Ricky Gervais' "Alley Cats" is what would happen if someone told ChatGPT to write a "Derek and Clive" sketch as badly as it can.
Max Preston
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Sky News journalist - working chiefly on "The Wrap". Re-posts aren't endorsements. Views mine; not Sky's. Still on that other app, but migrating away.
Our friend Dermot Murnaghan has left us. He was a gentleman, a consummate broadcaster and journalist, and a great laugh. His stoicism in the face of his diagnosis and his advocacy for prostate cancer screening were a true inspiration. I am privileged to have known him.
"Why aren't the BBC reporting XXXXX when social media has been showing it for 2 hours?" Maybe because they are checking and verifying it like a proper, professional news outlet rather than just throwing any old half-understood, possibly fake shite out into the world.
I've long thought the simplest question one could ask Trump - and which would yield the most-illuminating answer - would be: "Are people allowed not to like you?" Thanks to Rob Reiner and his wife, we appear to have the answer.
Random Facebook commenter: "We never had all these knife stabbings in the 60s and 70s, when we had discipline and respect." I've yet to receive a reply to my request for her thoughts on "gun shootings".
Remembering the halcyon days of three weeks ago, when a "BBC Trump Edit" meant Celia Imrie's flatulence.
How is THIS the PRIMARY image you put on an online property listing?! Up next, the radiator in the spare bedroom! Better get an offer in ASAP!
PR agent called Sam Cooke sends me a press release. My first thought: 🎼"Yooouu... send me... spam."
Headlines like this utterly infuriate me. The gist is essentially: "How dare a public figure not be living up to the public's judgemental expectations at all times?" At its worst, it's what makes weirdos dream up ideas like... *checks notes*... KIDNAPPING HOLLY WILLOUGHBY! Just gross.
Dear PR agency, You do not get to e-mail me an "OPERATIONAL NOTE" - my bosses do - and you are not them. It's called a press release. Get over yourselves.
Something called "Black Country Live" brings us two bits of Earth-shattering news... 1. There's a news programme on ITV called "Good Morning Brain". 2. Apparently, it's news that a news programme went to an item in their running order. (Appalling, merit-free clickbait)
Pleased to hear U.S. viewers will soon be seeing a lot more @news.sky.com content on @msnbc.com (or MS NOW, as it will soon be known). news.sky.com/story/sky-ne...
Sky News coverage to be featured on MSNBC as part of commercial agreement
Sky News strikes a deal with MSNBC to expand the reach of its journalism to the US.
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I'm not sure "We're awesome. You suck." is the masterful diplomatic gambit Trump thinks it is.
If Biden gave a speech this rambling, self-congratulatory and nonsensical to the U.N., Fox News would (rightly) call for him to be taken away by men in white coats.
Colleague in her 20s: "Should we blur Madonna's boobs on the front of the Star?" Me: "Hmmm... it's... Borderline!" [deafening silence]
Just seen a van with a website address that reads i-wash-it-me. Never went hyphens more-needed.
Apparently, all the anaesthetic machines in this hospital have names. Mine were called Sybil and Basil. I asked if that meant they were Fawlty.
Max Preston@maxpreston86.bsky.social · last yr.Tomorrow, I'm going into hospital for a double endoscopy and cystoscopy. (Trust me... DON'T Google it! 😂) There's nothing to worry about until or unless there's something to worry about, but that's why we're checking. That said, please think good thoughts.
Tomorrow, I'm going into hospital for a double endoscopy and cystoscopy. (Trust me... DON'T Google it! 😂) There's nothing to worry about until or unless there's something to worry about, but that's why we're checking. That said, please think good thoughts.
The Charlie Kirk video. Don't watch it. Don't share it. Channels airing it unexpurgated should be ashamed.
Is it just me, or has tomorrow's Metro made Vernon Kay look like Melvyn Bragg?!
Just seen a man so posh, he pronounced it "hwheel-CHAIR". I feel like a peas-ANT.
HEADLINE: "Putin might not want a deal with Ukraine, says Trump" Does one need to sit in a room with Putin -:or even talk to him - to understand that?
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