He blasted the alt-right twits who celebrated his victory with Nazi salutes.
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He scored an 88.20 back 2.5 pick with 2.5 twits – jumping into 10th place.
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"Dinner At The Twits" is playing at London's The Vaults venue until Oct. 30.
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He had beguiled young readers with witches, twits, cunning foxes, thieving fathers and quick-thinking boys.
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In The Twits, a hideous married couple engage in a sick arms race of hateful tricks against each other.
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One man describes the state as "full of living twits and unsettled spirits," and characters in extremis do encounter ghosts.
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People also told me their twits [sic] were not shown in the Twitter live wall unlike to their account's wall.
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He is just as happy to send up the self-righteous anti-capitalists of the left as the clueless twits of the right.
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Yet now his main project is to ensure that serious-minded, long-form prose will offset the torrent of tweets, often penned by twits.
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Netflix will adapt the beloved stories of children's author Roald Dahl, including Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The BFG, The Twits, and more.
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Can't stand those drawing-room mysteries where a corpse is lying in the parlor as twits sip mah-tinis and engage in lighthearted banter.
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It's alright for guys like you and Court to fuck everyone, but when I do it I get dumped for innocent little twits like Cecile.
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"Dinner At The Twits" celebrates the couple's 40th anniversary, with audiences taking part in a special meal — made up of some unusual dishes — for the occasion.
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"These are the self-important twits who are running our society today!" a commenter wrote in response to a 2012 article about a contentious Co-op meeting.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Roald Dahl's "The Twits", a children's tale about a cruel and spiteful married couple, is being brought to life through an immersive theatrical show in London.
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Sadeiko sounded the alarm on Twitter afterward: Of course, she got zero sympathy from twits who questioned, perhaps rightfully, the wisdom of leaving your wallet in the car.
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"We're doing Dinner at The Twits [based on the children's book by Roald Dahl] and looking at the science and psychology of disgust in human society," he explains.
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Roald Dahl's "The Twits," for example, with its marvelously gruesome depiction of Mr. Twit's generous facial hair, a fetid bush bursting with old cornflakes and bits of sardines.
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And many are using Stock Twits, the social media investing website embraced by stay-at-home investors, as well as Twitter and Facebook to passionately promote their strategies.
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Fans of the J.K. Rowling's saga were quick to stress on Twitter that Supreme Mugwump is the title of the head of the International Confederation of Wizards: The Twits.
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The other titles include "The BFG", "The Twits" and "Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator", Netflix said here in a statement, adding that the production will begin in 2019.
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On the same day that The Times celebrates the 40th anniversary of its Science Times section, your editorial page twits President Trump, saying that he might try to take down the Ptolemaic model.
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The streaming service and The Roald Dahl Story Company jointly announced on Tuesday that the British author's beloved collection of stories — including Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, The BFG, and The Twits — is expanding.
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Imagine what you would think if you got on a plane and the pilot announced that most pilots were drunken fools, those who worked in the control towers were lazy twits, and that the plane itself was falling apart.
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She knows that she cannot help but disappoint her mother, make painful social blunders (telling "Horatio" that his opinions are "the sort of rubbish you'd expect from fat, balding, Tory, Home Counties, upper-middle-class twits") and experience culinary disasters.
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The brand-new fall kids' line is inspired by six of Dahl's classic children's books: Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, The Twits, Fantastic Mr. Fox and The BFG, whose film treatment was just released this summer.
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On Tuesday, the streaming service announced plans to partner with Dahl's estate to develop a slate of new animated programming based on the author's greatest books, including Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, The Twits, Matilda, The BFG, and more.
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Roald Dahl's popular children's books are about to get a new life on Netflix, with the streaming service announcing a "new slate of original animated event series" based on the author's iconic novels, including Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, The BFG, The Twits, and more.
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Apart from the event's PR-friendly hook, which centres on the fact that the pair have created a beer using yeast from a swab down the back of Dahl's writing chair, when Bompas gets into the nitty gritty of the science, Dinner at The Twits starts to sound interesting.
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A new stage adaptation of "The Twits," written by Mr. Walsh and directed by John Tiffany (the team behind "Once"), received mixed to negative reviews at the Royal Court Theater last year and has an uncertain future, even as the estate works on possible film and television adaptations.
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Guccifer 2.0 presentation PSBE Futures GroupSeptember 13, 2016 In the long statement, Guccifer 2.0 talks about who's really to blame for data breaches (spoiler alert: definitely not hackers like him), accuses Twitter of censoring his "twits," and blames government contractors as the real culprits because they make buggy software.
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The full list of Dahl titles included in the Netflix deal are: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, The BFG, The Twits, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, George's Marvellous Medicine, Boy: Tales of Childhood, Going Solo, The Enormous Crocodile, The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me, The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More, Billy and the Minpins, The Magic Finger, Esio Trot, Dirty Beasts, and Rhyme Stew.
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In the United States, a trivia show is traveling to schools and libraries, and Dahl-themed treats are at a variety of sweets shops ("Hornets Stewed in Tar" at Flour Bakery in Boston; "James and the Giant Peach Pie" at Four & Twenty Blackbirds in Brooklyn, etc.) There are also a "Twits"-themed dinner ("potentially perilous pudding," anyone?) running all month in London; a new Oxford Roald Dahl Dictionary; and "Love From Boy," a collection of letters from Dahl to his mother.
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To keep their heads glued to the ground, two birds will put a small amount of glue on the Twits heads right before they enter the house so that when they stand on their heads, they will be stuck. Just as the preparations for this trick are finished, the twits return home. Everything goes as planned, the Twits believed they've been turned upside down and so stand on their heads to counter it, only to be stuck to the bare floor. However, heads are not made to be stood upon.
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When the monkeys shout warnings, the birds cannot understand their language and so are always caught. Assisted by the Roly-Poly Bird, who arrives while on holiday in England, and who can speak both the African language of the monkeys and the English of the native birds, the Muggle-Wumps rescue the latter and escape from their cage while the Twits are away. Thereafter they attach all the Twits' living-room furniture to the ceiling with the glue used to trap the birds. They then, on the Twits' return, have two birds drop some glue on the couple's heads.
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There is a 'Big Dead Tree' in the Twits' garden, which Mr. Twit uses to trap birds by spreading Hug-Tight Sticky Glue on the branches. Captive birds are then made into a pie by Mrs. Twit. During the story four schoolboys are caught instead of birds, but escape by unfastening their trousers and falling to the ground outside the Twits' garden after Mr. Twit said that he will make boy pie instead of bird pie. It is this use of glue that gives the captive monkey Muggle-Wump and his family the idea of using it against the Twits.
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With so much weight on it from above, the Twits literally get 'the shrinks', as was mentioned earlier in the book. However, this time it's not a trick; it's the real thing. After a week or so, the Twits disappear, and everyone who knew of them shouts 'hooray!'. Meanwhile, The Muggle-wumps and Roly-Poly bird escape to their native African land.
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The Roly-Poly Bird is a fictional character in children's books by Roald Dahl. He appears in The Enormous Crocodile' (1978), The Twits (1980), and the poetry collection Dirty Beasts (1983).
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This enrages Mr. Twit, who doesn't want to keep waiting for his pie, so the Twits decide to go to the shop and buy a gun each. During their absence on this errand, Muggle-Wump plots a final trick: to turn the Twits' house upside down. With the help of the birds, Muggle-Wump removes the carpet from the floor, as well as all of the tables, chairs, and other objects in the house, and uses Mr. Twit's glue to stick the objects upside down to the ceiling, leaving the floor absolutely bare. By doing this, the Twits will believe that they have been turned upside down, as they will be standing on what looks like the ceiling of their house and will stand on their heads to be the right way up.
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In this book, Muggle-Wump and his family have been forced, on pain of corporal punishment, to stand on their heads for hours on end in preparation for a possible circus act, while birds are caught in the glue-smeared branches of a tree in the Twits' garden and then cooked into pie. When the Roly-Poly Bird arrives he, via his knowledge of languages, translates the Muggle-Wumps' cries of warning and so deters the birds from sitting in the tree. He is himself prevented in turn from becoming stuck to the monkeys' cage when Mr Twit smears glue on its bars, and conveys warning of this to the other birds. When the Twits leave to buy guns as a last resort, he and the Muggle- Wumps use the same glue to trick the Twits into attaching themselves, upside- down, to their floor.
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He subsequently claimed on Twitter that a pilot for My Kind of Twits would be filmed in May, but this did not happen.Michael Barrymore revealed his new show on his Twitter page in March 2013. Barrymore also appeared on The Nolan Show in June 2013.
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In this survey of primary school teachers Dahl also placed five books in the top ten: Charlie, The Twits, Danny the Champion of the World, The BFG, and George's Marvellous Medicine.Brown, Kat (2 March 2015). "Survey reveals 50 books that every child should read by 16". The Daily Telegraph.
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David Cameron appeared on O'Connell's Absolute Radio show twice in 2009. His second appearance caused controversy when the Conservative leader used the expletives "pissed off" (referring to the public reaction to the expenses scandal) and (In reference to Twitter) said "too many twits might make a twat" while on air.
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Are you guys serious? my outfit set “black people back 100 yrs” choose your twits wisely. no education sets people back, no jobs, bad health." Minaj agreed with Will.i.am's decision and attire in an interview with Hot 97’s Funkmaster Flex stating "You can’t expect him to make common folk happy.
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Brünjes served as Nimax's general manager of productions and programming. Brünjes founded ebp in 2013. The firm keeps an office in Covent Garden. Her cricket-mad younger brother Ralph serves as the firm's commercial director. Her credits include Dead Funny, Olivier Award nominated Alice’s Adventures Underground, The Twits, and Freddie Flintoff’s 2nd Innings Tour.
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On entering their house, the Twits believe that their living room has turned upside down and that they must therefore be standing on the ceiling, and so stand on their heads and become stuck. Muggle- Wump and his family are then able to return to Africa with the help of the Roly-Poly Bird, presumably to live happily ever after.
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DeMicco's first script sale was called "A Day in November" which he sold to Warner Bros. and producer Arnold Kopelson for $1 million before signing to write Quest for Camelot. Later he wrote and co- produced Racing Stripes for director Frederik Du Chau. John Cleese and DeMicco co-wrote the film adaptation of the Roald Dahl's children classic The Twits.
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The Twits, who are retired circus trainers, are trying to create the first upside-down monkey circus, leaving the monkeys to stand on their heads for hours on end. If they fail to do what Mr. Twit says, Mrs. Twit beats them with her cane. Mr. Twit also coats tree limbs with a strong sticky glue Hugtight in hopes of catching birds for Mrs.
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The twit worm will work as a virus infecting the human brain and making people into mindless zombies that follow her every whim. Fry decides he needs to have more interesting twits in order to beat Bender. He soon discovers that Leela has a boil, named Susan, which sings show tunes. Fry shares video of the boil on his eyePhone, in spite of his promise not to.
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Fitt has translated several Asterix books into Scots. The first was Asterix and the Picts (Asterix and the Pechts), published in 2013. He has also translated several Roald Dahl novels, including The Twits (The Eejits), George's Marvellous Medicine (Geordie’s Mingin Medicine) and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Chairlie and the Chocolate Works), and, in 2018, J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stane.
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In 2014, the American Library Association shortlisted her for an Odyssey Award for her audiobook performance. On 27 November 2018, Netflix was revealed to be adapting Matilda as an animated series, which will be part of an "animated event series" along with other Roald Dahl books such as The BFG, The Twits, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.“Netflix's new Roald Dahl animated series 'reimagines' Matilda and Willy Wonka”. The Mirror.
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Using their friend the Roly-Poly Bird as an interpreter of languages, Muggle-Wump and his wife and children convey the warning that any bird landing on the Big Dead Tree will be cooked into Mrs. Twit's Bird Pie. When Mr. Twit, in retaliation, spreads glue on the monkeys' cage (which serves as a substitute perch), the monkeys alter the warning. The birds end up landing on the Twits' roof.
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The first incarnation of the character was a caricature of George, Prince of Wales, serving as one of the three main characters of the third series. The second, Lt. The Hon. George Colthurst St Barleigh, was a young officer in the British Army during World War I, a supporting protagonist in the fourth series. Both portrayals were of "dim-witted upper-class twits", who depended greatly on Edmund Blackadder (Rowan Atkinson).
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In 2013, he directed a production of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie at the American Repertory Theater, Cambridge, Massachusetts, which transferred to Broadway. The work earned him a second Best direction of a play Tony Award nomination. However, he lost out to Kenny Leon who directed A Raisin in the Sun. In April 2015, his production of Enda Walsh's adaptation of The Twits was described as "torture" by Telegraph Chief Critic Dominic Cavendish.
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A hideous, vindictive, spiteful couple known as the Twits live together in a brick house without windows. They continuously play nasty practical jokes on each other out of hatred for one another, ranging from Mr. Twit hiding a frog in his wife's bed that he claims is a monster, to Mrs. Twit tricking her husband into eating worms in his spaghetti. They also keep a family of pet monkeys from Africa, the Muggle- Wumps.
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Callow was the reader of The Twits and The Witches in the Puffin Roald Dahl Audio Books Collection (), and has done audio versions of several abridged P.G. Wodehouse books that feature, among others, the fictional character Jeeves. They include Very Good, Jeeves and Aunts Aren't Gentlemen. Callow is the reader of the audio book edition of William E. Wallace’s Michelangelo, God’s Architect, published by Princeton University Press. Callow narrated the audiobook of Robert Fagles' 2006 translation of Virgil's The Aeneid.
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John Acorn became publicly known for his television series Acorn, the Nature Nut. 88 episodes were produced, each focusing on a different aspect of the natural world, and which featured folk songs, whimsical descriptions like Flying Neon Toothpicks in the Grass, and characters like Skibibad Windfield. He was also the host of Twits and Pishers a series about birdwatching that ran for two seasons on the Discovery Channel. Acorn also appears in recorded displays at the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology.
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A successful audition landed him a main role in the Belgrade Theatre Company's production of The Twits which took on a No.1 theatre tour of the United Kingdom. After an invitation to meet with some BBC exec's and a screen test for the possible role as a presenter, a formal job offer was made. Sloane helped to launch CBeebies, the British children's television channel in 2002. He was the channel's only remaining original presenter, when he left the presentation team on 12 April 2013.
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In 2008, The Times placed Dahl 16th on its list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". Dahl's short stories are known for their unexpected endings, and his children's books for their unsentimental, macabre, often darkly comic mood, featuring villainous adult enemies of the child characters. His books champion the kindhearted and feature an underlying warm sentiment. His works for children include James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, The Witches, Fantastic Mr Fox, The BFG, The Twits, and George's Marvellous Medicine.
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Konatsu is one of the strongest members on the team, second only to Karen Nishiyama. During a practice match with Muroe High Konatsu, she was beaten by Tamaki Kawazoe. ; : :Maya Yokoo, the second third-year student on the team, is a competitive and tall girl with more team spirit than anyone else in her team. Maya is a bit of a tomboy and tends to speak in a rather aggressive and foul-mouthed manner, calling her teammates "twits" and "dumbasses" when they do not take kendo seriously.
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"Muggle-Wump" is a fictional character in some of Roald Dahl's books for children, and "the Muggle-Wumps" are his family. A Muggle-Wump appears in The Enormous Crocodile and there is a Muggle-Wump with a family in The Twits. A character resembling him (shown in Quentin Blake's illustrations) also appears in The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me. The first two stories have him almost as a symbol of retribution to the antagonists of the overall tale, whereas in the last one he is happy and safe.
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Ramu starts his pilgrimage along with his entire colony in a Janatha Boat, J.B.Rao & party also accompanies them in a luxury boat. On the other side, a suspended Tahsaldar Ramalingam (Allu Ramalingaiah) a sly person, arrives with a Govt boat for the Deputy Collector to pamper and get back his position. All the 3 are conjoined and the journey begins which takes several twits & turns. In between an awful incident, Seetamma passes away when they try to stop the boats for the funeral, J.B.Rao insults her to throw into river Godavari as it is a waste of time.
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Road sign pointing to Twatt, Shetland which was rated no. 4 of the most vulgar-sounding names in Rude Britain, along with its Orkney counterpart. In August 2008 Random House, the publisher of the children's book, My Sister Jodie by Jacqueline Wilson, decided, after receiving three complaints, in future editions of the novel to reprint the word twat as twit so as not to offend readers or their parents. In a 2009 breakfast radio interview, UK Conservative Party leader David Cameron quipped, "The trouble with Twitter, the instantness of it — too many twits might make a twat".
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In 2000 Dhal topped the list of Britain's favourite author. In 2003 four books by Dahl, led by Charlie and the Chocolate Factory at number 35, ranked among the Top 100 in The Big Read, a survey of the British public by the BBC to determine the "nation's best-loved novel" of all time. First of two pages. Archived 2 September 2014 by the publisher. Charles Dickens and Terry Pratchett led with five of the Top 100. The four extant Harry Potter novels all made the Top 25. The Dahl novels were Charlie, The BFG, Matilda, and The Twits.
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The Roly-Poly Bird in this story may not be the same one as appears in The Twits and The Enormous Crocodile, if only by reason of his role in "The Toad and The Snail", wherein the two characters of the title are the same creature, magically transformed from one to the other when the giant Toad jumps with a small boy on his back into France, becomes the Snail to escape the amphibian-hungry Frenchmen and becomes the Roly-Poly Bird so that he can escape to England when the Frenchmen also express interest in eating the snail. Nevertheless, he is again shown as a character that "saves the day".
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Directors and writers Kirk DeMicco and Chris Sanders at the 41st Annie Awards. The film was announced in May 2005, under the working title Crood Awakening, originally a stop motion film being made by Aardman Animations as a part of a "five film deal" with DreamWorks Animation. John Cleese and Kirk DeMicco had been working together on a feature based on Roald Dahl's story The Twits, a project that never went into production. DreamWorks got a copy of their script and liked it, and invited Cleese and DeMicco over to take a look at the company's ideas to see if they found something they would like to work with.
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In film and television, Cecil almost always played upper class English characters. His screen work included the roles of Cummings in The Diary of a Nobody (1964), Captain Cadbury in the Dad's Army episode Things that Go Bump in the Night (1973), Bertie Wooster in Thank You, P.G. Wodehouse (1981), Ricotin in Federico Fellini's And the Ship Sails On (1983), and Captain Hastings (to Peter Ustinov's Hercule Poirot) in Thirteen at Dinner (1985), Dead Man's Folly and Murder in Three Acts (both 1986). He has been called "one of the finest upper- class-twits of his era". In 2009 he appeared in an episode of Midsomer Murders.
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Also enthusiastic was Peter Travers of Rolling Stone, who wrote > A Dirty Shame is Waters unleashed, and wicked, kinky fun for anyone except > the twits who rated it NC-17...You may even shed a tear when Sylvia bonds > with her daughter by confessing, "I'm a cunnilingus bottom." OK, the jokes > are hit-and-miss and the plot is nonexistent, but the Waters spirit stays > consistently and sweetly twisted. When the cast takes to the streets > singing, "Let's go sexin'", you want to cheer them on. On the other end of the spectrum was Roger Ebert, who gave the film one star out of a possible four, elaborating > There is in show biz something known as "a bad laugh".
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During this time, he lived in converted stables in the grounds of Kenmure Castle. Moving to Edinburgh at the age of twelve, he attended James Gillespie's High School for a year and then moved to the Edinburgh Rudolf Steiner School until the end of the sixth year. He subsequently spent two years working and travelling, before enrolling at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (now the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland) in Glasgow, graduating in 2003. During his schooling, he performed in numerous plays, including The Twits at Citizens Theatre, an adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment, Anton Chekhov's The Seagull, Aeschylus's Greek tragedy Prometheus Bound, and Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
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Bond initially worked for Finsbury Park-based Y Touring Theatre Company, managing and co-directing touring plays in the late 1990s and early 2000s. In 2002 he co-founded Stages International with Charles J. Fourie, directing Fourie’s Big Boys at the Croydon Warehouse. In 2005, Bond was awarded a residency under the Regional Theatre Young Director Scheme at the Watford Palace Theatre where he directed J.B. Priestly’s I Have Been Here Before and was assistant director to Lawrence Till on several plays. As a freelance director, his productions included Sleeping Beauty at Salisbury Playhouse, Brenda Gottsche's The Max Factor at the Baron’s Court Theatre, London, and Roald Dahl's The Twits which toured in Switzerland.
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Ayoade was a team captain on the Channel 4 panel show Was It Something I Said?, which began airing October 2013 and co-starred David Mitchell as host and Micky Flanagan as fellow team captain. Also in 2013, Ayoade read Roald Dahl's children book The Twits for Penguin Audio's audiobook collection and Virgin Media launched an advertising campaign starring the Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt featuring the voice of Ayoade. He again lent his voice to an advertising campaign when he provided the voice-over for Apple's iPhone 6 UK campaign with Chris O'Dowd in 2014. Ayoade's second feature film, the black comedy thriller The Double, was based on Fyodor Dostoyevsky's 1846 novella The Double and written by Ayoade and Avi Korine.
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Rudd has often concentrated on theatre work and her acting credits include The Twits at the Curve Theatre, Dead Dog In A Suitcase for an international tour and The Hole Story tour with Paines Plough. Rudd also appeared in James And The Giant Peach at the West Yorkshire Playhouse and Much Ado About Nothing at the Royal Exchange Theatre. At the Regent's Park Open Air Theatre she has performed in Peter Pan, The Beggars Opera and Into The Woods. She played roles in the musical Soho Cinders at the Soho Theatre, The Little Mermaid at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre, The Magistrate which was televised live at the National Theatre Company, Days Of Significance at the Tricycle theatre and Titus Andronicus at the Paradoxos Theatre.
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Both Prince George and Lt. George are portrayed as dim-witted "upper class twits". The son of King George III, Prince George is represented as a childish, spoiled, bumbling fool who spends money extravagantly (especially on impressive trousers and socks). Lieutenant George, stationed in the trenches of World War I, retains his enthusiastic naiveté, despite being stuck in the trenches for three years, revealing a lack of awareness of the seriousness of his circumstances; Robert Bianco of USA Today stated the character "smiles through in the face of certain death". Both men are portrayed as very incompetent, in "Nob and Nobility", it takes Prince George a week to put on a pair of trousers by himself, eventually putting them on his head.
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Other work includes Sing yer heart out for the lads, by Roy Williams, Road by Jim Cartwright, Bloodtide by Melvin Burgess, The Beauty Queen of Leenane by Martin McDonagh, Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig, Mirad a Boy from Bosnia by Ad de Bont, Rumble Fish by S.E. Hinton, Look Back In Anger by John Osborne, The Elephant Man by Bernard Pomerance, Fungus the Bogeyman by Raymond Briggs, The Twits by Roald Dahl and Looking for JJ and Antigone. They won the Manchester Evening News Award for best production for their tour of Lord of the Flies in 2001. The production was revived and a tour took place in 2008. Pilot Theatre have embraced new technologies both on and off stage.
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The Muggle-Wump in this story has a wife and children and is subject to animal cruelty at the hands of Mr and Mrs Twit, who are retired circus trainers. They force the Muggle-Wumps to balance on their heads, one on top of the other, or else stand and walk on their hands- all at the peril of feeling Mrs Twit's "beastly [walking-]stick" across their bodies. Occasionally, it is said, one of Muggle-Wump's children will faint of the rush of blood to their heads. To add insult to injury, they are kept (when not subject to command) in a cage overlooking the Twits' garden, at the centre of which is a large dead tree that Mr Twit smears with glue to trap birds for his favourite dish of Bird Pie.
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Officers from Solihull taking part in a web chat West Midlands Police maintains a presence on a variety of social media websites including Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, YouTube and blogging platforms. Each LPU has a dedicated Facebook and Twitter account, with more than 200 departments, officers, PCSOs and special constables also tweeting from officially endorsed accounts. The force has used various social media accounts to promote its activity in a variety of ways including running photo competitions, holding live web chats with senior officers and hosting live tweeting events from operations. Several of the force's social media accounts have won recognition as examples of best practice, including Solihull Police's Twitter feed which came first place in the 2012 Golden Twits' Customer Service category and Inspector Brown's Mark Hanson Digital Media Award 2012 for his mental health blog.
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After his marriage to Angela Scoular in 1982, Phillips decided to move away from playing the kind of lecherous twits with suave chat-up lines which had characterised much of his previous work. Phillips remained busy in both stage and television productions, along with character roles in films such as Empire of the Sun (1987) directed by Steven Spielberg and Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001). Phillips also provided the voice for the Sorting Hat in the Harry Potter films, appearing in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001) and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002), as well as reprising his role in the final film, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 (2011). He has also appeared in British television sitcoms including Honey for Tea with Felicity Kendal and appeared in guest roles in popular series such as The Bill, Holby City and Midsomer Murders.
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In the fall of 1932, upon her return to New York, Hall and her husband purchased the lease on an exclusive freehold residential estate in the Village of Larchmont in the New York suburb of Westchester County. As news of her arrival in Larchmont leaked into the local media she began to encounter racial opposition from her white upper-middle-class neighbors, who threatened court action to have Hall evicted. After her home was broken into and an attempt was made to set it alight, news of the attack hit national newspaper headlines. Receiving hundreds of letters of support from the American public imploring her to stick it out, Hall stood her ground and in a press statement she issued insisted that she was a true American citizen as her ancestry could be traced back to the Shinnecock Indian tribe of Long Island"Adelaide Hall twits white neighbours on their ancestry", The Afro-American, 27 August 1932.
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Although Strike It Rich and Strike It Lucky have been repeated on the digital channel Challenge, his entertainment shows such as Barrymore and My Kind of People are never repeated anywhere and his work is never included on clip shows, such as those marking ITV's 50th anniversary or the 100th anniversary of the London Palladium. His only work in 2012 was on local radio stations, and on hospital radio. One was on Minster FM, on Greg Scott's breakfast show on 25 February 2012, where he was surprised to meet one of his all-time favourite television guests, Fiona Iverson, who had appeared on his show twenty years earlier. In 2013, Barrymore appeared on RTÉ show The Saturday Night Show for the second time, his first appearance was in February 2010, on this show he talked about his harsh treatment by the press, his addiction and also the possibility of a new show called My Kind of Twits.
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