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Ash Preston
@theashpreston.bsky.social
"Comedian" / Hair / Northern working class scum / Old pop culture content / Wrestling / Hack jokes / TOTP / He/Him 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈
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Nothing to see here...

Just DS Ted Roach from The Bill being the hard-drinking, 'don't play by the rules, but I get the damn results, guv' maverick of Sun Hill to the strains of Judas Priest.

Enjoy your day!
November 14, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Here's a picture of a pub ashtray I've had in my phone for about a decade because the standing cig butts reminded me of Anthony Gormley's Another Place sculptures.

Have a great day 💛
November 9, 2025 at 10:57 AM
As an OG Top Gear fan, it's a real shame to read that Quentin Wilson passed away, aged only 68. He was great, a really amusing droll sarcasm in his verbal delivery.

A physically fascinating man to observe. Somehow looking like both a young Mr. Burns and an adult Stewie Griffin at the same time.
November 8, 2025 at 8:47 PM
You know what we don't talk enough about?

80's homoerotic pro wrestling vignettes.

Designed to introduce new 'heartthrob' wrestlers to an area, and especially to appeal to female fans to attend the live shows, promoters would make these vignettes to sell them and well... Judge for yourself.
November 8, 2025 at 11:35 AM
OTD 4 years ago, I was gigging in Darlington with the mighty @robbotron.bsky.social and Paul Pirie.

It produced a favourite photo of mine where we look a bit like an alternate universe version of Spinal Tap... No, none of us got lost trying to find the stage.

Bon week-end 💛
November 7, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Today I was informed that I've been saying the name Chappell Roan incorrectly.

It turns out it's pronounced like CHAPEL, like a wedding chapel.

I've been saying it as SHAPPELLE. With the pronunciation like how you'd say the surname of Dave Chappelle.

I love being young, cool and with it!
November 5, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Because I'm in France, I'm sadly missing out on the annual "WHERE'S YOU FOOKIN' POPPY" watch.

So, in remembrance, here's the time The Cookie Monster appeared on The One Show... wearing a poppy.

I have so many questions about this (see below)
November 4, 2025 at 12:32 PM
It's saturday night and this sexy beast is using his time watching a 20 part YouTube series on the history of ITV regional franchises of yore. Good grief, I am irresistible!
November 1, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Here's a very silly joke I used to tell on stage about dating a religious Christian fundamentalist.

Enjoy 🧡
October 31, 2025 at 11:56 PM
🎃Halloween story👻

2018, not in costume, a drunk fella was like 'OMG, YOU LOOK SOOO LIKE THAT BLOKE!'

Went through a rolodex of my doppelgangers like George Harrison, Josh Groban etc, asked to be more specific.

'HE BEAT ALL THOSE BIRDS WITH A HAMMER'

He meant Peter Sutcliffe.

2018 me below 👇
October 31, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Obvs delighted about Prince Andrew losing all his chintzy titles, but when I see or hear his name, I immediately think of Virginia Giuffre and then my mind jolts because I constantly forget she's now dead and how bloody awful that is. Have an incredibly shit rest of your life Andy.
October 30, 2025 at 9:51 PM
It's nearly Halloween, and you know what scares me? Thinking about scenarios that occur AFTER the end of a film.

Like 'The Aristocats' for example. Funny kids film yeah? Sort of, don't get me started on the aftermath 👇
October 30, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Hello all. OTD six years ago I took this photo on the railway bridge in Urmston, Manchester (two ways to get there). Anyway it's one of my favourites just for catching the colours of the sky at that moment. Welp... Nothing else to talk about really. Enjoy your day and stuff 💛
October 29, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Oh, Prunella Scales. A real treat of a performer. A great unanswered question about Fawlty Towers is what kind of rizz a young Basil radiated to pull an absolute fox like Sybil. So long, you little nest of vipers.
October 28, 2025 at 11:01 AM
"Ted, d'ya remember that man who was SO brave, his wife had to divorce him"
October 27, 2025 at 11:35 AM
You know what we don't talk enough about?

The Hoff on German TV (obvs) singing the delightfully schlock 'Everybody Sunshine' with, let me check...

An abundance of kids, a big blue cat, a haunting bear-like creature on a swing, a bagpiper and a backing singer putting in WAY too much effort.
October 26, 2025 at 5:19 PM
October 26, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Always admired Elvira's gimmick because she's very much an American TV thing, like those late night b-movie marathons or MST3K, but extremely well known and adored in the UK.

Anyway her coming out is very much the yank version of when Jet from Gladiators came out. The dream is over boys, sorry
October 26, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Rob Schneider is obviously an arsehole, but I almost admire the ridiculousness of this tweet. The confidence to say something THAT obviously bollocks. Like saying The Beatles weren't real. Not that they were fakes, but actually NOT real and though there is all that physical evidence, it's a lie!
October 25, 2025 at 7:40 AM
OTD in 2017. Les Battersby (well technically Bruce Jones) turned up at my gig in Abergele. He told us he was in a comedy duo in his youth ("other one got married, we could have been the next Cannon & Ball") had a fish pie ready meal in a carrier bag and wouldn't pay the £5 for a ticket. Classic Les
October 22, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Me at hour 6 of a PPV!
October 19, 2025 at 11:16 AM
I love OG Scooby-Doo when Daphne disappears or falls through a trap door, and they always find her bound and gagged in a hidden room and her boyfriend Freddie is all like "Yeah... must have been a ghost!"
October 18, 2025 at 10:37 AM
'Went to see the comedy. There was a female comedienne on, she kept talking about periods so we heckled her and she definitely didn't have a comeback, so I'm definitely funnier. Then we got thrown out for laughing... at a comedy show! You can't even laugh at jokes anymore. This country!'
October 16, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Won't somebody PLEASE think of the famous dead murdered paedophile.
October 11, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Vibes.
October 11, 2025 at 4:47 PM