Diss falls down a Fesshole
Posted on 15th September 2025
Effectively a “greatest hits” show, Rob Manuel took us through the humorous, scandalous and frequently disgusting confessions posted to his Twitter account, Fesshole, reminding the audience there was a time when X was a safe space for wit, banter and good natured cross fire.
After a quick run through of his prankish meme farm B3ta, the Yoko Ono Bot (which her son apparently crossed swords with) and the monumentally silly Swearing Clock, we got down to business with the fourteen things Fesshole had taught him. This was, of course, a hook to hang his curated selection of contributions made by the Great British public, his central thesis being that folk are funny – all you need do is wind them up and let them go. What followed was a catalogue of horrors involving politician infatuation, shop lifting, hotel kettles and baked beans. The less detail revealed the better, but suffice to say that Manuel did have his cake and eat it – disassociating himself from the grossest revelations, yet happy to notch up the consequent laughs.
After the interval the focus shifted to audience confessions, and here Manuel took the risk, as he must with every show, of relying on the wit of his audience. Having captured on-line a snapshot of Diss data, I’m pleased to report we generally use sinks as intended, but alarmingly – especially for the partners that said otherwise – over half of us are having affairs. Some straightforward confessions followed, but if I say stealing bags-for-life was in the mix, you understand the sins were fairly small fry. Nonetheless, Manuel had fun drawing the audience into the night, before rounding things off with some of his favourite quips.
With a million followers, the Fesshole account is a phenomenon that it’s hard to imagine would even happen on the current X, such is its toxicity. Notwithstanding its tales of revenge, betrayal, kink and deception, there’s a weird innocence to Fesshole, as no one got hurt in the telling of tales, presided over by Rob Manuel, Lord of Misrule for the digital age.