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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Lucinda Locketts, Twitter
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Mini-x2, readytogo.net
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Slothy Matt, Twitter
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Aaron, comedy.co.uk
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Len Firewood, Twitter
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Whoiscuriousgeorge, Youtube
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Patrick Kavanagh, Guardian.co.uk
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Pudabaya, beexcellenttoeachother.com
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Visualiser1, Twitter
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Lee Mack, Mack The Life, 2012
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Richard Herring, Comedian
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John Robins, Comedian
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Alex Quarmby, Edfringe.com
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Someoneyoudon'tknow, Chortle.com
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Aiden Hearn, Twitter
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98rosjon, Twitter
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Contrapuntal, Twitter
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James Dellingpole, Daily Telegraph
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Genghis McKahn, Guardian.co.uk
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Anon, BBC Complaints Log
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Etienne, Chortle.com
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Wharto15, Twitter
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Zombie Hamster, Twitter
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Pirate Crocodile, Twitter
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Tweeter Kyriakou, Twitter
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Pnethor, pne-online.com
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Borathigh5, Youtube
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Shane, Beverley, Dailymail.co.uk
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Frankie Boyle, Comedian
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Kozzy06, Youtube
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Joskins, Leeds Music Forum
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Nicetime, Guardian.co.uk
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Guest, Dontstartmeoff.com
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Ishamayura Byrd, Twitter
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Lenny Darksphere, Twitter
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Anon, dontstartmeoff.com
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Microcuts 22, Twitter
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Dominic Cavendish, Daily Telegraph
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Cojones2, Guardian.co.uk
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Meninblack, Twitter
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Al Murray, Comedian
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BBC iPlayer edition of discussion of Stewart Lee on A Good Read
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Anamatronix, Youtube
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Rowing Rob, Guardian.co.uk
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Joe, Independent.co.uk
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Bobby Bhoy, Twitter
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Peter Ould, Youtube
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Foxfoxton, Youtube
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Tres Ryan, Twitter
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Meanstreetelite, Peoplesrepublicofcork
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Brendon, Vauxhallownersnetwork.co.uk
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Deepbass, Guardian.co.uk
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A D Ward, Twitter
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Anonymous, The Northfield Patriot
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Sweeping Curves, Twitter
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General Lurko 36, Guardian.co.uk
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DVDhth's grandparents, Twitter
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Iain, eatenbymissionaries
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Henry Howard Fun, Twitter
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FBC, finalgear.com
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Secretdeveloper, Youtube
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Esme Folley, Actress, cellist, Twitter
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Alwyn, Digiguide.tv
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12dgdgdgdgdgdg, Youtube
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Keilloh, Twitter
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Tin Frog, Twitter
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Dick Socrates, Twitter
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Gmanthedemon, bbc.co.uk
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Liam Travitt, Twitter