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Ash Preston @theashpreston.bsky.social · 14h

Not feeling well in the head and had an awful day or raging anxiety so taking a departure from everything for a while. Feel I'm only posting it publicly because then I'll convince myself if nobody asks it's cos they've seen this and not because nobody cares Your mind makes you think awful things

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Ash Preston @theashpreston.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Shane Gillis, hard at work.

That old stock photo of a man measuring the ankle length of a woman on the beach so she is not committing some sort of sensual sin.

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Ash Preston @theashpreston.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Should have tied his kangaroo down.

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Ash Preston @theashpreston.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Ahhh, might have to get round to that one day now I know that's a thing.

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Ash Preston @theashpreston.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I don't think I massively loved 6. But I remember 4 & 5 kinda felt like their own little two parter and I loved them. I think that also might be because BBC aired them like a week apart once, so the LP tape got a going.

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Ash Preston @theashpreston.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

As Charlie Brooker once pointed out, the most uniquely recognisable name in UK comedy credits, then you found out it's also a bloke.

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Ash Preston @theashpreston.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I love him. A brilliant, calamitous dickhead. I sometimes think he's actually this semi troll outsider artist that just happened to be a dab hand at wrestling.

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Ash Preston @theashpreston.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Hope tomorrow is far more grand and less wanky manky shite ❤️

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Ash Preston @theashpreston.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Missed the word 'Day' in @victoriaredfern.bsky.social post there so my word that made me double take.

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Ash Preston @theashpreston.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

It might be a one and done, but Reef's big hit is a real, proper, banging smasher.

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Ash Preston @theashpreston.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Beagle being swaddled. *I REPEAT* Beagle being swaddled!

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Ash Preston @theashpreston.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

France? I think my uni classes are cancelled tomorrow. We don't know, but I'm not keen to get a 6am from Montluçon to find out I've pissed a day into the wind 🤣

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Ash Preston @theashpreston.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

You are either an extremely good writer at those jokes and already have the built in audience, or like what I saw once, you are new, you do some base level, no nuance/structured Maddie gags and holocaust gags, then actually tell the audience they don't get it because your mates in the pub laughed.

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Ash Preston @theashpreston.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I used to go drinking with a lot of the staff but I was at uni, so confused seeing the change. Then laughing when I realised the staff were exactly the same, just some name change nonsense. Bring back Andy's Records near the Blue Bell I say!

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Ash Preston @theashpreston.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Goldilocks is a morality tale about white privilege.

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Ash Preston @theashpreston.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

It all worked out in the end, even to this day I brought up buying two packets of crisps, coming back from the bar as she polished off the second packet. "You left them on the table, I'm not going to stare at crisps, I'm going to eat them. You weren't quick enough" I was so into her from then 🤣

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Ash Preston @theashpreston.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

For anyone about to ask why on earth I put that on there. Genuinely, it's just a topic I knew a bit about and it might weed out the normies. I refrained from putting I was an actual comedian for ages on the fear that one day I'd just get told mid drink... "why haven't you been like, funny yet?"

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Ash Preston @theashpreston.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Oddest thing you've said on a date/app that paid off. I always used to put "worrying amount of knowledge about serial killers" on my profile. I got a reply that said "Murders yeah? I bet I know more!" That was three years ago, I moved to another country to live with her. She does know more

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Ash Preston @theashpreston.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Hilarious match that is. The match where everything is mental and unreasonably complicated yet some magic potion not only gets them through it all perfectly, and nobody dies. It's a genuine 1/1,000,000

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Ash Preston @theashpreston.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I'm going as RJ City watching old failed sitcom intros, so it's me saying 'She's the Sheriff?' to people and shrugging confused.

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Ash Preston @theashpreston.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Ahhh the HMV in Warrington. It's almost like a relic going in there, but they keep the good shit in the back.

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Ash Preston @theashpreston.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

It auto played for me (not here), but I don't live in the UK so hearing 'Tiger' and 'Yorkshire' on French radio caught me very off the hop.

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Ash Preston @theashpreston.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I imagine the food would lead to an earlier grave, but in this timeline, maybe I want the stodge!!!

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Ash Preston @theashpreston.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

No problem with Wonderwall btw. Not bothered. Six lads bellowing it as I reach Warrington Central at midnight knowing I'm only halfway through the journey? Then it's a terrible song. If they did Sweet Caroline I'd have derailed the train through sheer will alone.

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Ash Preston @theashpreston.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I was on the drunk train from Manchester to Liverpool post gig once. There was a group of young lads with haircuts. Drinks had been drunk, brags had been bragged, coke had been coked. I was sat nearby, alone. Anxious. Why? Your safety? No, because one had a guitar and I was dreading 'Wonderwall.'

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Ash Preston @theashpreston.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

You can make an absolute mess and it'll be grand. Is that also a leather tie too?

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Ash Preston @theashpreston.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

As a 90's BTCC kid seeing the yearly Bathurst coverage was like a window into another world and being farrrrr to young to understand why Vauxhall was called Holden.

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Ash Preston @theashpreston.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Just thinking about the potential financial rewards, for giving away small square sections of the blood stained floor in wooden ceremonial plaques.

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Ash Preston @theashpreston.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Being shot by Sydney Sweeney in various types of stars and stripes / sponsors bikinis.

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Ash Preston @theashpreston.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Tailgate parties with young children holding signs. You can tell how out of touch with marketing I am, didn't even put a memorial t-shirt in the OP.

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Ash Preston @theashpreston.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I just think of whoever his ex was that gave comedy a go and her first line was "my husband, Ian Beale..." followed by laughter. In a way, it peaked and we really lost out then on.

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Ash Preston @theashpreston.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

If your gonna livestream an execution and you are the most gauche country going, then don't keep it rustic. A full punditry team, halftime show, national anthem, condemned in full sponsor kit like an F1 driver, post-show analysis, all constantly interrupted by adverts. Do it, don't be big fannies!

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Ash Preston @theashpreston.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The British public and Dennis Nielsen in rare sync. Makes your proud!

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Ash Preston @theashpreston.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I remember this kid on the bus in Manchester definitely underage, vaping and thinking he looked well skill and all I could think was "wait till you get on the proper fags lad, then you'll build some cred"

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Ash Preston @theashpreston.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

You have to say Kebab all long and spooky like 'Kebaaaabbbbb!

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Ash Preston @theashpreston.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Whenever the parties start wanking off about shields and missiles especially for the UK, I just think of the way Springfield reacts to that bear.

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Ash Preston @theashpreston.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I miss this Ian Hislop too. I love how in this segment he just gets incredibly blunt and serious about what a horrid fucker Archer was.

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Ash Preston @theashpreston.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Tremendous. Either completely mental in a way you can't replicate or very good at typing after ingesting so much to alter their mental state. I'm going to Frankfurt.

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Ash Preston @theashpreston.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Sorry, this isn't a bit. Is this actually going to be a thing?!

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Ash Preston @theashpreston.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Brilliant gag, that has no basis in reality because not a chance they're getting to that stage. Anyone who did should be rescued like they've been let out of the eyesight of a cult leader 😂

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Ash Preston @theashpreston.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

How old was Slater or how posh was yer digs that a kid rang The Independent 😂

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Ash Preston @theashpreston.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Probably for the best, caught Ted on a good day.

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Ash Preston @theashpreston.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I mean, I'm gonna need to know how that ended up and was Gareth ok.

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Ash Preston @theashpreston.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Ted Roach from The Bill was a maverick. That's a gross misuse.

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