Robert Wringham // Writer-Comedian

Steve Aylett on Jeff Lint’s foray into theatre: the curtains opened to reveal a dozen rocket launchers aimed at the audience.

Friday 16th August 2026, 6:30pm, The Waves, Hastings.

KENDAL Saturday 19th September 2026, 7:45pm, Brewery Arts Cinema.

It’s the first day of September 2026.

Some nice bathroom writing from the very funny Black Bag (2026) by Professor Luke Kennard: Her soap appears to have been carved raw out of the side of a cliff; shampoo and conditioner in two enormous apothecary bottles I cannot imagine transporting for re…

There’s no smoke in the room now, so you don’t go home stinking.

There are two things that I have always observed to be in singular accord: supercelestial thoughts and subterranean conduct. — Montaigne Now you’re talking.

It’s the second day of August 2026.

Cartwright and Wringham have given us a fine portrait here, quirky and absurd, human and moving.

The comic novels I love are books that could just as easily have been tragedies.

I like what Stewart Lee said about Bill Oddie today: So sorry to hear of the death of Bill Oddie, a towering polymath who could have been a great jazz musician, but settled for being a brilliant comedian.

Off we go then.

LONDON: Saturday 22nd August 2026, 2:30pm, The Betsey Trotwood.

Hey Rob, Greetings from the wilds of Canada.

Alan Moore recites the pantheon in his new book.

Ah, lovely!

What’s seedy and goes up and down?

It’s here.

It’s the first day of June 2026.

Touring comedian Doug Stanhope sells “stolen hotel bibles” as merch.

Top this: I received your wonderful piss-yellow book by mail the other day, and read it in one sitting, or perhaps I should say one lying, as I was very much horizontal in the act.

Acceptance at last in my old stomping grounds.

A great philosopher once claimed that there are two kinds of people in the world: the ones who entertain and the ones who observe.

There’s a pub called the Coy Carp Inn.

You just know there’s someone out there who thinks it’s a “can of lini beans.”

There’s some truly excellent bathtub writing in Service, John Tottenham brand new novel.

This funny cartoon by fine artist and producer of direct-to-landfill tat David Shrigley has strong Mister Bob vibes.