David Quantick
@quantick.bsky.social
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE AUSTEN? (French & Saunders, BBC Radio 4) writer. AND OTHER STORIES collection: https://tinyurl.com/msmv7amc. Pre-order IMAGINE A FRIEND:
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Winterwatch playing the hold music from my bank.
January 25, 2026 at 6:48 PM
Winterwatch playing the hold music from my bank.
Quick quiz - name the only song title Paul McCartney has used twice, once in the Beatles and once not in the Beatles.
January 25, 2026 at 4:19 PM
Quick quiz - name the only song title Paul McCartney has used twice, once in the Beatles and once not in the Beatles.
"Some supports of a Labour leadership challenged were blocked from nominating someone for a Commons seat."
"Burnham?"
"Well, it didn't do them any good."
"Burnham?"
"Well, it didn't do them any good."
January 25, 2026 at 3:20 PM
"Some supports of a Labour leadership challenged were blocked from nominating someone for a Commons seat."
"Burnham?"
"Well, it didn't do them any good."
"Burnham?"
"Well, it didn't do them any good."
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"What kind of creature bore you
Was it some kind of bat?
They can't find a good word for you
But I can
Twat!"
Happy 77th birthday to John Cooper Clarke , Born today 25th January 1949
#photooftheday #punkpoet
📸Antonio Olmos
Was it some kind of bat?
They can't find a good word for you
But I can
Twat!"
Happy 77th birthday to John Cooper Clarke , Born today 25th January 1949
#photooftheday #punkpoet
📸Antonio Olmos
January 25, 2026 at 9:18 AM
"What kind of creature bore you
Was it some kind of bat?
They can't find a good word for you
But I can
Twat!"
Happy 77th birthday to John Cooper Clarke , Born today 25th January 1949
#photooftheday #punkpoet
📸Antonio Olmos
Was it some kind of bat?
They can't find a good word for you
But I can
Twat!"
Happy 77th birthday to John Cooper Clarke , Born today 25th January 1949
#photooftheday #punkpoet
📸Antonio Olmos
Every year Hastings hosts Fat Tuesday, a fantastic grass roots music festival. This year I'm doing a horrific quiz.
www.facebook.com/events/16071...
www.facebook.com/events/16071...
Quantick's Quiz
Music event in Saint Leonards, United Kingdom by Hastings Fat Tuesday on Saturday, February 14 2026
www.facebook.com
January 25, 2026 at 9:17 AM
Every year Hastings hosts Fat Tuesday, a fantastic grass roots music festival. This year I'm doing a horrific quiz.
www.facebook.com/events/16071...
www.facebook.com/events/16071...
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Ironically, this quote is fake
“Get it all on record now — get the films — get the witnesses — because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower, after visiting liberated concentration camps in April 1945
Dwight D. Eisenhower, after visiting liberated concentration camps in April 1945
January 25, 2026 at 9:12 AM
Ironically, this quote is fake
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#DavidsMonthOfMusic
Day 25: A song that starts with Y
Buzzcocks - You Say You Don't Love Me
youtu.be/LTWYapCe7UQ?...
Day 25: A song that starts with Y
Buzzcocks - You Say You Don't Love Me
youtu.be/LTWYapCe7UQ?...
January 25, 2026 at 8:51 AM
#DavidsMonthOfMusic
Day 25: A song that starts with Y
Buzzcocks - You Say You Don't Love Me
youtu.be/LTWYapCe7UQ?...
Day 25: A song that starts with Y
Buzzcocks - You Say You Don't Love Me
youtu.be/LTWYapCe7UQ?...
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of course now you'd triggered me @quantick.bsky.social it resulted in this.
January 24, 2026 at 9:14 PM
of course now you'd triggered me @quantick.bsky.social it resulted in this.
January 24, 2026 at 4:57 PM
I remember these ads, and everyone pointing out that all the experimental new comedy in it had been on Channel 4 first.
For Jim Moir/Vic Reeves' birthday, a reminder it's thirty years this year since this advert.
January 24, 2026 at 4:56 PM
I remember these ads, and everyone pointing out that all the experimental new comedy in it had been on Channel 4 first.
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For Jim Moir/Vic Reeves' birthday, a reminder it's thirty years this year since this advert.
January 24, 2026 at 10:01 AM
For Jim Moir/Vic Reeves' birthday, a reminder it's thirty years this year since this advert.
Depressed myself by counting how many people on TOTP 1976 I've met.
January 23, 2026 at 9:19 PM
Depressed myself by counting how many people on TOTP 1976 I've met.
I tested out my new cheap tent before going on a camping holiday that turned out very badly, so it was defintely a portent.
January 23, 2026 at 9:17 PM
I tested out my new cheap tent before going on a camping holiday that turned out very badly, so it was defintely a portent.
Early Spands, love em. The New Romantics before it all crystallised into the appalling Duran Duran were fun.
January 23, 2026 at 8:17 PM
Early Spands, love em. The New Romantics before it all crystallised into the appalling Duran Duran were fun.
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Can't wait for XTC doing Sgt. Rock Is Going To Help Me on #TOTP shortly, and @quantick.bsky.social complaining that there's "Not enough Colin".
January 23, 2026 at 7:46 PM
Can't wait for XTC doing Sgt. Rock Is Going To Help Me on #TOTP shortly, and @quantick.bsky.social complaining that there's "Not enough Colin".
The Bare-Naked Ladies turned up unannounced in the NME offices and sang their new single, in our faces.
Needless to say they were never mentioned in the paper again.
Needless to say they were never mentioned in the paper again.
January 23, 2026 at 7:30 PM
The Bare-Naked Ladies turned up unannounced in the NME offices and sang their new single, in our faces.
Needless to say they were never mentioned in the paper again.
Needless to say they were never mentioned in the paper again.
Old school NME, from Tarkovsky's obituary.
January 23, 2026 at 6:40 PM
Old school NME, from Tarkovsky's obituary.
"And on bass... Patrick Star!"
January 23, 2026 at 5:27 PM
"And on bass... Patrick Star!"
One of my comedy regrets is not growing up knowing anything about Ernie Kovacs and his work.
Remembering Ernie Kovacs on his birthday 🎂
📷 Ralph Morse, 1957
"Kovacs knocked me sideways into a world where the bizarre & the daft & the preposterous all lived happily alongside wisdom, wit & perception."
- Terry Gilliam
📷 Ralph Morse, 1957
"Kovacs knocked me sideways into a world where the bizarre & the daft & the preposterous all lived happily alongside wisdom, wit & perception."
- Terry Gilliam
January 23, 2026 at 5:25 PM
One of my comedy regrets is not growing up knowing anything about Ernie Kovacs and his work.
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I just saw a guy on the phone in Tesco. He said 'OK... OK. Thanks for telling me.' He then put back into the fridge two bottles of champagne which he'd been about to buy. I'll be thinking about it for a while probably.
January 23, 2026 at 5:21 PM
I just saw a guy on the phone in Tesco. He said 'OK... OK. Thanks for telling me.' He then put back into the fridge two bottles of champagne which he'd been about to buy. I'll be thinking about it for a while probably.
Christmas was less than a month ago.
January 23, 2026 at 11:37 AM
Christmas was less than a month ago.
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From my pinboard : The Ring Master
January 23, 2026 at 10:43 AM
From my pinboard : The Ring Master