Celebrity p.25

Les Dennis’s hilarious story about Amanda Holden and the plumber will never not make us laugh

Russell Brand performed a ‘baptism’ in in his underpants and prompted no end of mockery but this comeback said it best

Boris Johnson’s autobiography claims he wanted to invade the Netherlands to grab vaccines from AstraZeneca – 16 one-star reviews

Sir Ian McKellen’s hilarious story about the late Dame Maggie Smith is the best 48 seconds you’ll spend today

Dame Maggie Smith’s death aged 89 sent this fabulously straight-talking exchange with Judi Dench viral and it’s just wonderful

Lewis Capaldi’s fabulous misunderstanding on BBC Breakfast just went wildly viral again and it’s a proper treat

The magnificent Kate Beckinsale had a NSFW message for the Daily Mail after it doorstepped her mum and had everyone cheering

A bigoted troll took aim at Kirsten Dunst and of all the totally on-point comebacks this one really hit home

Liam Gallagher said he’d buy people’s Oasis tickets back off them if they didn’t rate his voice and this totally on-song comeback was simply magnificent

Jacqueline Wilson is TikTok’s latest unlikely star, and the childhood nostalgia is real

Gary Lineker chose a spectacularly NSFW way to check if Alan Shearer could hear him and it’s a hilarious own goal we can all applaud

Alison Moyet had the very best response for these bigoted ‘reply guys’ bothering her on Twitter and had everyone cheering

This fabulous Russell Brand drive-by ‘takedown’ is 5 seconds of absolute pure joy

Candice Bergen subtly took down JD Vance in her delightfully catty Emmys speech

Elon Musk asked why people were ‘raging FOR the machine’ and this A++ takedown just got better and better