Writer/talker for various fine outlets
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Si Hawkins retweeted
It's the ever-essential Edinburgh Fringe 2025 round-up from @SiHawkins
This year's highlights - American mavericks, Britpop breakdowns, and sibling angst... oh, and a bit of Oasis!
clashmusic.com/features/edin…
Can we start a campaign to Release the Acaster Cut?
[Recap:] "Everything went wrong that could have gone wrong". James Acaster has talked about how his non-broadcast Channel 4 pilot People Person was a disaster.
comedy.co.uk/tv/news/8263/ja…
Si Hawkins retweeted
Jaden Smith continuing the family tradition of ruining awards ceremonies for everyone.
It's the (hopefully) triumphant return of @WeirdosComedy's panto tomorrow, for charity - although my chat with Cerys Bradley featured a heartfelt appeal for missing crisps. Have YOU seen them? Cerys would love to know comedy.co.uk/live/random8/ce…
Si Hawkins retweeted
The Weirdos Panto returns.
One night only at @bloomstheatre
All money goes to charity.
Buy a ticket today for a glorious night out of silliness.
ucl.ac.uk/bloomsbury-theatre… – at Lewisham, London
Yes, yes The Old Vic's Christmas Carol, Julian Clary's panto and Jools' Hootenanny - this is 2024's festive show to see. Well, if they've worked out what to do with it - I had a lazy Sunday chat with Riches, who was busy baking for Kearns. "He demands banana bread..."
Adam Riches and John Kearns ARE Ball & Boe. Two award-winning comedy mavericks take on two mighty music behemoths, for two weeks before Christmas. Riches explains more in this interview:
comedy.co.uk/live/features/a…
Is he just waiting for the last of us liberal types to leave, then he'll turn the X into a swastika?
Si Hawkins retweeted
Hi followers, I recently did my first pre-tour interview. In it I mention newscasters Kenneth Kendal AND Richard Baker, so a riveting read is guaranteed!
comedy.co.uk/live/random8/jo…
Si Hawkins retweeted
Bless that @JaneyGodley whose hilarious fury was in equal measure to her gloriously mischievous compassion x
Only one big-in-the-90s-&-on-tour-next-year rock icon I wanted to interview. Absolutely dripping with attitude (& probably dripping)
"If I disagree with someone I’m very likely to say ‘You’ve made a grave error!’ Or ‘You’re very wide of the mark, lad!'"
comedy.co.uk/live/random8/jo…
Si Hawkins retweeted
A pleasure to chop it up with #TheChroniclesofDOOM author SKIZ Fernando Jr on anything from breadcrumbs of esoterica the #Supervillain would lay in his lyrics, to his underrated production skills. Published by @FaberBooks on 7/11.
LISTEN: amarofpatel.substack.com/p/m…
#MFDOOM #DOOM
Si Hawkins retweeted
Ah, the old taped toothbrush and paper receipt trick. xitter.cf/i/status/1845012703003…
I absolutely adore the difference in energy here. Why are the US comics bursting through paper? Was it supposed to be newspaper? Did someone forget to print it..?
Series 68 of Have I Got News For You starts on BBC1 on Friday 4th October.
comedy.co.uk/tv/hignfy/episo…
Meanwhile if you want to see what the new American version of HIGNFY is like, BBC2 is broadcasting Episode 1 at 11:05pm tonight.
bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0023kp…
Si Hawkins retweeted
So she's what, five pages in?
Saoirse Ronan is halfway through writing a short film that she will direct.
(Source: vanityfair.com/hollywood/sto…)
