Jan Ravens
@thatjanravens
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actor, impressionist, eavesdropper... Agent: [email protected]
London, England
Joined September 2016
September 16th!!! Buy tickets!!!.Great songs and great comedy Steve Coogan Harry Hill Laura Mvula and a host of stars sing Steve’s songs Why We Love Steve Brown Tickets | Savoy Theatre in London West End | ATG Tickets
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A message from our Foreign Secretary, who is, as she might say, winning at life. I KNOW!!
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May I suggest JAN?.
Public to vote on Tower of London baby raven's name
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Said Goodbye to this darling girl. Thora. A true Dame amongst dogs. God bless, love.
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Spare a thought for the Dead Ringers writers at this difficult time. A show to record tomorrow, but not broadcast til Friday. With things changing this fast will we have to record multiple versions of every sketch?.
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You have my number.
Was pleased to secure an in-depth interview with @trussliz on BBC1. I am disappointed & frustrated it’s been cancelled.
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Barry Cryer. It truly feels like a light has gone out. Like so many of us, I will miss those phone calls. And the delight in such a range of comedy reaching back and looking forward. The Comedy Encyclopaedia. The Godfather. Baz.
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With much regret, I have decided to cancel my Edinburgh show this year. I embarked on an Impressions/memoir piece hoping for some healing and catharsis, but the opposite was the case. So sorry to those who have bought tickets. Hope to see you before too long. Xx.
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She won’t even come on the sofa with me. Just down between the chairs shaking. And this is after a (dog sized) Xanax. Bleeding Fireworks😡
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Raising a glass to the peerless icon that is @KirstyWark @BBCNewsnight after her last show. But as far as her work is concerned it’s definitely More On That Story Later.
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Spellow Library needs our help after the riots. Please donate, like, comment, and share to bring new books and a safe space back for the kids. Let's make a difference together!
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We lost Victoria Wood 5 years ago today. Here is my tribute recorded back in 2017. Words and music by Steve Brown.
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Just had a lovely post Ringers call from #BarryCryer which did my heart good. Told me some great stories about Vera Lynn, he knows everybody! And he still refers to his wife Terry as ‘my darling’ after 58 years of marriage. ❤️❤️❤️.
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Just switched onto #PointlessCelebrities @richardosman Ive seen this before but it’s such a joy the way Michael Sheen looks so thrilled to be there right from the get go.
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Yes can we please.
Can we all spare a thought for @thatjanravens. One of the finest impressions has gone today. #Trexit.
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The BBC is a bloody bargain. In addition to the fab telly shows, there’s a whole world of radio. It’s amazing!.
📢 The BBC wins seven out of ten of the most watched shows in 2023 so far across all broadcasters and streamers. The Coronation, Happy Valley and the Eurovision Song Contest came out on top. More ➡️
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OM actual G, if you’ll excuse me Reverend.
Just vaccinated with the AZ vaccine by my GP Charles, volunteering his weekend, whom I have known since childhood, when we both went to Sunnylands Kindergarten in Kettering, where we were taught by Mrs Gilbert, mother of Prof Sarah Gilbert, who developed the AZ vaccine.
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#DeadRingers will be going out LIVE and as it happens tonight from #BBCRadioTheatre First time ever. What a day!.
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The way she takes her moment just before she begins. and that transition when she haply thinks on her loved one and her face just glows❤️.
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How proud to be British are we feeling?.
UK to deport academic to Democratic Republic of Congo – which she has never visited
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Just put the teddies on a high shelf out of the way of a visiting dog, and realised they look like they’re doing ‘Oops upside your head’
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Judith Kerr lived round the corner from me and one day she walked up our road where my son was out playing and said ‘can I borrow your little boy? I’m just struggling with drawing a boy on a bike’ She went and got her sketchbook then later came round with a signed copy of TTWCTT.
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Thanks to everyone who voted for this. It has very much cheered up a cold, dark Monday. And thanks to all the BRILLIANT writers. My cap, as ever, doffed.
Radio 4 impression show Dead Ringers is voted Best Radio Sketch Show 2020. "We are delighted to have won this award again."
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If you’re not listening now, do catch up with @doctor_oxford #PrivatePassions on BBC Radio 3. Her words are inspiring, and her music is almost without exception, soaring, melodic and tear-jerking. Rachel Clarke we all owe you.
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Only the addition of Linda Barkers teapot shelf could have made this more of an interior design disaster.
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This is thirty years ago! Angus Deayton and I here in another brilliant piece by Marshall and Renwick.
Alexei Sayle's Stuff (26th October 1989). Joan of Arc is subjected to an intense interrogation.
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Had my jab! Thankyou Professor Sarah Gilbert, thank you all the scientists and thank you all the volunteers at Clayponds Community Centre in Ealing. You are all diamonds.
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Last minute bits at M n S. Paper plates at Poundland. Got to Majestic. Realised I didn’t have my purse. Back to Poundland. No purse. Home in panic. About to do all the card calls. Doorbell rings. A young couple with my purse. What a lovely Christmas thing to do. Merry Xmas Gang x.
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I am very honoured to be on this show tonight. More on that story later….
After a stellar 30 years presenting #Newsnight, it’s @KirstyWark ‘s last show tonight . A formidable journalist, a forensic interviewer, a team player and a wonderful colleague - we will miss her so much . Plse tune in from 1030pm @BBCTwo & @BBCiPlayer
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At Heathrow waiting to check in for my flight to #Corfu and thinking it’s weird I am not scared of being thousands of feet up in a metal box, but terrified in case I haven’t got the right forms.#terrorofpaperwork.
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@jessphillips Reminds me of the Vic Wood sketch where she and Julie are chatting and she says ‘Did you see the nine o clock? Terrible blouse’.
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A few words from our - what was it again? - Culture Secretary
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I’m back! And less powerful than ever before. .
I have written for the Sunday @Telegraph about what happened during my time in Downing Street and the lessons I have learned… 👇🏻. ‘I assumed upon entering Downing Street my mandate would be respected. How wrong I was’.
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@rorybremner Sorry for the loss of a great friend and colleague, Rory. Fabulously dry delivery as a performer, but a real twinkly warmth as a man. RIP.
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@EmmaKennedy I shouted Oh for fucks sake! Really loudly, then realised all my windows were wide open….
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Joyful!.
One of the most gloriously stupid pieces of art ever created by humankind.
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She doesn’t deserve her office. And I say that as someone who has a small vested interest in her remaining in it.
I just watched the Prime Minister going in to vote for No Deal. I told her it was a disgrace. I hope she is gone by morning She doesn't deserve her office.
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We are back!!!.
Returning to @BBCRadio4 this Friday at 6:30pm! 🚨. #DeadRingers is back, featuring PBJ's newest client @thatjanravens 👏👏👏. Listen right here after the initial broadcast 👇.
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Thanks so much to all of you for sharing the ‘joy’ of this announcement. And hello to lots of new followers! Apologies to those who were disappointed I didn’t include the phrase ‘pork markets’, but as she said it in 2014, it didn’t seem very up to the minute.
A message from our Foreign Secretary, who is, as she might say, winning at life. I KNOW!!
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Happy New Year to all of you lovelies who hang out in my Twitter precinct. From Cornwall with love. #lightattheendofthetunnel
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Thrilled and beyond amazed to win the #Pointless jackpot for @encephalitis Encephalitis Society. Thanks to the brilliant @RonniAncona for the winning answer. This is an illness that devastates lives. It did mine. Early diagnosis is crucial so make yourself aware of the symptoms.
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@KateClanchy1 Same thing happened with my grandparents. Although it was sad for us, I felt it was rather lovely that they couldn’t, or didn’t want to, live without each other. I read ‘Let me not to the marriage of true minds’ at the funeral. That lifelong attachment is such a wonderful thing.
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It’s my birthday today, and as a little gift, @BBCRadio4 are broadcasting a repeat of #MyTeenageDiary with @RufusHound tomorrow evening. Tune in for revelations aplenty.
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Ready to order?
'British hospitality industry will be forced to employ older staff to compensate for the diminished EU workforce after Brexit'
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Had my second AZ jab yesterday. My arm isn’t hurting this time, but today I feel all of a heap. Think I might have to take to my bed with Escape to the Country.
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So. We weren’t wrong about how great Bonne Maman jam is.
A thread. About Bonne Maman jam. The incident took place in a supermarket in New Jersey. “At the supermarket today, I found a small, elderly woman standing in front of a high shelf holding Bonne Maman preserves. She was having trouble finding the flavour she wanted.
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Thanks to everyone #DeadRingers @BBCRadio4 .Writers on point as ever, so grateful for their golden words and lovely laughter triggers. Never undervalue writers. Fellow cast members, you are all amazing. Studio guys too. And comedy alchemist @Bill_Dare .What a joy🙏.
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Catch her while you can. .
WATCH AND SHARE: As Truss u-turns on the mini-budget, will the Rwanda policy be next?. Starring Jan Ravens and directed by David Schneider. Full video and info: #SafePassage #LizTrussPM
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Is Prime Minister Boris Johnson doing a job share with someone? If so, I think we should be told who it is. Where is he? Prime Ministers are normally ‘around’ on a pretty regular basis. Why does he hardly ever show up? Is he claiming his full salary?.
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You’ve heard of therapy pets, here is a therapy child.
Here’s an important message from a toddler to all parents who are attempting to do the impossible of working from home and facilitating their children’s school work at the same time.
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#LosingMyVoice @BBCRadio4 a pleasure to make with @edmorrish Straight after #BarryCryer phones saying what a great programme. He speaks to me and the other #DeadRingers after every show to say Well Done; I’m sure we’re not alone. A legend and a true friend and supporter of comedy.
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Hello UK, Hello USA.
The Netherlands is now the world’s second largest food exporter, while reducing water usage by 90% and eradicating the use of pesticides on their crops.
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He’s not called the Boss for nothing. How to have authority without shouting and stamping your foot.
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Janey Goddess.
“I saw a man running who wasn’t even being chased and am doing hoola hooping” #janeygodleyvoiceover catch me on tour
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Hope your 2020 is as lovely as my lemon and passion fruit Pavlova x
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Liz Truss. The gift that keeps on giving.
Eddie: “What about people who have changed their minds on Brexit?” . Liz Truss: “I don’t think people have changed their minds” . Eddie: “You have” . Liz Truss: “I have, thats true…”
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This devasting illness had a tragic effect on our family. It wasn’t Covid, it was Encephalitis. The message is the same. If you are even slightly worried about a loved ones symptoms, don’t hesitate to seek help via @Femail.
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Sleep now pretty darling. Thank you Thankyou the endlessly fab Paul McCartney.
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Samira Ahmed wins sex discrimination equal pay claim against BBC Good on @SamiraAhmedUK for pursuing this and winning!.
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John Sessions. So sad. Great memories of a huge talent and a kind heart. Amazing one man shows, Spitting Image, a brilliant Geoffrey Howe in a Thatcher drama, the #PrivateEye Xmas shows, and playing opposite him as an unlikely pair of lovers at Chichester in 1986. RIP❤️.
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Observations from watching an old Morse. 1)Barbara Leigh Hunt has the most amazing lushly posh voice, the sort you don’t hear any more. 2)Cheryl Campbell is utterly gorgeous. 3)The lovely Geoffrey Palmer looked the same for about four decades. That’s it. I need lockdown to end.
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It’s extraordinary that everyone isn’t convinced by this simple argument that we are better and safer together and the prospect of being isolated in a world of huge superpowers is terrifying.
I'm making Tony B lair's point in my Observer column that, if Britain doesn't stick with its EU neighbours, we will be a bullied nobody in the 21st century. The argument is both clearly true and hardly ever made
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Who is this brilliant guy?.
When the #quarantine is over, I want to buy this man dinner. Who is he? This might be the best thing I've seen in weeks.
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Up at 5 this morning to travel up to Leeds for Steph’s Packed Lunch. 👍👍👍 My first live telly in months and this is the first day I can remember when I HAVENT woken up with galloping anxiety. Weird huh? But how great!.
The awesome JAN RAVENS (@thatjanravens) will be joining the Steph’s Packed Lunch gang tomorrow to front The One O’Clock Views 📰 📺 | @Channel4 live from 12.30 |@StephLunch #stephspackedlunch 🥪🧃
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Big up to @AngelaBarnes on @RichardOsman #HouseofGames Wow! The woman is unstoppable. And so lovely!.
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I have no words. So here’s some old ones.
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Lovely woman on the tube tonight got off at Hammersmith specially to give me my Oyster card which I’d dropped on the floor. What a kind and generous act! Thankyou gorgeous tall lady with long black curly hair, you are a proper diamond. 🤗.
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@richardosman Ok, had a Vogel soya and linseed piece of toast, took the mini schnauzer for a walk, followed by Zoom Pilates. Back of the net middle class.
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What have we done. .
A message to Europe, this morning on the White Cliffs of Dover. Sound on.
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Kirsty Young made the questions flow so naturally. She is so warm and articulate. Wishing you well Kirsty, you are a true broadcasting star.
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That was the longest penalty shoot out ever. But the best team won. Well done everybody. Night.
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Thanks so much to all of you who sent kindness and positive vibes tonight. Just got back on the horse doing 15 mins of golden oldies for the #BBCNewsAwards. So many inspiring @BBCNews journalists bringing extraordinary stories to the world #perspective.
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Omg Paul Whitehouses mum singing Vissi d’Arte at the end of #GoneFishing has finished me off. Bog off Monty Don.
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Ok night night everyone. What waves of love have crashed over this Thames riverbank this eve. Thank you xx.
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This actually isn’t a parody. I know!.
My book #TenYearstoSavetheWest is out TODAY. If we are to save the west, conservatives must be prepared to fight - and take on the leftist establishment. Order a copy in 🇬🇧 and🇺🇸 at
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Look everyone! I am doing 2 Alan Bennett monologues. Couldn’t be happier!.
Very excited for our first day of rehearsals for #Talkingheads! Welcome to our fabulous cast @thatjanravens @JuliaWats
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This boy, actually a 21 yr old man, has gone to Madrid via a circuitous route with no ticket for the match, on his own, to be part of history tomorrow. Win or lose, his Pop and Great Grandpop would have been so proud. #UpTheReds #mybaby #embarrassingmum
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