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Jem Roberts: Author &c.

@jemroberts.bsky.social
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Dad/author/comedy historian/folklorist/performer. Douglas Adams’ official biographer. Authorised chronicler for ISIHAC, Blackadder and Fry & Laurie. @talesofbritain.bsky.social @fabfools.bsky.social jemroberts.com www.talesofbritain.com

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Tales of Britain @talesofbritain.bsky.social · 6h
There’s a new book out claiming to be full of “forgotten” and “untold” “tales of the isles”… Jimmy Hill, esq.
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Jem Roberts: Author &c. @jemroberts.bsky.social · 6h
‘Nightingales’ comes full circle! “Turn thy wheel…” www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/o...
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King Lear review – David Threlfall makes a moving Lear, but why is he playing the Fool too?
Matthew Dunster’s disruptive reinvention of the tragedy merges two roles for its star and at times enters Game of Thrones territory
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Dave Law @davelaw.bsky.social · 7h
I reckon that the White House staff in the laundry room would know more about indelible stains.
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Jem Roberts: Author &c. @jemroberts.bsky.social · 8h
Just think how much time and money Caroline Lucas wasted plopping her skinny arse in the Green leader chair for all those years, just propping up a racist system. People like her are the real problem – decoy “progressives”.
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Jem Roberts: Author &c. @jemroberts.bsky.social · 8h
The wettest fart of the lowliest rat in the filthiest sewer is of far greater value than anything old Otto Hilter will ever spew up ever again.
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Jem Roberts: Author &c. @jemroberts.bsky.social · 8h
Andy Burnham may just achieve the odd slightly positive thing in his time in office, cosmetically right the odd wrong. ID cards, whatever. Yawn. He’s still a Zionist shill. Cleaning your teeth with the toilet brush might shift the odd stain, but it won’t freshen your breath much.
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Jem Roberts: Author &c. @jemroberts.bsky.social · 9h
How did we ever think Americans could be relied on to create a nation which wouldn’t slide into the worst form of fascism, when they couldn’t even comprehend the obviously correct date order of Day/Month/Year?
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Jem Roberts: Author &c. @jemroberts.bsky.social · 9h
When you have a kid, and that cheap poison is still being pushed on innocent minds, how the hell can you explain to them that *not one penny* of our money will ever go towards the promotion of prejudice & hate? You don’t want that third-hand toss to seem taboo and cool, when it’s just hateful shite.
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Jem Roberts: Author &c. @jemroberts.bsky.social · 9h
Christ, I wish we could just permanently cancel the Harry Potter franchise, as it deserves.
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Jem Roberts: Author &c. @jemroberts.bsky.social · 19h
Why would Trump ever actually WANT the Nobel Peace Prize?! Does he think there’s a “pussy” on one side or something? It’s like John Lennon wanting a machine gun, or Morrissey demanding Employee of the Month at an abbatoir.
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Jem Roberts: Author &c. @jemroberts.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Well, the stage is set for the first FOLK N FUNNY of the 2020s! #RamblingSydRumpo #BathFolk #Folk #VicandBob #Beatles #Bonzos #Wurzels
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Jem Roberts: Author &c. @jemroberts.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The secret of a healthy society is to platform Melanie Phillips, get her to list all her beliefs, then enshrine the exact opposite of every point in your national constitution. Before twanging the bastard into the sun.
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Jem Roberts: Author &c. @jemroberts.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Good Americans: “Wow, I really hope the billionaires who own everything and who have openly admitted to winning elections purely by cheating somehow lose the upcoming elections!” Yay, democracy!
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Jem Roberts: Author &c. @jemroberts.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
John Mortimer missed a trick not to show the moments where Leo McKern regenerated into each of these Rumpoles.
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Jem Roberts: Author &c. @jemroberts.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Ian Hislop somehow seems to find it unfathomable that any political party could ever consider stating a patently true fact about genocide. Like the lies are permanently unquestionable. The Private Eye editor. But haha, Polanski runs funny. A new post-Boris nadir. #HIGNFY
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Jem Roberts: Author &c. @jemroberts.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Racism is simply not relative. It’s an empirical, objective thing. Either you realise a human is a human or you don’t, anything else is doublethink at best.
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Jem Roberts: Author &c. @jemroberts.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I wouldn’t trust Clive Myrie to sit the right way round on a truth.
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Jem Roberts: Author &c. @jemroberts.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Ian Hislop somehow seems to find it unfathomable that any political party could ever consider stating a patently true fact about genocide. Like the lies are permanently unquestionable. The Private Eye editor. But haha, Polanski runs funny. A new post-Boris nadir. #HIGNFY
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Jem Roberts: Author &c. @jemroberts.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
John Mortimer missed a trick not to show the moments where Leo McKern regenerated into each of these Rumpoles.
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Jem Roberts: Author &c. @jemroberts.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
D'you think I could get unemployment benefit if I were to enrol at the Job Centre as a Witchsmeller? I am really good at smelling witches.
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Jem Roberts: Author &c. @jemroberts.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I say I say I say... but nobody ever listens.
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Jem Roberts: Author &c. @jemroberts.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I’m not going to make old bones. I’m far too busy.
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Jem Roberts: Author &c. @jemroberts.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I don't think LinkedIn is really worth the bother. I bet not one single person has ever got a shag out of that site.
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Fab Fools @fabfools.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Just dawned on me how similar the idea is to the very first comedy sketch I ever wrote, aged 19 – which I never used for anything, being ultimately such a weak concept…
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Jem Roberts: Author &c. @jemroberts.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Today's @the-independent.com front page: American spellings, and a huge egregious Slow Horses spoiler. Not even pretending to be a real news service any more.
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Jem Roberts: Author &c. @jemroberts.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Mary Whitehouse used to wear HORN-RIMMED glasses. Dirty cow.
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Fab Fools @fabfools.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I hadn't noticed someone edited together all the Harry & Paul 'Silver Beatles' sketches; it hits differently as a 15-minute piece. Still almost entirely composed of "WTF WHY I MEAN FRIGGING WHAT?" moments, though. And ace Phil Pope tunes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ekxr... #FabFoolsFriday ✌🏾🎶🃏
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Harry and Paul - ALL Series 3 Beatles sketches (2010)
YouTube video by Max Levinton
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Jem Roberts: Author &c. @jemroberts.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
88% of all funny North Americans are Canadian. Everyone knows that.
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Jem Roberts: Author &c. @jemroberts.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
You do realise Stephen King isn't actually a great novelist, right? He's a successful writer. That couldn't be a more different thing. He spooks poorly educated yanks with his incessant outpouring of samey chillers. But he's not Hardy. He's not Eliot. He's a popcorn shifter.
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Jem Roberts: Author &c. @jemroberts.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Congratulations to Sagal Abdi-Wali! There's good money to be made in propping up the racist holocaust.
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Jem Roberts: Author &c. @jemroberts.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
There's not a lot around to cheer you up these days, but here's the source of a smile: Andy Burnham knows what he has become – he clearly once had the ability to look at his own face in the mirror. He has to live the rest of his life without that ability. Years of deserved self-loathing await him.
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Jem Roberts: Author &c. @jemroberts.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It’s almost funny to reflect that with so many of the worst of the worst running to Reform, right now the Conservative Party, despite the utter scum who remain, must be only HALF as toxic as the unashamedly racist Labour Party. The first time they’ve been comparably almost okay.
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Jem Roberts: Author &c. @jemroberts.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Good people do not defend fascist propaganda arm BBC News. It’s that simple:
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Jem Roberts: Author &c. @jemroberts.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Live streaming executions is a great idea, if you’re executing the right people. Obese shit-stinking senile child-murdering paedophile orange fascists, for instance.
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Jem Roberts: Author &c. @jemroberts.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Live streaming executions is a great idea, if you’re executing the right people. Obese shit-stinking senile child-murdering paedophile orange fascists, for instance.
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Jem Roberts: Author &c. @jemroberts.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Good people do not defend fascist propaganda arm BBC News. It’s that simple:
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Jem Roberts: Author &c. @jemroberts.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It’s almost funny to reflect that with so many of the worst of the worst running to Reform, right now the Conservative Party, despite the utter scum who remain, must be only HALF as toxic as the unashamedly racist Labour Party. The first time they’ve been comparably almost okay.
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Jem Roberts: Author &c. @jemroberts.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Racist expects anti-racist to drop all semblance of morality in the name of supporting genocidal fascism. Way to go, you useless monkey.
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Jem Roberts: Author &c. @jemroberts.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Racist expects anti-racist to drop all semblance of morality in the name of supporting genocidal fascism. Way to go, you useless monkey.
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Jem Roberts: Author &c. @jemroberts.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Why did Americans ever think Jon Lovitz was funny? Is it something congential?
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Jem Roberts: Author &c. @jemroberts.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Tales of Britain LIVE at The Grapes, Bath this Saturday!
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Jem Roberts: Author &c. @jemroberts.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Holocaust deniers are the absolute worst of the worst – especially when it’s a current holocaust happening in full view right now.
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Jem Roberts: Author &c. @jemroberts.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Business venture: Peter Greenawayagram! We send a naked castrato to your party to sing Happy Birthday, then get gored to death by a bullock.
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Jem Roberts: Author &c. @jemroberts.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Pop Larkin was always offended whenever anyone drew attention to his speech defeck.
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Jem Roberts: Author &c. @jemroberts.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I’m such a huge Casper the Friendly Ghost fan! I'm so glad that little boy died.
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Jem Roberts: Author &c. @jemroberts.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I know a vegan republican who washes with Leather. Hypocrite.
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Jem Roberts: Author &c. @jemroberts.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The next UK General Election will be the most precise barometer of the intelligence of the electorate ever taken. Anyone with a working brain and heart knows that at this stage there is only one moral voting option left – the one every media outlet is inevitably excoriating right now.
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Jem Roberts: Author &c. @jemroberts.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Zack Polanski isn't doing or saying anything that Andy fucking Burnham wouldn't be, if he had a pair of balls and a moral compass.
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Jem Roberts: Author &c. @jemroberts.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Just to be clear on this, the current "Labour" lineup is by far the most racist political party of my lifetime.
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Jem Roberts: Author &c. @jemroberts.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Zack Polanski has to learn his lesson – the British media and establishment do not take kindly to the truth, especially if it's in the name of in any way gaining the *tiniest atom* of increased hope and decency in society. They will make the remainder of his existence unbearable.
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