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Interview: Comic poet Steve From Up North
Steve Taylor - aka 'Steve From Up North' - was last mentioned in this blog in October 2011. I think he was given his geographical nickname by the late comic Malcolm Hardee. In fact, Steve is from the North West of England.
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 8th July 2018John Dowie interview
John Dowie on Bowie, Bolan, bicycles, drinking, drugs, poetry, prose and book.
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 3rd July 2018Interview: Maggy Whitehouse, part two
Yesterday's blog was a chat with Maggy Whitehouse, stand-up comedian and freelance vicar/priest. It was intended to be about her comedy, but strayed into religion... Here it continues...
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 30th June 2018Interview: Maggy Whitehouse
Maggy Whitehouse bills herself as a "Maverick priest, comedian and author who believes in an All-Inclusive Loving Beingness that also kicks ass."
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 29th June 2018Why's Akin Omobitan started a blog called It Dies Here?
Akin Omobitan interview.
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 21st June 2018Why BGT finalist Robert White has such wide appeal
It seemed the right time to ask him why he seems to have such a wide appeal.
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 2nd June 2018Lynn Ruth Miller interview
Last week, I had a chat with 84-year-old, London-based, American comedian Lynn Ruth Miller - the thinking senior citizen's crumpet - whose upcoming schedule of gigs includes Prague, Dublin, Berlin, Paris, various cities in the US, Manila, Jakarta, Shanghai, Singapore, Hong Kong, Hanoi, Bangkok and, she says, "probably somewhere in Cambodia".
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 1st May 2018Why Robert White went on BGT & what comedy's taught him
Robert White won the Malcolm Hardee Award for Comic Originality at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2010 (beating Bo Burnham and Dr Brown). He claims to be - and I think no-one is going to dispute this - the only gay, dyslexic, quarter-Welsh, Aspergic, web-toed comedian working on the UK comedy circuit.
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 25th April 2018Martin Soan sells bits of comedy history
Martin Soan's comedy club Pull The Other One has been running for eleven years in South East London but is closing in June this year.
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 10th April 2018Kate Copstick on radical feminists & Nazi saluting dogs
Recently, Copstick was approached Alfie Noakes of the We Are Funny project to stage an event titled Is Radical Feminism Killing Comedy? which had been scheduled at another venue but that venue cancelled the show because of objections by what Copstick yesterday called 'The Ladies of the Left'... 'The Sisters'.
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 27th March 2018