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writer, freelance contributor to private eye, script editor (Aardman, BBC Children’s, BFI etc). @BAFTA Connect member.

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Sarah Dempster
13 days
✏️Hello! I’ve just finished writing on the current (tremendous) series of R4’s Dead Ringers and am now, quite literally, “available” for all your TV and radio writers’ room needs. Get in touch, as they say, to discuss!✏️
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Happy 7th birthday to the time my parents brought over wine in a plastic box because Mum was “increasingly wary of glass".
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Steve Bannon looks like the guy in a sci-fi movie who gets infected by a deadly space virus but refuses to tell the rest of the crew
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3yo (in bathroom): Mummy, can I put this sticker on Daddy's card? Me (in bed): Yes. 3yo: Will he love it? Me: Yes. http://t.co/TJepUORQwH
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The People’s Nonce, there, dressed as the Woking branch of Hobbycraft
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5 years
Awful politicians and their 1972-1981 Doctor Who counterparts (thread):
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4 years
I hope this email finds you alert.
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Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble, Cunt.
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Hobocop.
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What’s the best insult you’ve ever heard? My favourite: a man in khaki trousers was talking loudly on the bus (in Norwich) and a bloke at the back said “pipe down, Tenko”.
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@SteveDoherty1 21 years ago I reviewed a Meat Loaf gig for a newspaper without attending the gig (I was ill/an idiot). An hour after publication the paper called to inform me that the gig had, in fact, been cancelled. I was sacked. The Sun wrote a piece about it. The headline: “MEAT OAF”.
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A message of hope from the Norwich Extra
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They’re exhuming Thatcher.
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🚨 STAY TUNED 🚨
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Top 6 Adrian Chiles columns: I’ve given up wild swimming. So why does my Volvo smell like mince? £11 for a jar of coffee? I got my forearm stuck in a fruit machine in Powys. I buried my father with my bare hands. It’s time we stopped talking about glamping. 1/2
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The one about flying back from New York to vote in favour of tax credit cuts. ❤️
@OfficialALW
Andrew Lloyd Webber
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With us all spending a bit more time at home, which ALW musical number would you like to see Andrew play? - #TeamALW
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This morning a woman in my Pilates class guffed explosively then turned to the teacher and said, “Sorry, Becky. I’ve just got back from Lowestoft.”
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Apologised to a woman in Primark for bumping into her and my long-suffering 11yo said, “You don’t say sorry in Primark, Mum. It’s not a place of forgiveness.”
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Can’t read “Raab” without hearing Scooby-Doo alerting Shaggy to the presence of a crab.
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Geoff Capes
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Gavin Thomas
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Apparently, if you can see a panda, you're left-brained, and if you can see two turtles swimming, you're right-brained. What do you see?
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Man in park shouting “This is your choice, Peter” at a squatting dachshund.
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@MattHancock I’ve got a tenner on Second Wave in the 1.15pm at Newmarket.
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4 years
DOWN WITH THIS THING SORT OF
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The icing on the cake is the knowledge that inside the helmet is a freshly prepared marmalade sandwich ❤️
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Barry Keoghan’s been in my mum’s garden again
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4 years
Not usually one for conspiracy theories but look closely at the teeth - it’s not her #FakeMelania
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7 years
I replaced the characters in Guess Who? with 24 Norfolk County Council Conservative councillors
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Jacob Rees-Mogg. With your face like a consumptive chimney. Like an abandoned B-road. Like a whittled posset. Like a vertical whisper. Like a spatchcocked flute. Like a hangman’s baguette.
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7yo: I’ve drawn a lovely dog. Me: Brilliant. What’s its name?
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Noel Edmonds: a thread of horror. Carrie (Dir: Brian De Palma, 1976)
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Reich Said Fred
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2 years
Sex with Boris Johnson. Christ. Like being bodyslammed by Great Uncle Bulgaria on a chaise longue.
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i see your mum’s taxi has arrived
@KaptanHindustan
Kaptan Hindustan™
6 months
Foundry truck for moving hot slag/molten metal
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Half Ma’am Half Brisket
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1 year
Like a pencil made of horse.
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@Daily_Express Than what? Sedimentary rock?
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I got chiles They’re multiplying
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Happy 10th birthday to the time my sister-in-law asked her Yr 3 pupils “What would you say if you could talk to a farm animal?” and a boy wrote this -
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Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble, Cunt.
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If the young Michael Gove had been a character in Grange Hill he’d have been trampled to death by the school donkey.
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A stunning tribute to the patron saint of urinary tract infections 🙏🏻❤️
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@realDonaldTrump
Donald J. Trump
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To all of those who have asked, I will not be going to the Inauguration on January 20th.
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Farage up at dawn to welcome the Djokovic family into the U.K. 👍🏻🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
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Well, well, well, if it isn't the consequences of my own actiony wactions.
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Brexit, perused by a Blair.
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4 years
What’s the most hauntingly specific insult you’ve ever received? I once made a joke about Dennis Waterman’s dentures and a man wrote to tell me I was “obviously lonely”.
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@TheFloodDefence A man in khaki trousers was talking loudly on the bus (in Norwich) and a bloke at the back said “pipe down, Tenko”.
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[to the tune of Eleanor Rigby] Jonathan Gullis Eating a platter of cheese while ignoring the grapes Looks like Geoff Capes
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My parents have brought over wine in a plastic box because Mum is "increasingly wary of glass".
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The Advocate
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A Second Gay Congressional Staffer Was Filmed Having Sex in a Capitol Building
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Seems a bit harsh.
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@StefanMolyneux Claw wordlessly at the windows of the local soft play centre like the ghost of a Victorian orphan.
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4 years
Get, and I cannot stress this enough, tae fuck.
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3 months
If eating pickled eggs in a Honda Civic had a face
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7 months
a touching tribute to our saviour, the lord jesus crust
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2 months
A reminder that if the young Michael Gove had been a character in Grange Hill he’d have been trampled to death by the school donkey.
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The power of Crufts compels you.
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Tim Martin looks like what you’d find in the hoover if you accidentally vacuumed Norfolk.
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7 reasons why The Thing (1982) is a Christmas film: 1) snow 2) bearded men concealing surprises 3) compulsory party games 4) introverts shunning group activities 5) digestive issues 6) revellers bursting open to reveal partially assimilated canine lifeforms 7) knitwear
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If eating pickled eggs in a Honda Civic had a face
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feel like pure shit just want fascism back x
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But what if Greta Thunberg was a man? Or an amphibious combat vehicle? What if she was a YORKSHIRE TERRIER and her tights were stuffed with HAMMERS and she was travelling the world to fight CHIPS? What then, eh? WHAT THEN.
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David Quinn
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If a Greta-like teenager was organising school strikes and travelling the world to fight abortion, I wonder what we would make of her and if she would get 1pc of the publicity?
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THAT’S NUMBERWANG #BrexitVote
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4 years
Stop pretending Dr Birx is helpless, or sad, or “struggling with her conscience”. Sitting in uncomfortable silence while Trump bangs on about bleach doesn’t make her a victim. It makes her a complicit sack of shit.
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Still haven’t forgiven him for what he did to Thomas Cromwell.
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There’s an antiques emporium in Norwich of such unfathomable strangeness every visit produces fresh gasps of bewilderment and terror. Today’s finds: 1. Mounted photo print of depressed steam train driver (£1)
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Bloke in Tesco is telling his mate the job’s definitely in the bag, right, cos the interviewer couldn’t resist “my self-defecating sense of humour”.
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brexit: caught between a cock and a hard face
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Jean-Paul Sartre died in 1980. Incredible to think he may have seen the film “Every Which Way But Loose”.
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11 months
Like an ossified Nik Nak.
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1 year
Like a pencil made of horse.
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There’s very little that annoys me in life, but billionaires suing the NHS really does.
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Richard Branson
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There’s very little that annoys me in life, but people turning up late really does. Punctuality shows organisation and respect for others
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Why is the writing on shampoo bottles getting smaller? Baboons stole my plimsolls at Longleat.     Should I tell the postman he has halitosis? My first wife wouldn’t let me wear shorts. I blocked the pub toilet. Now my dog barks when I say Dundee. 2/2
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is it because it’s darkly dystopian
@StylistMagazine
Stylist Magazine
3 years
Keira Knightley’s new darkly dystopian Christmas comedy isn’t the festive feel-good film you’ll be expecting #SilentNight
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@Nigel_Farage "Radicalised"? It was a milkshake, mate, not a flanged mace.
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“Well, Liz? Have the lambs stopped screaming?”
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Liz Truss
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Happy Easter! ✝️
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Backbench barn owl Peter Bone MP captured here in the process of emitting a pellet
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5 years
he looks like he's won himself in a raffle
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5 years
Alternative terms for gammon:
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smear test tomorrow
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2 years
The real tragedy is that Nicholas Witchell has no idea he’s about to be sacrificed in a giant wicker corgi.
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The Forgettysburg Address
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The Hill
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President Trump: "The Continental Army suffered a bitter winner at Valley Forge, found glory across the waters of the Delaware and seized victory from Cornwallis of Yorktown. Our Army manned the air, it ran the ramparts, it took over the airports, it did everything it had to do."
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Why do they all look like embattled market stallholders embroiled in a decades-long spat with Ian Beale
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He looks like the bloke in CeX they keep out the back because his body spray keeps setting off the fire alarm
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KEN ALLEN
@fasc1nate
Fascinating
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Ken Allen, the orangutan from San Diego Zoo, escaped his enclosure three times in the 1980s. His apparent goals were visiting other animals, throwing rocks at a despised orangutan rival, and taking photos with tourists. He never acted aggressively towards anyone during his
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