Aboot.

Hello, I’m Richard Hanrahan, a writer of nonsense and a lover of play. Some of you may know me from my experience performing Stand-Up comedy as myself or as one of my characters (e.g. Jimmy Whobblers [link tbd]), others may know me from endeavours in radio and podcasts, and some of you may even know me from writing (including my Alternative Wordbook [link tbd]). I’m hoping a few of you will get to know me because of the games I create and the fun we have along the way…

I’ve had comedy on the back burner for a while, which is unusual as I’ve just had children, and in general we try not to have any open flames in the house at all, especially unsupervised. But I’m getting my toe wet again just thinking about the prospect - the work/life balance is tricky, especially with wet toes, but we persist.

I’d love you to join me on this journey. I’m hoping to create something to make you laugh at least once a week, which you can have delivered direct to your inbox if you subscribe…

Convenient, Sexy and Discreet

Everything I write can be sent direct to your inbox in a plain(ish) font so that not a soul will know the nonsense you are consuming, but the makers of Substack insist I point you towards the Substack app and to enter their joyful eco-system. Just what you need, another effing app on your phone to ignore. But that’s the copy. I imagine the traffic driven there from this page will be insane.

Part of the Family

Hopefully it won’t just be family members who want to be part of my community. And as part of that, I’d like feedback, thoughts, comments, ideas - push me forward in ways I don’t expect and together, we can create a really rather pointless comic landscape.

This isn’t me by the way. I’ve asked AI to make a little drawing of me. The stupid thing things this is a papercut collage. I beg to differ.