACT: Sir Charles Curran was forced to resign as Director-General after Pyramids of Mars implied Sutekh, god of violence, was bad.
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Me, giggling like a goblin, strapping myself into the BBC Boss chair, commissioning non-celeb sitcom & sketch show after another. High concept narrative comedies by women! 100 shows with writers rooms! Tell whatever celeb blokes are doing a travel show they can make their own way back from Bordeaux!
November 9, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Me, giggling like a goblin, strapping myself into the BBC Boss chair, commissioning non-celeb sitcom & sketch show after another. High concept narrative comedies by women! 100 shows with writers rooms! Tell whatever celeb blokes are doing a travel show they can make their own way back from Bordeaux!
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"We were always told comedians are often sad or depressed – but if you meet many male stand-ups in real life they are really angry"
@jnraeside.bsky.social in Metro about her brilliant debut novel, Don't Make Me Laugh, and the scene that inspired it.
metro.co.uk/2025/11/09/i...
@jnraeside.bsky.social in Metro about her brilliant debut novel, Don't Make Me Laugh, and the scene that inspired it.
metro.co.uk/2025/11/09/i...
'I wrote a book about toxic male comedians - they hate not being in control'
‘Stand-up comedy is probably the worst profession within showbusiness when it comes to male behaviour.'
metro.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 11:27 AM
"We were always told comedians are often sad or depressed – but if you meet many male stand-ups in real life they are really angry"
@jnraeside.bsky.social in Metro about her brilliant debut novel, Don't Make Me Laugh, and the scene that inspired it.
metro.co.uk/2025/11/09/i...
@jnraeside.bsky.social in Metro about her brilliant debut novel, Don't Make Me Laugh, and the scene that inspired it.
metro.co.uk/2025/11/09/i...
Thanks to Metro for the interview about my @cwip.bsky.social short-listed novel Don’t Make Me Laugh.
'I wrote a book about toxic male comedians - they hate not being in control'
‘Stand-up comedy is probably the worst profession within showbusiness when it comes to male behaviour.'
metro.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Thanks to Metro for the interview about my @cwip.bsky.social short-listed novel Don’t Make Me Laugh.
Had a go on a red carpet (brown floor). Delighted by the results. That photographer did some wizardry.
November 5, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Had a go on a red carpet (brown floor). Delighted by the results. That photographer did some wizardry.
Lovely times at the @cwip.bsky.social awards last night. Just so stoked to have been on a shortlist with such amazing people.
November 4, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Lovely times at the @cwip.bsky.social awards last night. Just so stoked to have been on a shortlist with such amazing people.
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"Threats on the phone, threats to my child... packages at my house."
Epstein survivor Anouska De Georgiou describes her experience since waiving her right to anonymity in 2019 - insisting she will not be silenced.
#Newsnight
Epstein survivor Anouska De Georgiou describes her experience since waiving her right to anonymity in 2019 - insisting she will not be silenced.
#Newsnight
November 4, 2025 at 12:29 PM
"Threats on the phone, threats to my child... packages at my house."
Epstein survivor Anouska De Georgiou describes her experience since waiving her right to anonymity in 2019 - insisting she will not be silenced.
#Newsnight
Epstein survivor Anouska De Georgiou describes her experience since waiving her right to anonymity in 2019 - insisting she will not be silenced.
#Newsnight
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Add in the fact that narcissism is designed to defend against anyone seeing it’s an act - furiously denying anyone access to the twisted little core - and that it precludes self examination for the narcissist themselves, and it’s swimming-with-sharks time.
November 3, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Add in the fact that narcissism is designed to defend against anyone seeing it’s an act - furiously denying anyone access to the twisted little core - and that it precludes self examination for the narcissist themselves, and it’s swimming-with-sharks time.
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We should teach our kids this stuff like we do road safety.
(And to identify the behaviour in the first place. A narcissist is not what most people think - in the colloquial sense - and they’re all much the same, the boring little boilerplate toxic toddlers.)
(And to identify the behaviour in the first place. A narcissist is not what most people think - in the colloquial sense - and they’re all much the same, the boring little boilerplate toxic toddlers.)
How to deal with a narcissist. I hadn’t heard about this until yesterday. There’s some interesting data behind these titles and definitely worth reading up about it.
November 3, 2025 at 7:33 AM
We should teach our kids this stuff like we do road safety.
(And to identify the behaviour in the first place. A narcissist is not what most people think - in the colloquial sense - and they’re all much the same, the boring little boilerplate toxic toddlers.)
(And to identify the behaviour in the first place. A narcissist is not what most people think - in the colloquial sense - and they’re all much the same, the boring little boilerplate toxic toddlers.)
Had a brilliant day in Berkhamsted today, doing the book festival with Jenny Evans and Robin Ince. Really engaged crowd.
November 2, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Had a brilliant day in Berkhamsted today, doing the book festival with Jenny Evans and Robin Ince. Really engaged crowd.
I hate Virgin WiFi really a lot.
November 1, 2025 at 5:41 PM
I hate Virgin WiFi really a lot.
Our WiFi is down and we will struggle to watch Strictly on 5G. Ho hum.
November 1, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Our WiFi is down and we will struggle to watch Strictly on 5G. Ho hum.
Spooky listening thread for Halloween. 🎃
Comfort Blanket Halloween selection.
@dannyrobins.bsky.social, contemporary king of the spooky red anorak, talks about Nic Roeg’s haunting masterpiece Don’t Look Now.
pod.link/1614879928/e...
@dannyrobins.bsky.social, contemporary king of the spooky red anorak, talks about Nic Roeg’s haunting masterpiece Don’t Look Now.
pod.link/1614879928/e...
October 31, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Spooky listening thread for Halloween. 🎃
Me talking about my favourite film.
More Halloween-appropriate Comfort Blanket fun.
Here’s @jnraeside.bsky.social talking about Ealing’s unbeatable portmanteau spookfest Dead of Night.
pod.link/1614879928/e...
Here’s @jnraeside.bsky.social talking about Ealing’s unbeatable portmanteau spookfest Dead of Night.
pod.link/1614879928/e...
October 30, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Me talking about my favourite film.
Coming up tomorrow, author Hattie Williams relives the trauma of Angel’s death in Buffy. #BoxOfDelights
October 30, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Coming up tomorrow, author Hattie Williams relives the trauma of Angel’s death in Buffy. #BoxOfDelights
Amazing that, even now, we’re still nodding and buying the ‘sex addiction’ thing from men who absolutely cannot go without sticking their dick in another person. It sounds like something a child would make up.
October 26, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Amazing that, even now, we’re still nodding and buying the ‘sex addiction’ thing from men who absolutely cannot go without sticking their dick in another person. It sounds like something a child would make up.
October 24, 2025 at 4:55 PM
NEW EPISODE: today the author Kate Weston tells me about the trauma she suffered watching Gemma touch the dodgy plug on Byker Grove. Search Box of Delights wherever you get your podcasts. 📺
October 24, 2025 at 9:24 AM
NEW EPISODE: today the author Kate Weston tells me about the trauma she suffered watching Gemma touch the dodgy plug on Byker Grove. Search Box of Delights wherever you get your podcasts. 📺
This is a curious one. Sometimes the thing writes itself.
Reading @jnraeside.bsky.social's latest substack and I was instantly transported back about 40-odd years to the time where I had a small white portable black and white telly in the bedroom that I used to use a mini snooker cue on to change the channels. juliaraeside.substack.com/p/shes-writt...
She's written this now
What happens next will stun you.
juliaraeside.substack.com
October 24, 2025 at 9:23 AM
This is a curious one. Sometimes the thing writes itself.
After the Unbound shit show in which we lost a lot more than “some money”, I’m so delighted that Joel will get to relaunch his brilliant book - Be Funny or Die - next year in paperback. E-book will be out soon for those studying it on media courses, but the PB will be mega.
Good news!
Be Funny Or Die - How Comedy Works And Why It Matters - will live again.
E-book out soon. We should be able to turn that around pretty fast, fingers crossed.
Then a new revised edition, in paperback, with additional material. Which is exciting…
WATCH THIS SPACE.
Be Funny Or Die - How Comedy Works And Why It Matters - will live again.
E-book out soon. We should be able to turn that around pretty fast, fingers crossed.
Then a new revised edition, in paperback, with additional material. Which is exciting…
WATCH THIS SPACE.
a man in a suit and tie is smiling and says space !
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is smiling and says space !
media.tenor.com
October 24, 2025 at 7:52 AM
After the Unbound shit show in which we lost a lot more than “some money”, I’m so delighted that Joel will get to relaunch his brilliant book - Be Funny or Die - next year in paperback. E-book will be out soon for those studying it on media courses, but the PB will be mega.