Oliver Double @oliverdouble.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I freakin' love making collages, me! Vintage magazines, scissors, Pritt stick. They're the makings of an ace afternoon for me! 100
Oliver Double @oliverdouble.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Green mandolin? Check! Purple jacket? Check? T-shirt from anarchist commune in Copenhagen? Check! This can only mean one thing - I'm ready to compere the first Funny Rabbit of the autumn season at Gulbenkian Arts Centre tonight. If you're around, why not check it out? 000
Oliver Double @oliverdouble.bsky.social · 23/09/2026RANDY PIGS, EEL JOWLS, FEED DINNER OR SAD, SIN PROD FELCH! Particularly pleased with the anagrams I've come up with for this Friday's show! Want to see the acts that these represent? Info and booking here: thegulbenkian.co.uk/events/funny... 001
Oliver Double @oliverdouble.bsky.social · 22/09/2026This is really important and well worth supporting. If you're involved in comedy, please consider signing it. Only takes a couple of mins. thecraft.lol/back-british...thecraft.lolBack British Comedy — CRAFTCRAFT leads the comedy industry campaign for the Prime Minister to Back British Comedy in this upcoming Autumn Budget. 000
Oliver Double @oliverdouble.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Ordered this from our local bookshop, Harbour Books and picked it up today. When I ordered it they said they'd had to order a few copies. And when I picked it up they said the first print run is sold out. I'm a big fan of Alexei, so I'm really excited to read it. 110
Oliver Double @oliverdouble.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Look how much fun we had in our spring season! Autumn season starts 25 September at the Gulbenkian. thegulbenkian.co.uk/events/funny... 000
Oliver Double @oliverdouble.bsky.social · 16/09/2026The Rabbit hops back on 25 September! To celebrate, here's our intro video made by the brilliant Paul Elliott. 100
Oliver Double @oliverdouble.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Me and my Dad on his 80th birthday back in 2012. Posting this to celebrate the fact I've finished making series 2 of my podcast Letters to my Dead Dad today. Just a few last minute bits and bobs and I'll start releasing 'em. 001
Oliver Double @oliverdouble.bsky.social · 10/09/2026What a delightful thing to receive in the post yesterday - What We Did in the Plague by the mighty Phill Jupitus 000
Oliver Double @oliverdouble.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I'm flattered, Quordle, but I should remind you that I am married 000
Oliver Double @oliverdouble.bsky.social · 08/09/2026We went to see Altered Images last Friday. They were utterly fab. Was just looking at the pics I took and noticed that someone seemed to have a question for the amazing Clare Grogan in this one. 001
Oliver Double @oliverdouble.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Look who I met on Whitstable beach earlier this evening! I was down there recording intros for the new series of Letters to my Dead Dad and the whole time I was there, a juvenile herring gull stood and watched! 100
Oliver Double @oliverdouble.bsky.social · 05/09/2026"A big boy did it and ran away," says Farage. Reform UK leader also maintains he does have a girlfriend but you don't know her and she goes to a different school. 000
Oliver Double @oliverdouble.bsky.social · 31/08/2026The most rock'n'roll moment from my set at Gardenbury last night was latecomers knocking the side of the tent down during one of my songs. Watch the clip to see my phone (on its tripod) collapsing straight into my mandolin. It's like Iggy Pop was right there in the tent. 000
Oliver Double @oliverdouble.bsky.social · 31/08/2026This collage art finally makes it onto a Funny Rabbit poster! I did this years ago, but I think it got lost in the plague years when so many shows were cancelled or rearranged due to Covid. 120
Oliver Double @oliverdouble.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Want a free copy of this? Last September, I posted about the fact that I've got a load of copies of this DVD to give away for FREE. 100
Oliver Double @oliverdouble.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Photographic evidence that I really do record the intros to my podcast Letters to my Dead Dad on Whitstable beach. This is me, there, recording the intros to ep 5 and 6 of series 2, earlier this afternoon. My feet got all silty! 000
Oliver Double @oliverdouble.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Really delighted to announce the speaker for this year's Linda Smith Lecture will be the mighty @jocaulfield.bsky.social Want to hear what Jo has to say? Then get yourself down to the Gulbenkian Arts Centre on 17 November! Hooray! 0113
Oliver Double @oliverdouble.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Colander back to its normal job. Bit of a comedown I imagine. 000
Oliver Double @oliverdouble.bsky.social · 27/07/2026To mark the passing of Bill Oddie, here's a drawing that our son did of him back in 2003, as part of an infant school assignment. 1102
Oliver Double @oliverdouble.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Cologne 3/7/26. Pic 1 cathedral. Pic 2 creepy puppets in shop window. Pic 3 graffiti. Photos #2 from our holiday. Stay tuned for more snaps over the next few days. 010
Oliver Double @oliverdouble.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Manneken Pis chocolate, Brussels, 3/7/26. Sadly, he doesn't pee cocoa. Photo #1 from our holiday. Stay tuned for more snaps over the next few days. 000
Oliver Double @oliverdouble.bsky.social · 04/07/2026Found this excellently named snack in a shop on Cologne station 010
Oliver Double @oliverdouble.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Masses of starlings in Whitstable last night - set to a top tune. Enjoy! 000
Oliver Double @oliverdouble.bsky.social · 06/06/2026Demonstrating how I can't do crowdwork is always the way into the "Stupid Questions" section of Funny Rabbit. 100
Oliver Double @oliverdouble.bsky.social · 31/05/2026Here's me giving the keynote at Humour: An Interdisciplinary Symposium for TORCH at the University of Oxford on Friday. The title of my talk is From Charity Shops to the British Stand-Up Comedy Archive. 130
Oliver Double @oliverdouble.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Onstage at the Blind Pig in Folkestone last night with audience in a playful mood. Performing there at the first night of Sharp Turns, a cabaret night run by Liz Page, Will Train and Jono. 110
Oliver Double @oliverdouble.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Water outage in Whitstable. No water again today. This sign one of many I spotted when I went out to get bottled water this morning. South East Water is an absolute disgrace. No warning given. Nobody answering the phones. The simple truth is they don't care. 121
Oliver Double @oliverdouble.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Going to be compering this great gig with three amazing comedians I've been lucky enough to teach, Kyrah Gray, Laura Lexx and Adam Dorr plus one brilliant ranting poet who I've been a fan of since I was a teen, Attila the Stockbroker. 110
Oliver Double @oliverdouble.bsky.social · 24/05/2026This is how happy I look when I see one's of Poly Styrene's costumes in the flesh. Poly Styrene was the leader of X-Ray Spex - one of the the most brilliant and original punk bands of all time. 110
Oliver Double @oliverdouble.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Last one of the spring season tomorrow night with Steve Bugeja and Ingrid Dahle plus guest spots from Livi Kolinsky, Harry Ainsworth and David Robert not to mention a ton of craziness I'm not going to go into here. Want to find out what's in store? You've got to be there! 100
Oliver Double @oliverdouble.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Hit a roadblock working out anagrams of the acts' names for this Friday's Funny Rabbit. One of 'em has 2 Ks in it and there's only one K in a standard Scrabble set. Thank God for Boggle! #scrabble #boggle #anagrams #funnyrabbitcomedyclub #gulbenkianartscentre 000
Oliver Double @oliverdouble.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Here's me getting a laugh when I'm not even in the room at the last Funny Rabbit. 100
Oliver Double @oliverdouble.bsky.social · 17/05/2026New T-shirt. Nothing else for it but dancing around to the Roobarb theme like a loon. 161
Oliver Double @oliverdouble.bsky.social · 16/05/2026Here's strongwoman Joan Rhodes, because it's Music Hall & Variety Day 2026! Joan wore fishnets as she tore up telephone directories, bent steel bars and challenged men in the audience to feats of strength. And she always won! 111
Oliver Double @oliverdouble.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Here's my drawing of music hall comedian Mark Sheridan. I'll be singing his most famous song at next week's Funny Rabbit Comedy Club But can you name it? Posting this in advance of tomorrow's Music Hall & Variety Day 2026. Tiddly-om-pom-pom! 043
Oliver Double @oliverdouble.bsky.social · 15/05/2026No, LinkedIn, I do not know Peter Hitchens, nor do I want to connect with him. 020
Oliver Double @oliverdouble.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Cap'n Sam in Monday's May Day parade in Whitstable. I reckon he bears a passing resemblance to David O'Doherty. 010
Oliver Double @oliverdouble.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Hooden horse in Monday's May Day Parade in Whitstable. It spotted me taking photos and posed obligingly, giving me its best angle. Got to love a cheeky hooden horse! 010
Oliver Double @oliverdouble.bsky.social · 04/05/2026I love how this morris dancer played to my camera in this morning's May Day celebrations. 000
Oliver Double @oliverdouble.bsky.social · 03/05/2026When they were kids, one of my kids drew this pic of me. My favourite bit is the stink lines. 010
Oliver Double @oliverdouble.bsky.social · 29/04/2026I'm doing the keynote at a symposium at Oxford University next month. Oo, get me! 140
Oliver Double @oliverdouble.bsky.social · 24/04/2026Interview I did for the Kent Current has just been published. Read it here: www.kentcurrent.news/embrace-your...kentcurrent.news“Embrace your inner oddball”What we asked Oliver Double, Reader in Comic and Popular Performance at the University of Kent 010
Oliver Double @oliverdouble.bsky.social · 23/04/2026Lovely birthday teatime at Harbour Street Tapas last night, followed by a beautiful beach walk. Fab! 000
