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Tiernan Douieb @tiernandouieb.bsky.social · 3h

On this week’s @comedyclub4kids.bsky.social Radio Nonsense podcast the brilliant Bella Humphries joins me to talk about sneezing and Michael Jackson, whoever that is.

Get your kids to listen at: pod.fo/e/33d837

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Professional sneezer Bella Humphries joins Tiernan this week to answer questions about Jack's son, Michael.
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John-Luke Roberts @jlukeroberts.bsky.social · 1d

Lush has a Scooby-Doo tie-in range, and they've really missed the opportunity to have a bath bomb shaped like a ghost which fizzes away to reveal a normal man inside.

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Grant Howitt @gshowitt.bsky.social · 1d

"Can we get a pitcher for the table, please?"
"No problem, sir, coming right up"

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Comedy Club 4 Kids @comedyclub4kids.bsky.social · 13h

Enjoying this as a recipe for a good day. Two people, both confident oysters are safe in their ocean homes, enjoying birds singing in a breeze and some light drizzle, who have thought to team champagne with a spicy beef stew. ✨ Insufficient mention of chilli con carne in pop ever since, tbh.

Let There Be Love
Song by Nat King Cole

Overview
Lyrics
Let there be you, let there be me,
Let there be oysters under the sea,
Let there be wind and occasional rain,
Chilli Con Carne and sparkling champagne,
Let there be birds to sing in the trees,
Someone to bless me, whenever I sneeze,
Let there be Cuckoos, a lark and a dove,
But first of all please, let there be love.
Let there be Cuckoos, a lark and a dove,
But first of all please, let there be love
Love... ooh... love...
let there be love

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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 2d

“That’s one gone!”, says a dad to me as he drops his son at nursery. “One more to go!” he says, pointing at his daughter sitting in the car. “Just need to get rid of the wife, and I’m sorted!“ he laughs, expecting me to laugh too, but to his surprise I smash him about the head with a ceremonial mace

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Comedy Club 4 Kids @comedyclub4kids.bsky.social · 1d

Magically, THIS was the top @bechillcomedian.bsky.social was wearing directly after Mike's set, which is the only time - in our 20 years of gigs! - where one act has been inadvertently dressed AS another comic's material.

Bec in a purple sweatshirt with a dripping green goop motif

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Comedy Club 4 Kids @comedyclub4kids.bsky.social · 2d

Further horror..?

"They've started singing. Again."

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Comedy Club 4 Kids @comedyclub4kids.bsky.social · 2d

Oh, OH NO.

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Comedy Club 4 Kids @comedyclub4kids.bsky.social · 2d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

It's JUST birthday groups.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

Archives banned making copies.

Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 2d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

New library catalogue website.

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Comedy Club 4 Kids @comedyclub4kids.bsky.social · 2d

Rich @sandling.bsky.social is getting kids at Park Theatre to make excellent noises. Some magnificent "pop"s. Some animal squeaks. And one little girl demanding "What have you DONE!?" 🏆

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Comedy Club 4 Kids @comedyclub4kids.bsky.social · 2d

"Are you REALLY supposed to do that??" is quite the heckle to greet David Hoare to the stage, hat tip child.

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 3d

this is me unwilling to watch any movie in which a dog is frightened, because im not certain they know they’re actors

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 3d

Is magic bad for dog?
I'm working on slight of hand magic tricks and practice in my house a lot. Sometimes in front of dogs. Am I hurting their brains when I'm blowing their minds?
Answer
Save

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Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 3d

We were trying to find an ending to our comic at the event yesterday and one kid suggested having someone say ‘more diarrhoea!’ which just somehow made the whole comic work. Always trust in the ingenuity of children 🙏

Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 3d

We did it! Thanks so much to everyone who came to the Union Chapel gig today (and watched at home!). We premiered our cartoon, got Bunny + Monkey on stage to draw each other, and thanks to audience suggestions we drew a comic about bums + toilet bushes.I also got to hang with Max, who dressed as me!

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Comedy Club 4 Kids @comedyclub4kids.bsky.social · 7d

Families of Finsbury Park! Join us at @parktheatrelondon.bsky.social this Sunday to hoot at Rich @sandling.bsky.social (MC), musical comic David Hoare, @mikerampton.bsky.social and CITVs @bechillcomedian.bsky.social!

🎟️ parktheatre.co.uk/events/comed...
💻 #finsburypark #familyshow #standup #comedy

See Rich Sandling, David Hoare, Mike Rampton and Bec Hill on October 12th, then e.g. Rob Kemp, Sam Eley's Basil Crumbwick, and Mandeep Singh on November 9th.

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Comedy Club 4 Kids @comedyclub4kids.bsky.social · 4d

@gracejarvisohno.bsky.social An excellent job!

Hannah Pumpkins 🎃 🍂 @hannahposts.bsky.social · 7d

Richard Scarry: Fury Road

A Richard Scarry illustration of a skeleton-bone dragster being driven by a little mouse

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Hannah Pumpkins 🎃 🍂 @hannahposts.bsky.social · 7d

Richard Scarry: Fury Road

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Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · 5d

Just to say that teachers do an incredibly difficult job, with all the right intentions, and can be the defining influence on a young person's life. They are the exact opposite of poisoners because good teaching provides the antidote to so many dangers

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 5d

Nigel Farage says UK teachers are ‘poisoning our kids’ and predicts strikes as PM

Exclusive: Reform UK leader, speaking at event for private US college, also claimed the ‘Marxist left’ controls education Nigel Farage has predicted teachers would go on strike within weeks of a Reform UK government, and accused them of “poisoning our kids” by telling them that black children are victims and white children oppressors. The Reform UK leader set out his view on British schools in an event for a private US Christian college in Michigan, claiming the “Marxist left” was “now in control of our education system”. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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becca | they/them @beccaisoutside.bsky.social · 5d

this is the most pollen ive ever seen on a single bug, shes having the time of her life

photo of a bee covered all-over with bright orange pollen.

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Comedy Club 4 Kids @comedyclub4kids.bsky.social · 4d

Just got out of a SUPER long P.T.A. meeting - like 2.5+ hours! - but OOF, seems like Willa's doing great at school, her history teacher was all enthusiasm, about her aptitude in class AND her kindness, she's a real firecracker, couldn't be prouder. ✨

Poster for One Battle After Another, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson

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Comedy Club 4 Kids @comedyclub4kids.bsky.social · 6d

Listen to John talk goldfish & chutney on this week's podcast, then see him gig in Southport with @totallyimprovised.bsky.social for us on Saturday, with @andrewoneillcomedy.bsky.social and Duncan Oakley!

🎟️ theatkinson.co.uk/events/comed...

On 11th October, join us at The Atkinson to see Andrew O'Neill (MC), Laura and John from improv collective Comedy Sportz, and musical comic Duncan Oakley!

The Atkinson, Southport
Saturday 11 October 2025 | 2pm | £10
01704 533 333 | theatkinson.co.uk
@ComedyClub4Kids | comedyclub4kids.co.uk

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Comedy Club 4 Kids @comedyclub4kids.bsky.social · 6d

Lovely bit of business in Jane Austen's Persuasion, showing:
a) the author is an excellent observer of toddlers
b) kids have ALWAYS assumed you will appreciate being used as a climbing frame
c) Captain Frederick Wentworth is a worthy object of affection (sees Anne needs help! acts on it! kindly!)

Another minute brought another addition. The younger boy, a remarkable stout, forward child, of two years old, having got the door opened for him by some one without, made his determined appearance among them, and went straight to the sofa to see what was going on, and put in his claim to anything good that might be giving away.

There being nothing to eat, he could only have some play; and as his aunt would not let him tease his sick brother, he began to fasten himself upon her, as she knelt, in such a way that, busy as she was about Charles, she could not shake him off. She spoke to him, ordered, entreated, and insisted in vain. Once she did contrive to push him away, but the boy had the greater pleasure in getting upon her back again directly.

“Walter,” said she, “get down this moment. You are extremely troublesome. I am very angry with you.”

“Walter,” cried Charles Hayter, “why do you not do as you are bid? Do not you hear your aunt speak? Come to me, Walter, come to cousin Charles.”

But not a bit did Walter stir.

In another moment, however, she found herself in the state of being released from him; some one was taking him from her, though he had bent down her head so much, that his little sturdy hands were unfastened from around her neck, and he was resolutely borne away, before she knew that Captain Wentworth had done it.

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Comedy Club 4 Kids @comedyclub4kids.bsky.social · 7d

Families of Finsbury Park! Join us at @parktheatrelondon.bsky.social this Sunday to hoot at Rich @sandling.bsky.social (MC), musical comic David Hoare, @mikerampton.bsky.social and CITVs @bechillcomedian.bsky.social!

🎟️ parktheatre.co.uk/events/comed...
💻 #finsburypark #familyshow #standup #comedy

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David Whitley @mrdavidwhitley.bsky.social · 8d

Pretty sure Britain's biggest growth industry is making apps for schools to force parents to sign up to.

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Comedy Club 4 Kids @comedyclub4kids.bsky.social · 8d

What an excellent human being!

Comedy Club 4 Kids @comedyclub4kids.bsky.social · 8d

Heheh, read this JUST as she appeared onscreen singing the praises of Jolene's flaming hair, hat-tip you and Country at the BBC (www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b017zqwb) working in beautiful harmony.

Country at the BBC

Compilation of BBC archive performances by country artists, including Tammy Wynette, Kris Kristofferson, Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton, Charley Pride, Emmylou Harris and Willie Nelson.

www.bbc.co.uk