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Poetry, bikes, dementia care...
Poetry, bikes, dementia care...
In the week that BBC reporters are told to be more “sweaty and dirty” to earn the trust of viewers, Not the 8.30 News reports live from the gym. A Roald Dahl-inspired revisionist history edition in which we give Putin the magic finger, tell Brexiters…
In a week that saw the Americans shoot down several more Chinese spy balloons over the United States, RAF fighter ace, Sir Keir “Biggles” Starmer, attempts to shoot down a number of bloated blimps flying in UK airspace. Plus the former (In)Justice Secretary, Dominic Raab,…
With the appointment of Grant Shapps as Minister for Energy Security what could possibly go wrong? Turns out quite a bit… On the Internet’s slowest growing satirical skit thingy this week, a bull called Boris who spends his time sketching his namesake from cow pats.…
A news medley this week… Westminster Disunited sack their out of form defender Nadhim Zahawi for picking up too many penalties. The Andrew formerly known as Prince on those Daily Telegraph claims it was “too small” to frolic with Virginia Giuffre. British motor manufacturers launch…
In a week of political uncertainty about the future of the former British chancellor and Tory party chairman, Nadhim Zahawi, we have exclusive news of a potential move into showbiz. Our correspondent, Jeremy PacMan, reports live from Downing Street on this, the Internet’s slowest-growing satirical…
On the Internet’s slowest-growing satirical show this week… New Zealand Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, shows British leaders the stylish way to resign. Rishi Sunak and Nicola Sturgeon get caught in a sex change mix up. Plus boxing promoter, Don King, signs two total lightweights for…
On the Internet’s slowest-growing satirical show this week… Mick Lynch, fresh from his barnstorming performance as General Secretary of the National Union of Rail Workers, stars as James the Red Engine in “Thomas & Enemies: All Engines Stop” – a not so chuffing reboot of…
On the Internet’s slowest-growing satirical show this week… news of new line up for The Grand Tour without Jeremy Clarkson. British politicians do a Donald in an attempt to trump Trump at cards. And how the Bank of England got the wrong King Charles on…
The second episode of Not the 8.30 News – the internet’s fastest growing and not-at-all derivative satirical current affairs show. With digs this week at the Health Secretary, Steve Barclay, the Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, the Justice Secretary, Dominic Raab, and, for that penalty miss,…
It was billed as an evening of music and words. And because it was being held at the Chang Thai bar in Ludlow with its Buddhist kitsch decor, was called The Elephant in the Room. What the organisers hadn’t reckoned on was a bunch of…
The Big Live Breakfast Burrito is perhaps the weirdest show on the Internet. Hosted on LinkedIn and restreamed live to YouTube, Facebook and Twitter plus a heap of other platforms in theory in should be unwatchable. But somehow its compelling mix of what one viewer…
Bloodless skin too tightly drawn for lips. White. Like supermarket chicken. A row of teeth along the bottom curve. None along the top. (You lost those long ago.) And that moustache that grandmas get And tickle when you kiss. It’s four. Trying to remember that…