Jem Roberts: Author &c.
@jemroberts
Dad/author/comedy historian/folklorist/performer. Douglas Adams’ official biographer. Authorised chronicler for ISIHAC, Blackadder and Fry & Laurie. @talesofbritain.bsky.social @fabfools.bsky.social jemroberts.com
Jim Moir is a fantastic artist. But Vic Reeves was a better comedian.
Got some new shows in the offing for this here 2026... jemroberts.com/performing #History #Folklore #Folk #Comedy #Blackadder
I should go for this job, and I should get it. I've attended enough Hay Festivals. Pop up a Ludlow Gin stall, get all the same well-known faces up on stages to flog their books which NEVER need any publicity anyway. £80k. Nice life some folks have.
Yeah, come back to us when you’ve put up with illegal settler-occupiers for 1,500 years mate.
Ian Fleming did stipulate “007 has a neck that makes a brontosaurus look like Sandi Toksvig”, to be fair.
In food terms, right now a Treasure Island film starring Hugh Jackman would equate a stale pop tart made almost entirely of rat poison.
Westward home! #Garboldisham #Number22bus #StephenFry #HughLaurie #SoupyTwists
Small Hitchhiker’s Guide reference at the Dads Army museum in Thetford…
Norfolk despatch 1: Daytime: Dads Army Nighttime: Divine Comedy.
HISTORIES OF BRITAIN IV: THE WORCESTER CHRONICLE OF CHRONICLES is now LIVE in paperback, ebook and audio! jemroberts.com/2026/06/23/h... And here's a FREE GIVEAWAY for true devotees of ancient British history… Plus teasings of what's afoot later this year with Fry, Laurie, Wodehouse and Shakespeare!
Imagine the raw sewage being squirted into the river Somer right now…
Why does Sam Altman look so much like wife-beating shagger Sam Pepys?
Heads up for hacks that Metro are quite likely to stop paying for "Why this thing I personally don't like shouldn't be happening" articles quite soon.
The ultimate last word on The Beatles' comedy, all their movies, every Beatle spoof ever, so The Rutles and the whole universe of rock 'n' roll comedy – FAB FOOLS! www.hive.co.uk/Product/Jem-... NB Claiming to be a Beatles fan without having read this book is both risible and sick.
A very jolly emergence anniversary to the great @HughLaurie! Not everyone celebrates their birthday with a Radio 2 tribute playlist: jump to 1:06: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... (Does NOT contain 'Stick It Out'!) Click for the OFFICIAL Fry & Laurie story: h1.nu/SOUPYTWISTZ 🍸
An incredible photo rom the year before I was born courtesy of actor Keith Jayne – the cast of the 1977 production of Henry V at Ludlow Festival. The glorious Tony Head, Mark Wing Davey (a year before Zaphod) and Alan Ford all present and correct.
Any vision of the future which doesn’t take into account the fact that wifi and all forms of online connectivity are ultimately fragile, dodgy and will always let humanity down when it comes to the crunch…is a painfully stupid vision. Being online should NEVER be obligatory for anyone, for anything.
A seriously un-heavy evening in my old neighbourhood in BA2 with the heroic @nigelplaner1.bsky.social celebrating his triumphant memoir Young Once – “Just a damn fine actor!” (Yes, I brought my own book. There may turn out to be a reason.) ✌🏽
Damn. I’ve inadvertently got a new album cover. Now I have to write and record a 5th solo album.
Did you know that there is a constant, unending Jane Eyre production facility in Yorkshire, where all of the multiple monthly adaptations of Charlotte Brontë's so-so novel are filmed? When one version wraps, a fresh cast and crew come through the other door and start the next one. They're all crap.