You may have heard that Mitchell & Webb are back with a new sketch show. I’m quite excited about this – the original Mitchell & Webb series had some absolute classics, and the team involved in the new series includes legends Stevie Martin, Kiell Smith-Bynoe and Lara Ricote, so it’s nice to see a big-name commission […]

I knew it would happen. Since revealing my 12 Days Of Christmas Tarot Spread To Predict The 12 Months Of The Year Ahead last week, I have been inundated with replies asking me to reveal more about it, and shed some light on exactly what it revealed to me about 2025. “Really?” Yes, I think so. Why, […]

During the 12 Days of Christmas, Miranda and Nat Luurtsema and I took part in a 12 Days of Christmas Tarot project to receive divinely inspired glimpses of the year ahead. Each day you draw a Tarot card and that card shows you what the corresponding month of the year will be like for you […]

I’m enjoying 2025 so far. It’s the first year since 2022 where I’ve gone into January pretty much knowing what the year has in store for me, or the first half of it at least. The last two Januaries very much played out in a spirit of “I’ll just sit on my hands for a […]

Martin had become completely enraptured by The Traitors. The deception, the intrigue, the sheer human drama! He couldn’t stop thinking about it. “It was so funny when Linda turned her head,” he thought to himself just as he was falling asleep. “And it was so funny when Linda burst into tears at breakfast,” he thought to himself […]

Until recently, I had a series of lists of pretty much everything I’ve ever done in my life, and I loved my lists. I loved typing them out, and I loved reading them back, and I LOVED thinking about them. I’ve been thinking about them with at least a small part of my brain more […]

Happy New Year! How’s it treating you so far? I dearly hope you all had a delightful Christmas and saw in 2025 in style (if you must know, I went to a pub with my friends but the music was too loud so we went back to their house and played a game where you […]

We’re wrapped! Last week we finished off shooting my comedy pilot and, as I said last week, I’m so enormously grateful to all of you who generously donated and enabled us to make it. I’m so proud of all the hard work from so many incredibly talented people, and I can’t wait to see what we’ve […]

We’re currently halfway through shooting the pilot for my sitcom The Happiness Chain (thank you so much again to everyone who donated to the crowdfunder to enable us to make it, we couldn’t have done it without you!) and I’m so proud of how it’s all been coming together so far. The actors are all phenomenal, the crew […]

I keep saying “Just a quick newsletter this week, because I’m so busy” then writing quite lengthy essays. It’s a bad habit. If I want to write a short one I should just do it! But I seem incapable of it. Only last week I bumped into the amazing John Kearns and Adam Riches at […]

Just a quick one this week because, having decided to make my own sitcom pilot, I now find myself in the ridiculous position of having to make my own sitcom pilot, which it turns out is a nightmare and there is always something else to do. So this week, just a quick life lesson from a […]

After last week, it has become increasingly clear that Twitter/X is a binfire that no longer offers the least benefit whatsoever. It’s awash with hate speech and is now playing an active role in the rise of totalitarianism across the world, and my old arguments of “Oh, but I built up a decent-sized audience there […]

The reason I ended up doing comedy is because I once did theatre. When I was a kid, I joined a youth theatre called Stage ‘65 in Salisbury and learned to love performing, and making stuff. I played “Nasty Man At The Fair” in The Elephant Man, a role which required me to berate and terrify a group of […]

First up, a huge thank you to everyone who’s donated to the crowdfunder for The Happiness Chain, the sitcom pilot I’m making with Ben Kent at the end of the year. I was also really happy to read how many of you connected with the things I talked about in my last newsletter, namely the idea of taking ownership […]

So here’s the thing. I spent a lot of last year in the grips of an unshakeable despair. I handed over a lot of my power to things I couldn’t possibly hope to control, you see. It was my year of really trying to break into the TV and film world, access to which is […]