John-Luke Roberts

@jlukeroberts.bsky.social

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Writer, Comedian, Actor, Public Intellectual, Winner BBC Audio Drama Award for Best Sketch Comedy. Forever in our hearts.

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The old joke about asking for directions and getting the answer "well, I wouldn't start from here" pops into my head when I think about just about anything going on these days.

New Wordings up jlukeroberts.substack.com/p/wordings-n...

Wordings Nineteen: Sat Navjlukeroberts.substack.com A short prose poem

Q. What do you call it when a cowboy serves a bunch of cured meats and cheeses on a piece of wood? A. A sharp-shootery board!

New Wordings - a poem about Taylor Swift, sort of jlukeroberts.substack.com/p/wordings-e...

Wordings Eighteen: Taylor Swiftjlukeroberts.substack.com A poem about Taylor Swift one day coming for us all

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We may disagree politically but we are both of us fascinated by pneumatic tubes. Let’s build on this

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Batman '67

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The Beauty of an animated adaptation of Piranesi by Laika is immeasurable; its Kindness infinite: reactormag.com/laika-is-cre...

Laika Is Creating an Animated Adaptation of Susanna Clarke's Piranesi - Reactorreactormag.com Travis Knight will direct the adaptation

Don't Look Now is one of my very favourite films. Maybe I'll watch it tonight in tribute.

Remember, stressed is puddings spelled wrong.

🎵There's Noam Chomsky Like Show Chomsky No Noam Chomsky I know!!!!🎵

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Today I turn 39. I'm dealing with it the sensible way - by reacquainting myself with 14 years of deeply personally solo show art comedy, and meeting myself at all different times of my adult life. Why, how would YOU deal with it? By having a nice times?

Has someone written the "Commonalities between Charli XCX and Sparks" essay or will I have to do it myself?

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@jlukeroberts.bsky.social That’s nice of you.

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I’ve just scheduled next Monday’s episode of Sound Heap with @jlukeroberts.bsky.social and it’s got a bit that’s so genuinely beautiful and heartwarming that I tear up a little every time I hear it.

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SomeBODY once warned me The place that stood forlornly Was not a great or honourable plaaace No great commemorated They just communicated The dangerous disgusting disgrace WELL The danger's thrumming & it won't stop thrumming Don't dig it up not even for plumbing

Hard to top that. Unless Smash Mouth’s long term nuclear waste warning?

I've just hit 200 subscribers! That's 200 people I send a poem or something to every week, asking nothing in return because well I don't know why open.substack.com/pub/jlukerob...

Wordings Sixteen: The Pleasures of Oblivionopen.substack.com A poem

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The Things People Do For A Friend

I've been writing Deathbed Limericks. I'm not on my deathbed, so I leave the last line of each one unfinished. When I'm dying, I’ll finish them. If I die at short notice, they’ll stay as they are. More up in this week's Wordings newsletter jlukeroberts.substack.com/p/wordings-f...

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The Difference

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remind me, when companies create an actual revolutionary technology that is going to change the world, do they usually have to beg users to adopt it, give it away for free for years, and at last resort force it on people with no way to disable it? Is that usually how revolutionary tech works?

At the Edinburgh Fringe, I'm performing every one of my 10 solo comedy shows again. AND I HAVE A QUESTION... what merch would you dream of? tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/joh...

John Luke Roberts: John-Luke-A-Palooza!tickets.edfringe.com John-Luke Roberts does every solo comedy show he’s ever done in a row, and then goes back to the first one and does them again until the Fringe runs out. Juvenalia! Patricide! Spice Girls! Parallel wo...

Wait, I'm an idiot - the most plausible mythical creature is the dachshund.

What do you think the most plausible mythical creature is? I think it's the jackalope, but the unicorn is close behind.

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Wordings Fourteen: Worms, Soil, etc.open.substack.com A palliative piece

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sir, it is not "woke" that makes you not enjoy a fifty-minute documentary about men who trick women into relationships by pretending to play shrek in a touring production of the musical shrek.

My aunt (who is a nun) called to say she has listened to this episode, and thinks it's very good, although she doesn't know who Shrek is (but has worked out he's someone famous). maximumfun.org/episodes/sou...

Episode 5: Ogre & Ogre Again - The ShrekFished | Maximum Funmaximumfun.org A whole episode dedicated to the series by investigative Soosty, Soosty Carpripe, Orge & Ogre Again: The ShrekFished.