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Dan Donnelly @dandonnelly.ca · 14/10/2026

Imagine saying 'fuck' on live network TV and that's not what anyone is complaining about

Dan Donnelly @dandonnelly.ca · 02/10/2026

Josh Thomas and Jacob Collier are both at the Elgin and Winter Garden theatres tomorrow night so I guess this will answer an important question for the tiny but probably real Josh Thomas/Jacob Collier slash fiction community

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Dan Donnelly @dandonnelly.ca · 27/09/2026

Sierra games also shaped me, but more in the sense of enduring trauma

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Dan Donnelly @dandonnelly.ca · 27/09/2026

I am 100% in my musicology outfit here, which became my standup outfit

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Dan Donnelly @dandonnelly.ca · 25/09/2026

People online yelling about how Ryan Murphy distorted the facts of the Lizzie Borden case in a show that has cherry trees in full bloom all year including when they are fruiting

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Dan Donnelly @dandonnelly.ca · 24/09/2026

When you run ads on Meta you end up getting a bunch of Meta ads about running ads on Meta, which is kind of meta of Meta

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Dan Donnelly @dandonnelly.ca · 24/09/2026

Seems like prison would be the right place for Clavicular to realize his dream of spending all his time working on his body and having sex with men, but there was probably an easier way to do it

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Dan Donnelly @dandonnelly.ca · 11/09/2026

25 years ago Americans said 'never forget' and then elected two presidents and several members of congress with advanced dementia

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Dan Donnelly @dandonnelly.ca · 03/09/2026

Drake's Toronto mansion flooded in yesterday's rain and he's very upset about it, which is odd considering his usual attitude about getting something conceived in 2015 wet downstairs.

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Dan Donnelly @dandonnelly.ca · 02/09/2026

The fact that our phones make the same warning noise for thunderstorms and Amber Alerts is, if anything, evidence in favour of the existence of Zeus

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Dan Donnelly @dandonnelly.ca · 18/08/2026

Not exactly what I was hoping for in my campaign for someone to finally see the virtue in a home-grown panel show

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Dan Donnelly @dandonnelly.ca · 05/08/2026

Besides the pro football and snooker and ultramarathons, I mean

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Dan Donnelly @dandonnelly.ca · 05/08/2026

It's a good thing Arday never officially resigned at Glasgow so he has something to fall back on

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Dan Donnelly @dandonnelly.ca · 01/08/2026

Every so often when I need to look something up in Japanese I mistype 'jisho' as 'josho' and get some Australian guy

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Dan Donnelly @dandonnelly.ca · 18/07/2026

My least favourite video game genre is indie games where the team has clearly poured their collective heart and soul into absolutely nailing an aesthetic and then the writing is so ass none of it matters

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Dan Donnelly @dandonnelly.ca · 17/07/2026

After the failed attempts with Susan B. Anthony and Sacagawea I'm glad the Treasury finally figured out a way to get the average American excited about dollar coins

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Dan Donnelly @dandonnelly.ca · 11/07/2026

Chiquita, narrated by Plumbert Plumbert

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Dan Donnelly @dandonnelly.ca · 21/06/2026

Toronto has never felt more like Paris...with Germans marching through the streets and a Vichy regime to our south

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Dan Donnelly @dandonnelly.ca · 27/05/2026

Pro tip: the only time you should model something iconic this closely is when the reference is meant to be obvious, like a parody or homage

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Dan Donnelly @dandonnelly.ca · 27/05/2026

Unicorn Overlord uses this ersatz Adagio for Strings during the 'tragic' scenes and it yanks me out of narrative every time it drifts in and out of direct quotation www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCUo...

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Unicorn Overlord OST - Tragic

YouTube video by sleeping0dragon

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Dan Donnelly @dandonnelly.ca · 27/05/2026

Writing a Bleach/Les Mis crossover doujin called Inspector Javel

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Dan Donnelly @dandonnelly.ca · 24/04/2026

The only place in Boston where no one ate beans

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Dan Donnelly @dandonnelly.ca · 09/04/2026

Sorry, my playbill says it's The Moops

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Dan Donnelly @dandonnelly.ca · 01/04/2026

Japanese pro tip: make sure you use the right counting words to ensure you get what you want!

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Dan Donnelly @dandonnelly.ca · 01/04/2026

-寿司屋さん! 飛び子を一人ください。 -あの、飛び子を一つってつもりですか？ -いいえ。

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Dan Donnelly @dandonnelly.ca · 26/03/2026

Student: Hey Claude, I'm mad about the current geopolitical situation and want to protest but I also have 8 hours of short-form video to watch. Can you disrupt the primary function of the university and turn it into a miserable and hopeless environment for everyone involved? Claude: Already done!

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Dan Donnelly @dandonnelly.ca · 26/03/2026

Presumably students are now just asking Claude to do it for them

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Dan Donnelly @dandonnelly.ca · 13/03/2026

I'm so glad Gavin Newsom can serve as living proof that an ordinary schlub with a 960 SAT score, a state appeals court judge father, and an oil billionaire family friend can become governor of California

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Dan Donnelly @dandonnelly.ca · 09/03/2026

Whenever I see this old chestnut pop up on the internet I think that the show should be hosted by @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social as a kind of meta joke and the contestants' only clue to what is really going on.

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Dan Donnelly @dandonnelly.ca · 01/03/2026

Fun fact: my dissertation was (basically) about how the Venetian/literary Italian diglossia was reflected (and subverted) in 16th-c Venetian music

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Dan Donnelly @dandonnelly.ca · 01/03/2026

In addition to creating the essay, Montaigne was the first to pair a Fu Manchu moustache with cartoon baby hair

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Dan Donnelly @dandonnelly.ca · 01/03/2026

But we can all agree 'Operation Epic Fury' sounds like the name of a 4chan raid on a company that makes DRM for hentai games

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Dan Donnelly @dandonnelly.ca · 18/02/2026

New vocabulary proposal: if you undergo twink death and are not reincarnated as a daddy you become a twombie

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Dan Donnelly @dandonnelly.ca · 16/02/2026

Erosion is cancelled. I do think it's funny how these natural features always seem to fit in with local culture, e.g. Italy had this arch symbolizing love and romance while New Hampshire had an old man living alone on a mountain because he thought sales tax was theft

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Dan Donnelly @dandonnelly.ca · 12/02/2026

Olympic figure skating is a lot like a middle school gym class in 1985 in that it involves a twink bottom trying to pass as masc by being athletic, nobody buying it, and a bunch of people throwing stuff at him before he starts crying.

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And a Scotch Egg @andascotchegg.com · 10/02/2026

Our first live epiode at #TorontoComiCon is now online! Check it out on YouTube or our website: andascotchegg.com youtu.be/XaFgL0sikTY

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Comedy Game Showdown - Live from Toronto ComiCon 2023! (Full Episode)

YouTube video by And a Scotch Egg

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Dan Donnelly @dandonnelly.ca · 29/01/2026

While you're waiting for our next live show in Toronto Mar 3, check out the recording of our trip to #montrealfringe! youtu.be/xxTdEmRnA9A

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Comedy Game Showdown - Live from Montreal Fringe! (Full Episode)

YouTube video by And a Scotch Egg

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Dan Donnelly @dandonnelly.ca · 14/12/2025

I know there have been a lot of Frankenstein adaptations recently but I would definitely watch this one

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Dan Donnelly @dandonnelly.ca · 14/12/2025

I am the official 2025 roast champion of Welland, Ontario! Thanks so much Rose City Comedy Collective for creating such a wonderful space and community (and for the most money I've ever made in comedy) and to my very funny and formidable opponents. (Roast Record update: 8-0)

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Dan Donnelly @dandonnelly.ca · 09/12/2025

Trains always think they can safely go off their lithium but six weeks later they inevitably go off the rails

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Dan Donnelly @dandonnelly.ca · 09/12/2025

I've never seen Fran Lebowitz looking so heroic

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And a Scotch Egg @andascotchegg.com · 09/12/2025

#Toronto! Come to this FREE standup showcase tonight featuring ten of the city's best comics taping their very best material! 8pm - SoCap Comedy (Danforth at Broadview) Tix and info: andascotchegg.com

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Dan Donnelly @dandonnelly.ca · 07/12/2025

And come to think of it, I wouldn't naturally think of brownies as a type of square or bar. To me that requires at least two distinct layers. Brownie is a kind of sheet cake, albeit a dense one. Clearly Wikipedia disagrees on that point though

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Dan Donnelly @dandonnelly.ca · 07/12/2025

To me just 'square' without a specifier like 'lemon' sounds naked. 'Bar', too. If I'm asking if there are any Nanaimo bars left, 'Nanaimo' is required

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