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Why 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 2018Who was Stanley Unwin?
In 1980, I wrote an article, based on interviews, for Marvel Comics' Starburst magazine about the little-remembered 1969 Gerry Anderson series The Secret Service.
The lead role was played both by the 'real' live version and by a puppet version of eccentric performer and 'professor' of gobbledegook Stanley Unwin.
The series only lasted for 13 episodes. ATV/ITC boss Lew Grade apparently thought the Americans would have trouble understanding 'Unwinese'.
In the next two days, I will be posting my 1980 article on The Secret Service as a two-parter.
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 12th March 2018Douglas Adams talks. Part 4
After Parts One, Two and Three, the final part of my 1980 interview with Douglas Adams...
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 8th March 2018Douglas Adams talks. Part 3
In Part 1 and Part 2 of this 1980 interview, Douglas Adams told me about how the radio, stage and book versions of The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy came into being. In Part 3 (of 4), he talks about how the TV and movie versions did and did not happen.
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 7th March 2018Douglas Adams talks. Part 2
In yesterday's blog, Douglas Adams talked about his life before success. Today, the interview continues. I talked to him for Marvel Comics in 1980.
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 6th March 2018Douglas Adams talks. Part 1
In 1980, I interviewed writer Douglas Adams for Marvel Comics. The result was published as a two-part piece in the March and April 1981 issues of their Starburst magazine. I am republishing the interview in four parts in this blog. Here is Part One...
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 5th March 2018Mr Twonkey pays tribute to Ivor Cutler
Influences are always interesting. Malcolm Hardee Comedy Award winner Paul Vickers is currently preparing for his new show - Twonkey's Night Train to Liechtenstein - at the Glasgow Comedy Festival next Friday (9th March). Paul performs as Mr Twonkey, definitely one of the more eccentric acts in British comedy. He reminded me that today (3rd March) is the anniversary of the death in 2006 of Ivor Cutler - Scottish poet, songwriter, humorist and arguably the eccentric performers' eccentric.
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 3rd March 2018Worldwide comments on Louise Reay's husband court case
I don't think the current court case could easily be the subject of some future TV documentary. More a TV sitcom.
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 22nd February 2018