Adam Tandy

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List of UK politicians/'political figures' who have declared support for Trump over Biden/Harris: • Boris Johnson • Liz Truss • Suella Braverman • Andrea Jenkyns • Jacob Rees-Mogg • Nigel Farage • Lord Frost • John Hayes • Robert Jenrick • Sammy Wilson • Ian Paisley • Jake Berry • Kwasi Kwarteng

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The video for Newfoundland, the first single taken off Point Clear. youtu.be/vVrigAB9MeA?...

Candidate - Newfoundland (Official Audio)youtu.be YouTube video by candidateuk

Am now allowed to reveal that Ed Sheeran pens absolutely lovely song for Netflix Christmas animation. www.televisual.com/news/sheeran...

Sheeran pens song for Netflix Christmas animation - Televisualwww.televisual.com Ed Sheeran has written and recorded an original song for Locksmith Animation’s (Ron’s Gone Wrong) upcoming CG animated feature That Christmas for Netflix. The track titled Under The Tree will feature ...

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READ MY BOOK AND THIS WILL NEVER FUCKING HAPPEN AGAIN

Genuinely think one of the most fascinating but also sad trends in modern life is that streaming is killing our ability to accurately gauge what 'comedy' is.

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Nothing in the Kings Speech about motion smoothing on TVs. Disgraceful.

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Money for nothing: is universal basic income about to transform society?www.theguardian.com The concept of a guaranteed income is gaining traction as a solution to the impact of AI and way to encourage more rewarding and socially valuable work

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my new radio series, starts tomorrow: www.theguardian.com/books/articl... www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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We’ve switched our mortgage to Exposure Only and it’s really helped in the current freelance market. Every unpaid or low paid bit of work is now offset against the monthly repayments, as long as people have heard of us and can ask for more free work. I don’t know why we ever bothered with “money”.

This is why Naomi is the star she is.

Here is my origin story. It’s a story about activism I did when I was nine. I saw that my brother’s Cub Scout badge book had different badges (Explorer, scientist) to my Brownie badge book (cook, needlewoman). And I was annoyed. I showed it to my dad and he said “let’s write a letter to the Times.”

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The testicular microplastics story reminds me of the Flann O’Brien bit in The Third Policeman about the postman who becomes 71% bicycle

Flann O’Brien Splits the Atomwww.laphamsquarterly.org “Did you ever discover or hear tell of the atomic theory?” the sergeant inquired. “No,” I answered. He leaned his mouth confidentially over to my ear. “Would it surprise you to be told,” he said

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The trolley problem most of us face is that we're on the trolley with no access to any lever and it takes the track that kills the most people every single day.

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Ooh. Nice review from @chortle.bsky.social for Be Funny Or Die. Hurrah! https://www.chortle.co.uk/books/2024/04/02/55304/be_funny_or_die

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The foyer at Broadcasting House. Also here: Tess & Claudia, and a TARDIS. Bakewell aside, that’s light ent, comedy, kids TV. The Goons are at the far end. More comedy. What’s “threatened” according to Ofcom? Comedy. Children’s. What’s sneered at? LE. The soul of the nation, this. Protect it.

The tv version of Comedians was perhaps the first inkling I had that television and drama and comedy was the place to be. The sweet spot in our national cultural identity. RIP Trevor Griffiths.

Trevor Griffiths: Mancunian Marxist whose political plays deserve revivalwww.theguardian.com Griffiths, who has died aged 88, explored the conflict between reform and revolution in plays and scripts from the film Reds to dramas such as Occupations, The Party and Comedians

now via BBC Sounds.

Talking about the book - and comedy being IMPORTANT and INTERESTING - on BBC R4 Front Row tonight, a bit after seven…

Front Row - Big Mood, how does comedy work? Bach St John Passion - BBC Soundswww.bbc.co.uk Camilla Whitehill on her new sitcom Big Mood.

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It’s 1:11am here and I’m only just going to sleep because I got to a point in this where I couldn’t put it down. This rarely happens for me with fiction: it never happens with non-fiction. Until now. Bloody brilliant. Well done, @gralefrit.bsky.social

I’m absolutely LOVING this book by @gralefrit.bsky.social. It’s incredibly insightful. A very valuable read for any writer (not just comedy writers). I’ve had so many “ohhh now I see!” moments already.

Fascinating list from the BPG of the Top 50 Landmark TV Programmes. Attenborough and Potter both in there twice (of course), but Armando’s in there an incredible three times. His contribution to TV and our national culture really cannot be overstated. So proud of him.

Broadcasting Press Guild members create unique Top 50 Landmark TV Programme Listwww.broadcastingpressguild.org Broadcasting Press Guild members create unique Top 50 Landmark TV Programme List, spanning the last half century, with shows ranging from The World At War and I May Destroy You to Life On Earth and…

Please ask for this in your local bookshop. Read, enjoy, split your sides, learn what makes sides split, and clear up the mess afterwards

BE FUNNY OR DIE (How comedy works and why it matters) The book is OUT TODAY! Oh yeah. Thanks to everyone who helped and supported… Hope you like it. And if you like it, tell your friends! X

Final wrap on “Doctors”. The BBC too reticent to point out that it now only has 75% of the licence fee (in real terms) that it had when the Conservatives entered Government in 2010. And production costs for the last few years have been running way ahead of CPI.

Axing Doctors is a 'disastrous decision' says screenwriterwww.bbc.com The BBC says the daytime drama, which has run for 24 years, has been hit by rising production costs.

This is unmissable. Brilliant. I sobbed through a lot of it. What struck me though was the culture of a USGov Agency that became so convinced of its own infallibility that it failed in its duty of care.

The Space Shuttle That Fell to Earth - Series 1: Episode 1www.bbc.co.uk Seven astronauts count down to the launch of space shuttle Columbia’s 28th mission.

An entire decade since we first went out on BBC Two. Happy birthday Inside No. 9!

Heading home after wrapping on the very last episode of #insideno9. Huge thanks and hugs to the entire Inside No. 9 family (cast and crew). We’ll miss you.

Memorial for a legend of graphic art.

Ian Gibson - Comic Art Legend, organized by Luke Jon Gibsongofund.me My father Ian Gibson passed away as of the 11th of December 2023, losing his battle wit… Luke Jon Gibson needs your support for Ian Gibson - Comic Art Legend

Commensurate comic complexity

The many faces of Falstaff: Shakespeare’s tragicomic knight is as complex as Hamletwww.theguardian.com Ian McKellen follows in the footsteps of David Warner and Antony Sher as he takes on a character who has been played as wittily jovial and cruelly cunning

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This appears to be pretty much across the board - and I don’t know if any of us actively *wanted* a war on the arts as a career, but we did like it when a bunch of weird arseholes asked if we’d like everything we loved most in the world for free instead of paying for it. Boy. We did like that.

The last 15 years of my professional life has just been watching everything I'm good at and want to do go extinct

This made me late for work.

I made a video essay analysing how the jokes work in just two minutes of The Simpsons. It is longer than an episode of The Simpsons. And that is the point. Enjoy! www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4Ek...

Two Minutes of The Simpsonswww.youtube.com TWO MINUTES of the classic Simpsons episode 'Homer Badman', taken apart to see how it works...Joel Morris is a BAFTA Award-winning comedy writer, and the aut...

What you got? #detectorists www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Wicker Man’s on t’ telly tonight. BBC4. 10pm. Hope it’s the new print. That’s a glorious thing. Please do not get overexcited and torch your local Equalizer. (Best wishes from Burrow Head, May Day, 2023.)

Ordinary police hub on the outside, but almost certainly bigger on the inside.

Meet PC Pod: Sussex police hope shed-sized station can cut crimewww.theguardian.com Town centre hub in Crawley intended to act as deterrent and give people chance to talk to officers