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Tiernan Douieb
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Writer. Comedian. Tired. Rep’d for writing things by @kitsonpresskids.bsky.social and for v/o things by Foxy Tongue Voices
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Thing is if teachers want the 6-7 trend to disappear, nothing would do it quicker than kids everywhere knowing that Keir Starmer does it.
The prime minister has apologised to a head teacher after leading primary school children in a version of the viral 6-7 dance meme. Sir Keir Starmer visited Welland Academy in Peterborough with Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson on Monday to promote the expansion of the free school meals programme. During the visit, Sir Keir was reading with pupils when one pointed out they were on page 67. The prime minister made the juggling hand gesture that accompanies the reference, prompting class-wide hilarity. "You know children get into trouble for saying that our in school," a teacher told him afterwards. "We are not over that yet, the 6-7, it's still very much a thing."
November 25, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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The End @nationaltheatre.org.uk is exceptional and I may have blubbed a few times.* Clive Owen & Saskia Reeves are just incredible.

*Absolutely loads.
Pic of the amazing set for The End at the National Theatre, that looks like a North London living room & kitchen.
November 19, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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On this week’s @comedyclub4kids.bsky.social Radio Nonsense podcast: Expert at pushing things over @jonnyawsum.bsky.social joins me to help answer a question about apples and doctors.

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Clockwise from top L corner: Jonny Awsum, an Apple, Radio Nonsense logo, someone about to knock over a lot of dominos. Radio Nonsense logo. Text: Why does an apple a day keep the doctor away? With Jonny Awsum Expert at pushing things over in a really annoying way, Jonny Awsum, joins the podcast this week to help Tiernan answer a question about apples and doctors.  WE NEED YOUR QUESTIONS, JOKES AND NONSENSE TOO. SEND THEM IN TO: podcast@comedyclub4kids.co.uk GROWN UPS: IF YOU CAN BUY US A COFFEE PLEASE DO SO HERE: https://ko-fi.com/comedyclub4kids Website: www.comedyclub4kids.co.uk Bluesky: comedyclub4kids.bsky.social Facebook: facebook.com/ComedyClub4Kids Hosted by Tiernan Douieb. Music by Paddy Gervers. Design by John Beck.
November 19, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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Blog things: open.substack.com/pub/tiernand...
Text: 10,000 Green Bottles. Image: Steve Henderson at the Manchester Animation Festival with his slide saying 'The Future (Yes, I'm Sure There Is One)'
November 14, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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On this week’s @comedyclub4kids.bsky.social Radio Nonsense podcast chair expert @lauralexx.bsky.social talks to me about pasta armour and grub gubs.

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Clockwise from top L corner: Laura Lexx, many chairs, Radio Nonsense logo, a grub gub (maybe) Radio Nonsense logo Text: Why is you do wib wob with grub gub? With Laura Lexx Hooray! Laura Lexx returns to the show to talk about inventing chairs and answer questions about wib wobs and grub gubs.  WE NEED YOUR QUESTIONS, JOKES AND NONSENSE TOO. SEND THEM IN TO: podcast@comedyclub4kids.co.uk GROWN UPS: IF YOU CAN BUY US A COFFEE PLEASE DO SO HERE: https://ko-fi.com/comedyclub4kids Website: www.comedyclub4kids.co.uk Bluesky: comedyclub4kids.bsky.social Facebook: facebook.com/ComedyClub4Kids Hosted by Tiernan Douieb. Music by Paddy Gervers. Design by John Beck.
November 12, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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If you have mini people aged 4-7, there is a lovely new show out today on C5/Milkshake from today called Stan and Gran. It's full of gags and nature facts. Also I wrote some of it, and it's all expertly head written by @howardread.bsky.social. My first ep is out next Monday (its all about worms 🪱🪱🪱)
Stan and Gran - a new animated show for ages 4-7 on C5/Milkshake and Nickelodeon
November 10, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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Blog thingy: tiernandouieb.substack.com/p/unsocial-h...
Director Alex Woo talking about his new film 'In Your Dreams' which is lovely, and how they figured out the main story drive by writing it on a pizza box lid.
November 8, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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On this week’s @comedyclub4kids.bsky.social Radio Nonsense podcast @drucripps.bsky.social joins me to talk about sinking ships and aquatic dinosaurs.

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Clockwise from top L: Dru CRIPPS, an aquatic dinosaurs, Radio Nonsense logo and a sunken ship Image: Radio Nonsense logo. Text: If land dinosaurs became birds what did aquatic dinosaurs become? With Dru Cripps Dru Cripps joins the podcast this week to talk about sinking ships and aquatic dinosaurs.  WE NEED YOUR QUESTIONS, JOKES AND NONSENSE TOO. SEND THEM IN TO: podcast@comedyclub4kids.co.uk GROWN UPS: IF YOU CAN BUY US A COFFEE PLEASE DO SO HERE: https://ko-fi.com/comedyclub4kids Website: www.comedyclub4kids.co.uk Bluesky: comedyclub4kids.bsky.social Facebook: facebook.com/ComedyClub4Kids Hosted by Tiernan Douieb. Music by Paddy Gervers. Design by John Beck. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
November 5, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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Really very pleased someone is out there delivering this sort of biting journalism at 7.45pm on a Sunday night.
Forensic teams continue their work in Huntingdon published at 19:46 19:46 Alison Earle Reporting from Huntingdon station I’ve just arrived at Huntingdon station and the first thing you notice is how quiet it is. There are very few passers-by and many of the news crews that were reporting on last night’s incident have packed up for the day. Every now and again that quiet is broken by a high-speed train going past. The east coast route is up and running again, although trains are not stopping here. But at the station itself, forensics teams are still at work on the platform and inside the train where the stabbings took place, and in the station car park. That evidence will no doubt form part of the investigation and help to build a picture of how this attack unfolded.
November 2, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Nice that Ofgem are going to cover *checks notes* one person’s bill for last January.
‘Ofgem to write off £500m of energy debt in major relief plan’
October 30, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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This week's Halloween-ish blog: open.substack.com/pub/tiernand...
Pic: The kid's mini pumpkin design. Text: Unsettling Wall Person. Halloween is rubbish when the world is scary 24/7
October 30, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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This is really amateur of him, he could’ve got way more. Prince Andrew has taken millions from the UK and still hasn’t gone yet.
Independent: Deported migrant sex offender given £500 to leave UK Hadush Kebatu, who was wrongly freed from prison instead of being sent to an immigration detention centre, was given the money after threatening to disrupt his deportation to Ethiopia
October 29, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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On this week’s not really a Halloween episode of @comedyclub4kids.bsky.social Radio Nonsense Jorjeana Marie joins me to talk about falling leaves and rubber chickens.

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Clockwise from top L: Jorjeana Marie, a rubber chicken, Radio Nonsense logo, a woven ball of things Radio Nonsense logo. Text: ‘What are rubber chickens? Met for ???!!!! With Jorjeana Marie The not really a Halloween episode, Halloween episode and this week expert leaf reattacher Jorjeana Maria joins Tiernan to answer questions about rubber chickens.  Check out Jorjeana's brilliant puppet youtube kids channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@gopuppetsgo WE NEED YOUR QUESTIONS, JOKES AND NONSENSE TOO. SEND THEM IN TO: podcast@comedyclub4kids.co.uk GROWN UPS: IF YOU CAN BUY US A COFFEE PLEASE DO SO HERE: https://ko-fi.com/comedyclub4kids Website: www.comedyclub4kids.co.uk Bluesky: comedyclub4kids.bsky.social Facebook: facebook.com/ComedyClub4Kids Hosted by Tiernan Douieb. Music by Paddy Gervers. Design by John Beck.
October 29, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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How to say ‘we spoke to a stupid tourist’ without saying ‘we spoke to a stupid tourist’.
A British woman tells the BBC "there's this weird roar... like something's coming", while a Jamaican man says "the winds are so strong you would not be able to stand up"
October 28, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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The ‘9 quid for two ice creams’ girls
October 23, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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On this week’s @comedyclub4kids.bsky.social Radio Nonsense unnecessarily angry @watsoncomedian.bsky.social joins me to answer questions about earwax.

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Clockwise from top L corner: Mark Watson, ear wax, Radio Nonsense logo, a horse leaping out of a book Radio Nonsense logo Text: How much earwax do I make in a year and what could I use it for? With Mark Watson Unnecessarily angry Mark Watson joins Tiernan this week to talk about ear wax. WE NEED YOUR QUESTIONS, JOKES AND NONSENSE TOO. SEND THEM IN TO: podcast@comedyclub4kids.co.uk GROWN UPS: IF YOU CAN BUY US A COFFEE PLEASE DO SO HERE: https://ko-fi.com/comedyclub4kids Website: www.comedyclub4kids.co.uk Bluesky: comedyclub4kids.bsky.social Facebook: facebook.com/ComedyClub4Kids Hosted by Tiernan Douieb. Music by Paddy Gervers. Design by John Beck.
October 22, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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Love these Maurice Sendak quotes from today’s Looking At Picture Books post (Jon Klassen & Mac Barnett’s brilliant substack) called ‘On Respecting Kids, But Not Being Boring About It.’

It’s a paid post but very worth it: open.substack.com/pub/lookinga...
Maybe I am hung up on the word “interesting” because right now I am reading a collection of interviews with Maurice Sendak. And the back of the book has this pull quote: “You cannot write for children. They’re much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them.” MAC: Sendak is talking about his very direct connection to his own childhood: “Being in that kind of contact with my childhood is vital to me, but it doesn’t make me perfectly certain. I know what I’m doing in my work. Especially in books for children under six. I don’t think anyone really knows what kids that young like and what they don’t like. They’re formless, fluid creatures—like moving water. You can’t stop one of them at any one point and know exactly what’s going on. A child may react strongly to a book because it reaches him emotionally in some way the author intended. Then, again, it may be that he once saw a duck from a train window and never saw one again until he looked at the book, and though the book is rotten, he loves it because there’s a duck in it.”
October 19, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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This week's blog times for you.
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Text: The Perils of Scary Kids Shows Kids party drinks choices and cursed mirrors. Image: The terrifying face from that Punky Brewster ep.
October 17, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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On this week’s @comedyclub4kids.bsky.social Radio Nonsense podcast the brilliant Bella Humphries joins me to talk about sneezing and Michael Jackson, whoever that is.

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Clockwise from Top L: Bella Humphries, a tiny MJ, Radio Nonsense logo, a pantomime horse Radio Nonsense logo. Text: What is your favourite Michael Jackson song? With Bella Humphries Professional sneezer Bella Humphries joins Tiernan this week to answer questions about Jack's son, Michael.  WE NEED YOUR QUESTIONS, JOKES AND NONSENSE TOO. SEND THEM IN TO: podcast@comedyclub4kids.co.uk GROWN UPS: IF YOU CAN BUY US A COFFEE PLEASE DO SO HERE: https://ko-fi.com/comedyclub4kids Website: www.comedyclub4kids.co.uk Bluesky: comedyclub4kids.bsky.social Facebook: facebook.com/ComedyClub4Kids Hosted by Tiernan Douieb. Music by Paddy Gervers. Design by John Beck. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
October 15, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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Waiting to see Jamie Smart at the Union Chapel. Pic of the stage with the projector screen of the event Lovely signed Bunny vs Monkey poster from the event
October 11, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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Makes sense. Perfect choice to advise how to make an emotionless robot that gives out disinformation.
Rishi Sunak takes advisory roles with Microsoft and AI firm Anthropic
October 10, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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This week's blog about nothing in particular:
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Text: The Trail. Three wheeled wheelbarrows or giant slugs? Image: A different wet trail on a different pavement.
October 10, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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There you go. Proof that people give standing ovations for any old shit now, they’re just excited to get out of their uncomfortable seats.
Text: Badenoch finishes speech to standing ovation Wrapping up her speech, Badenoch says she wants to see a "better Britain" where people have a "brighter future".
October 8, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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On this week’s @comedyclub4kids.bsky.social Radio Nonsense podcast, the creator or Air-rate John Cooper joins me to talk goldfish.

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Clockwise from top L corner: John Cooper, goldfish, Radio Nonsense logo, air-rate, maybe. Radio Nonsense logo. Text: Why are goldfish called goldfish if they ate orange? With John Cooper John Cooper takes a break from teaching his passive martial art, Air-ate, to help Tiernan answer a question about goldfish. Also: Chutney.  WE NEED YOUR QUESTIONS, JOKES AND NONSENSE TOO. SEND THEM IN TO: podcast@comedyclub4kids.co.uk GROWN UPS: IF YOU CAN BUY US A COFFEE PLEASE DO SO HERE: https://ko-fi.com/comedyclub4kids Website: www.comedyclub4kids.co.uk Bluesky: comedyclub4kids.bsky.social Facebook: facebook.com/ComedyClub4Kids Hosted by Tiernan Douieb. Music by Paddy Gervers. Design by John Beck.
October 8, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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A lazy blog post this week, again. open.substack.com/pub/tiernand...
Image: A very boring picture of a ferry. Text: A Ferry Lazy Post. Some old writings
October 3, 2025 at 9:40 AM