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Stand-up comic + writer. Host of Gig Pigs podcast with Ivo Graham. Linktree (insta, site, tix, podcast, mailing list): http://linktr.ee/alexkealy

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Leicester Comedy Festival 2026 announces award nominees : Other news 2026 : Chortle : The UK Comedy Guide Leicester Comedy Festival 2026 announces award nominees - After 1,089 performances of 756 shows

HECK YES to these #ACMS veterans for their Leicester Comedy Festival award nominations:

Best New Show
Andrew White!
@caitrionadowden.bsky.social!
Luke Rollason!
@maxfulham.bsky.social!
Toussaint Douglass!

Best Show
@alexkealy.bsky.social!
@joznorris.bsky.social!

www.chortle.co.uk/other-news/2...

04.03.2026 16:11 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This is not a reasoned political response. Labour has spent two years making all the voting groups who backed the Greens feel unwelcome and unheard, and now attacks them for daring to back someone else. They believe Labour isn’t listening and Starmer seems determined to prove them right

27.02.2026 16:16 πŸ‘ 1154 πŸ” 321 πŸ’¬ 46 πŸ“Œ 28

Yeah, it is basically the same dynamic of 'it's easy, you just promise everything and don't even try to get electoral consent for whichever tradeoff you want to make', and then getting into government and going 'oh my god, this is hard'.

27.02.2026 05:47 πŸ‘ 71 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Phil Wang: Work in Progress tickets on Wednesday 18 Feb | The 99 Club Comedy | FIXR Buy tickets to Phil Wang: Work in Progress on Wednesday 18 Feb at 2A Charing Cross Rd, WC2H 0HF | FIXR

Excited to see Phil Wang's Work in Progress show tonight at 8pm at The 99 Club. There are still a handful of tickets left if you fancy it. He's also being supported by the excellent @alexkealy.bsky.social and I'm MCing so it should be a great night! fixr.co/event/phil-w...

18.02.2026 11:03 πŸ‘ 23 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Peter Mandelbrot. It’s just infinite scandals the more you zoom in.

04.02.2026 20:27 πŸ‘ 310 πŸ” 84 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 3

Don’t count your chickening-out before it’s hatched.

21.01.2026 18:14 πŸ‘ 725 πŸ” 109 πŸ’¬ 43 πŸ“Œ 3
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Save the world or make a fortune?
Dr Matt Winning is sitting on a mega ultimatum in a hospital car park.

Oh and his son is being born as we speak…and he’s desperate for a piss.

@mattywin.bsky.social Solastalgia is here for two nights only - Mon 16 - The 17 Feb. See you there?
buff.ly/uYfY8X3

19.01.2026 17:50 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Mafia goon: Nice house you got here...it'd be a shame if something happened to it

Media outlets: Mafia goon rules out use of force. Expresses regret at the mere thought of it

21.01.2026 14:36 πŸ‘ 18061 πŸ” 4372 πŸ’¬ 59 πŸ“Œ 95

I cannot tell you how absolutely infuriatingly this stuff comes across to Europeans.

When we say America is no longer a reliable ally, it goes considerably deeper than Donald Trump himself. This kind of complacent, condescending shit is a *huge* part of it.

21.01.2026 16:22 πŸ‘ 5333 πŸ” 1283 πŸ’¬ 233 πŸ“Œ 84
Lucille and Buster from Arrested Development dressed up in flapper outfits for the "Motherboy" dance

Lucille and Buster from Arrested Development dressed up in flapper outfits for the "Motherboy" dance

Brooklyn Beckham's first dance

21.01.2026 09:29 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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when the bare minimum is a treachery red flag

19.01.2026 14:49 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

ive seen more articles this week about how the phrase β€œabolish ice” could hurt dems in the midterms than ive seen articles about how paramilitary death squads terrorizing cities will hurt republicans in the midterms

14.01.2026 13:09 πŸ‘ 9473 πŸ” 2649 πŸ’¬ 120 πŸ“Œ 137

A Warrington in every pot, a York in every garage

14.01.2026 18:57 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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telling the secret police they have immunity to harm & kill citizens really lays bare the hollowness of decades of right-wing GOP screeching about encroaching Big Government - it was never a problem they had with government per se, just that it wasn't being used to harm the people they wanted to

14.01.2026 06:43 πŸ‘ 3404 πŸ” 1162 πŸ’¬ 110 πŸ“Œ 92

The 'give ice qr codes' thing reminds me of when Sarah Everard was murdered by a real policeman using his real police id to kidnap her, and the police & gvt made out the solution was to have a helpline to check that the person bundling you away was a real policeman (as the murderer was)

14.01.2026 18:02 πŸ‘ 1475 πŸ” 459 πŸ’¬ 18 πŸ“Œ 8

And the BBC package ends with some crap about β€˜in these politically charged times, dualling narratives’

WHAT IN THE NAME OF GOD IS GOING ON!?!

There is no dual narratives

An innocent woman was shot dead and the Trump administration is lying about

THAT in the story

08.01.2026 22:09 πŸ‘ 649 πŸ” 152 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 8
A Rush Hour Crush I got published on 7th January, 2015.

To the sexy Spanish snorita on the No.30 bus to Highbury. I loved our heated chat on Friday but realise what I did was insensitive to your country. I'm mortified. Please let me make up for it, over tapas or paella or whatever.
Bearded Man Who Used Discarded Burger Cartons As Castanets

A Rush Hour Crush I got published on 7th January, 2015. To the sexy Spanish snorita on the No.30 bus to Highbury. I loved our heated chat on Friday but realise what I did was insensitive to your country. I'm mortified. Please let me make up for it, over tapas or paella or whatever. Bearded Man Who Used Discarded Burger Cartons As Castanets

Things are awful, so a little treat for the real Crush-Heads. It is now eleven years since I got this printed in the Metro.

08.01.2026 16:54 πŸ‘ 1486 πŸ” 242 πŸ’¬ 31 πŸ“Œ 10
Every Trait Disqualifying ICE Agent From Previous Jobs Ideal For Current One

Every Trait Disqualifying ICE Agent From Previous Jobs Ideal For Current One

Every Trait Disqualifying ICE Agent From Previous Jobs Ideal For Current One https://theonion.com/every-trait-disqualifying-ice-agent-from-previous-jobs-ideal-for-current-one/

07.01.2026 18:30 πŸ‘ 4523 πŸ” 962 πŸ’¬ 33 πŸ“Œ 29
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I did not escape the Love Actually virus this year β™₯️🦠

04.01.2026 16:13 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A show window display containing two boxes, the first a jigsaw puzzle called "the world of Maya Angelou" and the second a boardgame named "Fart Bingo"

A show window display containing two boxes, the first a jigsaw puzzle called "the world of Maya Angelou" and the second a boardgame named "Fart Bingo"

the two genders

29.12.2025 10:53 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ†• PODCAST OUT NOW πŸ†•

Comedian, writer and podcaster @alexkealy.bsky.social joined us to quiz about holiday destinations, dancefloor fillers and tab misusage.

πŸŽ™οΈ Listen now: buff.ly/41WpO4z

And you can WATCH the podcast on Spotify

20.11.2025 13:32 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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❌❌ THIS WEEK'S QUIZ HAS CLOSED ❌❌

Did you top the leaderboard?

The first place to find out is on tomorrow's podcast with the hilarious @alexkealy.bsky.social.

Out first thing in all the usual places.

πŸŽ™οΈ Podcast subscribe: buff.ly/41WpO4z

19.11.2025 18:26 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Google thinks kemneth is "30 Rock hot guy"

Google thinks kemneth is "30 Rock hot guy"

Couldn't remember Jon Hamm's name or the name of his character. So I made a discovery

17.11.2025 18:07 πŸ‘ 2491 πŸ” 262 πŸ’¬ 55 πŸ“Œ 26
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Kids vs Grandkids

11.11.2025 09:17 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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It's real "Sam Gamgee boarding an Elven ship at the grey havens because he was ringbearer for half an hour" energy

06.11.2025 11:04 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

My super modern regulatory plan is that any entity named for a thing from Tolkien has to publicly explain why Tolkien wouldn’t immediately throw it into Mount Doom

16.10.2025 04:09 πŸ‘ 1924 πŸ” 409 πŸ’¬ 40 πŸ“Œ 20

"you have a room temperature IQ"

me, knowing that is 293 in Kelvin, the SI unit for temperature: th...thank you

15.10.2025 10:18 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Whereas my chest hair situation is...5. And you shouldn't have a countable amount of chest hair.

13.10.2025 10:09 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Posting before Life of a Showgirl critical consensus moves up from 2 stars, might delete later

#taylorswift #thelifeofashowgirl❀️‍πŸ”₯ #standupcomedy #comedy #jokes #standup

06.10.2025 13:59 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I love this. The purest essence of Kemi - incredibly wrong, bizarrely belligerent about it, and also wrong in a way where you just go β€œhave you considered reading anything other than your Twitter feed?”

02.10.2025 17:52 πŸ‘ 810 πŸ” 206 πŸ’¬ 61 πŸ“Œ 3