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Comedian Michael Spicer: The Room Next Door - Donald Trump Plane Crash Fact Check
If you've not heard of Michael Spicer before, he's a British comedian, and one of his most popular regular routines is playing a spindoctor in "the room next door" on a earpiece link trying (unsuccessfully) to keep politicians from going off the rails. Here's his topical latest:
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https://www.youtube.com/@MrMichaelSpicer
He's also on BlueSky and Twitter (where he initially made his name).
He's had his own show in BBC Radio 4 and toured the country, and also featured on The Late Late Show with James Corden. He hadn't released a "Room Next Door" for quite a while as he said he finally found doing them too dispiriting - cataloguing the Boris Johnson years, then Liz Truss, nearly broke him.
Unusually, the comments on his YouTube videos are often worth checking out. Like this one today:
And yes, if like me you missed it among the endless volleys of bullshit, apparently he did say that:
And then there's this reply to Spicer from Twitter:
He's also on BlueSky and Twitter (where he initially made his name).
He's had his own show in BBC Radio 4 and toured the country, and also featured on The Late Late Show with James Corden. He hadn't released a "Room Next Door" for quite a while as he said he finally found doing them too dispiriting - cataloguing the Boris Johnson years, then Liz Truss, nearly broke him.
Unusually, the comments on his YouTube videos are often worth checking out. Like this one today:
I like the fact that the news reports started claiming that they were 'short staffed' and Trump appears to have understood that to mean they are hiring 'Dwarves'.
And yes, if like me you missed it among the endless volleys of bullshit, apparently he did say that:
And then there's this reply to Spicer from Twitter:
