Before you continue, I should warn you that this blog is nothing more than a moan. Not a sexy one either, or a nicely spooky one that comes from your cupboard when no one’s in and means you go to sleep later than you planned. No, no, this is a bog standard argh-something-else-that-drives-me-up-the-wall-more-than-Spider-Man’s-car-which-in-itself-annoyed-me-as-it-was-created-solely-for-merchandise-purposes moan. The […]
TAGGED WITH: Jon Ronson, leftie, MSN messenger, Myspace, Politics, prejudice, rant, right winger, social media, tiernan douieb, twitter, typical CATEGORISED BY:2015 Blog Comedy News Satirically Destitute February 11th, 2015 by Tiernan DouiebA new ‘satirical’ television show has been announced today. I won’t mention its name and I haven’t seen it yet, so can’t really judge it as such. However in the selling points for said show, it states that it will feature ‘biting satire’ such as ‘David Cameron and Nick Clegg battling it out on the […]
TAGGED WITH: Inside The Commons, John Oliver, Last Week Tonight, Politics, satire, tiernan douieb, twitter, Weekly Wipe CATEGORISED BY:Blog Charlie Brooker Comedians Comedy News Je suis fatigue. January 16th, 2015 by Tiernan DouiebI’ve been trying to write some material on the horrible Paris attack last week since it happened. As with all my material I didn’t want to write something that vilifies the victims of the attack or to blame anyone other than the killers or to demonise satire or to not say this or definitely say that. […]
TAGGED WITH: Marvel, media, muslims, NASA, tiernan douieb, twitter CATEGORISED BY:Blog charlie hebdo Comedy commentary Dave Cohen Dorian Lynskey freedom of speech News When Is A Tweet Not Your Tweet? When It Isn’t. January 3rd, 2015 by Tiernan DouiebYesterday, while sitting in a Pret in central London – because that’s the kind of life I have – I read the news story about the alleged Prince Andrew scandal. After munching on my kale crisps – because that’s the kind of life I have – I came up with this: I didn't think Prince […]
TAGGED WITH: Johann Hari, jokes, journalism, Mark Watson, Milton Jones, plagiarism, Prince Andrew, RT, tiernan douieb, twitter CATEGORISED BY:Blog Comedians Comedy copyright News The Idiots Are Winning December 28th, 2014 by Tiernan DouiebI re-watched Chris Morris & Charlie Brooker’s Nathan Barley last night, in it’s entirety. It is the limbo period between Christmas and New Year’s after all and really, what else is there to do? The usual Christmas batch of television has been even more dire than usual with endless repeats or at least repeats of […]
TAGGED WITH: idiots, internet, Julian Barrett, Nathan Barley, Nick Doody, outrage, racism, sexism, social media, The Times, tiernan douieb, twitter CATEGORISED BY:Ableism Blog C4 Charlie Brooker Chris Morris Comedy News There’s Nothing Happening (Except Everything) July 7th, 2014 by Tiernan Douieb‘There’s nothing happening in the world today’ I find myself often muttering to L. She will often rifle through Twitter and respond with ‘No. It all seems rather dull today.’ This isn’t an admittance that I can single handedly halt the turning of the Earth just using incredible psychic thoughts. Nor is it the moment […]
TAGGED WITH: legend, MPs, news, Nothing happening, pun, security, takeaway, terrorism, tiernan douieb, twitter, UK CATEGORISED BY:Blog child abuse Comedy dogs in hats eggs Football News Wanted: A Clever But Easily Exploited Person June 6th, 2014 by Tiernan DouiebThis is less a blog post, and more and advert for assistance. I just thought it was better to put it here rather than in the window of my local shop where less people would see it and chances are super evil Chris Moyles* man from the garage or the man who’s always at the […]
TAGGED WITH: LinkedIn, mushybees, Partly Political Broadcast, political, Politics, The Last Skeptik, tiernan douieb, Tumblr, twitter, videos, youtube CATEGORISED BY:Ben Hilton Blog Chris Moyles Comedy editing evil Facebook News Laboured Joke May 7th, 2014 by Tiernan DouiebI find it hugely depressing that Labour aren’t top of the public opinion polls by a long stretch in the UK at the moment. I’m not surprised at all. I have no hope in them, or any intention of voting for them at all. But it’s still saddening, because they should be. It’s exactly one year […]
TAGGED WITH: Green Party, Labour, Lib Dems, MEP, MP, Nick Clegg, Parliament, PEB, Politics, Shoreditch, tiernan douieb, twitter, UKIP CATEGORISED BY:Blog Comedy Conservatives David Cameron Ed Miliband Election News Super Bus Man and The Culture Of Entitlement April 27th, 2014 by Tiernan DouiebI have discovered a secret super power. It’s not a particularly good one, or one that’s useful to anyone else but me, but it’s definitely something close to making me an Avenger. Probably. Everytime I walk to our nearest bus stop, the bus I need is either there, or just arriving. It has happened to […]
TAGGED WITH: homelessness, Maria Miller, MEP, MP, political, Politics, super power, tiernan douieb, twitter, W3, W7 CATEGORISED BY:allowances Avengers Blog Comedy Culture of Entitlement expenses Finsbury Park News Absolutely Nothing March 3rd, 2014 by Tiernan DouiebAccording to much of the press reports on the situation in the Ukraine, World War Three is looming. Or another Cold War, depending on what you read. Russia is refusing to back out of Crimea and as a result breaking tons of UN sanctions and the Budapest Memorandum of Security Assurances. As I type this, […]
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