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John-Luke Roberts

@jlukeroberts.bsky.social

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Writer, Comedian, Actor, Public Intellectual, Winner BBC Audio Drama Award for Best Sketch Comedy. Forever in our hearts.

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John-Luke Roberts @jlukeroberts.bsky.social · 4d

The Mediaeval Poot Geoffrey Chaucer returns for his Christmasse Merrimynts this December - in five whole different cities! Brighton! Bristol! Manchester! Edinburgh! London! Tickets here linktr.ee/jlukeroberts

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John-Luke Roberts @jlukeroberts.bsky.social · 1d

If everything's a spooktacular, nothing is.

John-Luke Roberts @jlukeroberts.bsky.social · 1d

I had meant to type "a soap shaped like a normal man inside" but an actual normal man is better

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John-Luke Roberts @jlukeroberts.bsky.social · 1d

Edinburgh 11th Dec - @eleanormorton.bsky.social, @jonnydonahoe.bsky.social, Amy Matthews and Phil O'Shea!

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John-Luke Roberts @jlukeroberts.bsky.social · 1d

Manchester 8th Dec - @edyhurst.bsky.social @bechillcomedian.bsky.social Rob Kemp and More!

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John-Luke Roberts @jlukeroberts.bsky.social · 1d

Bristol 5th Dec - @bechillcomedian.bsky.social, Ella the Great, David Hoare, Kate Cheka and Eve Bee

John-Luke Roberts @jlukeroberts.bsky.social · 1d

London 3rd Dec - @samnicoresti.bsky.social @lornarosetreen.bsky.social @joznorris.bsky.social Ella the Great, Paulina Lenoir and Jonno!

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John-Luke Roberts @jlukeroberts.bsky.social · 1d

And here are the lineups! Brighton - @joznorris.bsky.social @zafarcakes.bsky.social @bechillcomedian.bsky.social @bexturnercomedy.bsky.social And Lachlan Werner!

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John-Luke Roberts @jlukeroberts.bsky.social · 2d

Lush has a Scooby-Doo tie-in range, and they've really missed the opportunity to have a bath bomb shaped like a ghost which fizzes away to reveal a normal man inside.

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Joz Norris @joznorris.bsky.social · 5d

Barry & Tony are back for a star studded New Year's Eve * hoedown like no other**

*actually happening the day BEFORE NYE but don't tell Barry, I'm planning the Mother Of All Pranks

**actually it's a bit like the Jools Holland one to be fair

link.dice.fm/rd0621d811f6

Norris & Roberts: Barry & Tony's NYE Hootenanny Tickets | £10 | 30 Dec @ The Bill Murray, London | DICE

After over 254 likes across five sketches, and basically 60 tickets sold at their first ever live show, Joz Norris and John-Luke Roberts have only three real...

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John-Luke Roberts @jlukeroberts.bsky.social · 4d

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John-Luke Roberts @jlukeroberts.bsky.social · 5d

This is an excellent article www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We know what the comedians got out of the Riyadh comedy festival. What about the Saudi regime? | Jonathan Liew

The tawdry event was an ultimately doomed attempt by the Saudi government to buy the kind of authentic grassroots culture it is unwilling to countenance, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew

www.theguardian.com

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John-Luke Roberts @jlukeroberts.bsky.social · 6d

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John-Luke Roberts @jlukeroberts.bsky.social · 6d

I had a ghosTWATch t shirt and now I'm sad because I've just realised I don't know where it is.

John-Luke Roberts @jlukeroberts.bsky.social · 6d

Late Night the Devil - which I liked - would have been better if they'd embraced the analogue thing fully, and had everything happen Within The Format, and done away with the impossible behind the scenes footage.

John-Luke Roberts @jlukeroberts.bsky.social · 6d

Really? That's quite sad. I was marvelling yesterday at the mum's performance, which captures "I've dressed nicely because I'm going to be on the telly" perfectly.

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John-Luke Roberts @jlukeroberts.bsky.social · 6d

I've asked him for this, he's ignored me so far jlukeroberts.substack.com/p/wordings-t...

Wordings Thirty-One: Prayer

A comic poem about salvation that my mum might not like because Jesus swears in it although ultimately I think she'd agree with the sentiment, hi mum

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John-Luke Roberts @jlukeroberts.bsky.social · 6d

Q. What do you call a prehistoric babadook?
A. A Yabbababbadook!

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John-Luke Roberts @jlukeroberts.bsky.social · 6d

Wait... you mean figuratively Pipes, right? Not actual Pipes?

John-Luke Roberts @jlukeroberts.bsky.social · 6d

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John-Luke Roberts @jlukeroberts.bsky.social · 6d

Also I saw Pipes at a moment I hadn't noticed before, and now I'm slightly worried it's because he wasn't there before.

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John-Luke Roberts @jlukeroberts.bsky.social · 6d

My first Ghostwatch watch of the season yesterday. God, it's good. And absolutely horrible.

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John-Luke Roberts @jlukeroberts.bsky.social · 9d

It's fun to sing these six words

John-Luke Roberts @jlukeroberts.bsky.social · 14d

Thinking "OK so they've done a deep fake, I don't know how I feel about this"

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John-Luke Roberts @jlukeroberts.bsky.social · 14d

I read this and spent 30 seconds thinking this was an OK Go video and trying to work out what the game was

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Leslie Ewing-Burgesse @leslieis.cool · 15d

TROY CLUB! Wednesday 1st October (that's tomorrow)! With one of my favourite lineups we've ever had, including headliner JAIN EDWARDS @jainedwards.bsky.social! The Black Heart, Camden, 8 p.m. (7:30 doors)! Come along, tickets here: wegottickets.com/event/675880

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