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Comedian. Host of @theweeklytv on ABC and team captain on Would I Lie To You on Ten. Go Bombers. Go Bills.

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Joined January 2009
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@charliepick
Charlie Pickering
4 years
If @ScottMorrisonMP does not begin lobbying nations in favour of more drastic climate solutions, he is derelict in his duty to protect the safety of the Australian people. He was told of the significant threat to people, animals and country. He chose minerals. The nation burns.
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3 years
BREAKING NEWS: Anti-Vax protesters remain trapped in Northcote Plaza unable to successfully navigate an exit as they are baffled by the presence of a second Coles.
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Charlie Pickering
3 years
Since being a citizen already gave her that licence, @kylie_lang . It’s the same licence you’re using writing this...thing. If you’d prefer a system where Prime Ministers are beyond criticism for what they do, then feel free to hand your licence in first.
@couriermail
The Courier-Mail
3 years
Since when does being Australian of the Year give you licence to personally attack our prime minister, asks @kylie_lang
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Charlie Pickering
3 years
I woke up this morning not feeling sledged by Macron at all.
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Charlie Pickering
2 years
One rule has always been true of COVID- it is a health crisis first, economic crisis second. You cannot solve the economic problem without solving the health problem. Leaders who still think their beliefs can trump this simple will continue to cost us dearly.
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Charlie Pickering
3 years
Hey @7NewsAustralia - what the fuck is with this headline? Have you lost your actual mind? And how has the person who wrote it been counselled?
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Charlie Pickering
4 years
The writing for the final season of America is REALLY good.
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Charlie Pickering
2 years
I would like to announce that I, too, will not be contesting the seat of Warringah. #Auspol
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Charlie Pickering
2 years
Or, and I'm just putting this out there, YOU could quit YOUR job and drive a forklift.
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Charlie Pickering
4 years
Headline could also read: Sky News host Paul Murray comes very close to understanding reason behind lockdown.
@SkyNewsAust
Sky News Australia
4 years
Sky News host Paul Murray says Melbourne will have to endure a 112 day lockdown for 661 deaths, while Italy had 35,524 deaths and a 58 day lockdown and London saw 41,549 people die and their lockdown only went for 104 days.
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Charlie Pickering
4 years
This👇
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Charlie Pickering
2 years
BREAKING: Prime Minister downgrades Omicron strain from ‘highly contagious’ to ‘imminent re-election’.
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Charlie Pickering
6 years
Has @TonyAbbottMHR ever addressed the fact that after he scraped the carbon tax to keep everyone’s power bills down, everyone’s power bills continued to go through the roof. It’s almost like it was bullshit or something.
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Charlie Pickering
6 months
Given that the greatest driver of inflation is corporate profits, it feel SUUUUUUUUUPER shitty that the RBA’s move is to punish…someone else.
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Charlie Pickering
4 years
If only the ABC was a sports club in a marginal electorate.
@SenatorMcGrath
Senator James McGrath
4 years
The ABC must show how it can manage its existing budget before asking for a bigger one.
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Charlie Pickering
2 years
I considered giving SMH editor Bevan Shields 48 hours to respond to the piece we have about him on @theweekly , but figured we’d just run it anyway. See you at 8:30 on @ABCTV
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Charlie Pickering
2 years
If ANYONE who supports the discrimination bill has the temerity to say they care about mental health during the campaign, they should be howled down by the press. This bill will directly harm a group who also have a tragically high rate of suicide. They must answer for it.
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Charlie Pickering
3 years
Hey. Are you writing a recipe to be posted online? Great. I really appreciate it. But could you maybe not post a fucking essay at the top of it about your recollections of potatoes from childhood or how comfort food is comfy? Get to the ingredients and tell me what to do to them.
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Charlie Pickering
9 months
We don’t deserve the @TheMatildas #Tilitsdone
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Charlie Pickering
2 years
Imagine booking an interview with @tracygrimshaw , and not realising what an interview with @tracygrimshaw is.
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Charlie Pickering
3 years
Ban 👏 political 👏 donations 👏
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Charlie Pickering
3 years
Hey @donlemon , we have some pretty strict defamation laws in Australia. I reckon this tweet could buy you a small yacht.
@SkyNewsAust
Sky News Australia
3 years
Biased CNN anchor @donlemon has delivered an unhinged and baseless rant alleging every person who voted for Donald Trump is actually a Nazi and a member of the Ku Klux Klan.
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Charlie Pickering
2 years
So… @PRGuy17 is actually…the Scarlet Pimpernel. I don’t care who knows it. And I don’t care millennials don’t get it. Most importantly, I don’t care.
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Charlie Pickering
4 years
Did the Oz just find a way to make its readers worried about climate change?
@australian
The Australian
4 years
Plummeting visibility on Sydney Harbour has forced a major yacht race to be cancelled.
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Charlie Pickering
2 years
Surely Novak’s biggest mistake was trying to enter the country hours after the PM had a bad press conference about Jenny buying the RAT tests except the ones he already gets for free. Big mistake, Djoker. #AO2022
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Charlie Pickering
3 years
Hey Melbourne- if you can, go get vaccinated. It’s important. To put it in terms we understand- we don’t want the Grand Final at the Gabba ever again.
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Charlie Pickering
5 years
Sky NZ have dropped @SkyNewsAust . Let that sink in.
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Charlie Pickering
2 years
Imagine saying these things out loud
@SimoLove
Simon Love
2 years
During a debate on a Greens Public Housing bill, Liberal MP @WendyLovellMP told @vicparliament : “There is no point putting a very low income, probably welfare-dependent family in the best street in Brighton..” @10newsfirstmelb #springst
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Charlie Pickering
5 years
Is this who we are?
@7NewsBrisbane
7NEWS Brisbane
5 years
An Irish family living in country Victoria is facing deportation, because their son has cystic fibrosis. 4-year-old Darragh was born in Australia, but is considered a burden on our health system, now his parents are pleading with @PeterDutton_MP to let them stay. #7NEWS
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Charlie Pickering
4 years
Doctors say that tests to find out what her job is remain inconclusive.
@thehill
The Hill
4 years
Ivanka Trump works from home after interacting with official who tested for coronavirus
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Charlie Pickering
4 years
Siri, give me a metaphor for white privilege.
@adamzwar
Adam Zwar
4 years
Is it possible that Sydney 2000 was Cathy Freeman's second biggest triumph behind the '96 Stawell Gift when she started 54m behind the field and got elbowed in the final straight? If you haven't seen this, you need to.
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Charlie Pickering
3 years
@juliamacfarlane Hey Julia. I’m a big fan. But this opinion, claps and all, ignores that we shut our international borders, did hard lockdown and followed the science. Given that Brexit itself was predicated on stopping free movement, surely controlling the borders was possible.
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Charlie Pickering
2 years
There’s a state election in Victoria in November. The opposition have taken the novel approach of setting itself on fire 3 months before polling day. It’ll be interesting to see how it goes…
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Charlie Pickering
3 years
@juliamacfarlane In August Melbourne and the UK had the same daily case rate. Melbourne did everything required and now has a case rate of zero. Competent government that has the strength to give people bad news and make tough decisions is the only way to get on top of this.
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Charlie Pickering
1 year
Did you fire all the women?
@elonmusk
Elon Musk
1 year
Just leaving Twitter HQ code review
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Charlie Pickering
6 years
Dude. You’re PM now. Maybe your source reading for children’s mental health should extend beyond the Tele. Maybe check with the AMA or your own health ministry or your own education department or your own parliamentary enquiry into safe schools. Go Sharkies!
@ScoMo30
Scott Morrison
6 years
We do not need ‘gender whisperers’ in our schools. Let kids be kids.
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Charlie Pickering
6 years
If I were a high-profile independent living in Warringah and considering a career in politics, I’d be booking some headshots right about now. #WentworthVotes
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Charlie Pickering
3 years
Shame on you.
@mirandadevine
Miranda Devine
3 years
I guess we really shouldn’t be surprised at what’s happening in the Capitol after the way leftist violence was condoned most of last year. You let the genie out of the bottle, there’s no telling where it goes
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Charlie Pickering
2 years
Seriously, if you told the Australian people “We can overcome climate change, but billionaire miners will bear the brunt” I reckon you’d have about 90% support.
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Charlie Pickering
5 years
Nah dude. It’s a hatred of convicted child rapists and their protectors. But do continue...
@theboltreport
The Bolt Report
5 years
BOLT: I need to respond to a lot of people I angered yesterday - I knew defending Cardinal Pell could get me lynched. This hatred for Pell. It is so intense. #theboltreport @SkyNewsAust MORE:
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Charlie Pickering
4 years
You don’t make that speech if you won. You make it if you lose but don’t accept it.
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Charlie Pickering
6 years
Imagine, just for a moment, our leaders were thoughtful enough to not ACCIDENTALLY vote for a white supremacist bill in parliament.
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Charlie Pickering
4 years
What’s his tipping point? When the number of lives lost equals the number of jobs promised by Adani?
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Charlie Pickering
7 years
If @TonyAbbottMHR , @PeterDutton_MP and @LyleShelton cared about kids, they'd fight against gambling ads at the #NRLGF not a love song.
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Charlie Pickering
5 years
New rule: before a public figure expresses a view on climate change, they have to explain their understanding of it. If some motherfucker’s going to gamble my kid’s tomorrow, they have to do the reading first.
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Charlie Pickering
5 years
My mate Harry died last night. Thanks to Twitter and his son John, the world gathered around his bed in his final days. His life was visited by more than a fair share of hardship, and he gave every ounce of himself to the world in return. I will miss him. @Harryslaststand
@BBCNews
BBC News (UK)
5 years
"World's oldest rebel", wartime hero, author, activist and fierce defender of the NHS - RIP Harry Leslie Smith [Tap to expand]
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Charlie Pickering
6 years
It took too long. It hurt too many. But we are finally there, Australia. The patience, dignity and resilience of the LGBTQI community has been extraordinary....and I'm available for weddings... #MarriageEquality
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Charlie Pickering
2 years
@AmyRemeikis Also (minor point) - to say that their gov has done more on this issue than anyone before when it was the previous government that called a Royal Commission on it really shouldn’t be allowed to stand. Journos should challenge that BS.
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Charlie Pickering
6 years
I really think ScoMo needs to say 'fair dinkum' more. Not sure it's cutting through. Maybe work it into phrases, like 'If I hear him say it again I will fair dinkum throw up'.
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Charlie Pickering
3 years
But, and I want to make this perfectly clear, it’s not a race.
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Charlie Pickering
2 years
The Weekly, Tomorrow Tonight and Hard Quiz all work very closely with ABC librarians and archivists. We would often be lost without them. And the ABC archives are such a significant resource and record of Australian culture. The work these folks do is vitally important.
@meadea
amanda meade
2 years
Breaking: ABC to abolish 58 librarian and archivist jobs with journalists to do archival work
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Charlie Pickering
6 years
Worth noting that during the #ABCspill all broadcasts went to air unempeded. During the #libspill #qt was cancelled and legislation went un-passed including legislation to protect victims of domestic violence.
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Charlie Pickering
2 years
I suspect all this may fuck with someone’s planned move to the after dinner speaking circuit on the topic of pandemic management.
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Charlie Pickering
4 years
So tell me more about your version of democracy where those with fewer votes should get their way. Sounds interesting. 🙃
@bach_mp
Matt Bach
4 years
Shattered that we could not defeat Labor’s extreme State of Emergency laws last night. Labor got the numbers (just, 20-19) after doing secret deals with the Greens and two other cross benchers. We should never forget this outrageous affront to our democracy. #springst
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Charlie Pickering
5 years
This is the deputy PM misleading the Australian people, repeatedly, despite being corrected by journalists multiple times to his face. What a bum.
@SkyNewsAust
Sky News Australia
5 years
. @ljayes on the medivac bill: It's simply not true that rapists and murders will come here due to this legislation. @M_McCormackMP : There are ways and means to get here. MORE: #FirstEdition
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Charlie Pickering
7 years
If you're afraid of this, you must be afraid of so much in this world. What a shame. To be so fearful.
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NRL
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Charlie Pickering
5 years
This is the biggest news of the weekend. Worldwide.
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Charlie Pickering
4 years
Dear employer, please do better than this.
@abcnews
ABC News
4 years
#BREAKING : US President Donald Trump has claimed the election is a "major fraud" on American public and has flagged a Supreme Court challenge.
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Charlie Pickering
6 years
Morrison: (Turns to staffer) We’re going to need a bigger bus.
@australian
The Australian
6 years
#BREAKING : Scott Morrison has failed to arrest the slide in support for the government, with the Coalition falling back another point behind Labor on a two-party-preferred basis #Newspoll
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Charlie Pickering
5 years
I’m so impressed that the Wallabies beat the All Blacks AND a vengeful, homophobic god.
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Charlie Pickering
3 years
Really can’t believe Marg agreed to do this. Icon. #TheWeekly
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Charlie Pickering
2 years
“And if you like what we do here in the Australian Government don’t forget to join our Patreon…”
@PeterDutton_MP
Peter Dutton
2 years
The water hasn’t gone down yet, and we haven’t seen the full extent of the damage to our community due to catastrophic flooding. We have started a fundraiser to help local residents and businesses who have been affected.
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Charlie Pickering
6 years
This WH photo is of @realDonaldTrump working during the #TrumpShutdown ...with not a single thing on his desk. Just a phone that, in all likelihood, is not even plugged in. #maga
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Charlie Pickering
2 years
Fuck anyone who thinks kids should have to know this stuff.
@davidhogg111
David Hogg 🟧
2 years
Every parent in America needs to watch this
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Charlie Pickering
6 years
Am I the only person who thinks it’s weird that when there is #libspill speculation people say ‘Dutton’ not ‘Julie Bishop, obviously. I mean are you kidding? Julie Bishop 💯only sensible choice. Julie Bishop’. Wonder why.
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Charlie Pickering
3 years
I post this quietly.
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Charlie Pickering
6 years
Mate, I’ll start taking your advice on living in Melbourne the day you take my advice on being an overlord who instigated a program of checking people’s papers on trains because he ‘didn’t read a press release’ and backed down in minutes because this is Australia not Europe 1940.
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Charlie Pickering
7 years
Churches should be able to decide who they do and don't marry. Everyone else - do your job. Cakes aren't a fucking sacrament. #auspol
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Charlie Pickering
7 years
'Mr Trump, we think it would look great if you were in an old wooden chair turning on a slight angle' 'Like this?' 'Perfect' #TimeMagazine
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Charlie Pickering
4 years
Those crazy Aussies
@washingtonpost
The Washington Post
4 years
Australia has almost eliminated the coronavirus — by putting faith in science
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Charlie Pickering
5 years
“They eat their young, they’ve never learned to swim, they keep quokkas as pets and I’ve heard some of them use telepathy to send messages to the devil”
@SkyNewsAust
Sky News Australia
5 years
Bronwyn Bishop: ‘The Greens are a disgusting Party'. ‘They do not believe in the nation state, they don’t love Australia, they are anti-Australian people & yet Labor happily take their votes & nothing is said'. MORE: #pmlive
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Charlie Pickering
6 years
Sorry. Who are you again?
@HonTonyAbbott
Tony Abbott
6 years
Today is the fifth anniversary of the election of the Abbott government. It’s a good government, getting better!
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Charlie Pickering
2 years
Good telly
@theluckylance
Lucky Lance
2 years
Lol
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Charlie Pickering
1 year
If this is your take, might be time to get out of the take business. Ping @rgcooke
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Charlie Pickering
4 years
This MUST be televised.
@VanityFair
VANITY FAIR
4 years
Trump has signaled to allies that the Secret Service will have to drag him from the White House kicking and screaming
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Charlie Pickering
5 years
Does the LNP have some secret internal polling that says shouting is winning over the electorate? @InsidersABC #auspol #Insiders
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Charlie Pickering
6 years
You know it’s possible that @realDonaldTrump is like Klinger trying to convince everyone he’s mad so that he can get sent home
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Charlie Pickering
3 years
CovidSafe cost more than $14 million, and only found 17 cases. $14 million / 17 cases = $800,000 dollars a case #TheWeekly
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Charlie Pickering
4 years
Hey #QuadenBayles -you are awesome and you are loved. I was bullied a lot at school. There were days that I wanted to never go back and I wished I wasn’t who I was. But it got better. You’re a million times stronger than I was. The world is a million times better with you in it.
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Charlie Pickering
5 years
Tough to convince the country to stick with the government when the ministers won’t.
@SkyNewsAust
Sky News Australia
5 years
#BREAKING : Sky News can confirm Minister for Defence Industry @StevenCiobo and Defence Minister @cpyne will not be recontesting the next election.
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Charlie Pickering
5 years
. @kurtfearnley is the best. Our country is so lucky to have him.
@ABCthedrum
ABC The Drum
5 years
“We tried the pure corporate route. There was a saving of $1.6b but there was a kid who required a wheelchair in Toowoomba who was being pushed around in a wheelbarrow. If that's not a fair indicator that something’s wrong I don't know what it is.” @kurtfearnley on #NDIS #TheDrum
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Charlie Pickering
6 years
Making @theweeklytv with Kitty has been one of the great joys of my career. She has been a great friend for a long time. She is as funny as anyone on the planet. I have been lucky to have her on my show. Thanks Kitty.
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Charlie Pickering
5 years
Ok, bitch.
@piersmorgan
Piers Morgan
5 years
Don’t call me ‘hun’. I identify as male, but ‘hun’ normally applies to a female (‘honey’) which means you are mockingly mis-gendering me & that’s now apparently a criminal offence in Britain. Unless you meant ‘hun’ as a derogatory term for Germans in which case you’re a racist.
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Charlie Pickering
6 years
. @VictoriaPolice were incredible today. Bravery, restraint, competence. Remarkable. The world could learn from you. Thank you.
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Charlie Pickering
4 years
VP. Dope.
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Charlie Pickering
4 years
“Mr President, can you please dance to a gay anthem like you’re jackin’ some dudes?”
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2 years
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@westaustralian
The West Australian
2 years
Australia’s richest woman Gina Rinehart has said sport should not be used to push social or political views.
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Charlie Pickering
4 years
I would like to thank the birds of my neighbourhood who have kept me sane throughout stage 4. Seems appropriate to do it with a tweet.
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Charlie Pickering
6 years
This is amazing
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Charlie Pickering
6 years
I believe the collective noun is a 'regatta' of douchecanoes
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Charlie Pickering
9 months
I’ve informed both of my children that I’m renaming them McKenzie Arnold.
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Charlie Pickering
3 years
I make a big effort not get get into religious debates, but in my experience Sikhs nail it. Repeatedly.
@AustraliaSikh
Sikh Volunteers Australia
3 years
Sikh Volunteers is heading to Maribyrnong apartment to help residents with Freshly cooked vegetarian meals. Thanks to all Harding volunteers and generous donors. SVA will be serving meals to all 200 residents tonight.
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Charlie Pickering
4 years
Who on earth thinks this is a way to behave. Let alone in public discourse. Let alone a senator. What an absolute disgrace.
@MurrayWatt
Senator Murray Watt
4 years
New lows for LNP - Senator Amanda Stoker accuses Qld Premier of being “the knee on the throat of the businesses of Qld, stopping them from breathing.” Who uses the words of a dying man to score a political point?
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Charlie Pickering
4 years
This is such an awful decision. Women and children trapped in situations of domestic violence should be able to trust the police, not worry if they’ll share their whereabouts with their abusers. He definitely shouldn’t keep his job.
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Charlie Pickering
2 years
Does everyone realise that Alan Rickman played the worst person in the two best Christmas Movies of the modern era? Am I really late to this?
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Charlie Pickering
1 year
I imagine the people of Sydney will do everything they can to vote out the…Victorian Premier.
@ESIaustralia
Dr Kevin Donnelly AM
1 year
It's time to ditch desperate Dan. In today's Daily Telegraph.
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Charlie Pickering
3 years
Bad news never felt so good @Tonaaayy_ #TheWeekly
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