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Jamie Brittain

5 months

Reading Matilda with 7 year old. We get to a mention of Charles Dickens and she goes "ooh, we've got a book by him!" and excitedly runs into the other room to get it. The book:

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@matronboy

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Jamie Brittain

@matronboy

9 months

I have stepped away from tv writing for the time being so feel I can say this: the problem is a complete lack of taste and judgement in the commissioning depts at the major broadcasters, and an aversion to any conceivable risk (the kind of risk that all good comedy relies on) 1/

British Comedy Guide

@BritishComedy

9 months

Scripted TV comedy is "at risk" for the sixth year running, @Ofcom has concluded in its annual report into the BBC. Just 108 hours of new UK comedy aired in 2022-3, down from 225 in 2010-1. Full story:

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Jamie Brittain

@matronboy

3 years

Everything about this is absolutely fucking terrible. An ideological crusade against an apolitical institution, presided over by a power crazed moron installed by a racist liar, with the backing of a cryptofascist tabloid. The rest of the world envies the BBC. That’s over now.

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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Jamie Brittain

@matronboy

2 years

maybe David Cameron is a plausible third way politician maybe austerity will work maybe Brexit won't be a total disaster maybe Theresa May can sort it all out maybe Boris Johnson isn't an incompetent liar maybe Liz Truss isn't an incompetent moron

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Jamie Brittain

@matronboy

3 years

@camillard Have you considered that you might just still be drunk

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Jamie Brittain

@matronboy

3 years

Builder, screaming at co-worker from within partially renovated house: “We don’t have to put everything to a fucking vote, do we? Let’s just fucking do it and we’ll have a fucking chat about it later!” 5 year old, as we pass on the street: “Is that Santa, daddy?”

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Jamie Brittain

@matronboy

9 months

ps stop trying to make everything Fleabag. Someone already made that. Move on.

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Jamie Brittain

@matronboy

2 years

@Nick_Pettigrew The idea that BJ is a skilled debater. Literally no-one thinks this.

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Jamie Brittain

@matronboy

3 years

Girlfriend impressed with my ability to hit all the high notes in Celine Dion’s The Power Of Love. I’m like, I grew up on the back seat of a VW Polo with two sisters when we were driving from Cumbria to France, you got good or you got out.

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Jamie Brittain

@matronboy

3 years

Just completely fucking nailed ‘Chop Suey’ on daughter’s karaoke machine. I’ve been told I am not allowed to do that again.

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Jamie Brittain

@matronboy

3 years

Me and the four year old just had our hearts doused in holy water by My Neighbour Totoro, which neither us had seen before. A movie entirely composed of purest magic and wonder, it turns out. Just amazing.

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Jamie Brittain

@matronboy

3 years

super trouper beams are gonna find me melt my flesh with light that is why we fight because they mostly come at night

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Jamie Brittain

@matronboy

4 years

Banksy fucking *wishes* he was Neil Buchanan

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Jamie Brittain

@matronboy

9 months

Projects end up either being strangled at birth, or 'developed' by broadcasters into formless, committee built mediocrity. And I am a white, male, middle class child of a tv writer - about as privileged as it gets, it's gonna be so much harder for people who don't look like me 3/

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Jamie Brittain

@matronboy

9 months

I completely applaud places like @Roughcut_TV , who have managed to make incredible, hilarious shows like Stath Lets Flats and Big Boys by being incredibly dogged and persistent in getting those shows made against all odds - often taking many years in that process 4/

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Jamie Brittain

@matronboy

3 years

On a wee walk down by the river. Have to admire the purity of cyclists who will literally rather nearly kill my little girl rather than adjust their velocity even a tiny bit

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Jamie Brittain

@matronboy

9 months

That level of persistence simply isn't possible for many prod companies in this day and age, but the results are clear. The comedy commissioners need to lead by example, and commission to TX a bunch of risky shows by weirdos, starting with women and people of color. 5/5.

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Jamie Brittain

@matronboy

9 months

Last year I pitched a sitcom with a major household name attached to star and all sort of bankable pedigree behind it. It was met with furrowed brows and a vague sense of confusion as to why it had been brought before them before being passed on 2/

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Jamie Brittain

@matronboy

1 year

Career change alert! I have hung up my tv writing boots/pens/howling-existential-doubt-trousers to instead do the exact job I've dreamed about doing since I was a little kid, Lead Writer on a video game, with the utterly wonderful folks at @MaverickGames . Feel so lucky & happy!

Maverick Games

@MaverickGames

1 year

Happy Friday! New Podcast time! We're talking gamer discourse 🗣️, golf ⛳️, fishing🎣. Podcast debuts for Lead Writer Jamie Brittain ( @matronboy ) and Dialogue Director Olly Johnson ( @OllyPJohnson ) #BeAMaverick YT:

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Jamie Brittain

@matronboy

8 months

Best alt text ever

Steve Hogarty

@misterbrilliant

8 months

great to see garhab lineham is expanding his interests beyond relentlessly harassing women on the computer. good for him!!

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Jamie Brittain

@matronboy

3 years

new baby who dis

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Jamie Brittain

@matronboy

3 years

Rest in Peace and Quiet Barry

Barry Cryer and Ronnie Golden at Nerdstock

Ronnie Golden and Barry Cryer performing before a packed house at Nerdstock: 9 Lessons and Carols for Godless People

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Jamie Brittain

@matronboy

2 years

@Dempster2000 what skeletons think people look like

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Jamie Brittain

@matronboy

1 year

this, of course, from the always sublime @xkcd

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Jamie Brittain

@matronboy

3 years

Drove to Wales today. Fucking hell Wales is far. I hope whatever Wales has got lined up for me makes it worth the effort. Your move, Wales.

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Jamie Brittain

@matronboy

3 years

@meghamohan Just to be clear, I definitely only got this cos of who my dad is, I definitely didn’t deserve it, the system is *definitely* prejudiced against people who don’t have an ‘in’. I have tried very hard to atone for that in the years since in terms of amplifying less heard voices as

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Jamie Brittain

@matronboy

3 years

@Rose_Matafeo YOU WOULDN'T DOWNLOAD A CANCEL

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Jamie Brittain

@matronboy

1 year

The secret awesome thing about Nick is that he is absolutely incredible at playing creepy little guys.

Nicholas Hoult

@NicholasHoult

1 year

Welcome to the sh*t show. Watch the new trailer for #RenfieldMovie , only in theaters April 14th

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Jamie Brittain

@matronboy

2 years

The stupidest person ever to hold a cabinet position. A person who has put an entire industry and the livelihood of many - including myself - at genuine risk. A graceless, humourless, small minded bigot. A terrible writer. Thanks for absolutely nothing, Nadine.

Screen International

@Screendaily

2 years

Nadine Dorries to quit as UK culture secretary (via @Broadcastnow )

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Jamie Brittain

@matronboy

3 years

@meghamohan much as I can and will do so for as long as I have anything that even slightly resembles a career. We need more people who don’t look like me and we need to pay them for the work they do! It’s like, the most important thing!

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Jamie Brittain

@matronboy

4 years

i'll be dancing to smalltown boy by bronski beat outside of walton-on-thames waterstones in like twenty mins, it's two pound to watch or four to join in

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Jamie Brittain

@matronboy

2 years

Nepo baby here. What you do when cornered is explain that perhaps you've had many more opportunities, but also, you've probably worked harder than everyone else & are generally just more naturally exceptional and sensitive. If you say it while sort of squinting it really pops off

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Jamie Brittain

@matronboy

2 years

5 year old just told her dollies to ‘like and subscribe’ fuck

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Jamie Brittain

@matronboy

2 years

An act of purest vandalism. This will gouge a gaping hole in the British media landscape and jeopardise tens of thousands of jobs. @NadineDorries is apparently looking forward to being remembered as the executioner of an entire industry. Shame on her.

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Jamie Brittain

@matronboy

3 years

one thing people not from London might not know is that when you first get here the whole city sings you 'Consider Yourself', it's like a whole thing, get involved

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Jamie Brittain

@matronboy

3 years

No Queer As Folk, This Is England, Peep Show, Brass Eye, Shameless, Catastrophe, Skins, Smack The Pony, Desmonds, GBH, Brookside, Longford, The Snowman, Traffik, Gogglebox, Grayson Perry, Chewing Gum and I could go on and on and on

Jack Thorne

@jackthorne

3 years

I'm no RTD but I've spent most of my life writing for Channel 4. How it looks at the world is risky and unique. Privatisation will mean the risks aren't taken because privatisation is always about minimising risk. This loss would be profound.

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Jamie Brittain

@matronboy

3 years

Feel like it's not being talked about enough how @BarryJenkins ' 'The Underground Railroad' is perhaps one of the very best tv shows ever? Not an easy watch, but it feels pretty unmatched in terms of scale, intimacy & soul. A majestic, humanistic achievement for inhuman times.

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Jamie Brittain

@matronboy

1 year

POV when you order the Yog-Sothoth Special at Yellow King Soupz 'N Saladz

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Jamie Brittain

@matronboy

3 years

Fuck yeah Daniel Kaluuya, as badass now as he was a 16 year old kid eating doughnuts in the Skins writers room. Wish we could take any credit at all for his success, unfortunately he was already ascending at supersonic speed when we met him. Nicely done, Dankal x

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Jamie Brittain

@matronboy

2 years

“It was actually really great”

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Jamie Brittain

@matronboy

2 years

@Rose_Matafeo The start of Deborah’s Theme of Once Upon A Time In America reduces me to dust and bones. 0:15 to 1:00 of Haiku from Finding Nemo And I should be cooler than this I know but when ‘The Wings’ from Brokeback Mountain finally kicks in after building for 2 hours I am entirely dead.

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Jamie Brittain

@matronboy

3 years

For a moment I was like “but what about Chaka Demus?”

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Jamie Brittain

@matronboy

3 years

@camillard “This character can be black, or bisexual, but not both”

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Jamie Brittain

@matronboy

2 years

@Dempster2000 ICH NICHTEN LICHTEN

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Jamie Brittain

@matronboy

2 years

Kid at this soft play is called Bruno and is being treated by other kids like a minor celebrity

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Jamie Brittain

@matronboy

3 years

@PaulCrenstorm @haszombiesinit Not drunk, but there’s a glorious podcast by @goSuperego called Forgotten Classics where they do this based on the first & last line of unread classic lit. @PFTompkins Forrest Gumping his way through The Red Badge Of Courage is perhaps the most I’ve ever laughed at a podcast

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Jamie Brittain

@matronboy

2 years

Oh, this is fantastic, it was so hard tracking down a copy after @pattonoswalt shouted it out on @HPPodcraft , but totally worth it - v glad more will be able to experience the pure narcotic evil within!

Valancourt Books

@Valancourt_B

2 years

We've had a number of requests for Michael Shea's out-of-print Arkham House volume POLYPHEMUS, and we're pleased to announce that a new edition will be out from us sometime in 2023, introduced by @LairdBarron . More details soon!

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Jamie Brittain

@matronboy

4 years

Jessie Buckley is the most exciting actor in the world right now. I can barely get my head round how good she is. Can't wait to see what she does next. Oscar by the end of the decade, no doubt whatsoever.

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Jamie Brittain

@matronboy

4 years

The kid, and the bloomin’ missus, yesterday

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Jamie Brittain

@matronboy

3 years

@XC14YX @ScottAukerman “Do any of you guys want coconut water?”

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Jamie Brittain

@matronboy

2 years

I'm sorry, am I the only one who remembers Boris Johnson lying about knowing he was hiring someone accused of sexual misconduct. Are we just fine with that then?

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Jamie Brittain

@matronboy

11 months

Thinking about all the loving parents of trans children right now, who now have to tell their kids that the prime minister thinks they're making it up. I am disgusted by his words and I'm disgusted in this country for allowing such poison to be uttered.

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Jamie Brittain

@matronboy

4 years

@camillard Aw, you are far too kind. Love you Cam.

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Jamie Brittain

@matronboy

3 years

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Jamie Brittain

@matronboy

4 years

Skins music supervisor/guru and all round legend Alex Hancock just said "most of my work on Skins was stopping these songs being put in the show" lol

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Jamie Brittain

@matronboy

1 year

Not quite what I was going for as a parent but I'll take it

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Jamie Brittain

@matronboy

3 years

Jim Steinman? The man wrote songs called things like Total Eclipse Of The Heart and Paradise By The Dashboard Light which then entirely delivered on the insane awesomeness promised by those titles. “There were nights when the wind was so cold...” RIP.

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Jamie Brittain

@matronboy

3 years

@Dempster2000 Take my benefits awaaaaaaaay

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Jamie Brittain

@matronboy

8 months

@AnnieisUndead Coil had a threesome in her bed!

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Jamie Brittain

@matronboy

3 years

@adamndsmith god. why. why would you write this. what is wrong with her.

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Jamie Brittain

@matronboy

1 year

@radicalbyte @LinuxJedi I did! Tweet underneath. Forgot the image didn't have an identifying tag.

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Jamie Brittain

@matronboy

3 years

@JosieLong Crash Test Nipple sound like a fucking great riotgrrl band though

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Jamie Brittain

@matronboy

2 years

TV MAKERS. Stop putting ‘Great British’ in your titles. Apart from anything else, Britain is fucking shit.

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Jamie Brittain

@matronboy

2 years

Taste of Cinema

@davidcinema

2 years

What is the best character introduction you've ever seen in a movie?

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Jamie Brittain

@matronboy

2 years

@paulrust

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Jamie Brittain

@matronboy

3 years

Life can be sometimes hard, but my Mrs just made me a chicken, bacon and leek pie with mash and peas and gravy and I feel like the luckiest motherfucker in the whole goddamn world.

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Jamie Brittain

@matronboy

4 years

Have written some of this!

Breeders

@BreedersTV

4 years

It’s official. Breeders Season 2 is coming to @FXNetworks from March 22nd and @SkyTV @NOWTV in May #Breeders @daisy_haggard @mrchrisaddison @simonblackwell

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Jamie Brittain

@matronboy

4 years

First proper hangover in months. Spent the day lying in daughter’s paddling pool while she pours cold water on me from a bucket like I’m a beached whale. Think I’ve finally worked out what kids are for.

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Jamie Brittain

@matronboy

7 months

@robpalkwriter My fave Kafka fact #kafkafacts is that he would give readings of his work to friends and frequently break down into hysterical laughter at his own words. I think he was basically existential Billy Connolly.

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Jamie Brittain

@matronboy

2 years

@michaelglasper Adapted from the book by my dad. I'm biased, obviously, but it's fucking incredible.

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Jamie Brittain

@matronboy

1 year

One of the most unusual narrative games of the past couple of years - entirely unique uncanny and asymmetric in all the right ways.

J Gavin (ENIGMAstudio)🇵🇸 | ECHOSTASIS

@ENIGMA_STUDIO_

1 year

#COMINGSOON #horror #horrorgame #indiegame #Switch #Xbox #PlayStation

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Jamie Brittain

@matronboy

1 year

Loved talking to Jeremy! And epic feels being interviewed on a site I've been reading for years. Sky high gratitude really. @MaverickGames are just the best bunch for taking a chance on this weirdo.

Jeremy Peel

@jeremy_peel

1 year

If you're a British millennial, it may interest you to know that the co-creator of Skins, @matronboy , is now lead writer on a AAA open world game. Here's how he got there:

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Jamie Brittain

@matronboy

2 years

Me: why are you behaving like this? 5 Year Old: Because I’m tired! And I’ve got diabetes!* *she doesn’t have diabetes

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Jamie Brittain

@matronboy

3 years

This crow visits our bird bath every couple of days to dip bread crusts in to soak and then eat. It hops round the garden while it waits for it to be ‘done’. I don’t think I’ve ever loved an animal more.

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Jamie Brittain

@matronboy

3 years

Styling Barbie dolls with the five year old is some of the most fun I have as a parent…

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Jamie Brittain

@matronboy

2 years

My girlfriend literally asked me if I’d drunk her milkshake (I hadn’t) and then got cross with me because my subsequent performance of the monologue from There Will Be Blood woke up the baby. What the fuck was I supposed to do?! *Not* do the speech? Ridiculous.

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Jamie Brittain

@matronboy

4 years

@Dempster2000 @louisvirtel without a shadow of a doubt, Jennifer Jason Leigh in eXistenz.

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Jamie Brittain

@matronboy

3 years

For your health and wellbeing, I would like to submit this line reading from one ⁦ @MrDDyer ⁩ in Skins series 1 episode 2.

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Jamie Brittain

@matronboy

2 years

People like @DanielleDASH make me very hopeful for the future of tv in this country. Such a talent, such a sharp mind, such an absolute asset to any creative conversation. Knock 'em dead, Dani!

BBC Drama announces new Commissioning Editor and Head of Development appointees

Director of BBC Drama Lindsay Salt has today announced three new appointees to the BBC Drama commissioning team. Danielle Scott-Haughton and Nick Lambon join as Commissioning Editors for BBC Drama,...

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Jamie Brittain

@matronboy

3 years

Writers: Grief on Twitter cos people didn’t like your tv show smarts, but once it’s in the wild, it ceases to belong to you & becomes public property. Be quiet & suck it up, you are insanely lucky to be doing this job, even if you *feel* like a self actualising success machine.

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Jamie Brittain

@matronboy

2 years

Advice for fellow fat people: go on the swings

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Jamie Brittain

@matronboy

1 year

(hissing static) (sound of broken violin being dropped into a cutlery drawer) (heavily distorted sheep sounds) (pounding metallic beat in 7/8) (repeat for 5 minutes) Scott: (minor key, singing from bottom of well) I don't want to talk

Nick Pettigrew

@Nick_Pettigrew

1 year

Here's my pitch: Reanimate Scott Walker. Make him do a cover of Winner Takes It All. It sells a billion copies because it would be brilliant. #TOTP

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Jamie Brittain

@matronboy

3 years

Christianity escalates so quickly - it’s like, here’s this chill guy saying be chill to one another, and then a week later, he’s dead & we’re eating his body and drinking his blood. It’s like an Enya song with Slayer suddenly rocking up for the last 30 seconds.

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Jamie Brittain

@matronboy

2 years

@camillard "a malformed attempt at post-war comedy which attempted to exploit the sexual anxieties of a changing world through camp and innuendo but instead became a rampantly homophobic articulation of British culture at its most banal and small minded."

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Jamie Brittain

@matronboy

4 years

@MissEmerKenny out damned spot spoiling my fun reminding me of what i've done we killed a man, and that was sad turns out ambition is very very bad

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Jamie Brittain

@matronboy

4 years

Jesus wept

Julian Shea

@juliansheasport

4 years

As #Benfogle is in the news, can we please all take a moment to stop and enjoy his finest writing, recalling an exchange that definitely took place, as described, word for word. An editor read this and approved it for publishing. What a thought.

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Jamie Brittain

@matronboy

3 years

Happy Father’s Day to my wonderful Dad, thanks for always being there.

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Jamie Brittain

@matronboy

1 year

whatever you say, strange studies of strange stories

Strange Studies of Strange Stories

@HPPodcraft

1 year

Don't be a fool! Grab DREAMS IN THE WITCH HOUSE for PC now! “Mixing RPG and survival elements with standard point & click gameplay leads to a tense, uncomfortable experience that totally works.” -TheGamer

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Jamie Brittain

@matronboy

4 years

Bit of a dream talkin’ Dorian in September with the fine fellows at the HP Lovecraft Literary Podcast. It’s really one of the very best podcasts, and has been such a rare treat sharing a fainting couch with them! Give it a listen (and then go back to the start).

Strange Studies of Strange Stories

@HPPodcraft

4 years

SPOILER ALERT! If you don't want to know the ending to The Picture of Dorian Gray, DON'T look at this painting by Ivan Albright! Instead, tune in FREE as we begin the novel with special guest, Skins creator and writer Jamie Brittain ( @matronboy ) !

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Jamie Brittain

@matronboy

2 years

RIP Tony Sirico, the absolute performance on this guy.

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Jamie Brittain

@matronboy

1 year

@camillard One hack US waiters should learn with Brits is that if you simply tell them they're not tipping enough, they'll be so mortified at being spoken to that directly (for the first time ever) they'll sign their entire estates over to you if you say it's 'standard practice'

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Jamie Brittain

@matronboy

2 years

@frankcottrell_b No contest.

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Jamie Brittain

@matronboy

2 years

it's so hot i hallucinated i was in a Tennessee Williams play, asked my girlfriend to "fetch me a Ramos Gin Fizz, not too bitter" and only came to when she told me to fuck off and make the kid's lunch

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Jamie Brittain

@matronboy

2 years

Applauding for Liz Truss is like applauding the toilet when the cistern refills.

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Jamie Brittain

@matronboy

3 years

I love being a teensy cog in this wonderful, soulful show. Please watch, it's unusual, funny, heartfelt & relatable in all the right places. I think you'll really like it.

Breeders

@BreedersTV

3 years

#Breeders returns with series 2 tonight at 10pm! Catch it right after the Friends Reunion on @SkyTV @daisy_haggard @mrchrisaddison @simonblackwell

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@matronboy

1 year

This AirB&B has everything

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Jamie Brittain

@matronboy

2 years

oh hi new followers I am a disappointing nerd who is uncertain about absolutely everything

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Jamie Brittain

@matronboy

3 years

remembering that the DJ at my parents wedding in 1993ish, the DJ didn't have headphones, instead she used a big old red shiny bakelite phone handset with curly cord for her preview? Was this common? It can't have been good for beatmatching.

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