Like every-other writer on God's Earth, I've written a thing on Substack. Reassuringly it's about sourdough baking hot cross buns, and the contents of the mysterious cross bit.
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I listened to this on the way back from Colchester yesterday. So funny.
Saturday 7 March Colchester, Colchester Arts Centre | 2pm show Tonbridge, The Market House | 2pm festival show Sundays 8 March and 12 April Finsbury Park, Park Theatre | 3pm show Sundays 15 March, 5 & 19 April Central London, The Phoenix | 12-2:30pm classes Tuesday 7 April Epsom Playhouse | 2pm show Wednesday 8 April Hornchurch, Queen’s Theatre | 2pm show Thursday 9 April Folkestone, Quarterhouse | 1pm show
Fancy some family-friendly comedy goodness? Come see:
⭐ @naomipaxton.bsky.social's Ada in Epsom & Folkestone
⭐ @katiepritchards.bsky.social in Colchester & Hornchurch & Folkestone
⭐ @howardread.bsky.social in Colchester & Hornchurch
⭐ Dov Citron in Tonbridge & Epsom
www.comedyclub4kids.co.uk/gigs/
Colchester Arts Centre Saturday 7 March | 2pm | £10 (£8), £30 for 4 colchesterartscentre.com | 01206 500 900
Colchester! FAMILIES OF ESSEX! Join us at #ColchesterArts on Saturday 7th March for an hour of excellent entertainment with @katiepritchards.bsky.social, @howardread.bsky.social and @matricardo.bsky.social! Comedy! Music! Games! Daring feats!
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Sold out today; join us in April!
More Stan & Gran episodes on #Channel5 #Milkshake this week youtu.be/gFN9P5ufawo?...
The Market Hall, Market Harborough Sunday 15 February | 2pm | £10 | comedy-festival.co.uk ukkidscomedyfestival.co.uk | @harbmarket | 07522 232 264
#MarketHarborough! FAMILIES! Are you joining us for our @leicscomedyfest.bsky.social @kidscomedyfest.bsky.social show on Sunday 15th? Comedy, games, music, magic and a rootin- tootin' cowboy, with @howardread.bsky.social, Lil Wenker and El Baldiniho!
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See Rich Sandling (MC), musical improviser Dru Cripps, and sketch duo Shelf on February 17th, then Katie Pritchard (MC), Ben Van Der Velde and Howard Read on April 8th! Queen's Theatre, Hornchurch Tuesday 17 February and Wednesday 8 April | 2pm | £10 (£8 child) 01708 443 333 | queens-theatre.co.uk | comedyclub4kids.co.uk
#Hornchurch! KIDS! Fancy a giggle? Join us at @queenstheatreh.bsky.social to see:
⭐ Feb 17th: @sandling.bsky.social, @drucripps.bsky.social , and sketch duo Shelf
⭐ April 8th: @katiepritchards.bsky.social, @vanderlaugh.bsky.social and @howardread.bsky.social
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Some of my favourite episodes of Stand & Gran coming up next week. Ashley Joseph, Seyi Odusanya and myself. They’re looking and sounding so great Simone Giampaolo and Julie-Ann Dean. Congrats to Jon Mason and Natalie Adams
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Plastic surgery by Tim Burton.
I’m play this lovely club in Leeds on the 28th! Tickets here! www.sevenleeds.co.uk/event/silky-...
“Cookie” monster.
Either with jaws going like a wood-chipper, flip-top head like the Reach adverts, or just mash it in like Coolie Monster. Your call.
Man up. In one.
All weird AI pictures of food should go.
Have a lovely one all. Here’s a festive cartoon I made this year.
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Clockwise from top L: Grumpy Xmas Howard Read, Father Christmas in disguise, Radio Nonsense logo, a Christmas cat
Image: Radio Nonsense logo Text: Christmas Special 2025 with Howard Read
It's the Christmas special Radio Nonsense! Howard Read joins Tiernan to answer all your important Christmas questions. This is the last Radio Nonsense for 2025, but we'll be back in 2026! Have a lovely Christmas and a very happy new year! WE NEED YOUR QUESTIONS, JOKES AND NONSENSE TOO. SEND THEM IN TO: podcast@comedyclub4kids.co.uk GROWN UPS: IF YOU CAN BUY US A COFFEE PLEASE DO SO HERE: https://ko-fi.com/comedyclub4kids Website: www.comedyclub4kids.co.uk Bluesky: comedyclub4kids.bsky.social Facebook: facebook.com/ComedyClub4Kids Hosted by Tiernan Douieb. Music by Paddy Gervers. Design by John Beck.
The last @comedyclub4kids.bsky.social Radio Nonsense podcast of 2025 and it’s our Xmas special with @howardread.bsky.social helping answer festive Qs. Does Santa really poo off the Santa Monica pier on his summer holidays? Get your kids to listen!
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I’ve recorded lots of these, but this was the most fun. An improvised conversation answering daft questions sent in by listeners. It’s a really funny one.
Hello everyone. Hope you have a lovely one despite *gestures around vaguely*. I made a festive cartoon for you in lieu of a Christmas card.
Hope you like it.
Howard x
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Come to the 5pm show of this if you’re in North London! A few ticket left!
Tomorrow afternoon!
This is really sad. Robin is one of the most intelligent and caring people I know. But, just like him, he’s standing up while so many other people are bowing down.
Flying visit to Dublin to celebrate the wrap of Adam Loves Adventure, a lovely RTÉ I had the joy of helping develop and write and get in a spot of Christmas shopping.
National Lamooons can do one. The family are big into the Nativity films, me less so, but they’ll get watched. Trading Places counts as a Christmas film for me, Scrooged is also a goodun #AdventCinema
Oo! Not seen Fred Christmas or watched Christmas Chronicles properly (I think a crying child ruined it). MCC, staring the Muppet-F-Ers, obvs, Elf is a very close second. I’ll do It’s A Winderful Life. Curve ball would be Dead Snow, if you like Nazi zombies at a ski resort…
Is there a Most Christmassyist Garage competition? If there is
Can someone enter this big jingly carport into it, because it’ll win hands down. After most of the day up a ladder, discovering problems with both the guttering and the roof tiles, Christmas is well and truly started in this house.
Brilliant! Glad The Mupper-F***ers get top billing (I’m experimenting with calling them that). I’d love to know the rest of the line up. #AdventCinema
For those who are wondering (and getting bafflingly angry) about when it’s okay to start celebrating Christmas, the answer is NOW. Last night we went to see one of the Sing-a-long showings at the Prince Charles Cinema. THAT is when Christmas starts for us.
The Muppets Christmas Carol is the best telling of anything ever. A masterpiece in adaptation, every key line delivered brilliantly, great songs, genuinely funny and emotion, rewards repeated viewing (trust me on this) and every single shot of the film has at least one joke in it.
Thead