Gemma Arrowsmith
@mmaarrow.bsky.social
Comedy writer & actor. Doctor Who, Tracey Ullman’s Show, Beyond a Steel Sky, Justin’s House, Bravest Warriors, Horrible Histories
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Gemma Arrowsmith
@mmaarrow.bsky.social
· Nov 15
What were you wearing? - Tracey Ullman's Show: Season 2 Episode 6 Preview - BBC One
YouTube video by BBC
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I wrote this Tracey Ullman sketch and it was pinned to my Twitter profile for years. So in the spirit of moving everything over to BlueSky, here it is pinned to my feed here.
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We’ll be back in that blue box in no time. Happy #DoctorWhoDay
November 23, 2025 at 2:19 PM
We’ll be back in that blue box in no time. Happy #DoctorWhoDay
Pretty soon the prize for the Edinburgh Comedy Award will just be a role in a supermarket Christmas advert. Cut out the middle man.
November 23, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Pretty soon the prize for the Edinburgh Comedy Award will just be a role in a supermarket Christmas advert. Cut out the middle man.
It’s been a fun week for seeing live sketch comedy.
Burnistoun’s Favourite Son was getting himself in the ground in The Death of Biscuity Boyle at BAaD in Glasgow.
And then the Fast Show gang were reunited at the bloody London Palladium!
Both shows an absolute treat. Massive audiences! 💫
Burnistoun’s Favourite Son was getting himself in the ground in The Death of Biscuity Boyle at BAaD in Glasgow.
And then the Fast Show gang were reunited at the bloody London Palladium!
Both shows an absolute treat. Massive audiences! 💫
November 22, 2025 at 7:37 PM
It’s been a fun week for seeing live sketch comedy.
Burnistoun’s Favourite Son was getting himself in the ground in The Death of Biscuity Boyle at BAaD in Glasgow.
And then the Fast Show gang were reunited at the bloody London Palladium!
Both shows an absolute treat. Massive audiences! 💫
Burnistoun’s Favourite Son was getting himself in the ground in The Death of Biscuity Boyle at BAaD in Glasgow.
And then the Fast Show gang were reunited at the bloody London Palladium!
Both shows an absolute treat. Massive audiences! 💫
This one time I saw an actor in TV show who wasn’t already a really famous star so naturally I turned it off in disgust.
November 14, 2025 at 11:37 AM
This one time I saw an actor in TV show who wasn’t already a really famous star so naturally I turned it off in disgust.
PAUL F TOMPKINS ON CROWLEY TIME! 🎉
A big moment for me! Episode 40 of my sketch and character comedy podcast Crowley Time is OUT NOW, and its very special guest is none other than Mr Podcasts, Mr Show alumnus and Mr Peanutbutter himself, Mr Paul F. Tompkins! On your podcast app and at crowleytime.com!
@pftompkins.bsky.social
@pftompkins.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 9:54 AM
PAUL F TOMPKINS ON CROWLEY TIME! 🎉
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MY SCRIPT FOR NEXT JAMES BOND
GROUCHO: (Enters wearing bow tie and fez) Greetings, Russkies. I’m Bond James Bond, my Dad had a stutter. Put your guns down! Now put your hands up! Now put your feet up! It gets tiring, this espionage game. Allow me to introduce my associate, Voluptua Gazungas.
GROUCHO: (Enters wearing bow tie and fez) Greetings, Russkies. I’m Bond James Bond, my Dad had a stutter. Put your guns down! Now put your hands up! Now put your feet up! It gets tiring, this espionage game. Allow me to introduce my associate, Voluptua Gazungas.
November 11, 2025 at 1:02 PM
MY SCRIPT FOR NEXT JAMES BOND
GROUCHO: (Enters wearing bow tie and fez) Greetings, Russkies. I’m Bond James Bond, my Dad had a stutter. Put your guns down! Now put your hands up! Now put your feet up! It gets tiring, this espionage game. Allow me to introduce my associate, Voluptua Gazungas.
GROUCHO: (Enters wearing bow tie and fez) Greetings, Russkies. I’m Bond James Bond, my Dad had a stutter. Put your guns down! Now put your hands up! Now put your feet up! It gets tiring, this espionage game. Allow me to introduce my associate, Voluptua Gazungas.
Daniel Craig as Bond, poisoned and blown to smithereens, regenerates into Billie Piper. Problem solved. ✅
November 11, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Daniel Craig as Bond, poisoned and blown to smithereens, regenerates into Billie Piper. Problem solved. ✅
Jesus, if we were to lose the BBC and ITV’s Media & Entertainment division is bought by Comcast we’ll see the complete Americanisation of UK television. The US obviously makes loads of wonderful television. But I like to think the weird Britishness of stuff we make over here has value too.
November 11, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Jesus, if we were to lose the BBC and ITV’s Media & Entertainment division is bought by Comcast we’ll see the complete Americanisation of UK television. The US obviously makes loads of wonderful television. But I like to think the weird Britishness of stuff we make over here has value too.
The Day Today’s legacy is a whole generation of people who say “proof, if proof be need be” and can’t quite remember the real phrase.
November 11, 2025 at 12:24 PM
The Day Today’s legacy is a whole generation of people who say “proof, if proof be need be” and can’t quite remember the real phrase.
Reposted by Gemma Arrowsmith
Floella Benjamin for DG.
November 9, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Floella Benjamin for DG.
OK FINE! I’ll be the next BBC Director General.
Day 1: funnel the budgets into a load of new comedies, dramas & documentaries. New Play for Today / Screen One type strand, new Comedy Playhouse pilots series once or twice a year.
Day 2: resign
Day 1: funnel the budgets into a load of new comedies, dramas & documentaries. New Play for Today / Screen One type strand, new Comedy Playhouse pilots series once or twice a year.
Day 2: resign
November 9, 2025 at 6:51 PM
OK FINE! I’ll be the next BBC Director General.
Day 1: funnel the budgets into a load of new comedies, dramas & documentaries. New Play for Today / Screen One type strand, new Comedy Playhouse pilots series once or twice a year.
Day 2: resign
Day 1: funnel the budgets into a load of new comedies, dramas & documentaries. New Play for Today / Screen One type strand, new Comedy Playhouse pilots series once or twice a year.
Day 2: resign
Ah, there’s nothing I like better than to gather the family around me and watch my phone footage of fireworks displays from years gone by.
November 8, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Ah, there’s nothing I like better than to gather the family around me and watch my phone footage of fireworks displays from years gone by.
90 seconds in and we've already got Mr Blobby doing Riverdance. What a immense explosion of fun for a Saturday morning. 🤩
Saturday morning may be over, but (almost all of) the fun from Saturday 8 November 1997 is available on our YouTube channel.
#saturdaymornings
youtu.be/aL9erguSalo
#saturdaymornings
youtu.be/aL9erguSalo
November 8, 2025 at 12:45 PM
90 seconds in and we've already got Mr Blobby doing Riverdance. What a immense explosion of fun for a Saturday morning. 🤩
Remember, remember… that I wrote an episode of Missy in which she makes sure the gunpowder plot *works* this time so she can install herself as Queen👑
(It was fun to write, this one.)
www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/m...
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(It was fun to write, this one.)
www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/m...
@bigfinish.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Remember, remember… that I wrote an episode of Missy in which she makes sure the gunpowder plot *works* this time so she can install herself as Queen👑
(It was fun to write, this one.)
www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/m...
@bigfinish.bsky.social
(It was fun to write, this one.)
www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/m...
@bigfinish.bsky.social
A movie you've seen more than 7 times with a gif
November 1, 2025 at 9:51 PM
A movie you've seen more than 7 times with a gif
Just when I thought the Map Men book couldn’t be any more up my street, I turn the page & there’s a chapter on the ITV regional franchises. 🤩
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November 1, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Just when I thought the Map Men book couldn’t be any more up my street, I turn the page & there’s a chapter on the ITV regional franchises. 🤩
@jayforeman.bsky.social @markcooperjones.bsky.social
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Off to Foxhill Drive to try living with impossible. 👻
October 31, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Off to Foxhill Drive to try living with impossible. 👻
Reposted by Gemma Arrowsmith
Can a children's TV show be cursed?
Do you dare click on our Halloween special episode to find out? (Please do dare.)
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/8...
Do you dare click on our Halloween special episode to find out? (Please do dare.)
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/8...
October 31, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Can a children's TV show be cursed?
Do you dare click on our Halloween special episode to find out? (Please do dare.)
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/8...
Do you dare click on our Halloween special episode to find out? (Please do dare.)
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/8...
More than Ghostwatch, the finale of Paul Daniels: Live at Halloween 1987 scared the SHIT out of me as a kid.
The slam of the iron maiden, the horrifying silence, the voice of a floor manager asking everyone to leave. And then silent credits. Incredible television.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5R0...
The slam of the iron maiden, the horrifying silence, the voice of a floor manager asking everyone to leave. And then silent credits. Incredible television.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5R0...
October 31, 2025 at 4:28 PM
More than Ghostwatch, the finale of Paul Daniels: Live at Halloween 1987 scared the SHIT out of me as a kid.
The slam of the iron maiden, the horrifying silence, the voice of a floor manager asking everyone to leave. And then silent credits. Incredible television.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5R0...
The slam of the iron maiden, the horrifying silence, the voice of a floor manager asking everyone to leave. And then silent credits. Incredible television.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5R0...
Meine Lieblinge!
Is that me you can hear as Dr Marta Baumgartner in this year’s Beef & Dairy Halloween special BEEF PIE? 🥧
(Yes)
Is that me you can hear as Dr Marta Baumgartner in this year’s Beef & Dairy Halloween special BEEF PIE? 🥧
(Yes)
October 31, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Meine Lieblinge!
Is that me you can hear as Dr Marta Baumgartner in this year’s Beef & Dairy Halloween special BEEF PIE? 🥧
(Yes)
Is that me you can hear as Dr Marta Baumgartner in this year’s Beef & Dairy Halloween special BEEF PIE? 🥧
(Yes)
Reposted by Gemma Arrowsmith
🐄 Surprise! This year’s Beef and Dairy Network Halloween Special was written by me, Roger Westco- I mean, Tom Crowley! Salivate over BEEF PIE, on the Beef and Dairy podcast feed RIGHT NOW! 🥧
@beefanddairy.bsky.social
@beefanddairy.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 12:03 PM
🐄 Surprise! This year’s Beef and Dairy Network Halloween Special was written by me, Roger Westco- I mean, Tom Crowley! Salivate over BEEF PIE, on the Beef and Dairy podcast feed RIGHT NOW! 🥧
@beefanddairy.bsky.social
@beefanddairy.bsky.social
Reposted by Gemma Arrowsmith
This is the best episode yet. I love Leyline High Rewind so much! An absolute must-listen for Halloween! 👻
Can a children's TV show be cursed?
Do you dare click on our Halloween special episode to find out? (Please do dare.)
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/8...
Do you dare click on our Halloween special episode to find out? (Please do dare.)
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/8...
October 31, 2025 at 11:31 AM
This is the best episode yet. I love Leyline High Rewind so much! An absolute must-listen for Halloween! 👻
So many weird goings-on on the set of Leyline High...
Which rumour was the talk of your school? I remember hearing that there was a poltergeist haunting the studio where they filmed- and it repeatedly threw props at the actors. But it turned out to be a disgruntled floor manager.
Which rumour was the talk of your school? I remember hearing that there was a poltergeist haunting the studio where they filmed- and it repeatedly threw props at the actors. But it turned out to be a disgruntled floor manager.
Can a children's TV show be cursed?
Do you dare click on our Halloween special episode to find out? (Please do dare.)
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/8...
Do you dare click on our Halloween special episode to find out? (Please do dare.)
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/8...
October 31, 2025 at 11:18 AM
So many weird goings-on on the set of Leyline High...
Which rumour was the talk of your school? I remember hearing that there was a poltergeist haunting the studio where they filmed- and it repeatedly threw props at the actors. But it turned out to be a disgruntled floor manager.
Which rumour was the talk of your school? I remember hearing that there was a poltergeist haunting the studio where they filmed- and it repeatedly threw props at the actors. But it turned out to be a disgruntled floor manager.