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Stu Cooper

@stucooper1.bsky.social
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Writer/script ed: sketch, panel shows, podcasts. Commissioned The Skewer-er, Dead Ringers, Lead Writer for BBC Breaking The News, Naked Week, OG Kirrin Islander. Relatively inoffensive views.

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Stephen Mawhinnney @sjmawhinney.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Here's this week's #TheSkewer for you to enjoy. Our bit is about Pressure in Portsmouth and a nod in the oneliners to Hamilton and 'Allo 'Allo. Oh yes we've got range. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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The Skewer - Series 17 - We don't know. Like Nigel Farage, we weren't listening. - BBC Sounds
We don't know what's in the show as, like Nigel Farage, we weren't listening.
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Stu Cooper @stucooper1.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
In Turkey they're more blunt in how they feel about old school Coke
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Stu Cooper @stucooper1.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Were there lead weights in Jed Spence's jaw protector?
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Stu Cooper @stucooper1.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
With that result it's safe to remind you to listen to last week's Dead Ringers including our latest Thomas Tuchel sketch (plus Rob and Sue are back from the To Catch A King podcast). www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Dead Ringers - Series 27 - Heat, Hydration and Harry Kane - BBC Sounds
The Dead Ringers team train their vocal firepower on the week’s news. This week = HOT.
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Stu Cooper @stucooper1.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Just waiting for John Terry to appear on the pitch in his England kit at the final whistle
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Stu Cooper @stucooper1.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Gordon's alive!
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Stephen Mawhinnney @sjmawhinney.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
If you missed it here's yesterday's episode of #BreakingTheNews And the first part of the episode will tell you what major news story broke during the recording. (And features stuff by @stucooper1.bsky.social @swerytd.bsky.social and myself) www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Breaking the News - Gareth Waugh, Ria Lina, Christopher Macarthur-Boyd and Val McDermid - BBC Sounds
Des Clarke hosts Scotland's award-winning satirical news quiz.
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Stephen Mawhinnney @sjmawhinney.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
If you missed #TheSkewer last night you can catch it again here. Contains some stuff by us including a little Lego brick building. (with @swerytd.bsky.social and @stucooper1.bsky.social ) www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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The Skewer - Series 15 - 2. ICE, ICE, baby - BBC Sounds
Jon Holmes remixes the news into a satirical comedy concept album.
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Stephen Mawhinnney @sjmawhinney.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
And if you missed last night's #BreakingTheNews you can listen to that here. And it also features some stuff by us, about football and Trump, our two great loves. ( @swerytd.bsky.social @stucooper1.bsky.social and me) www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
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Breaking the News - Series 15 - TV: Episode 7
Des Clarke is joined by Daliso Chaponda, Jay Lafferty and Gareth Waugh to take a look back at the biggest stories making the headlines.
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Stephen Mawhinnney @sjmawhinney.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
If you missed it here's last night's #TheNakedWeek Great as always but then again we would say that as it features some stuff by us. ( @swerytd.bsky.social @stucooper1.bsky.social and me) www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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The Naked Week - Series 3 - Immigration, Espionage, and a game of Guess Who? - Epstein Edition - BBC Sounds
The Naked Week tackles immigration, espionage and a game of Guess Who? - Epstein Edition.
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Stephen Mawhinnney @sjmawhinney.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Thrilled to have been part of the team for an incredible episode of #TheNakedWeek And pleased to work with Wes Streeting to give some publicity to a little known show called Celebrity Traitors. (With @swerytd.bsky.social and @stucooper1.bsky.social ) www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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The Naked Week - Series 3 - Trump, Traitors, and RIP Tim Davie - BBC Sounds
This week the team fundraise for the BBC, welcome a traitor, and necromance a potato.
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Stephen Mawhinnney @sjmawhinney.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Cracking panel and cracking show this week on #BreakingTheNews and even contains some stuff by us. (us being @stucooper1.bsky.social @swerytd.bsky.social and me) You can catch up with it here: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
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Breaking the News - Series 15 - TV: Episode 3
Des Clarke is joined by Jo Caulfield, Kim Blythe and Jamie MacDonald to take a wry look back at the stories making the headlines in Scotland and around the world.
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Stu Cooper @stucooper1.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
First time we've managed to get "perpendicular" in a punchline 💪
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Stephen Mawhinnney @sjmawhinney.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Breaking the News is back on your TV screens and the first episode features some stuff by us! (Us being @swerytd.bsky.social @stucooper1.bsky.social and me) www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
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Breaking the News - Series 15 - TV: Episode 1
Des Clarke and special guests Felicity Ward, Chris Forbes, Kate Hammer and Marc Jennings break down the week’s news and put it back together again.
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Stephen Mawhinnney @sjmawhinney.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
You can enjoy this week's episode of #TheSkewer here and it even includes a little alien courtesy of us. (Us being @stucooper1.bsky.social @swerytd.bsky.social and me) www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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The Skewer - Series 14 - Ep 3: Supercalifragilisticexpibraggadocious - BBC Sounds
Jon Holmes remixes the news into satirically shaped sounds.
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Stu Cooper @stucooper1.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Good to see my new Sainsbury's making parking easier for DJs.
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Stu Cooper @stucooper1.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
First time for @swerytd.bsky.social @sjmawhinney.bsky.social and I writing for Dead Ringers: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Dead Ringers - Series 26 - Dead Ringers Ep 4. Welfare woes and Wimbledon - BBC Sounds
The Dead Ringers team are back to train their vocal firepower on the week’s news.
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Stu Cooper @stucooper1.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Looks like even eating Lindt is now a case of red pill, blue pill
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Jon Holmes @jonholmes.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Are you in Sheffield on Sunday? No, you’re probably not. But here’s a reason to be! #CrossedWires. Plus, tickets are free and there’s booze. crossedwires.live/podcast/afte...
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After Party: The Skewer DJ Set — Crossed Wires Festival 2025
Jon Holmes and Tony Churnside from Radio 4’s multi-award-winning satire mix music with news in an exclusive bespoke DJ set. Expect cocktails by Public, freshly poured Guinness and food trucks from Pea...
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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Maybe it's called a corpse flower because that's a dead ballerina stuffed in a bucket.
San Diego's enormous corpse flower looking like aN upside down ballerina.
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Anna Mazzola @annamazz.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.
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Stephen Mawhinnney @sjmawhinney.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Catch up on last night's #TheSkewer here and you can enjoy the Cardinals going All or Nothing for the new pope and escaping the Matrix at the local elections from us. ( @stucooper1.bsky.social @swerytd.bsky.social and me) www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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The Skewer - Series 13 - Elections, 100 Days of Trump, and Trans Labyrinth - BBC Sounds
The news remixed. This week - Elections, 100 Days of Trump, and Trans Labyrinth.
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Stu Cooper @stucooper1.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Upbeat brunch playlist to start the Bank Hol weekend: Radio Radio by Elvis Costello, Shiny Happy People by REM & Hot To Go by Chappell Roan
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Tᴏɴʏ Cʜᴜʀɴsɪᴅᴇ @tonychurnside.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Jon Holmes, Adam Parry and I made this video for Pancreatic Cancer UK… www.pancreaticcancer.org.uk/news-and-blo...
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Something is Missing
We’ve launched a powerful parody film trailer, ‘Something is Missing’, to shine a spotlight on pancreatic cancer and the need for early detection.
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Stephen Mawhinnney @sjmawhinney.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
So here it is, the last #BreakingTheNews of the current series. Enjoy it one last time before the break and you can even hear a few gags by us in there. ( @swerytd.bsky.social @stucooper1.bsky.social and me) www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Breaking the News - Felicity Ward, Raymond Mearns, Kathleen Hughes and Robin Morgan - BBC Sounds
Des Clarke hosts Scotland's award-winning satirical news quiz.
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Stephen Mawhinnney @sjmawhinney.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
You can catch up with this week's #TheSkewer here and it even includes some stuff by us. ( @swerytd.bsky.social @stucooper1.bsky.social and me) www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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The Skewer - Series 13 - Gender, Easter, and The Dead Pope's Society. - BBC Sounds
The week's news - satirically remixed. This week: The wrong toilets and a dead Pope.
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Stu Cooper @stucooper1.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
We being @swerytd.bsky.social @sjmawhinney.bsky.social
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Stu Cooper @stucooper1.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
In Trivial Pursuit category news (S&L), there have been 2 big records this week. Ovechkin has broken Gretsky's goals record and we've hit 500 BTN gags broadcast. Basically the same. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Breaking the News - Mark Nelson, Elaine Malcolmson, Don Biswas and Kate Hammer - BBC Sounds
Des Clarke hosts Scotland's award-winning satirical news quiz.
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Stu Cooper @stucooper1.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Although if you asked me which track I'm happiest exists, it would be Voice of Harold - look it up!
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Stu Cooper @stucooper1.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Have picked up loads of new songs to like from the REM series of @whatismusicpod.bsky.social. Here's the top of my playlist, although Losing My Religion is predictably the real #1
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Stu Cooper @stucooper1.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Loving this! (Cotswolds)
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Stephen Mawhinnney @sjmawhinney.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
"But we would write 500 jokes and we would write 500 more." Thrilled to say we got our 500th gag broadcast on today's #BreakingTheNews so a little gif for @stucooper1.bsky.social @swerytd.bsky.social and myself.
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two men wearing glasses are standing next to each other in front of a building with the number 4 on it .
ALT: two men wearing glasses are standing next to each other in front of a building with the number 4 on it .
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Stu Cooper @stucooper1.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
If you've got the "headroom", @swerytd.bsky.social @sjmawhinney.bsky.social and I have written some of The Naked Week, including what may be the worst insult of Paddington in history www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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The Naked Week - Series 2 - Performing, Potholes and Paddington - BBC Sounds
This week, the team help Rachel Reeves with her Spring Statement, and fall in a hole.
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Stu Cooper @stucooper1.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
So Salt(y tears) & Pauper?
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Stu Cooper @stucooper1.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Undoubtedly the poshest crisps I've ever seen
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Stephen Mawhinnney @sjmawhinney.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
If you've been stuck in outer space for the past 9 months you might have missed that a new series of #BreakingTheNews is well underway. But the good news is you can catch the latest episode at 1.30pm on BBC Radio Scotland.
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Stephen Mawhinnney @sjmawhinney.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
(The correct answer is of course both as they're both excellent even if we do say so ourselves!) And us being @stucooper1.bsky.social @swerytd.bsky.social and myself.
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Stephen Mawhinnney @sjmawhinney.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
#BreakingTheNews is back for a brand new series and you can enjoy brand new stuff* from us in the first episode here (*Well ropey old stuff with a find and replace for the current Prime Minister / President) (Us being @stucooper1.bsky.social @swerytd.bsky.social and me) www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Breaking the News - Stuart Mitchell, Diona Doherty, Marc Jennings and Amanda Dwyer - BBC Sounds
Des Clarke hosts Scotland's award-winning satirical news quiz.
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Stu Cooper @stucooper1.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
These were by an absolute mile the worst Xmas leftover gift. At least they were Fairtrade, so hopefully some farmers benefited from the disgust these inflicted on every recipient...
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Stu Cooper @stucooper1.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Why not start 2025 with a comedy reminder of 2024 in Breaking The Year, featuring jokes from @sjmawhinney.bsky.social @swerytd.bsky.social and me Breaking the News, Series 14 - TV: Breaking the Year: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0026hgk via @bbciplayer
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Breaking the News - Series 14 - TV: Breaking the Year
The award-winning Breaking the News team are back with their annual review of the last 12 months.
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Stephen Mawhinnney @sjmawhinney.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Here's a little Twixmas treat for you all, the #BreakingTheNews end of year special, looking back at the big stories in the news in 2024. It even features some stuff by us. ( @swerytd.bsky.social @stucooper1.bsky.social and me) www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
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Breaking the News - Series 14 - TV: Breaking the Year
The award-winning Breaking the News team are back with their annual review of the last 12 months.
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Stu Cooper @stucooper1.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
I've never watched an episode of Gavin & Stacey but I'm definitely watching the finale to find out why Josh Homme is driving them all in a bus.
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Stu Cooper @stucooper1.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Oh yes, the old "street cred" excuse
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Stu Cooper @stucooper1.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Even if you're fed up of Xmas songs today, I still think you should only listen to ones with relevant words in the title. So here's a lovely little number for all the family youtu.be/9d4ui9q7eDM?...
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Megadeth - Holy Wars...The Punishment Due
YouTube video by megadethvevo
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Stu Cooper @stucooper1.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
There's next year's Christmas movie!
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Stu Cooper @stucooper1.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Aw, but I liked the other Henrik 😭
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Stu Cooper @stucooper1.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Which also means that above all the presenters, comedians, producers etc, only you can be referred to.l as "The guy from Radio 4"
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Stu Cooper @stucooper1.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Welcome! And I like that the other Henrik's profile is now "Not the guy from Radio 4. Stop following me".
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Stu Cooper @stucooper1.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Take a listen to this week's Naked Week, which includes an implied C Bomb from us
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Stu Cooper @stucooper1.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Listen up or watch, er, up
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