Following on from news my & Aaron Levene’s long running compilation show, Jew-O-Rama, was being cancelled by Whistlebinkies due to concerns over “staff safety”, yesterday I learnt that my solo show, Shall I Compere Thee in a Funny Way? was being dropped by Banshee Labyrinth.

1/8 The reason I was given is that my ”views concerning the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Palestine…are in significant conflict with our venue’s stance against the current Israeli government’s policy and actions.”

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After more than 20 years @EquityUK membership, it looks like I need to leave my Union for putting their antisemitic international position ahead of their domestic membership. As they have something of a monopoly in this field, this will leave me vulnerable as a performer. This isn't about @EquityUK taking a position on the horrific situation on Israel/Gaza, they are free to believe whatever they want. Although for some reason they have chosen to do so whilst simultaneously ignoring many other significantly worse conflicts around the world.

Well, I'm not sure what algorithms you've been seeing these past few days, but aren't you a lovely bunch! 🥰

A thread ... enjoy! First of all, thank you to everyone who's reached out recently asking how you can support creative #freelancers like me with everything we've been doing in Lockdown. It will come as no surprise to hear it's been a crap year, but there have been moments of light that have helped.

Joke Thread:

I can't for the life of me work out why it's safe to reopen gyms, but live comedy is still considered dangerous?!?

So here are some jokes about gyms & exercise I wish I was allowed to tell in a live comedy club!

#SaveLiveComedy On my first day at the gym I was given a gun and sent to shoot Nazis in the woods. Not how I'd imagined Resistance Training.

I miss everything about being a #comedian, both on and off stage.

I’ll list some below but as we ask @OliverDowden to #SaveLiveComedy, as a comic or a punter, what do you miss about #LiveComedy? I miss not knowing how a gig will go beforehands and then standing on stage telling jokes to a room that will judge a punchline in the moment & not based on any knowledge of how it’s been received before. I miss reading the room and editing as I go to get the best of a set.

Ah, the life of a #Freelancer ... a thread:

A lot has happened since lockdown, so perhaps you'd be so generous as to let me spill the beans on everything I've been up to over a coffee:

ko-fi.com/philipscomedy I've been slowly updating and adding new content to my YouTube comedy channel. It would be great to get a few more subscribers on there to help unlock some of the features only available to the super popular.

bit.ly/P_S_YouTube

Before I started comedy I taught #SexEducation, going into schools teaching about relationships, boundaries, puberty, that kind of thing.

When I say "going into schools", I was invited. I didn't just stand in the playground with a banana & a condom talking to kids about sex! Hearing this, someone recently asked, "if you catch #CoronaVirus from a lover does that make it an STI?"

I said "no". Banging your head during sex wouldn’t mean a headache was an STI...actually in some relationships a headache could really be considered a form of contraception!

I know, "it's joke, it's just a joke", but the problem is, with something as serious as antisemitism, how do we know when it's not a joke?

A thread... Today we had another pretty full room for Jew-O-Rama, which is the other show I'm doing alongside "Who's the Daddy Pig?"

You can find out more about it here:
tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/jew-o…