Laura Lexx
Comedian, author of Klopp Actually and Pivot, always wants some distraction…
- Making Tax Digital might be what pushes me over the edge you know. If you legally require me to do this how about you pay for all this software I’ve now got to subscribe to or make the governments own one? We. Don’t. Have. Any. Money. You. Fucks.
- We know you’re all making less than you were ten years ago while money while we refuse point blank to rethink the system that aides and abets billionaire status but we need to REALLY check your lack of finances and you have to pay for it
- How about 3-4 a year you stop what you’re doing and show us for sure how little cash you’ve got? Theres a whole one of you in the company, so there’s plenty of man power. It’s giving Robin Hood Sheriff of Nottingham smacking a dogs broken leg
- Quarterly income updates and an annual tax return. It’s utterly mad to expect a one man band outfit to do this.
- In honour of Mock The Week coming back here’s my favourite joke I ever got on the show 🥳
- When they’re next hiring a Steward of Gondor, part of the interview process should be “can you eat tomatoes”
- And if they chow on them like a crow with a jar of warm sloppy eyeballs then clear sign you’re a wrongun get out of town no steward pension for you
- Weird little burst of joy watching Slow Horses and seeing tax discs in the windshields. I’d guess I’m 2, maybe 3, years away from sharing AI Facebook memes about the English countryside not being the same anymore
- What kind of vegetable grants wishes? An aubergenie
- American version: What kind of vegetable is useful for stage magicians? An egg plant
- This is so stupid but I can’t quite believe how sad I feel about Catherine O’Hara’s death. I never get like this over celebrities… I didn’t know them and it doesn’t change my life that they’re gone but this one has hit me
- I think it’s because what I saw of her was this amazing successful reappearance to mainstream success later in life and it felt like a huge win for overlooked comedy actresses to one day be appreciated the way they always should have been
- It’s pure projection, and gross to make a strangers life and death something of my own imagination but that’s what parasociality and celebrity does. But I felt like she was a beacon of comedy, proper success and feminism and I wish we’d had another two decades of her roles at least
- She deserved it. Anyway. I hope she’s at peace and the people who actually knew her have love. She was brilliance itself. Brilliance
- I like the dichotomy here of arbitrarily choosing a hate figure (The French) in a really positive, “fun” tone of voice.
- This is an example of truly riffing and having no idea what I’m doing - and that’s reflected in the slowing of the hearty laugh rate. However, booming laughs drop but would you agree that the warmth in the room and the joy at being along for the ride stays? That’s how I feel.
- This could be the start of some properly written material: jokes about how much we used to heartily hate the French and how that’s unimaginable now. How we used to war with our nearest but then that feels weird now so we moved wars further away from ourselves.
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View full threadI like declaring I hate the state of the world and that all of this mess is human ego and idiocy wrapped up in money via saying “let’s hate the French”.
- My kid: spends all day operating at 2trillion decibels. My kid: hears a hand dryer My kid: what is this machine with the audacity to break the monasteric silence in which I live my life?!
- I’m about three chapters into Hunchback of Notre Dame and finding it utterly impenetrable and above my happily followable level. Should I give up or does it become slightly easier and more story led?
- There's a new episode of The Comedy Bureau out today exploring the scientific evidence for humour in great apes... I'd love you to have a listen.