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The last taboo in stand up, a man trying to do something sincerely and well. He/Him
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Enver Hoxha maybe the most persistently unintentionally funny speaker of the soviet era?

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Again, not to play on stereotypes, but I keep flashing back to my cousin explaining her daughter's dental woes and including the line, "Yeah, the Irish dental system is weird. You know, the anaesthetist would only take cash."

I'm not sure the argument that "the cops can decide who and who shouldn't be punished for speeding" is quite as compelling as he imagines

Book morse would have not made it past the invention of PornHub.

Tell you what, it's fecking steep.

So, if you look carefully, you can sort of see the resemblance in our parents, and then the subsequent resemblance to the parents in us... which makes it a little more plausible?

My Mum: "I've been watching The Veep, and did you know, it took me til the 4th series to realise that POTUS stands for President of the United States? I thought it was his surname.

Questioning my commitment to climb this now

The crucial thing about my Dad's side of the family is that none of us look a fucking thing alike.

he's called Bez

Said this before, but whilst I think Britain has generally got a lot more tolerant in my lifetime, the nastiness of the right wing press and politicians, particularly in terms of veiled calls for violence or endorsement of it, has gotten notably worse in the last 5 years.

Matt Bernstein (accurately) described this as "the crunchy to far right pipeline."

"I'm sorry, Erik, we have to be better than them."

Was very upset to discover this is just a tent facade for when you want to do drinks in the garden and not, as I surmised, a full bouncy pub

Them's Truss numbers