John Fleming (I)
- Journalist
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A look at David McGillivray's autobiography
If you are in it, be afraid... be very afraid.
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 24th May 2019Good advice for Fringe performers for any year
After yesterday's blog, I got an email from a comedy performer I know. It read: "I am finally getting on with the job of writing my show after making reams of notes for months. Hopefully two months gives me enough time to write and learn it, though I intend the thing to be shaped up in Edinburgh more than here in isolation". The Edinburgh Fringe is in August. This was my advice to him, her or them. Who knows what the correct PC form of address is any more? Not me.
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 22nd May 2019Advice to stand-ups: how not to mess up their stage act
I am not a performer. I am an audience member. So I am well-placed to tell stand-up comics when they are annoying the audience and destroying their own act.
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 20th May 2019John Dowie on his death, dentists and other Dowies...
So I had a blog chat with poet/comedian/writer John Dowie. I was going to the dentist. We arranged to meet when I was finished. "You might as well come to the dentist in case he's over-running," I suggested. "Charming as your dentist's waiting room undoubtedly is," John Dowie replied, "I will be in this pub down the road." And he was.
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 30th April 2019Matt Price is having conversations with criminals
In 2013, I posted a blog in which comedian Matt Price talked about the violent physical attack in 2007 on his partner, comedian Martha McBrier, by four or five men in Glasgow. The attack permanently damaged her hearing. He is still together with Martha and, now based in London, he has started a weekly podcast - released every Sunday - called Conversations with Criminals.
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 22nd April 2019Eric (just Eric) pays tribute to Ian Cognito
In the previous blog here, Becky Fury remembered Ian Cognito, who died while performing on stage last week. Now fellow comedian Eric (Just Eric) adds his own tribute...
Eric, John Fleming's Blog, 15th April 2019RIP Ian Cognito, dangerous comic & great opera singer
He actually died on stage, the mad bastard, and people thought he was pretending but he was actually dead. The compere came on and went to prod him as he thought he was joking but he was actually dead. Fuck me, that's hilarious.
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 13th April 2019Jo Burke disappeared for 3 years, found love & a show
The last time performer/writer Jo Burke appeared in this blog was in September 2015. There is a reason for that gap of over three years.
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 30th March 2019Comedy Museum's club: London's best new material night?
I chatted to David Hardcastle, who (with Tony Dunn & Patch Hyde) organises The Monday Club and runs comedy competitions for the Leicester Square Theatre and the Museum of Comedy.
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 20th March 2019Ricky Gervais - I haven't watched comedy for 2 years
I have never really followed his career with that much interest - mea culpa - so I was taken aback by just how a good a writer - and director - he is.
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 1st March 2019