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A Maga claimed this European had ‘zero idea’ about Trump’s EU trade deal and their A++ comeback was simply magnificent
John Plunkett
Editor-in-chief, The Poke
John Plunkett
Editor-in-chief, The Poke
- John has spent three decades writing about TV, media and popular culture. As broadcasting correspondent of the Guardian he spent many happy years presenting the paper’s MediaTalk podcast, interviewing the likes of Matt Berry, Armando Iannucci and Charlie Brooker.
- A former chairman of the television critics association, the Broadcasting Press Guild, he presented their annual awards ceremony and has a whole bunch of photos of him standing next to A-list celebrities (pictures available on request).
- He has also hosted events for Bafta and the Edinburgh TV Festival, and chaired the press jury prize at the Rose d’Or entertainment festival in Montreux.
Experience
John spent nearly 20 years at the Guardian, first as a freelance and then as a staff member on the Media Guardian team, editing the paper’s Media Monkey diary column. He first started writing about the television business at Broadcast magazine, before joining Heat and (briefly) The Sun. He began his career in local newspapers at the Medway News in Kent and the Norwich Evening News. He has only done stand-up twice and on one of those occasions he was fortunate enough to share the bill with Greg Davies and Rhod Gilbert (before they were famous, obviously).Education
John has an MA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford University.Life
A bigoted ‘Little England’ account pined for when their home looked like this and was hilariously owned into next year
Celebrity
Chris Martin had the very best response next time Coldplay did a ‘kiss cam’ and made the whole thing even funnier
Politics
Lee Anderson showed off his new Union Jack jacket and this tailor-made takedown was simply magnificent
Twitter
That unfortunate Coldplay couple prompted no end of funny responses but we reckon Ryanair did it best
Sport
A golf fan’s comedy fart was picked up by the TV microphones and Andrew Cotter’s response was simply priceless
US
JD Vance had a question for everyone not letting the Epstein story drop and it was a glorious self-own so big you could see it from the moon
US
Donald Trump claimed he’d made Coke great again and if it was an attempt to distract from Epstein then Gavin Newsom’s A++ comeback really burst his bubble
US
Donald Trump tried to put the Epstein ‘hoax’ behind him and the more he says the worse it gets in this jaw-dropper of a 2-minute rant
US
Trump berated the idiot who appointed the chair of the Federal Reserve and the punchline was predictable but no less magnificent for it
US
Donald Trump claimed the Epstein files were made up by Biden and Obama and global chinny reckon supplies hit critical lows – 14 totally on-point comebacks
US
Marjorie Taylor Greene wants to ban ‘weather modification and geoengineering of all kinds’ and of all the A++ responses this one hit hardest
US
An American accused ‘desperate’ Brits of copying their city names and was schooled all the way across the Atlantic and back
US
Donald Trump said only ‘bad people’ were interested in the ‘boring’ Epstein case and the entirety of the internet put him straight
US
Greg Gutfeld wants people to call him a Nazi but it wasn’t the libtard takedown he thought it was – 13 of the fiercest and most on-point comebacks