Mike Keenan

@mikekeenan.bsky.social

Comedian, Dad, Husband. Not necessarily in that order. Playing Age : Middle. Nominated for Best Debut Show at Leicester Comedy Festival 2025.

Surprising number of people who think their Ai assistant is sentient are still happy to make it do their bidding. Like, you are forcing a living being to co-author your Dark Romantasy novel set in the Roblox universe?

A newlywed couple have been stranded for hours in a Wetherspoons after the flight chaos. Fair play, it takes most marriages a good ten years to reach the staring silently at each other across a pub table stage.

Our son didn’t want to go to school this morning. He was crying, saying it wasn’t fair. The uniform doesn’t fit. He’s got no friends there. He feels weird and out of place. I told him tough and I don’t care that he’s 22… he’s going until he learns to use the Oxford comma.

I’m like the dad in Goodness Gracious Me who is convinced that everything is Indian, only it’s Dolly Parton facts. Whether it’s the books, or the eagle sanctuary, or that she gave the royalties from I Will Always Love You to support a Black neighbourhood in Nashville, or buying band uniforms or…

This isn't a directly morbid post. Watching BBC2. One of those real life Hospital series. Chap brought in after attempting to take his own life. Physically supported but eventually passed peacefully. Made me think about own past struggles 25+ years ago. If you need it, Samaritans: 116 123 X