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Tiernan Douieb
@tiernandouieb.bsky.social
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Writer. Comedian. Tired. Rep’d for writing things by @kitsonpresskids.bsky.social and for v/o things by Foxy Tongue Voices
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The BBC should tell Trump their apology is at the end of a replay of Ghost Watch that he has to watch all the way through first.
November 11, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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If you have mini people aged 4-7, there is a lovely new show out today on C5/Milkshake from today called Stan and Gran. It's full of gags and nature facts. Also I wrote some of it, and it's all expertly head written by @howardread.bsky.social. My first ep is out next Monday (its all about worms 🪱🪱🪱)
Stan and Gran - a new animated show for ages 4-7 on C5/Milkshake and Nickelodeon
November 10, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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Blog thingy: tiernandouieb.substack.com/p/unsocial-h...
Director Alex Woo talking about his new film 'In Your Dreams' which is lovely, and how they figured out the main story drive by writing it on a pizza box lid.
November 8, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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I wish I could be there when Elon Musk becomes a trillionaire and goes to call his friends to tell them and realises he doesn’t have any and has to pay a security guy to pretend to be excited for him instead.
November 7, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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NYT says the crowd has gone silent at cuomos party
November 5, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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On this week’s @comedyclub4kids.bsky.social Radio Nonsense podcast @drucripps.bsky.social joins me to talk about sinking ships and aquatic dinosaurs.

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Clockwise from top L: Dru CRIPPS, an aquatic dinosaurs, Radio Nonsense logo and a sunken ship Image: Radio Nonsense logo. Text: If land dinosaurs became birds what did aquatic dinosaurs become? With Dru Cripps Dru Cripps joins the podcast this week to talk about sinking ships and aquatic dinosaurs.  WE NEED YOUR QUESTIONS, JOKES AND NONSENSE TOO. SEND THEM IN TO: podcast@comedyclub4kids.co.uk GROWN UPS: IF YOU CAN BUY US A COFFEE PLEASE DO SO HERE: https://ko-fi.com/comedyclub4kids Website: www.comedyclub4kids.co.uk Bluesky: comedyclub4kids.bsky.social Facebook: facebook.com/ComedyClub4Kids Hosted by Tiernan Douieb. Music by Paddy Gervers. Design by John Beck. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
November 5, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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"The owner of a cafe in an traditional Japanese house that is only open two days a week yet somehow never goes out of business"

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November 2, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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Really very pleased someone is out there delivering this sort of biting journalism at 7.45pm on a Sunday night.
Forensic teams continue their work in Huntingdon published at 19:46 19:46 Alison Earle Reporting from Huntingdon station I’ve just arrived at Huntingdon station and the first thing you notice is how quiet it is. There are very few passers-by and many of the news crews that were reporting on last night’s incident have packed up for the day. Every now and again that quiet is broken by a high-speed train going past. The east coast route is up and running again, although trains are not stopping here. But at the station itself, forensics teams are still at work on the platform and inside the train where the stabbings took place, and in the station car park. That evidence will no doubt form part of the investigation and help to build a picture of how this attack unfolded.
November 2, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Nice that Ofgem are going to cover *checks notes* one person’s bill for last January.
‘Ofgem to write off £500m of energy debt in major relief plan’
October 30, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Suggestion for all TVs: Grandma Mode. Immediately removes motion smoothing, sets the 4:3 settings correctly for vintage repeats, and turns off Dolby surround sound so “you can hear what they’re bloody saying”, but all done with one button push.
October 30, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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This week's Halloween-ish blog: open.substack.com/pub/tiernand...
Pic: The kid's mini pumpkin design. Text: Unsettling Wall Person. Halloween is rubbish when the world is scary 24/7
October 30, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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This year for Halloween I’m dressing up as a person who looks normal on the outside but is actually filled with constant dread.
October 30, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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This is really amateur of him, he could’ve got way more. Prince Andrew has taken millions from the UK and still hasn’t gone yet.
Independent: Deported migrant sex offender given £500 to leave UK Hadush Kebatu, who was wrongly freed from prison instead of being sent to an immigration detention centre, was given the money after threatening to disrupt his deportation to Ethiopia
October 29, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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On this week’s not really a Halloween episode of @comedyclub4kids.bsky.social Radio Nonsense Jorjeana Marie joins me to talk about falling leaves and rubber chickens.

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Clockwise from top L: Jorjeana Marie, a rubber chicken, Radio Nonsense logo, a woven ball of things Radio Nonsense logo. Text: ‘What are rubber chickens? Met for ???!!!! With Jorjeana Marie The not really a Halloween episode, Halloween episode and this week expert leaf reattacher Jorjeana Maria joins Tiernan to answer questions about rubber chickens.  Check out Jorjeana's brilliant puppet youtube kids channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@gopuppetsgo WE NEED YOUR QUESTIONS, JOKES AND NONSENSE TOO. SEND THEM IN TO: podcast@comedyclub4kids.co.uk GROWN UPS: IF YOU CAN BUY US A COFFEE PLEASE DO SO HERE: https://ko-fi.com/comedyclub4kids Website: www.comedyclub4kids.co.uk Bluesky: comedyclub4kids.bsky.social Facebook: facebook.com/ComedyClub4Kids Hosted by Tiernan Douieb. Music by Paddy Gervers. Design by John Beck.
October 29, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
October 28, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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How to say ‘we spoke to a stupid tourist’ without saying ‘we spoke to a stupid tourist’.
A British woman tells the BBC "there's this weird roar... like something's coming", while a Jamaican man says "the winds are so strong you would not be able to stand up"
October 28, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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Loads of cool people and me contributed to this piece, please read and share 👊🏾

Notice the breadth of occupations of the contributors and the range of things selected. I think we're trying to tell you something...

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The Supremes, Marcus Garvey, Tupac Shakur: the cultural figures who inspired our Black History Month panel | Lenny Henry, Zeinab Badawi, Yolanda Brown and others
At the end of Black History Month, our panel reveal the influences that helped them shape their beliefs and identities
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October 25, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast'

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Image of the mechanical ladder outside the Louvre Text below says WENN'S MAL WIEDER SCHNELL GEHEN MUSS (When you need to move fast) Underneath is more German text which translates as "The Böcker Agilo transports your treasures weighing up to 400kg at 42m/min - quiet as a whisper."
October 24, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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This is brilliant! #KidLitUK
theguardian.com The Guardian @theguardian.com · 18d
Booker prize launches £50,000 children’s award
Booker prize launches £50,000 children’s award
Children will help judge the new prize along with children’s laureate Frank Cottrell-Boyce • ‘The Children’s Booker prize will tell kids that they matter’: Frank Cottrell-Boyce The Booker prize foundation has launched a major new literary award, the Children’s Booker prize, offering £50,000 for the best fiction written for readers aged eight to 12. The new award will launch in 2026, with the first winner announced in early 2027. It will be decided by a mixed panel of adult and child judges, a first for a Booker award. The inaugural chair of judges will be Frank Cottrell-Boyce, the children’s author and current children’s laureate. He will be joined by two other adult judges, who will help select a shortlist of eight books before three child judges are recruited to help decide the winner. Continue reading...
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October 24, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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didn't get enough sleep last night and now i'm crying laughing over this
WARNING: 0-3 CHONKING HAZARD Small parts, Not for children under 3 years.
October 23, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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The ‘9 quid for two ice creams’ girls
October 23, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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On this week’s @comedyclub4kids.bsky.social Radio Nonsense unnecessarily angry @watsoncomedian.bsky.social joins me to answer questions about earwax.

Get your kids to listen at: pod.fo/e/3422a1

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Clockwise from top L corner: Mark Watson, ear wax, Radio Nonsense logo, a horse leaping out of a book Radio Nonsense logo Text: How much earwax do I make in a year and what could I use it for? With Mark Watson Unnecessarily angry Mark Watson joins Tiernan this week to talk about ear wax. WE NEED YOUR QUESTIONS, JOKES AND NONSENSE TOO. SEND THEM IN TO: podcast@comedyclub4kids.co.uk GROWN UPS: IF YOU CAN BUY US A COFFEE PLEASE DO SO HERE: https://ko-fi.com/comedyclub4kids Website: www.comedyclub4kids.co.uk Bluesky: comedyclub4kids.bsky.social Facebook: facebook.com/ComedyClub4Kids Hosted by Tiernan Douieb. Music by Paddy Gervers. Design by John Beck.
October 22, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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Darth Vader was an amputee voiced by a black actor. Trump would have sacked him as soon as he could.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21d
Trump: "We have Darth Vader. You know Darth Vader, right? Darth Vader is a man who is sitting -- is that Darth? Stand up please. Does everybody know -- they call him Darth Vader, I call him a fine man. But he's cutting Democrat priorities and they're never gonna get them back."
October 21, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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The main achievement of the tech industry has been increasing the flow of money from people who make or do things to people who already have more money than they could spend in a hundred lifetimes
bjornlarssen.com Bjørn Larssen (he/him) @bjornlarssen.com · 23d
“Average musician makes $12 a month on Spotify. The fact that they are not even able to sell a record and it’s taken from them by rich motherfuckers on streaming platforms who get paid royally by record labels,Ticketmaster, merch companies. They’re all fucking getting paid, except for the musician.”
Garbage’s Shirley Manson Speaks Out Against Music Industry Economics: “This Is An Alarm Call”
Just before they kicked off their current run of dates, the ’90s alt-rock greats Garbage announced that it would be their final North American headline tour. When the band played at Denver’s Mission B...
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October 19, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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It's very trendy for the woke left to mock the police these days, but this is the kind of thing that you and I might miss.
BBC report that police are focussing on a 'ladder placed against the side of the Louvre' while investigation a recent theft from the art gallery.
October 20, 2025 at 8:22 AM