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

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 · 2h

"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 · 14h

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 · 15h

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
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Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 8h

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 · 23h

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 · 5d

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 · 1d

@gracejarvisohno.bsky.social An excellent job!

Hannah Pumpkins 🎃 🍂 @hannahposts.bsky.social · 4d

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 · 4d

Richard Scarry: Fury Road

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Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · 3d

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 · 3d

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 · 2d

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 · 1d

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 · 4d

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 · 4d

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 · 5d

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 · 6d

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 · 5d

What an excellent human being!

Comedy Club 4 Kids @comedyclub4kids.bsky.social · 5d

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.

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Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 6d

💖Saturday 12pm I’m doing a great big gig at Union Chapel and if you want to join in,wherever you are, YOU CAN GET TICKETS FOR THE LIVESTREAM HERE www.waterstones.com/events/onlin... It’s going to be an hour long show drawing the most ridiculous comic ever, together, with special guests on stage too!

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

So NO SPACE FOR YOU, Captain Curt!

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

Commander Chris Hadfield cautions about EXACTLY this: not everyone who makes it to astronaut training gets to go into space, because some are arrogant enough to be dismissive of those they don't see the value in. The kind of person who is curt to a nurse and polite to a doctor isn't a team player.

fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 7d

Receptionist here. If you're rude to me on your way to a job interview, I'll always let the interviewer know and make sure you don't get the job.

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

Leamington Spa! Join us at 2pm at the Royal Spa Centre for stand-up comedy excellence & much in the way of musical shenanigans, from @eleri-morgan.bsky.social (MC), David Hoare and Duncan Oakley!

🎟️ royal-leamington-spa.co.uk/event/comedy...
💻 #leamingtoncomedyfestival #kidsshow #familyfun #comedy

Thumbs up otter ad for the Royal Spa Centre gig today

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Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 9d

Given today’s news, I was recently introduced to this piece by Patricia Routledge, and i always found it really moving.

**"I'll be turning 95 this coming Monday. In my younger years, I was often filled with worry - worry that I wasn't quite good enough, that no one would cast me again, that I wouldn't live up to my mother's hopes. But these days begin in peace, and end in gratitude."**
My life didn't quite take shape until my forties. I had worked steadily - on provincial stages, in radio plays, in West End productions - but I often felt adrift, as though I was searching for a home within myself that I hadn't quite found.
At 50, I accepted a television role that many would later associate me with - Hyacinth Bucket, of Keeping Up Appearances. I thought it would be a small part in a little series. I never imagined that it would take me into people's living rooms and hearts around the world. And truthfully, that role taught me to accept my own quirks.
It healed something in me.
At 60, I began learning Italian - not for work, but so l could sing opera in its native language. I also learned how to live alone without feeling lonely. I read poetry aloud each evening, not to perfect my diction, but to quiet my soul.
At 70, I returned to the Shakespearean stage - something I once believed I had aged out of. But this time, I had nothing to prove. I stood on those boards with stillness, and audiences felt that. I was no longer performing. I was simply being.
At 80, I took up watercolor painting. I painted flowers from my garden, old hats from my youth, and faces I remembered from the London Underground. Each painting was a quiet memory made visible.
Now, at 95, I write letters by hand. I'm learning to bake rye bread. I still breathe deeply every morning. I still adore laughter - though I no longer try to make anyone laugh. I love the quiet more than ever.
**I'm writing this to tell you something simple:**
**Growing older is not the closing act. It can be the most exquisite chapter - if you let yourself bloom again.**
Let these years ahead be your *treasure years*.
You don't need to be famous. Y…

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Comedy Club 4 Kids @comedyclub4kids.bsky.social · 9d

Consulting this handy flowchart to see if we need "help" auto-filling in our booking spreadsheet which tracks which gigs (real) are on where (verified), under what financial deal (actual), and peopled by which performers (confirmed).

Makkon @makkon.bsky.social · 9d

a flow-chart with 2 islands. "Do I need AI?" that flows into a final island saying "No"

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Roxy Hart @roxyhart.bsky.social · 10d

Is it national poetry day? Time for this masterpiece

The Tiger
by Nael, age 6
From 'They're singing a song in their rocket'

The tiger
He destroyed his cage
Yes
YES
The tiger is out

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Comedy Club 4 Kids @comedyclub4kids.bsky.social · 10d

@scriblit.bsky.social Important content.

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 10d

Four panel meme. First three panels is Bella from twilight making different expressions saying:

You're impossibly fast and strong
Your skin is pale white and ice cold
I know what you are

Fourth panel is Data from Star Trek

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Comedy Club 4 Kids @comedyclub4kids.bsky.social · 10d

Where's all the meat coming from? Oh god, WHERE'S ALL THE MEAT COMING FROM?

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