I’d say writing comedy about the ever-shifting opinions of Donald Trump, the Speedy Gonzales of on-the-hoof policymaking, is like playing pin the tail on the donkey, but it’s unfair on donkeys. No donkey ever sexually assaulted someone in a department store changing cubicle. It’s 4.30pm on Wednesday and I’m done. Last week I filed this…
The smelly thoughts of Donald Trump bubble up like brown burps in the sort of bombsite pond Chopper bike-riding children were advised to avoid in 1970s public information films. Do they indicate concrete plans, are they designed to provoke, or do they have no meaning, like the gurgles and gasps that can inadvertently escape from…
Was it really only a month ago that the pole-dancer patron, fridge explorer, Brexit get-doer, model bus maker, sofa-strainer, wall-spaffer, current Daily Mail columnist and former British prime minister Boris Johnson eulogised the inauguration of Donald Trump in the Mail, recounting how, as the “invisible pulse of power surged” from the battered bible into the…
It’s difficult to know whether to set any store by Donald Trump’s bleak and yet also often banal pronouncements, which read as if handfuls of offensive concepts have been tossed into the air by a monkey, read out in whatever order they landed and then made policy. Until it’s clear they can’t work. At which…
To Elon Musk, I say this! To perform one Nazi salute at Donald Trump’s inauguration, while simultaneously offering full support to European neo-Nazis, might be considered a misfortune. To perform two Nazi salutes at Donald Trump’s inauguration, while simultaneously offering full support to European neo-Nazis, begins to look like carelessness. I didn’t write that joke.…
‘Abba, selach ’ethon la nakhru mah h’mon pelalin!” Flood the zone with shit. Police investigators that pore professionally over horrific imagery online have counselling and mental health support. This week I’ve followed the news from Musk’s America for the sake of another supposedly funny Observer column, and no one’s checking to see if I’m coping.…
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Spanner, dontstartmeoff.com
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Bobby Bhoy, Twitter
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Dominic Cavendish, Daily Telegraph
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Guest, Dontstartmeoff.com
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Fairy Pingu, Twitter
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Bosco239, youtube
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Lee Mack, Mack The Life, 2012
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Lents, redandwhitekop.com
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Genghis McKahn, Guardian.co.uk
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Lancethrustworthy, Youtube
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Anon, westhamonline.com
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Frankie Boyle, Comedian
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Henry Howard Fun, Twitter
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12dgdgdgdgdgdg, Youtube
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Carla, St Albans, Dailymail.co.uk
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Yukio Mishima, dontstartmeoff.com
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Alex Quarmby, Edfringe.com
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John Robins, Comedian
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Al Murray, Comedian
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James Dellingpole, Daily Telegraph
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Rowing Rob, Guardian.co.uk
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Wharto15, Twitter
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Rubyshoes, Twitter
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BBC iPlayer edition of discussion of Stewart Lee on A Good Read
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Sweeping Curves, Twitter
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Shit Crit, Twitter
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Shane, Beverley, Dailymail.co.uk
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Len Firewood, Twitter
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Joe, Independent.co.uk
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Patrick Kavanagh, Guardian.co.uk
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Tres Ryan, Twitter
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Iain, eatenbymissionaries
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A D Ward, Twitter
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World Without End, Twitter
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98rosjon, Twitter
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Robert Gavin, Twitter
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Anonymous, The Northfield Patriot
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Richard Herring, Comedian
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Pnethor, pne-online.com
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Deepbass, Guardian.co.uk
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Tweeterkiryakou, Twitter
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Esme Folley, Actress, cellist, Twitter
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Karen Laidlaw, Edfringe. com.
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Microcuts 22, Twitter
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Maninabananasuit, Guardian.co.uk
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Anon, BBC Complaints Log
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Brendon, Vauxhallownersnetwork.co.uk
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General Lurko 36, Guardian.co.uk
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Anon, dontstartmeoff.com
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Jamespearse, Twitter
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Horatio Melvin, Twitter
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Gwaites, Digitalspy
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Stokeylitfest, Twitter
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Gabrielle, Chortle.com
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Liam Travitt, Twitter
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Tin Frog, Twitter
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Coxy, Dontstartmeoff.com
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Meanstreetelite, Peoplesrepublicofcork
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Dominic Cavendish, Telegraph
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Joycey, readytogo.net
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Peter Ould, Youtube
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Fowkes81, Twitter
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Zombie Hamster, Twitter
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Aiden Hearn, Twitter
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Etienne, Chortle.com
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Borathigh5, Youtube
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Tweeter Kyriakou, Twitter
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Joskins, Leeds Music Forum
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Kozzy06, Youtube
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Leach Juice, Twitter
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DVDhth's grandparents, Twitter
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Anonymous, don'tstartmeoff.com
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Ishamayura Byrd, Twitter
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Cabluigi, Guardian.co.uk
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Johnny Kitkat, dontstartmeoff.com
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Z-factor, Twitter.