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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 2m

From once assuming it would be shit I'm now in the odd position of finding SNL UK better than SNL US. A low bar admittedly.

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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 10m

"Burham walks a dangerous tightrope"

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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 13m

That is funnier than anything he said in his monologue.

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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 16m

How popular he is a mystery to me. I'm fine with "anti-woke" comics if they're talented but I'm not seeing it in him. Three times he's hosted SNL, three times he died on his arse.

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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 16m

I went down a bit of a rabbit hole on this and while I had never heard of him until SNL fired him a few years ago I think it's because SNL want to have their cake and eat it. They want the Joe Rogan pricks but their long established audience don't, you can actually hear the studio audience wince.

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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 25m

I wear a large inflatable T-Rex costume

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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 27m

I'm not clear on what Shane Gillis thinks women should wear to at the gym if not shorts. Ballgowns? They'll be wearing swimsuits at the pool next.

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Sophie Heawood @heawood.bsky.social · 1h

Noseying around the Creative Writing Master's degrees on offer in our fine country and so far the most expensive I've found is the Cambridge MST in Writing for Performance, which is £25,494 (or £50,988 for overseas students) and starts with this video, with a misplaced apostrophe in the title.

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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 1h

I have so much genuine respect for this as level of pedantry. Curse of being a former bookseller I can spot an out of place book on a shelf at a hundred metres.

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 2h

I like the modern updates to the new Carrie series, the acting is fantastic and I REALLY like that the kids LOOK LIKE SCHOOLKIDS. Love love love the Brian De Palma movie obviously but when you see schoolkids who look like real teens it makes it super-obvious that everyone at Carrie's school was 26.

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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 2h

Her late husband used to tease her about it. “Is there anyone on television you like?” he’d say. Bob Mortimer and Mrs Doyle in Father Ted. I think that’s it.

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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 2h

Jimmy Carr is as far as I can tell a bit of prick in real life. In fairness exactly like he is on stage. The kind of comedian who only likes comedians.

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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 2h

In the 90s I was the MC of a tiny comedy night in Soho where new and established acts would go to try new material and RG was there to see Robin Ince and his laugh was so distracting. It was like being heckled.

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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 2h

I think the Billy Connolly thing with my mum is based on meeting him briefly in the 70s pre fame. He was quite well known and there was a buzz about him but he hadn’t done Parkinson yet and it was at some press do with my dad. She called him an arrogant shit. I never got to the bottom of why though.

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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 2h

My mum’s said that! I have a bit of sympathy for his laugh because one can’t really help it. My laugh has been described as “A dirty bellow” Luckily I don’t do it as often as Carr.

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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 2h

To be fair, I understand Jimmy Carr. I’m not his biggest fan either but I don’t think my mum keeps up with who played the Riyadh comedy festival to the same level as me.

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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 2h

There isn’t enough room on the internet to name all of them but the first that springs to mind are Billy Connolly, Alex Jones (the One Show presenter) Ronnie Corbett, Harry Hill, Jimmy Carr, Alan Carr, Monty Don, everyone on the Antiques Roadshow, the BBC News’s crime correspondent. Sandi Toksvig…

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The Onion @theonion.com · 12h

Researchers Suggest Wild Horses Don’t Have To Worry About Any Of This theonion.com/researchers-suggest-wi…

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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 12h

I didn’t like the book so much because my inner voice is my voice and not Peter Jones

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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 12h

I was the perfect age for the tv show I think (ten) I don’t think I even knew it was a radio show first until I was about 14. I remember they had the Zaphod head on Blue Peter or a similar show. It was on at 9 o’clock so I had to beg to stay up.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 18h

Exactly as predicted: Elder abuse. This is from Danny Trejo’s son, Gilbert Trejo. Not only did Ben Shapiro’s camp trick the elder Trejo about what the movie really was, he apparently signed a contract barring him from even putting out a statement about it.

For anyone seeing this shit with my dad...
He was booked on a film, it's not pro-ice, it's not overtly pro anything. His agent described it as "a complicated story about a complicated time, where everyone looks bad except you, the hardworking Mexican shop owner who just wants peace"
He jumped at the idea of playing a good guy.
About 2 weeks into shooting everyone, including us, found out Ben Shapiro was involved.
My 82 year old dad has never heard of Ben Shapiro, I had to explain to him who that is, and what kind of guy he is.
My dad contractually can't bad mouth him, the film, or walk away without being sued for breach of contract. He couldn't even release the statement he wanted to.
It's fucked up. He's handcuffed to this stupid project, and swaths of people have instantly turned their back on him without knowing any of the facts.
Ben Shapiro got Mexicans to abandon one of their heroes, got his own name to the top of google's searches, and made us look like angry fools lacking any nuance. He wins.

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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 12h

I think the tv show is more fondly remembered by a particular age group. (Mine, basically) also I came to it through tv first and I suspect a lot more people did than is usually acknowledged when I read about it.

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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 12h

Don’t remember drawing this but there’s little doubt it’s one of mine.

A girl in a hooded cape with a small house behind her. The hand written caption reads I have 14 teeth left and they’re all shit.

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SvenThe @sventhe.bsky.social · 14h

A delight. Rewatching Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy after five season of Slow Horses was a delight. (God, I love that Oldman played both George Smiley and Jackson Lamb.) #GaryOldman #FilmSky

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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 14h

I love how grey, serious and in need of a haircut 1970s Mastermind is.

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Nat Guest @unfortunatalie.bsky.social · 15h

Look out everyone a mastodon user has logged into bluesky by mistake

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 16h

british free speech means that our comedians can say “fuck” on saturday night live, but our journalists don’t get to publish articles about the editor of the spectator‘s former partner

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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 16h

Dirk Bogarde and Charlotte Rampling wear a couple of smashing jumpers in 1974’s The Night Porter.

Dirk Bogarde on the floor doing a sort of fight/kiss wrestle type scenario with Charlotte Rampling in a scene from The Night Porter. She is also wearing a nice jumper

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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 17h

Love this thread. Like 2009 Twitter.

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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 17h

A couple of accounts I follow on instagram are reporting a huge drop in troll like replies in the last 24 hours.

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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 17h

It does sound crazy Australian cricket player-ish, you’re right. I’m not the person to know about these things mind.

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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 17h

No one appears to have any genuine affection for him. Even Boris Johnson had friends (other cunts) But then the thing about narcissists is they don’t really care.

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b3ta @b3ta.com · 18h

Artist: hYpe b3ta.com/board/11431948 From the 'Unlikely Endorsements' challenge b3ta.com/challenge/unlikelyendorsem… #UnlikelyEndorsements

An image made by hYpe posted on B3ta, front paged by the moderators, and reposted on Bluesky by code automatically.

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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 18h

Thought about doing a love/Gove pun but I'm making my tea and frankly couldn't be bothered.

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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 18h

He might be big in the States but I've only heard of Shane Gillis in the context of yet another comedian who hates women.

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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 19h

I realize it often feels like nothing matters anymore, but a comedian going on SNL and calling women whores— calling the ordinary women he sees at the gym *whores* — because of their clothes matters to me. It’s really gross, and I’m glad Levy said something.

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Ant @agramuglia.bsky.social · 20h

So Danny Trejo was manipulated and tricked into being in Ben Shapiro's newest film. Holy shit.

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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 18h

The accounts who told everyone off for reposting the story without waiting to find out more should have waited to find out more.

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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 18h

The bot farm destruction story is turning out to be inaccurate but not entirely made up.

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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 19h

Elf Lyons is brilliant and about to become very famous I feel. But I'm surprised not to see Joseph Morpurgo's Highlander 70 in the top 20. I was under the impression it wasn't just me who thought it was amazing.

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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 19h

I always knew Da Vinci was overrated.

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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 20h

I think about this more than is healthy.

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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 20h

Wait you're telling me like 90% of artists are just using their eyes

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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 21h

I wonder how his boycott of Sainsbury's Stirling is getting along. He was upset to find out that unlike every supermarket in the UK this one had security cameras. (?)

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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 21h

Thinking of the thread of old school Twitter nutters has reminded me of Neil Oliver who doesn't really count here because he was well known before Twitter drove him insane but it just occurred to me I haven't thought of him in over a year. Which is nice.

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Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 21h

Completely. One minute you're Milo, then next you're, well, Milo.

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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 21h

The whole idea of the grift is itself a grift.

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