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Josh Widdicombe Comedian

MENDS LIBRARY BOOKS, MOANS ABOUT RADIATORS

Is Josh Widdicombe mending library books? Grudgingly.

Existence confidence provisional
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Josh Widdicombe holds open a lock gate on the Amsterdam canal towpath with both hands, hooves visible, explaining at length why this particular mechanism is unreliable.
Location
Back room of a branch library, two streets from the Mexico City bus station
Currently
Library book mender, loudly unimpressed by the radiators
Last confirmed sighting
Tuesday, repairing a spine while objecting to the heating
Observations
Can detect a dog-eared page from the bus station, and will mention it.

Josh Widdicombe has taken a post as book mender at a small library near a bus station in Mexico City. He works at a trestle table with glue, bone folder and a flask, and begins each shift by announcing the room is too warm. He has so far repaired 212 spines and mentioned the radiators 212 times.

The local council has logged 41 complaints and 38 compliments this month. Complaints concern a high-pitched sigh audible in Reference, and a stack of returns being sorted by how annoying they are. Compliments praise the tidy corners and the fact that every mended book now arrives back in time for bed.

"He fixed my copy of a cookbook, then told me the walk to the library was too far, and I only live next door," said Graciela, who drives the number 14 minibus. "Then he asked if I'd mind if he put on a bobble hat indoors. I said go on. He looked furious about how happy it made him."

Guidance for the public

Please keep radiators low and returns tidy, and do not ask about the walk.

Actual status (not satire) No death recorded as of 22 October 2026. Born 8 April 1983. Source: Wikidata

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