Twitter quitters
Stephen Fry’s quit Twitter again, after his joke at the Baftas about a friend’s outfit backfired horribly. Jenny Beavan won a Bafta – good for her! – but Stephen’s ‘bag lady’ jibe was a step too far for other tweeters. On the one hand, yes they are friends and I’m sure she knows he wasn’t […]
House of Fraser gets uncomfortably Emojinal
You’ll remember where you were on the morning of February 1st, 2016. It’s a turning point you’ll never forget. Today will go down in history as the day that House of Fraser’s Twitter account went completely bonkers. It’s been taken over by something called #Emojinal, a word and movement that seems to have been made […]
National Television Awards 2016: our highlights
We watched the National Television Awards last night. If you were following our Twitter account, it would have been very easy to tell. The show kicked off with Dermot O’Leary taking a crash course in survival skills with Bear Grylls. No sooner had we speculated that Dermot may be on course to drink his own […]
We wish you a Telly Christmas…
Last week Elf stormed our poll, with over 50% of your votes hailing it as the ultimate comedy Christmas movie. I don’t know about you guys, but I’m getting pretty excited for Christmas. Right now, I am wearing pants that have a little bell on the front that jingles when I walk and they say […]
We don’t want your sort around here
If you’ve been using Facebook or Twitter over the weekend, you may well have seen the following screenshot. I stumbled across it via a tweet from Suzy Bennett, winner of the 2006 Funny Women Awards. Here’s the image in question that’s been doing the rounds: There’s been a fair amount of debate as to whether […]
No sex, please, we’re comedians
First we had to choose between being funny or sexy. Then, suddenly funny WAS sexy to some people (and still is). And now, there’s evidently no way you could ever confuse the two. I refer you to this disconcerting bit from the Guardian: “Sexy has little place in comedy. Comedy is sad and messy. When […]
