Broken Veil II NEW SERIES OUT NOW!

I am very excited that Broken Veil is back for series 2!
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it’s a great day for transphobes to eat shit

The Alternative Comedy Memorial Society (ACMS) The Phoenix, Cavendish Sq, by Oxford Circus Monday 11th May 2026, 7:30pm-10:40ish Thom Tuck (MC) + umpteen excellent guests: Bec Hill, Dru Cripps, Gary Le Strange, Helen Duff, Henry Whaley, Ian Lane, John-Luke Roberts, Jordan Lewis, Stephen Catling, Tom Bell, W*nkers, and Wil Pease £5/£8/£10 from wegottickets.com £12 at the gig, doors open 7pm noblefailure.org

#ACMS
📆 Monday 11th May
🏰 The Phoenix
🎟️ £5-£10 from wegottickets.com/f/18778
😻 hosted by @turlygod.bsky.social, with e.g. @bechillcomedian.bsky.social, Gary Le Strange, Helen Duff, @jlukeroberts.bsky.social, @tombellforever.bsky.social AND MORE
🌈 free guestlist for trans & non-binary folk, just ask

A noble...

What a list! (And relieved to find there are 17 people with an earlier start time than me who also have to negotiate ACMS's 2.45am finish).

The only resource you need for planning a perfect fringe.

The Alternative Comedy Memorial Society (ACMS) *fresh! Sisyphean! come by!* Monkey Barrel, One 23:55-02:45ish Sundays-Wednesdays August 9-12, 16-19, 23-26, 30 £8.50/PWYW on exit noblefailure.org tinyurl.com/acmsed26 monkeybarrelcomedy.com #ACMS | @theACMS @MonkeyBarrelComedy

Come see us at #edfringe (@monkeybarrelcomedy.bsky.social, 23:55, Sun-Wed)!

And all our faves* too! As found here noblefailure.org/ed26, in helpful time order.

* e.g. @alibrice.bsky.social, @alisonspittle.bsky.social, @garethgwynn.bsky.social, @jlukeroberts.bsky.social, @tomwhistom.bsky.social...

Hmm, not sure; @frizfrizzle.bsky.social seems the most likely contender.

The Alternative Comedy Memorial Society (ACMS) *fresh! Sisyphean! come by!* Monkey Barrel, One 23:55-02:45ish Sundays-Wednesdays August 9-12, 16-19, 23-26, 30 £8.50/PWYW on exit noblefailure.org tinyurl.com/acmsed26 monkeybarrelcomedy.com #ACMS | @theACMS @MonkeyBarrelComedy

Come see us at #edfringe (@monkeybarrelcomedy.bsky.social One, 23:55, Sun-Wed)! www.edfringe.com/tickets/what...

And all our faves* too! As found here noblefailure.org/ed26, in helpful time order.

* e.g. @eleanormorton.bsky.social, @robbotron.bsky.social, @watsoncomedian.bsky.social, etc.

Impressive, particularly if you were sleeping throughout. Please throw something delicious into your own face.

Confident this #edfringe show www.edfringe.com/tickets/what... will never get to start on time, as it's on after both Mr Thing AND Margarart Thatcher Queen of Hollywood and by their powers combined that's basically Monahan squared.

meme with a furious goose demanding to know what awards you're boasting about having won, Captain Swank

It is a lovely day on #edfringe and you are an increasingly exasperated goose.

Wheelchair Access, Wheelchair Accessible Toilets, Audio Enhancement System

Right, if you've all read your copies of The Handmaid's Tale by August, Deborah Frances-White has quite the show for you: www.edfringe.com/tickets/what...

Babes in arms policy: Babies are not allowed in the venue, please refer to the age suitability for the show

Okay, so The Buddha Wears Prada www.edfringe.com/tickets/what... but The Devil Wears Primark www.edfringe.com/tickets/what..., got it.

Wheelchair Access, Wheelchair Accessible Toilets, Audio Enhancement System, Captioning

Sophie Duker takes a GOOD PRESS PICTURE, lordy. www.edfringe.com/tickets/what...

What a lovely review ("This second man is on twice."), thankyou kindly.

Well this is very nice, thankyou kindly.

Joz Norris review – weird, unhinged, inadequate, and other pointers to artistic character In his show You Wait. Time Passes, the comedian energetically distils his approach to pursuing futile creative choices with philosophy and silly jokes thrown in

★★★★ from @theguardian.com - thank you so much to everyone who made this week's shows at @sohotheatre.bsky.social so much fun! What a lovely way to be sending this show off (gradually...)

www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/a...

A handful of spaces left for tomorrow!

This sincerely might be one of my favourite pictures of me ever. Holy cats.

5) ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’, by Harper Lee

6) ‘Animal Farm’, by George Orwell

7) ‘Macbeth’, by William Shakespeare

8) ‘Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus’, by Mary Shelley

9) ‘Of Mice And Men’, by John Steinbeck

10) ‘The War of the Worlds’, by H. G. Wells

⭐ HAT-TIP IF YOU GOT 'EM ALL! ⭐

ANSWERS

1) ‘Pride and Prejudice’, by Jane Austen

2) ‘Jane Eyre’, by Charlotte Brontë

3) ‘A Christmas Carol’, by Charles Dickens

4) ‘The Sign of [The] Four’, by Arthur Conan Doyle (which, yes, DOES start with Holmes injecting a 7% solution of cocaine, and Watson politely refusing to join in)

ANSWERS

1) Offred
2) Fred (hat-tip if you got this, cos he is never referred to by name in the book, you just know it from 'Of-fred')
3) Gilead
4) Sky blue
5) Jezebel’s
6) Marthas
7) Butter
8) Scrabble
9) Mayday
10) 2195 (Gilead has ended! male academics are still dicks!)

You're welcome!

Naturally. AND YET...

Will do the answers in a bit. If you get any right please throw something delicious into your own face, as that is v.likely what would have happened at the gig.

10)
QUOTE: “No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own...”
YEAR: 1898

9)
QUOTE: "A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green."
YEAR: 1937

8)
QUOTE: “I am by birth a Genevese, and my family is one of the most distinguished of that republic.”
YEAR: 1818

7)
QUOTE: “When shall we three meet again —
In thunder, lightning, or in rain?”
YEAR: 1623

6)
QUOTE: “Mr. Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen-houses for the night, but was too drunk to remember to shut the popholes.”
YEAR: 1945