Howard Read
@howardread.bsky.social
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Howard Read
@howardread.bsky.social
· Nov 30
<CLAAAAAAAANG!!!> such a lovely night celebrating 15 years of Horrible Histories, and more importantly, having it, and everyone who’s made it what it is, celebrated.
Plastic surgery by Tim Burton.
Tony Blair increasingly looking like he's just drunk from the wrong Grail but is actually delighted about it
January 17, 2026 at 11:26 AM
Plastic surgery by Tim Burton.
I’m play this lovely club in Leeds on the 28th! Tickets here! www.sevenleeds.co.uk/event/silky-...
January 12, 2026 at 3:36 PM
I’m play this lovely club in Leeds on the 28th! Tickets here! www.sevenleeds.co.uk/event/silky-...
Howard's 2025 Christmas card to YOU!
YouTube video by Howard Read
youtu.be
December 23, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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The last @comedyclub4kids.bsky.social Radio Nonsense podcast of 2025 and it’s our Xmas special with @howardread.bsky.social helping answer festive Qs. Does Santa really poo off the Santa Monica pier on his summer holidays? Get your kids to listen!
pod.fo/e/3681bd
Available all places podcasts are
pod.fo/e/3681bd
Available all places podcasts are
December 17, 2025 at 8:36 AM
The last @comedyclub4kids.bsky.social Radio Nonsense podcast of 2025 and it’s our Xmas special with @howardread.bsky.social helping answer festive Qs. Does Santa really poo off the Santa Monica pier on his summer holidays? Get your kids to listen!
pod.fo/e/3681bd
Available all places podcasts are
pod.fo/e/3681bd
Available all places podcasts are
I’ve recorded lots of these, but this was the most fun. An improvised conversation answering daft questions sent in by listeners. It’s a really funny one.
The last @comedyclub4kids.bsky.social Radio Nonsense podcast of 2025 and it’s our Xmas special with @howardread.bsky.social helping answer festive Qs. Does Santa really poo off the Santa Monica pier on his summer holidays? Get your kids to listen!
pod.fo/e/3681bd
Available all places podcasts are
pod.fo/e/3681bd
Available all places podcasts are
December 17, 2025 at 3:09 PM
I’ve recorded lots of these, but this was the most fun. An improvised conversation answering daft questions sent in by listeners. It’s a really funny one.
Hello everyone. Hope you have a lovely one despite *gestures around vaguely*. I made a festive cartoon for you in lieu of a Christmas card.
Hope you like it.
Howard x
youtu.be/0LD-TSwKFHE?...
Hope you like it.
Howard x
youtu.be/0LD-TSwKFHE?...
Howard's 2025 Christmas card to YOU!
YouTube video by Howard Read
youtu.be
December 16, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Hello everyone. Hope you have a lovely one despite *gestures around vaguely*. I made a festive cartoon for you in lieu of a Christmas card.
Hope you like it.
Howard x
youtu.be/0LD-TSwKFHE?...
Hope you like it.
Howard x
youtu.be/0LD-TSwKFHE?...
Come to the 5pm show of this if you’re in North London! A few ticket left!
Finsbury Park! Families of North London! See you at @parktheatrelondon.bsky.social this afternoon..? The 3pm show is sold out, but you can still buy for 5pm, with Rachel Watkeys-Dowie (MC), Dave Chawner, @comedysavage.bsky.social and @howardread.bsky.social!
🎟️ parktheatre.co.uk/events/comed...
🎟️ parktheatre.co.uk/events/comed...
December 14, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Come to the 5pm show of this if you’re in North London! A few ticket left!
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Tomorrow afternoon!
Finsbury Park! Families of North London! See you at @parktheatrelondon.bsky.social on Sunday 14th December for comedy excellence from Rachel Watkeys-Dowie, Dave Chawner and @howardread.bsky.social!
🎟️ parktheatre.co.uk/events/comed...
🎟️ parktheatre.co.uk/events/comed...
December 13, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Tomorrow afternoon!
This is really sad. Robin is one of the most intelligent and caring people I know. But, just like him, he’s standing up while so many other people are bowing down.
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
December 13, 2025 at 10:34 PM
This is really sad. Robin is one of the most intelligent and caring people I know. But, just like him, he’s standing up while so many other people are bowing down.
Flying visit to Dublin to celebrate the wrap of Adam Loves Adventure, a lovely RTÉ I had the joy of helping develop and write and get in a spot of Christmas shopping.
December 7, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Flying visit to Dublin to celebrate the wrap of Adam Loves Adventure, a lovely RTÉ I had the joy of helping develop and write and get in a spot of Christmas shopping.
Is there a Most Christmassyist Garage competition? If there is
Can someone enter this big jingly carport into it, because it’ll win hands down. After most of the day up a ladder, discovering problems with both the guttering and the roof tiles, Christmas is well and truly started in this house.
Can someone enter this big jingly carport into it, because it’ll win hands down. After most of the day up a ladder, discovering problems with both the guttering and the roof tiles, Christmas is well and truly started in this house.
November 30, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Is there a Most Christmassyist Garage competition? If there is
Can someone enter this big jingly carport into it, because it’ll win hands down. After most of the day up a ladder, discovering problems with both the guttering and the roof tiles, Christmas is well and truly started in this house.
Can someone enter this big jingly carport into it, because it’ll win hands down. After most of the day up a ladder, discovering problems with both the guttering and the roof tiles, Christmas is well and truly started in this house.
The Muppets Christmas Carol is the best telling of anything ever. A masterpiece in adaptation, every key line delivered brilliantly, great songs, genuinely funny and emotion, rewards repeated viewing (trust me on this) and every single shot of the film has at least one joke in it.
Thead
Thead
November 30, 2025 at 9:16 AM
The Muppets Christmas Carol is the best telling of anything ever. A masterpiece in adaptation, every key line delivered brilliantly, great songs, genuinely funny and emotion, rewards repeated viewing (trust me on this) and every single shot of the film has at least one joke in it.
Thead
Thead
This is the nichest of niche jokes that was even niche when you were at the show when it was explained.
@howardread.bsky.social CLIIIIIIIIIIIVE!
*playing guess who with werner herzog*
werner herzog: does your person have the demented soul of a trapped demon, held infinitely against his will in a universe with no time, his pointless despair flaying his mind into shards
me: yes
werner herzog: is it clive
werner herzog: does your person have the demented soul of a trapped demon, held infinitely against his will in a universe with no time, his pointless despair flaying his mind into shards
me: yes
werner herzog: is it clive
November 25, 2025 at 11:15 PM
This is the nichest of niche jokes that was even niche when you were at the show when it was explained.
I’d like to think he’s still there.
November 24, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I’d like to think he’s still there.
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Finsbury Park! Families of North London! See you at @parktheatrelondon.bsky.social on Sunday 14th December for comedy excellence from Rachel Watkeys-Dowie, Dave Chawner and @howardread.bsky.social!
🎟️ parktheatre.co.uk/events/comed...
🎟️ parktheatre.co.uk/events/comed...
November 24, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Finsbury Park! Families of North London! See you at @parktheatrelondon.bsky.social on Sunday 14th December for comedy excellence from Rachel Watkeys-Dowie, Dave Chawner and @howardread.bsky.social!
🎟️ parktheatre.co.uk/events/comed...
🎟️ parktheatre.co.uk/events/comed...
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Cannot BELIEVE the trains in this country wanted to stop Tunbridge Wells from seeing this today. HOW VERY DARE, etc.
Hat tip @howardread.bsky.social for driving, @alexanderybennett.bsky.social for photographing, and @matricardo.bsky.social for derring do.
Hat tip @howardread.bsky.social for driving, @alexanderybennett.bsky.social for photographing, and @matricardo.bsky.social for derring do.
November 22, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Cannot BELIEVE the trains in this country wanted to stop Tunbridge Wells from seeing this today. HOW VERY DARE, etc.
Hat tip @howardread.bsky.social for driving, @alexanderybennett.bsky.social for photographing, and @matricardo.bsky.social for derring do.
Hat tip @howardread.bsky.social for driving, @alexanderybennett.bsky.social for photographing, and @matricardo.bsky.social for derring do.
Doing this on Saturday! Right up the Tunbridge!
Tunbridge Wells! Families of Kent! Join us at Trinity Theatre on Saturday 22nd for comedy excellence with @alexanderybennett.bsky.social, @howardread.bsky.social and @matricardo.bsky.social!
🎟️ trinitytheatre.net/book/501801/
🎟️ trinitytheatre.net/book/501801/
November 20, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Doing this on Saturday! Right up the Tunbridge!
There’s a full episode of Stan & Gran eps on YouTube for anyone who can’t see them outside the UK (or can’t get up at 7:55am or work MY5).
youtu.be/8NJEUcNtO0o?...
youtu.be/8NJEUcNtO0o?...
Stan & Gran Full Episode: Roaming Gnomes 🫛🦔 | Brand New Animated Adventure For Kids | Milkshake!
YouTube video by Milkshake!
youtu.be
November 18, 2025 at 11:48 AM
There’s a full episode of Stan & Gran eps on YouTube for anyone who can’t see them outside the UK (or can’t get up at 7:55am or work MY5).
youtu.be/8NJEUcNtO0o?...
youtu.be/8NJEUcNtO0o?...
Reposted by Howard Read
Tunbridge Wells! Families of Kent! Join us at Trinity Theatre on Saturday 22nd for comedy excellence with @alexanderybennett.bsky.social, @howardread.bsky.social and @matricardo.bsky.social!
🎟️ trinitytheatre.net/book/501801/
🎟️ trinitytheatre.net/book/501801/
November 17, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Tunbridge Wells! Families of Kent! Join us at Trinity Theatre on Saturday 22nd for comedy excellence with @alexanderybennett.bsky.social, @howardread.bsky.social and @matricardo.bsky.social!
🎟️ trinitytheatre.net/book/501801/
🎟️ trinitytheatre.net/book/501801/
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If you have mini people aged 4-7, there is a lovely new show out today on C5/Milkshake from today called Stan and Gran. It's full of gags and nature facts. Also I wrote some of it, and it's all expertly head written by @howardread.bsky.social. My first ep is out next Monday (its all about worms 🪱🪱🪱)
November 10, 2025 at 9:41 AM
If you have mini people aged 4-7, there is a lovely new show out today on C5/Milkshake from today called Stan and Gran. It's full of gags and nature facts. Also I wrote some of it, and it's all expertly head written by @howardread.bsky.social. My first ep is out next Monday (its all about worms 🪱🪱🪱)
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Heaps of fun things coming up before Christmas, join us for classes at The Phoenix in London, and gigs at:
⭐ Tunbridge Wells, Trinity Theatre*
⭐ Brighton, Komedia
⭐ Worthing, Connaught Theatre
⭐ Finsbury Park, @parktheatrelondon.bsky.social*
⭐ Bedford, Quarry Theatre
* with @howardread.bsky.social
⭐ Tunbridge Wells, Trinity Theatre*
⭐ Brighton, Komedia
⭐ Worthing, Connaught Theatre
⭐ Finsbury Park, @parktheatrelondon.bsky.social*
⭐ Bedford, Quarry Theatre
* with @howardread.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Heaps of fun things coming up before Christmas, join us for classes at The Phoenix in London, and gigs at:
⭐ Tunbridge Wells, Trinity Theatre*
⭐ Brighton, Komedia
⭐ Worthing, Connaught Theatre
⭐ Finsbury Park, @parktheatrelondon.bsky.social*
⭐ Bedford, Quarry Theatre
* with @howardread.bsky.social
⭐ Tunbridge Wells, Trinity Theatre*
⭐ Brighton, Komedia
⭐ Worthing, Connaught Theatre
⭐ Finsbury Park, @parktheatrelondon.bsky.social*
⭐ Bedford, Quarry Theatre
* with @howardread.bsky.social
Another sneak peak of Stan & Gran. This was the first episode where we really nailed where the comedy came from in the show, and Simone Giampaolo and the team have done such a great job at nailing all the gags (one of which was suggested by the one and only Jon Mason).
youtu.be/_S0YPCA1ryI
youtu.be/_S0YPCA1ryI
Stan and Gran "Laughter of the Lake 🌊" Episode Clip | Milkshake!
YouTube video by Milkshake!
youtu.be
November 6, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Another sneak peak of Stan & Gran. This was the first episode where we really nailed where the comedy came from in the show, and Simone Giampaolo and the team have done such a great job at nailing all the gags (one of which was suggested by the one and only Jon Mason).
youtu.be/_S0YPCA1ryI
youtu.be/_S0YPCA1ryI
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Finsbury Park! Families of London! Join us at our next @parktheatrelondon.bsky.social shows:
November 9th: @robkemp.bsky.social, Mandeep Singh, @tommayhew.bsky.social, Helen Duff
December 14th: Rachel Watkeys-Dowie, Dave Chawner, @howardread.bsky.social
🎟️ parktheatre.co.uk/events/comed...
November 9th: @robkemp.bsky.social, Mandeep Singh, @tommayhew.bsky.social, Helen Duff
December 14th: Rachel Watkeys-Dowie, Dave Chawner, @howardread.bsky.social
🎟️ parktheatre.co.uk/events/comed...
November 6, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Finsbury Park! Families of London! Join us at our next @parktheatrelondon.bsky.social shows:
November 9th: @robkemp.bsky.social, Mandeep Singh, @tommayhew.bsky.social, Helen Duff
December 14th: Rachel Watkeys-Dowie, Dave Chawner, @howardread.bsky.social
🎟️ parktheatre.co.uk/events/comed...
November 9th: @robkemp.bsky.social, Mandeep Singh, @tommayhew.bsky.social, Helen Duff
December 14th: Rachel Watkeys-Dowie, Dave Chawner, @howardread.bsky.social
🎟️ parktheatre.co.uk/events/comed...
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That's why birds are scared of them.
November 5, 2025 at 2:29 PM
That's why birds are scared of them.
Just in time for *Stan & Gran* hitting the Milkshake screen next month I've got a new website including all the things a writer needs on a website, and several things a writer really doesn't need, like a 360 degree tour of my head!
Find it at www.howardread.com if you'd like an explore.
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Find it at www.howardread.com if you'd like an explore.
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October 30, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Just in time for *Stan & Gran* hitting the Milkshake screen next month I've got a new website including all the things a writer needs on a website, and several things a writer really doesn't need, like a 360 degree tour of my head!
Find it at www.howardread.com if you'd like an explore.
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Find it at www.howardread.com if you'd like an explore.
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