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Julia Raeside

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Julia Raeside @jnraeside.bsky.social · Feb 10

My piece in tomorrow’s Times about the toxic men in stand-up comedy. www.thetimes.com/culture/come...

The comedy scene is stuffed with toxic men — so I wrote a novel about them

Don’t Make Me Laugh is about predatory men in the British comedy industry — the author wasn’t lacking for real-life inspiration

www.thetimes.com

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Julia Raeside @jnraeside.bsky.social · 15h

Box of Delights, first new episode teaser. (An easy one, sound on.)

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Julia Raeside @jnraeside.bsky.social · 15h

For sure!

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Julia Raeside @jnraeside.bsky.social · 17h

After the world’s longest hiatus, my TV nostalgia podcast - The Box of Delights - is coming back for a real actual series of new episodes. And you don’t have long to wait!

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Julia Raeside @jnraeside.bsky.social · 5d

Ooh new to me.

Julia Raeside @jnraeside.bsky.social · 5d

Woohoo! Broken Veil got a trophy at the British Podcast Awards. 🏆

Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 5d

Classy and poised. Haunted even.

Bagging a gong and a cushion. (Bronze for Best Fiction Podcast at the BPAs.)

Thanks to everyone who helped us make Broken Veil, and everyone who listened, in this reality or others.

#BrokenVeil #BritishPodcastAwards

Julia Raeside @jnraeside.bsky.social · 5d

I mean move, obviously. But failing that, get it sent. Waitrose deliver and have most of those.

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Julia Raeside @jnraeside.bsky.social · 6d

@alistairbarrie.com I love Noilly Prat and Vermut Lustau Blanco is also excellent. Dolin also pretty good.

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Julia Raeside @jnraeside.bsky.social · 9d

Thank you!

Julia Raeside @jnraeside.bsky.social · 9d

If you’ve read and enjoyed Don’t Make Me Laugh, you could vote for it in the @cwip.bsky.social Comedy Women in Print prize People’s Choice award. But only if you felt like it. I thank you. #BookSky

People's Choice Award | Comedy Women in Print

Vote now for the People's Choice Award!

www.comedywomeninprint.co.uk

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Julia Raeside @jnraeside.bsky.social · 13d

Hope you enjoy it!

Julia Raeside @jnraeside.bsky.social · 13d

Thank you!

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 15d

All it takes to turn a project I’m desperate to do into a project I’m desperate to avoid doing, is for me to get a day where I finally have the time to do it.

It’s magic!

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Julia Raeside @jnraeside.bsky.social · 16d

This interview could be dissected by medical students. Good god.

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Julia Raeside @jnraeside.bsky.social · 18d

Poor Jowita. 😢

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 18d

To make this brilliant Aitchison painting work for the cover for The Dad - a last minute change - I had to flip the image, so the dad’s face wouldn’t vanish under the Ladybird colophon. Which then meant cutting out and reversing the label on the custard tin. The things we’d do…

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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 18d

Just think for a minute. A man lost his job for being friend with Epstein. The same week, Epstein's BFF gets a state banquet. I can't get over it

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Julia Raeside @jnraeside.bsky.social · 19d

Thank you, Susie. 😍

Julia Raeside @jnraeside.bsky.social · 19d

Thank you for reading! 😍

Julia Raeside @jnraeside.bsky.social · 19d

Thanks, David! x

Julia Raeside @jnraeside.bsky.social · 19d

SCREAM Don’t Make Me Laugh is now decorated with the beautiful CWIP sticker on the Waterstones website. It’s official! I’m awards shortlisted. Please buy ALL the books on the Comedy Women in Print shortlist and support funny female writing. #BookSky

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Julia Raeside @jnraeside.bsky.social · 20d

I reviewed Michael Portillo and his red trousers which seem to me even more offensive than usual at the moment. (In the picture, he is turning into one giant red trouser.)

200 Years of the Railways is much better when Michael Portillo shuts up

He’s the BBC’s go-to train guy, but this first episode is a dry history lesson - albeit nicely filmed

inews.co.uk

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Julia Raeside @jnraeside.bsky.social · 21d

Thank yooooooou. xxx

Julia Raeside @jnraeside.bsky.social · 21d

Absolutely thrilled to be shortlisted for the Comedy Women in Print Prize 2025. An insane line-up to be part of. Thank you so much to the judges. Don’t Make Me Laugh is out in paperback now! #CWIP @cwip.bsky.social

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Julia Raeside @jnraeside.bsky.social · 21d

Thank you, strange man I’ve never met. How kind.

Julia Raeside @jnraeside.bsky.social · 22d

Oooooh. Spooooooky.

Jon Dear @accordingtojond.bsky.social · 22d

“HALLOA! Below there!"

Join award winning writer @gralefrit.bsky.social and myself here at 10 tonight for a tweetalong of The Signalman, on BBC FOUR. All welcome to share thoughts, memories, insight or questions. Just use the hashtag #signalman

The Signalman (Denholm Elliott) enters a railway tunnel at night.