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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There is a Minotaur Living in My Puzzle app...

There are now twenty-one things like this up on my substack. Subscribe for heaven's sake jlukeroberts.substack.com

Wordings Twenty-One: Minotaurjlukeroberts.substack.com A short thing about puzzles

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

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Mike

You retweeted it, though

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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Joel Morris

Ooh that's a sharp insight

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Batman '67

Oooh

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...

Thank you

Thank you both, I'm no longer exasperated, and in fact I sort of regret the loss of mystery

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Roger Langridge

This is exasperating

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The Difference