Jon Harvey
@mrjonharvey.bsky.social
Comedian, author, broadcaster, geek. Human alter-ego of Count Binface.
I’ve written this for the Times: ‘I haven’t slept in my own bed for over a year.’ You could say I’ve put my back into parenting, and also put my back out. www.thetimes.com/article/681c...
I haven’t slept in my own bed for over a year
Between snoring and a new baby, Jon Harvey has been camping in his living room for months — just don’t call it a sleep divorce
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I’m fulfilling two dreams this Bank Holiday weekend: presenting Pick Of The Week on Sunday and guesting on Great Lives on Monday, celebrating the ingenious Peter Cook. Catch them both on @bbcradio4 or @bbcsounds. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
I had a blast reporting on the Boat Race. And I even got the names of the winners right.
I called it. Spurs should get a guest manager in every week like Have I Got News For You. Harry Redknapp, Glenn Hoddle, Stephen Mangan, Sue Perkins, ChatGPT - give them a game each. At least it’d be fun. www.theguardian.com/football/202...
How’s this for a storyline: Tudor gets sacked. Poch does a press conference saying he can’t in good conscience manage the USA while Trump embarks on illegal wars, quits and rejoins Spurs to save them at the last minute. That’d be good.
I said get a guest manager in every week. Not a guest goalie.
I picked a bad week to be a Spurs and England rugby fan.
Apology accepted. (I don’t have Tourette’s, but I did watch his opening monologue.)
BREAKING: Peter Mandelson stole concrete mixers. And monster trucks. According to my four-year-old.
Spurs are being run by a British general from the First World War.
I’ll say this for HMRC. Compared to banks and doctors’ surgeries, their hold music is a banger.
In a flash of inspiration, this morning my sleep-addled brain twigged that our boiler whirrs at the same pitch, tempo and timbre as the opening to Does Your Mother Know by ABBA. My day may have peaked early.
We have a daughter! Penelope was born under the new year’s super moon. She has a furry back so she might be a were-baby, but in a world of portfolio careers this is an extra plus point. She’s incredibly cute and worth all the sleep deprivation. Sarah is a doubly heroic mummy and we’re all in love.
If you watch Industry, I’m in the opening scene of tonight’s episode. Sort of…
All right - I've done a comedy writer and producers starter pack for everyone who's into that sort of thing. And YES, I've forgotten you, so remind me that you exist and YES I will put you on it (unless you have slighted me in some unremembered way in the last 20 years). go.bsky.app/AkQCH7U
Been a busy Christmas: producing Have I Got 2025 For You, presenting on Times Radio, producing a festive Unspeakable, ‘helping’ Count Binface interview Susie Dent, and Into The Sharkiverse getting a repeat airing. Time for a new production, of the human kind. Due any day.
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