Today my son leaves uni with a first. My primate-loving, unconventional, autistic son, who was bullied, unfriended & who struggled through school, is taking his lifelong passion for animals & making a career out of it. Neurodiversity - as important as any other kind.
Cally Beaton ON TOUR NOW
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⭐️ 2026 TOUR & BOOK Namaste Motherf*ckers • Live at the Apollo • QI • ⭐️ No longer active on X - find me on Instagram/Bluesky/Facebook/Threads 🙏🏻
- Today my son got a job as a zookeeper. My primate-loving, unconventional, autistic son, who has not had the easiest of times in life, has got his break & can now take his lifelong passion for animals & make a career out of it. Neurodiversity - as important as any other kind.
- Just lost most lucrative job of career so went for walk & woman said she loved my coat & I loved her coat & we had best chat & she was being so nice I started crying ‘cos I’m menopausal & I’d lost job & then she started crying ‘cos she’s got a newborn & her hormones are fucked 🙏🏻
- Lifetime achievement mansplain alert: Arrived to give a speech. Holding slide had me down as Carry Beaton, so I said I was Cally, if they could change it. The guy said he’d been told it’s definitely Carry. I said no, it’s me - I’m Cally so it does need changing. He showed me an
- 30 years ago, I was raped during a 12 hour ordeal. He wasn’t a police officer. But the misogyny & consequent shame that resulted from my treatment by (all male) officers when I went to report it the next morning has stayed with me as long as the act itself. Enough #EnoughIsEnough
- In Dutch press today, caption: ‘the British mutation’ #PlagueIsland
- Post gig analysis, big thank you to man in 2nd row: ‘Can I give you a bit of feedback? You don’t need the bit about mansplaining. You’re funny without that stuff’
- Michael Gove just tried to match with me on a dating app. What a time to be alive.
- Dad's just heard his cancer surgery was a success and he doesn't need chemo (aka at 80 it's as likely it would kill as cure him). We're taking that as a win. Dad for President.
- Remember reading an article when I was 29 saying that 30 was the cut-off for wearing a short skirt. As a 55 year old I say… wear what you f**king like.
- Just got back to house earlier than expected to find dogsitter having sex (with another human) & found myself apologising. How British.
- Did fundraiser last night at a local school. After my set this really lovely woman came up & said she’d loved my menopause stuff as she’s a GP specialising in menopause. I said, blimey we could do with someone like you at my GP practice, where do you work? Turns out she is my GP.
- Group of young male teens, one getting picked on & told ‘you look like a lesbian’. I bowled over & said ‘I’m a lesbian’. (Technically bisexual but that seemed best response.) They stopped. Then one of them said ‘stop disrespecting that lesbian’. I feel some good has come of this.




