Joel Morris
@gralefrit.bsky.social
Writer & highwayman.
Ladybird, Cunk, Wipe, Be Funny Or Die, Framley, Candidate band, Comfort Blanket, Broken Veil etc
https://ko-fi.com/gralefrit
AGENTS, website, links, bio etc: www.gralefrit.co.uk
Ladybird, Cunk, Wipe, Be Funny Or Die, Framley, Candidate band, Comfort Blanket, Broken Veil etc
https://ko-fi.com/gralefrit
AGENTS, website, links, bio etc: www.gralefrit.co.uk
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Joel Morris
@gralefrit.bsky.social
· Nov 9
Hello new followers!
If you want to know anything, it’s all on my website…
www.gralefrit.co.uk
I’m doing lots of stuff on Substack, including podcasts and writing and that.
joelmorris.substack.com
Also: Be Funny Or Die, How Comedy Works and Why It Matters… from all the usual book places.
If you want to know anything, it’s all on my website…
www.gralefrit.co.uk
I’m doing lots of stuff on Substack, including podcasts and writing and that.
joelmorris.substack.com
Also: Be Funny Or Die, How Comedy Works and Why It Matters… from all the usual book places.
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NEW COMFORT BLANKET!
Exclusively for paid Substack subscribers.
Jay Foreman (Map Men) returns to talk cartoons once more, and celebrates Cosgrove Hall’s vegetarian vampire COUNT DUCKULA!
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Exclusively for paid Substack subscribers.
Jay Foreman (Map Men) returns to talk cartoons once more, and celebrates Cosgrove Hall’s vegetarian vampire COUNT DUCKULA!
substack.com/home/post/p-...
November 25, 2025 at 8:55 AM
NEW COMFORT BLANKET!
Exclusively for paid Substack subscribers.
Jay Foreman (Map Men) returns to talk cartoons once more, and celebrates Cosgrove Hall’s vegetarian vampire COUNT DUCKULA!
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Exclusively for paid Substack subscribers.
Jay Foreman (Map Men) returns to talk cartoons once more, and celebrates Cosgrove Hall’s vegetarian vampire COUNT DUCKULA!
substack.com/home/post/p-...
It’s remarkable, given that I go to gigs a lot, talk about music all the time, and leak taste-related data like fuck, that I never have any clue what bands are playing huge shows until people post their videos of seeing them.
That data>advertising algorithm is really not working, guys.
That data>advertising algorithm is really not working, guys.
November 25, 2025 at 8:57 AM
It’s remarkable, given that I go to gigs a lot, talk about music all the time, and leak taste-related data like fuck, that I never have any clue what bands are playing huge shows until people post their videos of seeing them.
That data>advertising algorithm is really not working, guys.
That data>advertising algorithm is really not working, guys.
NEW COMFORT BLANKET!
Exclusively for paid Substack subscribers.
Jay Foreman (Map Men) returns to talk cartoons once more, and celebrates Cosgrove Hall’s vegetarian vampire COUNT DUCKULA!
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Exclusively for paid Substack subscribers.
Jay Foreman (Map Men) returns to talk cartoons once more, and celebrates Cosgrove Hall’s vegetarian vampire COUNT DUCKULA!
substack.com/home/post/p-...
November 25, 2025 at 8:55 AM
NEW COMFORT BLANKET!
Exclusively for paid Substack subscribers.
Jay Foreman (Map Men) returns to talk cartoons once more, and celebrates Cosgrove Hall’s vegetarian vampire COUNT DUCKULA!
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Exclusively for paid Substack subscribers.
Jay Foreman (Map Men) returns to talk cartoons once more, and celebrates Cosgrove Hall’s vegetarian vampire COUNT DUCKULA!
substack.com/home/post/p-...
NEW COMFORT BLANKET!
Writer, comedian and YouTube Map Man @jayforeman.bsky.social returns with more cartoon love, talking about Cosgrove Hall’s vegetarian vampire COUNT DUCKULA…
Exclusively to paid Substack subscribers…
substack.com/@joelmorris/...
Writer, comedian and YouTube Map Man @jayforeman.bsky.social returns with more cartoon love, talking about Cosgrove Hall’s vegetarian vampire COUNT DUCKULA…
Exclusively to paid Substack subscribers…
substack.com/@joelmorris/...
Count Duckula - with Jay Foreman
Writer, comedian and YouTube star Jay Foreman (Map Men) returns to talk about another vivid and unique cartoon world: Cosgrove Hall’s wild and crazy Dangermouse offshoot Count Duckula, and celebrates ...
substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:45 AM
NEW COMFORT BLANKET!
Writer, comedian and YouTube Map Man @jayforeman.bsky.social returns with more cartoon love, talking about Cosgrove Hall’s vegetarian vampire COUNT DUCKULA…
Exclusively to paid Substack subscribers…
substack.com/@joelmorris/...
Writer, comedian and YouTube Map Man @jayforeman.bsky.social returns with more cartoon love, talking about Cosgrove Hall’s vegetarian vampire COUNT DUCKULA…
Exclusively to paid Substack subscribers…
substack.com/@joelmorris/...
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Why do always forget how good the guitar part is in Dolly Parton’s Jolene? Banging riff. Morning all.
November 25, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Why do always forget how good the guitar part is in Dolly Parton’s Jolene? Banging riff. Morning all.
The new uncut Tom and Jerry box set reinstates the numerous cut scenes showing the grim ritual required to bring Tom’s mangled corpse back to life, in order to perform various household pest control chores for Mammy Two Shoes.
they hired me to make new Looney Tunes but I can’t figure out a way to bring Sylvester back from the dead
November 24, 2025 at 8:36 AM
The new uncut Tom and Jerry box set reinstates the numerous cut scenes showing the grim ritual required to bring Tom’s mangled corpse back to life, in order to perform various household pest control chores for Mammy Two Shoes.
Reposted by Joel Morris
they hired me to make new Looney Tunes but I can’t figure out a way to bring Sylvester back from the dead
November 24, 2025 at 8:20 AM
they hired me to make new Looney Tunes but I can’t figure out a way to bring Sylvester back from the dead
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GIG!
Candidate will be playing at The Green Note, Camden, London on January 15th…
wegottickets.com/f/14666/
Candidate will be playing at The Green Note, Camden, London on January 15th…
wegottickets.com/f/14666/
November 23, 2025 at 8:08 PM
GIG!
Candidate will be playing at The Green Note, Camden, London on January 15th…
wegottickets.com/f/14666/
Candidate will be playing at The Green Note, Camden, London on January 15th…
wegottickets.com/f/14666/
Meta’s AI megabrain is programmed for the full range of human genders, containing data on… er… both of them.
November 24, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Meta’s AI megabrain is programmed for the full range of human genders, containing data on… er… both of them.
Post a movie where you’re from.
November 23, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Post a movie where you’re from.
GIG!
Candidate will be playing at The Green Note, Camden, London on January 15th…
wegottickets.com/f/14666/
Candidate will be playing at The Green Note, Camden, London on January 15th…
wegottickets.com/f/14666/
November 23, 2025 at 8:08 PM
GIG!
Candidate will be playing at The Green Note, Camden, London on January 15th…
wegottickets.com/f/14666/
Candidate will be playing at The Green Note, Camden, London on January 15th…
wegottickets.com/f/14666/
Reposted by Joel Morris
Other work of the Ladybird artists.
‘Evening party at the big house’
Artist: Ronald Lampitt (1958)
‘Evening party at the big house’
Artist: Ronald Lampitt (1958)
November 23, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Other work of the Ladybird artists.
‘Evening party at the big house’
Artist: Ronald Lampitt (1958)
‘Evening party at the big house’
Artist: Ronald Lampitt (1958)
Reposted by Joel Morris
Go on then. Because you asked no nicely…
Happy doctor who day again!
Happy doctor who day again!
November 23, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Go on then. Because you asked no nicely…
Happy doctor who day again!
Happy doctor who day again!
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Happy Doctor Who day!
November 23, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Happy Doctor Who day!
AI seems to be an expensive way to do someone else’s job as well as you reckon they probably do it, whatever, but no use for anything you do yourself, where you can professionally tell it’s hopeless.
Good luck with the bubble, lads.
(Clipped from The Wrap, about Disney giving up on its AI R&D.)
Good luck with the bubble, lads.
(Clipped from The Wrap, about Disney giving up on its AI R&D.)
November 23, 2025 at 10:43 AM
AI seems to be an expensive way to do someone else’s job as well as you reckon they probably do it, whatever, but no use for anything you do yourself, where you can professionally tell it’s hopeless.
Good luck with the bubble, lads.
(Clipped from The Wrap, about Disney giving up on its AI R&D.)
Good luck with the bubble, lads.
(Clipped from The Wrap, about Disney giving up on its AI R&D.)
Reposted by Joel Morris
I flew to Canada this week to go to a Paul McCartney concert and I wrote about it here:
open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...
open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...
going through hell, keeping going
on art, grief, and the emotional heroism of just bloody keeping on making your work
open.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:23 AM
I flew to Canada this week to go to a Paul McCartney concert and I wrote about it here:
open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...
open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...
Weird to see Keir Starmer carefully naming his favourite film as whatever is the most popular TV show that day, just in case, the same week the actual Pope had a rave.
November 23, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Weird to see Keir Starmer carefully naming his favourite film as whatever is the most popular TV show that day, just in case, the same week the actual Pope had a rave.
And on this Doctor Who Day, if you join the Broken Veil channel, you can hear our Discomfort Blanket celebration of hauntological Tom Baker swansong Logopolis.
(Plus all the other DB episodes on everything from Sapphire and Steel to Robert Aickman…)
www.patreon.com/collection/1...
(Plus all the other DB episodes on everything from Sapphire and Steel to Robert Aickman…)
www.patreon.com/collection/1...
November 23, 2025 at 10:10 AM
And on this Doctor Who Day, if you join the Broken Veil channel, you can hear our Discomfort Blanket celebration of hauntological Tom Baker swansong Logopolis.
(Plus all the other DB episodes on everything from Sapphire and Steel to Robert Aickman…)
www.patreon.com/collection/1...
(Plus all the other DB episodes on everything from Sapphire and Steel to Robert Aickman…)
www.patreon.com/collection/1...
It’s Doctor Who Day so why not enjoy @johnhiggs.bsky.social talking about CLASSIC WHO!
pod.link/1614879928/e...
pod.link/1614879928/e...
November 23, 2025 at 10:02 AM
It’s Doctor Who Day so why not enjoy @johnhiggs.bsky.social talking about CLASSIC WHO!
pod.link/1614879928/e...
pod.link/1614879928/e...
Trump looked so happy.
We should fix it for him to meet Han Solo and The Fonz next.
We should fix it for him to meet Han Solo and The Fonz next.
November 23, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Trump looked so happy.
We should fix it for him to meet Han Solo and The Fonz next.
We should fix it for him to meet Han Solo and The Fonz next.
Just watched The Holiday and shouted excitedly “DEAN CUNDEY!” at the DoP credit at the start, then couldn’t explain why, and would like to thank @brainmage.bsky.social for an unexpected new game.
November 22, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Just watched The Holiday and shouted excitedly “DEAN CUNDEY!” at the DoP credit at the start, then couldn’t explain why, and would like to thank @brainmage.bsky.social for an unexpected new game.
A definitive Pastem, this one, then perhaps. (Something that’s not necessarily true, and you don’t know where it originated, but which enters the collective brain and is stored as a useful shorthand to use in arguments in future because you “wouldn’t put it past ‘em…”)
Not that I trust Google 100% but the viral claim it’s rebutting originated with a single post from some guy on X
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
Google denies ‘misleading’ reports of Gmail using your emails to train AI
Google says “we do not use your Gmail content for training our Gemini AI model.”
www.theverge.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:51 PM
A definitive Pastem, this one, then perhaps. (Something that’s not necessarily true, and you don’t know where it originated, but which enters the collective brain and is stored as a useful shorthand to use in arguments in future because you “wouldn’t put it past ‘em…”)
My favourite jokes are ones that got scribbled in notebooks, and don’t quite work, so you can’t sell them to anyone, or develop them, but for some reason that makes them even funnier to you and whoever you made them up with, that you wrote it down. The pure essence of the Siblings At A Funeral joke.
November 22, 2025 at 12:34 PM
My favourite jokes are ones that got scribbled in notebooks, and don’t quite work, so you can’t sell them to anyone, or develop them, but for some reason that makes them even funnier to you and whoever you made them up with, that you wrote it down. The pure essence of the Siblings At A Funeral joke.