Darren Richman
@darrenrichman
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Write? Err. Blog? Grr. Jew? Ish. Made a film for @HistoryUK. Represented by @literarywhore. Co-writer of Re-run the Fun: My Life as Pat Sharp for @LittleBrownUK
Joined August 2010
My grandfather survived Auschwitz in his youth and died this week, on his 93rd birthday. I’ve written about Zigi Shipper, the greatest man I’ve ever known
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Absolutely adore how furious Pickford is every single time he’s forced to make a save.
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Peter Jones was commentating at Hillsborough and many felt he never fully recovered from what he saw, dying less than a year later. His final report from that day is an astonishing piece of broadcasting
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The great Mel Brooks is 94 today. He worked on The Elephant Man, hired David Lynch and insisted his own name be kept off the credits so people didn’t assume it was a comedy. He also didn’t take any shit.
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Think Héctor Enrique, who tapped it to Maradona in his own half and got the assist for the goal of the century, has my favourite line in football history: “With a pass like that, how could he miss?”.
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Stewart Lee has had his say on Gervais and there’s nothing left to add
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These were taken at today’s anti-lockdown demo in London. Any time you get a large group of idiots together, you’re guaranteed to see this stuff. That train is never late.
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Don't feel ashamed to mourn your heroes. Being moved by art is one of the things that makes life worth living.
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It doesn’t matter how low United fall, Alex Ferguson still ruined your childhood and you’re never getting it back.
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Jose Mourinho’s commitment to upsetting Chelsea fans is by far his most attractive quality.
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As an Office fanatic, this is genuinely one of the funniest things I've ever seen. To have the guts to not just do it quickly but keep going like that
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Five days of physical and psychological battle, the very peak of sporting combat, and it still ends with someone trying to gain an edge by calling an opponent a “fucking knobhead”. What a sport.
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Airplane II with the greatest visual joke of all time
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Seen a lot of outpouring of love for Rik Mayall to mark five years since his passing. Here's my favourite clip of all because even when he caught a stranger filming him in a public place, Rik was unable to not be funny
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Groucho Marx died 40 years ago today. This is my favourite story about him.
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The defence of Carr seems to boil down to “calm down, it was a joke” but what was the joke? As far as I can tell there was no irony and it’s just a man saying the systemic slaughter of an ethnic group was good because they’re bad and the audience lapping it up in agreement.
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When my grandpa was 51 he had a heart attack and the doctors told my grandma that the outlook was bleak. Her response? “The Nazis tried to kill him for five years and didn’t succeed; I’m not too worried about this.”. Zigi turned 90 today. I’ve written this
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Happy birthday Mel Brooks, 93 and still breaking the fourth wall
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RIP Bob Einstein, one of the funniest people ever to have lived
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My grandfather, who sat next to me at Wembley in ‘96 and tried to calm me down when I sobbed after the shootout, came out of hospital yesterday and got to watch today’s events on TV at 91. I love this game.
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I see #JewishPrivilege is trending because people are convinced it’s a thing. Wish someone had let my grandfather know when he was on a cattle truck headed for Auschwitz.
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Me and Dane Baptiste have a lot of mutual friends. I also know the victim. I unfollowed him this morning and am aghast at how many people on here and Facebook are attempting to defend this. In what world is this acceptable? He was even able to gig last night
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RIP Scott Walker. Bowie's reaction here tells you everything
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Spectacularly intriguing text from an unknown number
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@AndyHa_ On fifth viewing I’ve decided the highlight is when he has a one in four chance if he can name a season but opts for Oliver Twist.
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@emmahayes1 on @talkSPORT Every time I hear her speak, she impresses. Would love to see her cross over into the men’s game. I’m sure she’d be a success. 👍🏻.
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Roy Keane at a Neil Diamond concert is everything you’d hope
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The boss when James McClean reaches the end of the final level
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The test ends with one of the best batsmen in history facing off against one of the best bowlers in history, both doing the wrong job. What a sport.
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Zlatan’s a lion alright, that useless fucker from The Wizard of Oz.
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Test cricket is still the best thing human beings have come up with.
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@WelshSocialism If this is staged, the line "You're not allowed to swim in your own bin" is one of the greatest bits of writing and acting I've ever seen.
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Really not cool how he’s just listed as “Theresa May’s husband”. He’s also the largest shareholder in a company that profited massively from the bombing of Syria in his own right.
Theresa May's husband Philip to be knighted as part of new honours list
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Paul McCartney won’t see your tweets complaining about his set list but your songwriting genius friends with unparalleled bodies of work and careers spanning six decades will.
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@AndyHa_ Actually crying at the idea CS Lewis would open his series with a book called CJ Lewis.
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A lanyard to get in? The bloke’s got a statue outside ffs
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I cannot think of a single other account that consistently uses its platform so wisely.
The Auschwitz Memorial statement on the situation in Ukraine.
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Genuinely thought this was the baddie from Kindergarten Cop for a second
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After 15 years and hundreds of views, I've decided this Accidental Brent is so perfect it should be considered Office canon
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Who got Emery sacked?. It was. Rebekah Vardy’s husband.
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My grandfather was in Auschwitz in his teens. He’s 92 today
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Nah, the main difference is that Brown was right whereas Sunak was contributing to a culture of dehumanisation that leads to murdered teenagers.
Main difference between this and 'bigotgate' is that Gordon Brown didn't know he was on a hot mic, and Rishi Sunak said it live on television.
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Wish social medial platforms found holocaust denial as offensive as Premier League copyright breaches.
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Absolutely love the takes from people not supporting England because of its past. Fortunately Italy has an entirely unblemished, unproblematic past going back centuries.
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Genuine chance of the first ever refusal to celebrate against a *future* club. Could be the greatest #gamesgone moment yet.
BREAKING: Tottenham head coach Nuno Espirito Santo says Harry Kane will be available to face Manchester City in Sunday's Premier League season opener.
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Fucking hell. Absolutely magnificent in Chernobyl and the production of Art with Tim Key and Rufus Sewell
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It’s absolutely astonishing. They take your favourite thing, bound up in your memories, fuck it beyond all recognition and you’re smugly told not to complain and that it was inevitable because of decisions you had nothing to do with going back decades.
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With all the revelling in United's downfall, my only real regret is that I wasn't more of a gloating prick the last 20 years.
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The greatest use of a rain delay in history. What a hero.
"Until we educate the entire human race, this thing will not stop." . Michael Holding delivers a powerful message, explaining why #BlackLivesMatter.
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Harry Kane being mocked for his Stalingrad comments then scoring twice reminds me of this from Steve Coogan as Paul Calf: "I hate it when people say David Beckham's stupid, it's not like anyone ever says, 'Stephen Hawking - he's shit at football.'".
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The greatest player I've ever seen. He's me brother."
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There are bad takes and then there are *reprimanded by the official Auschwitz account* takes.
.@Camillalong An education suggestion: here is a column (actually a full online lesson) about the development of Nazism: We also remind that visitors at @AuschwitzMuseum are requested to cover their faces inside the buildings.
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Gregg Wallace during the allotted 90 minutes he spends with his non-verbal autistic son
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10 hours straight he’s been doing this. Lucky he hasn’t done something really bad like post a Premier League clip or he might be suspended.
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what’s the worst tweet of all time.
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My grandfather survived the Nazis, Auschwitz, a massive coronary at 51 and has just got home from hospital after 10 days in the midst of a global pandemic. 91 in January. My hero
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More convinced than ever that Gervais or Merchant saw this before writing The Office, Brent even names him as a hero
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No one human being has brought me more moments of unalloyed joy than Sir Alex Ferguson.
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I went to Auschwitz with my grandfather. If I've ever written anything of any importance, it's this http://t.co/sHQRD1UTXT.
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No doubt we’ll be hearing the PSG and Istanbul Basaksehir players walked off the pitch as a result of anti-Marxist abuse.
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Every year this debate is framed as being about easily offended millennials but Kirsty changed the lyrics on Top of the Pops in January 1992 and nobody cared.
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Julian Casablancas going full Keysy has somehow made this even better
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This happens all the time in football. Supporters behave abhorrently and they’re dismissed as “not fans”. They are, and this man was a police officer, and the only way to implement change is to admit this.
“It’s something that will stay with me for the rest of my life.”. A senior investigator on Sarah Everard's case, former DCI Simon Harding, says police officers “do not view” Wayne Couzens as a police officer and he “should never have been near a uniform”.
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Farewell Estelle Harris. Scenes with these three together are as funny as TV has ever been
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Unable to get through an article on the sickening news about him today so I'm leaving this here instead
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Watched enough wrestling growing up to fully expect a Mkhitaryan appearance at some stage here.
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“Fuck the Greek civilisation” is such a perfect turn of phrase that I need it to be true.
Harry Maguire 'yelled 'F*** Greek police, f*** the Greek civilisation' as police tried to detain him', one of the arresting officers claims
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The fact that Bobby Robson took the time to do this with penalty takers needing to be sorted and that kind of tension looming really does tell you what sort of a bloke he was.
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“What does a man with a two foot cock have for breakfast? Well, this morning I had a boiled egg.”. Rik Mayall left us on this day in 2014
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