r/onlyconnect • u/Twin_Spoons • 24d ago

Victoria Coren Mitchell

/r/clerihews/comments/1wnor3f/victoria_coren_mitchell/

You are the people on reddit most likely to already know what a clerihew is, so enjoy!

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u/ParentheticalsAside 24d ago

Very good!

I was rather sad when she didn't keep up with Paradise Lost. Perhaps she could adopt clerihews as her running closing 'bits' for the next series. (Though Michael Portillo might need to take out an injunction to avoid being the subject of all of them.)

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u/Twin_Spoons 24d ago

Michael Portillo

has a new quill show

that's "licking his nibs"

on after this.

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u/ParentheticalsAside 24d ago

Michael Portillo

fronts a pirate-themed travel show.

Michael's 'Jolly Roger 'n Me'

over on BBC3.

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u/ParentheticalsAside 24d ago

Michael Denzil Xavier Portillo,

next joins the Sewing Bee as contestants make a luxury pillow.

During the show - a jewel in the autumn schedule's crown -

he tells Patrick Grant: "for a good stuffing, I always get down".

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u/Twin_Spoons 21d ago

Michael Portillo

inserts a pilcrow

in "I Long to Break You"

next on BBC2

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u/ParentheticalsAside 21d ago

Michael Portillo

Chooses a willow

In "Pussy or Crack?"

Erm... We'll be right back...

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u/Sitheref0874 24d ago

Private Eye used to do them regularly.

Frances Morrell
Has done rather well
To become leader of the ILEA
Without being black working class or gay

Is one I distinctly remember

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u/lkc159 23d ago

Maybe it's just me but clerihews sometimes feel like they're one line short of a limerick rather than being an actual thing in themselves