Alan Cox

A person: there’s no tv sketch comedy anymore Same person: this new tv sketch comedy show that hasnt aired yet is shit. I will also give it one episode max before I decide it’s irredeemable and slag it off online, leaving no room for improvement/ development of any future shows

@5tevieM @FergusCraig Twas ever thus

Frank Caliendo is one of the best impressionists today

Your first look at rehearsals for In The Print, a new political drama about 'The Battle of Wapping'. Tickets available, previews begin 26 March. 📸 Charlie Flint kingsheadtheatre.com/whats-on/in-th…

Photos by @scarabpictures (and a selfie by me) from @theimprovathon last weekend at @ThePleasance! Thanks again to @TheShowstoppers @schoolofnight for an amazing time at this 50-hour #StrangerThings homage! I had much fun DMing the #DnD episode... 🐉 💀 Mask by @CFXunmasked

Sir Ian McKellen at 86 expertly reciting Shakespeare last night!

On working with Orson Welles: “Someone shoved a script in my hand and I began to read. Mr Welles, in one of his bad moods that morning, glowered and said something sarcastic. I made a couple of terse suggestions as to what he could do with his opinions and started to walk out. 1/

PROFESSOR CHOMSKY I have been asked to comment on allegations of a “relationship” between Professor Chomsky and Jeffrey Epstein. It is an incontrovertible fact that Professor Chomsky met and corresponded with everyone. He didn’t discriminate; that was his modus operandi. That disposes of the bulk of the accusations leveled against Professor Chomsky. However, a portion of the allegations do puzzle: for example, a mysterious undated, unsigned, and unaddressed letter that Professor Chomsky supposedly wrote in support of Epstein. Most of the letter does not sound at all like him. How this letter came to be is, at this point, anyone’s guess.

Absolutely brilliant tribute. The best of all of them. Read with tears. ‘There was rage and pain and iron in him’: Patrick Marber on the great hits – and fond smokes – he had with Tom Stoppard theguardian.com/stage/2025/dec…

“Life is a gamble, at terrible odds. If it were a bet you wouldn't take it.” Tom Stoppard 1937 – 2025. Today we join with writers and theatre artists across the world to mark the passing of Tom Stoppard, a playwright whose work probed the deepest human mysteries of truth, time, mortality and frailty while dazzling with wit, laughter and the buoyancy of the human spirit.

RIP Tom Stoppard

Thirty Minutes Worth (14th November 1972). Anthony Jackson, Julian Orchard and Richard Wilson boldly join Harry for this Star Trek skit.

I agree with Chris. I’ve freelanced at the BBC (in the science unit) for many years. We’ve always tried to be the gold standard. I urge you to stop thinking of the BBC as a monolithic single entity. The BBC like any other institution is simply a large group of people. And large groups of people are messy. Fundamentally its Reithian values still provide its foundations and those are worth saving. Don’t let messy politics rot them away. We would be a poorer country without it.

Tom and Louise. Tom looks amzing

Who was a member?

Cancelling Tolstoy or Dostoevsky because Russia invaded Ukraine is no more coherent than cancelling Byron because Russia invaded Ukraine. These writers are branches on a single tree called European literature.

He does. He does it in the play

I’ve always loved this little sketch… #MorecambeAndWise #EricAndErnie #StillBringingSunshine 👓☀️♥️

On the anniversary of the Battle of Hastings.

Ward, Baker, Chadbon, Glover and Schell delivering a masterclass…