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4 days

Here is a full list of the 25/26 UK tour dates, as it stands, plus my lovely face. Irish dates already on sale! Europe and the rest of world to follow. Full details on including mailing list.

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3 years

Gutted. Was supposed to be attending a wedding in Trinidad, but it’s just been cancelled. Family won’t say why.

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4 years

Just found out that George Floyd was originally stopped by the police because he handed over a counterfeit note in a shop. I did that once! They handed me back the note as a souvenir, and later I told the story on stage in a comedy routine. That’s some privilege right there.

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2 years

Here is my annual reminder that if Santa is bringing a games console, Santa might want to plug it in and turn it on and get all the updates done now, in advance, so that it is all ready to go on the big day.

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4 years

If the government are planning to re-open schools in 3 weeks, shouldn’t we just vaccinate all teachers and school staff right now?

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2 years

Still, at least I didn’t bail on it after two weeks and fuck off to my house in France, eh Andrew? All the best! X

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2 years

Mock the Week deserved to be cancelled via @spectator

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1 year

I remember when I moved to London I couldn’t open an account at Lloyd’s in Crouch End because they didn’t accept the Irish passport as valid ID. I didn’t go on Newsnight to complain; I just went next door to Barclays. Nigel is such a drama Queen.

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3 years

When are Allegra Stratton’s leaving drinks?

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3 years

Soooo…. The sackable offence wasn’t holding a Xmas party, but joking about the Xmas party?

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4 years

I will never understand how Britain has a government that celebrates giving up their own citizen’s freedoms. That’s YOUR freedom of movement they’re ending.

Priti Patel MP

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4 years

We’re ending free movement to open Britain up to the world. It will ensure people can come to our country based on what they have to offer, not where they come from.

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1 year

Ah shite, Sinead O’Connor has died. That’s just very sad news. Poor thing. I hope she realised how much love there was for her.

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5 years

Sorry... what?

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2 years

Looking forward to, I dunno, stealing somebody’s bag later and if caught, just repeating “I take full responsibility for this” as I walk away, carrying the bag.

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6 years

I’ve been living in the UK for nearly 20 years. I love it. Great people; warm and witty and friendly. Amazing creators, scientists, artists, engineers. But jesus, represented in parliament by a clatter of total morons.

BBC Newsnight

@BBCNewsnight

6 years

Senior Tories are frustrated by how much power Ireland has had in the Brexit negotiations, especially over the backstop, says our political editor Nick Watt. "The Irish really should know their place," one said #newsnight | @nicholaswatt

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4 years

This is a little reminder that if Santa Claus if planning to give a games console as a gift he’ll often plug it in before Christmas Day and download all the updates, which can take hours, so that it will work out of the box. Ho ho ho.

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1 year

What a dreadful generation of wet, weak, snowflakes this shower are. An embarrassment to 300 years of parliamentary debate. Would sooner cry for apologies and sackings than actual mount a defence of their own policies.

Calgie

@christiancalgie

1 year

EXCL: 36 Tory MPs and Lords have decided Lineker’s suspension isn’t good enough. They’ve written to Tim Davie demanding a full apology “without reservation” from Mr Lineker. They also want an independent investigation.

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2 years

Today a crane came to our street to lift some glass over a house and the man with the crane let me stand next to the crane and ask questions about the crane and he said my questions were really good and now the crane is gone and I don’t know if the crane will be back again.

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3 years

Oh mate, you should have watched the briefings they had on the telly every day; plus, bonus! there was a guy, the spitting image of you, doing them! You should have seen him! Same stupid hair and everything. Classic.

Sky News

@SkyNews

3 years

"I carry full responsibility for what took place, but nobody said to me that this was an event that is against the rules." Boris Johnson recalls what he remembers about an alleged party in the Downing Street garden during lockdown. Latest:

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3 years

Amazing that we’re entering day three of the country’s prime minister pretending to not understand the Covid isolation rules so that he can hide for a while.

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3 years

This is desperately sad news. Such a brilliantly funny man.

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3 years

Comedian Sean Lock – best known for panel shows '8 Out Of 10 Cats' and '8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown' as well as sitcom '15 Storeys High' – has died from cancer at the age of 58

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2 years

Look, we’ve all dreamed of seeing a car caught on a rising bollard. Don’t pretend you haven’t.

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1 year

Man, looks like I picked a great time not to be a presenter on either RTE or BBC.

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6 years

This woman is congratulating herself for successfully hunting... a sheep. Jesus wept. What a fuckin’ loser.

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4 years

Oh this is just a disgrace. Just give families a £30 voucher, and exclude booze, fags, whatever; but don’t pay somebody to insert themselves into the process and cream off a profit. That’s £5 of food, and somebody has kept £25 for themselves.

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3 years

That’s a classy thing to do, from the Hammersmith Apollo.

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3 years

RIP Sean Lock 🖤

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1 year

@georgie_grier We’ve ALL done it. Soon, you’ll dine out on this anecdote. More than once I had to buy my audience a drink, as a thank you for being the only ones there. Best thing though, it’s all stage time, and the show will get better every single time, ready for the big crowds later!

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5 years

Jesus, that is just grim. One of the triumphs of modern tines, being able to treat 27 vastly different countries as home, being repackaged and sold as cheap, small-minded xenophobia.

The Times and The Sunday Times

@thetimes

5 years

EU migrants have been able to “treat the UK as if it’s part of their own country” for too long, Boris Johnson said yesterday as he reprised the core message of Vote Leave’s 2016 EU referendum campaign.

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3 years

For the people who keep asking why Stargazing Live doesn’t happen any more, this is why. They just don’t have the money any more, and it’s because of this government. The BBC isn’t just BBC news, and this is a ludicrously short-sighted act of vandalism from a “Culture Secretary”.

Rt Hon Nadine Dorries

@NadineDorries

3 years

This licence fee announcement will be the last. The days of the elderly being threatened with prison sentences and bailiffs knocking on doors, are over. Time now to discuss and debate new ways of funding, supporting and selling great British content.

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5 years

Well spotted. That is definitely me, at the back, singing along in the Iranian parliament. I would appreciate your understanding at this difficult time.

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5 months

Just had to pay £17 in customs charges to get three Easter eggs sent by grandparents in Ireland, released from the Post Office. Yay for Brexit!

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1 year

Well done @garylineker at enduring this ridiculous, contrived “controversy”; and demonstrating that, as ever, people are perfectly capable of handling the idea that a grown-up can have a public job and also be separately, politically engaged in their own time. We’re not babies.

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1 year

I like the way he said “episode”, the way football fans always say “I hope it’s a good episode of Match of The Day tonight”.

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4 years

Why aren’t we surrounded by ads normalising masks? Masks with club crests on them, or band names, or Cath Kidson designs? Why aren’t we seeing the words "Brought to you by the MASK MARKETING BOARD”? Posters of masked celebs? Shouldn’t that be happening?

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4 years

Look, you might all know about this; but I drove past it again today and I think @QPR renaming their entire stadium in honour of a 15 Year old London kid who died in a knife attack is pretty righteous and doesn’t get the recognition it deserves.

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6 years

I find this honestly bewildering. How would you endure, let alone celebrate, losing this?

Seb Dance

@SebDance

6 years

Ending free movement. On the left: your current free zone. You can work, travel, study, love, retire across this area. No visas. Includes non-EU members. On the right: your future free zone (assuming CTA with Ireland). Can *anyone* explain how this is increasing opportunity?

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3 years

Nothing accidental about this. Barry Humphries is a comedy legend; he knows what he’s doing.

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1 year

Always worth reminding people that you don’t actually HAVE to call them “Sir…” or “Lord..” because we don’t actually live in Fairy-tale Land, and they should grow up and stop giving themselves silly prizes and expecting the rest of us to play along.

Richard Chambers

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1 year

Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg, Sir Michael Fabricant, Dame Priti Patel. It’s Boris Johnson’s resignation honours list.

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2 years

That’s all folks! “History of Mock The Week” parts 1 and 2 will be on over the next two weeks, but there ends the most funny, energetic, sharp and silly of all the panel shows, I think. Huge thanks to all the comics, and production staff, who joined us and made it great. X

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We could get angry at Suella’s latest piece of performative, pandering cruelty or… instead: let’s promote the excellent work done by @Shelter , @centrepointuk , @PassageCharity and other fine charities actually trying to help homeless people, especially now, as winter approaches.

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The British people are compassionate. We will always support those who are genuinely homeless. But we cannot allow our streets to be taken over by rows of tents occupied by people, many of them from abroad, living on the streets as a lifestyle choice. 1/4

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1 year

There is an Irish phrase I wish you all knew and used in the UK: “making a hames of something”. For example in the sentence “The BBC is making a fucking hames of this”. You can probably guess the meaning.

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7 years

I’m going to blame Catholicism for this, but any time somebody says “May The Force Be With You” I need the other person to say “And Also with You"

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4 years

Amazon Prime have delivered a United Ireland, and before 6pm on the same day.

Amazon Help

@AmazonHelp

4 years

@_chrisjones_ Thank you for that information. We apologize but upon reviewing your location you're in Northern Ireland. Rugby Autumn Nations Cup coverage is exclusively available to Prime members based in the UK. We don't have the rights to other territories. ^RS

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5 years

The astonishing, shameless hypocrisy of this.

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@10DowningStreet

5 years

"On this Windrush Day and every day, let us give thanks to those pioneering men and women. They crossed an ocean to build a future for themselves, their communities and the UK, the country that will always be their home." - PM @Theresa_May

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10 days

One final treat from the Edinburgh Fringe. In the seat behind me on the plane home was genuine National Treasure, Miriam Margolyes, and she was exactly as delightful as you would hope.

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1 year

So, despite never ever actually having had a blue tick, (I liked the idea that I might have been a parody account all this time) I wake up this morning to find I have been given one. That is peculiar. No, I haven’t paid, nor requested it. Can I get into nightclubs now?

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3 years

Great news about that guy I killed in a bar fight Dec 5th last year! Phew!

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Raab, "The police don't normally look back and investigate things that have taken place a year ago"

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7 years

They say never meet your heroes; they are wrong.

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12 days

Finally got round to climbing Arthur’s Seat in Edinburgh yesterday, after 26 years of intending to. Then took a photo that is so weirdly backlit, the entire thing looks fake anyway. Should have just done it on green screen.

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You know what? Whatever May’s many faults, good for her on the dancing. People are always banging on about “Dance like nobody is watching!” And yet delighted to sneer. I call a moratorium on dance-shaming. I love a good dance, meself. We shouldn’t need anyone’s permission.

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@ODN

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British Prime Minister Theresa May has ANOTHER go at dancing as she wraps up her Africa trip. #TheresaMay

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3 years

So the same government, that pissed away a sense of national unity on the first lockdown just to protect Dominic Cummings, is now pissing away any chance of a serious response to this Covid wave because of a Xmas party. Jesus wept.

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7 months

If you think the Irish are doing well at all the Movie awards this year, wait until this wins Best Picture next year.

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This is simply epic. 😆

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5 years

Just thinking that this might be the perfect time for 7 Sinn Fein MPs to suddenly take their place at Westminster, smash out some votes, tip over a table and then sashay out again.

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1 year

Imagine escaping prison and disappearing for four days just to get nabbed outside the Taskmaster House.

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6 years

And you weren’t voted for by anyone outside Vauxhall. That’s how parliaments work. Please stop embarrassing yourself.

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6 years

You were not elected by anyone in the U.K. to the position you hold !

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1 year

So Boris’ argument is that he was too stupid and ill-informed to understand the rules he was breaking? That’s quite the flex for a Prime Minister.

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6 years

Amazing that this tweet is still up. It’s been repeatedly corrected; it’s provably factually incorrect, but this person doesn’t care that it is a lie, and is an MP. That’s the state of public life in Britain today, sadly. Both sides deserve better.

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3 years

Mad to think that the Nazis started as a public health drive to curb a pandemic viral infection; and they just got so into it that they decided to start a World War. Something to watch out for there.

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4 years

Fuck, I would MURDER a pint. And an evening of talking shite with some very old friends. In any one of 6 Dublin pubs. Or each one in turn.

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@HJoyceGender Oh get a grip on yourself. I don’t have any responsibility to share your exact views or represent only what you want to see written. A disappointment? What are you, my mother? Grow up Helen.

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3 years

Ah poor Saka. We love that kid. Didn’t deserve that.

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4 years

All these people complaining about masks, always remind me that during the legendary, mythical, oft-cited blitz in London, there were wardens whose job it was to tell people to turn out their lights. I bet those people whined about being told what to do, as well.

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1 year

Just got back into the Uk after a two week Canadian tour, and while the compulsory car share from Heathrow was a surprise, it was lovely to hear how everyone else is handling the new meat tax and storing their 7 bins.

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3 years

Finally got the telescope out after a summer of crutches and clouds; had forgotten the sheer amount of rigmarole, but after 3 hours of set-up, finally got to taking pictures again. Andromeda and the Heart Nebula here.

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4 years

Hate to be all Johnny Fact-check here, but actually this happens every night and has for years. They do it so that the hot and cold water in the Thames gets mixed together properly.

ABC News

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FULL STEAM AHEAD: London's Woolwich Ferry performed donuts on the River Thames in support of health care workers on the front line of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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1 year

Readers: So, we’d like a nice, fun article about Prince Louis pulling faces. Something light and frothy. The Guardian:

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4 years

This is deeply stupid. The judgement is that an imaginary person, at some time in the future, might see “You live on in our Hearts”, written in Irish, not understand it, but JUST PRESUME it must be political, since it’s Irish and then…what?… feel uncomfortable? Unsettled?

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Margaret Keane's family wanted to include an Irish epitaph on her grave near Coventry - but a judge has ruled against it, saying the untranslated phrase "might be seen as political"

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Realised today that when we grabbed this photo, @GabbyLogan introduced me to Michael Johnson as “Ireland’s Snoop Dogg” but never explained that this was because I had been at lots of Olympic events; so Michael Johnson thinks he met one of Ireland’s biggest Rappers.

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2 years

Have really enjoyed all the chat about Mock today. It’s been really sweet, thank you, and people have been kindly checking I still have work after this. Of course I do! Exciting news: I’m in the new Batgirl movie! I got an e-mail today about release dates, must check that.

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4 years

Coronavirus at 9.59pm vs Coronavirus at 10.01pm

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3 years

The rest of the world should know that for the last 24 hours Irish Twitter has become OBSESSSED with how much Matt Le Blanc looks like everyone’s uncle/cousin. Read this thread to get the full sense of it. Or don’t; because you won’t understand the half of it.

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I’m gonna make a thread of all of these as they’re hard to find via search and they’re all SO FUNNY

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1 year

Wonderful afternoon at the All-Ireland football final yesterday. Delighted to be part of the first BBC national broadcast of the final, and to be in such good company. Obviously after the final we all parted company quietly to return to our homes and reflect; and I am not HANGIN’

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2 years

Nice touch on Norwegian trains: a special seat and huge window to watch the mountains and lakes go by.

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1 year

I had the privilege of doing the Michael Parkinson show 3 times and it the most I ever felt like I was in “proper showbiz”. He was a consummate pro on-screen, and generous and encouraging off-screen. He also did the coolest thing I ever saw pre-show: (1/2)

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3 years

Well, that is just perfect.

Kerry GAA

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What else would you be doing on a stormy day in South Kerry?!!

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4 years

Matt Hancock: I am proud to announce I have met my goal. I have finished building the Lego Castle. Matt Hancock’s Mum: Why are there all these unopened bags of Lego on the table?

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4 years

CNN just introduced a reporter called Donie O’Sullivan and fair dues, he sounds exactly like you’d hope.

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3 years

“Cancel culture” conversation is so dull because it’s a conversation about comedy by people who don’t actually seem to know/like anything about comedy; and think it’s only there to make “rude", "edgy” jokes; meanwhile people are being brilliantly funny in a million other ways.

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5 years

And a big hello the guy from Dublin who blagged his way into my dressing room in Eastbourne tonight, while I was in my pants, in order to get a selfie; and is probably telling somebody somewhere right now how I’m actually a lot less friendly off-stage.

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1 year

Well, well. This complicates things.

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4 years

Amidst a day of grim sights, this... silliness... is a tiny delight.

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4 years

next slide please

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4 years

Well done everyone in Ireland. I’m sure there will other bad days in the future, but that’s a piece of good news.

Damien Owens

@OwensDamien

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Zero COVID-19 deaths in Ireland today. Excellent news.

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1 year

I’m scared to post this because it’s almost TOO Irish: filming yesterday at Newgrange, Co Meath, at Europe’s oldest building, when a rainbow appeared above the passage tomb.

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1 year

But WHY did Trump take boxes and boxes of documents? It’s not like he was going to read them, was it? Genuine question, by the way.

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3 years

Watched this crazy sports movie last night, where a schoolgirl from Bromley entered the US Open and then, listen to this for terrible screenwriting, just won every single set straight through including the final. Oh come on! Good cameo from Larry David though.

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2 years

People are leaping up and down at Joe Lycette because he once gigged in Qatar. So what? Working IN a country isn’t the same as being paid to promote it. See if that logic works for working in say… the UK. Jesus, people are just so eager to shout ‘A-ha!”.

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2 years

Sky news asking “But what happens to Kwasi Kwarteng now?” as if that is a thing anybody gives a flying fuck about.

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@daraobriain

6 years

YES! I was in pain laughing the entire way through this. IN PAIN.

Summer Ray

@SummerRay

6 years

I know I share it every year but I just can’t quit it, and Mr Blobby is trending so it’s the best excuse. This is arguably the funniest thing ever shown on British television

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Dara Ó Briain

@daraobriain

2 years

Right, you crazy Mountain of Space. I am finally going to ride you, 43 years after my father told me I wasn’t allowed because you were too scary. And the four other times I couldn’t ride you because of various reasons. And now you’re called Hyperspace Mountain. No matter. #disney

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Dara Ó Briain

@daraobriain

1 month

Well that was just incredible. I genuinely don’t think I’ve ever been at a more consistently tense sports event. The margins of error are minuscule. And such a sweet, deserved win. No wonder he’s grinning!

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Dara Ó Briain

@daraobriain

1 year

Hmmm. Not sure this would be helpful in an emergency.

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Dara Ó Briain

@daraobriain

3 years

Yes, because the financial equivalent to those 4 television channels and two radio stations all broadcasting 24/7 would be buying a newspaper once every 6 days.

Julia Hartley-Brewer

@JuliaHB1

3 years

I pay the BBC licence fee and these are the only services I ever use. Good value for money...?🤷🏻‍♀️

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Dara Ó Briain

@daraobriain

3 years

Christ. 50. Jesus wept.

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Dara Ó Briain

@daraobriain

1 year

Ah, that old inspirational sports phrase “Leave nothing out there”.

Rishi Sunak

@RishiSunak

1 year

You left absolutely nothing out there @Lionesses . It wasn't to be, but you've already secured your legacy as game changers. We are all incredibly proud of you. 🦁🦁🦁

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Dara Ó Briain

@daraobriain

1 year

Exciting to see the Daily Mail today misquoting a comedy routine of mine, as a news story. I’m sure it will get lost amidst proper celebrity gossip but let me just clarify I said nothing they quoted, I said slightly different things with an almost completely different meaning.

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Dara Ó Briain

@daraobriain

3 years

I mean, you could have said “The pandemic is like… a heart valve”. Or a water slide. Or a Face tattoo! So many things. But no, you went for the one thing that when you pass through it, you can go back.

The Economist

@TheEconomist

3 years

The pandemic is like a doorway. Once you pass through, there is no going back

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Dara Ó Briain

@daraobriain

2 years

I’ve been staring at this for a day now. Is it real? Is this genuinely something our possible next Prime minister said? Are “numbers” not proper maths any more? Are “shapes”… woke?

Liz Truss

@trussliz

13 years

Next , let's replace "number" and"shape" in Maths curriculum with proper terms like "arithmetic" and "geometry".

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Dara Ó Briain

@daraobriain

4 years

In the list of 2020 complaints though, these are a long way behind “Being told by the government that you failed an exam, which you never even sat”, which is still wrecking my head. Poor feckers.

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Dara Ó Briain

@daraobriain

10 months

Somewhere in Dublin, there’s a lad watching the Toy show, who 24 hours ago, was setting fire to a bus. And he still has City-Liverpool to look forward to tomorrow.

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Dara Ó Briain

@daraobriain

4 years

Currently veering between being deeply worried about this surge in cases; and also hoping that the seriousness of it might restart that sense of unity and common purpose we had back in March. At the very least, time to restart giving support to anyone on the frontline.

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Dara Ó Briain

@daraobriain

4 years

This is not pleasant reading here in the UK, but should still be read by every UK journalist before another Government press call.

Elaine Doyle

@laineydoyle

4 years

I don't understand the British media. I really, really don't. Basic things: Ireland and the UK started this pandemic with roughly the same number of ICU beds (6.5 per 100,000 for Ireland, 6.6 per 100,000 in the UK). If anything, the UK was slightly better off.

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Dara Ó Briain

@daraobriain

2 years

Him: You just wait! I’ll show you! Someday people will know who I am! Someday people will say I make the most famous pizza in Romania. You just wait and see! Her: yeah, whatever, Jerry.

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