John Fleming (I)
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Louise Reay is being sued over a show about free speech
She is being sued by her estranged husband because he objected to what he claims was in her Hard Mode show.
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 16th February 2018Akin Omobitan: How do you get into storyteling comedy?
Akin Omobitan has been performing comedy for less than two years. He performed his first gig in April 2016. It is now January 2018. He has been a finalist in the Leicester Square Theatre New Comedian of the Year contest, a semi-finalist in the prestigious So You Think You're Funny contest and been a Comedy Virgins' Max Turner Prize winner. So I had a chat with him.
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 12th January 2018BBC re-writes history by faking Eric & Ernie's story
ATV/ITV made them mega TV successes and household names with Two of a Kind (1961-1968, written by Sid Green & Dick Hills) and that TV success was 'bought' by the BBC who offered them much more money and then made their shows 1968-1977 (written by Eddie Braben). The BBC bought them because they were already ratings successes and they built on that.
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 29th December 2017How to think up a title for your very first Fringe show
First of all, think of it not from your viewpoint but from the viewpoint of the punters and the reviewers. In my opinion, you should have a title which starts in the first half of the alphabet.
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 20th December 2017Interview: Phil Jarvis of Consignia
Last Sunday, I went to Lottie Bowater's Depresstival event at The Others venue in Stoke Newington to chat to Phil Jarvis of Consignia about a gig they are performing this coming Sunday at the Bill Murray venue in Islington.
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 12th December 2017Matt Roper + the first panto in New York for 100 years
"So," I said to British performer Matt Roper in New York, "Have you ever done a pantomime before?" We were speaking via FaceTime, obviously. "Years ago," he told me, "as a 20-year-old I was in Mother Goose at the Theatre Royal, St Helens, with 'Olive' from On The Buses. Anna Karen. She was great! What a woman! She was a Soho stripper in the 1960s in London. She was deported from South Africa in the Apartheid years. She was a puppeteer at a theatre in Johannesburg and gave a private puppet show to a bunch of black kids and she was deported."
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 7th December 2017Becky Fury WON'T tell me things, WILL give a discount
Someone said to me the other week: "Becky Fury seems to know everybody." I had to agree.
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 29th November 2017Borehamwood comedy club opens in an ideal location
This Saturday, comic Philip Simon is opening the Borehamwood Comedy Club in the local Council-owned 96 venue, right slap-bang in the middle of the high street.
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 21st November 2017David Mills interview
So I had a chat with David Mills, the American comic who lives in London, and we had trouble getting fully on-subject.
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 16th November 2017Joe Wells doesn't know what he thinks, but end is nigh
Comedian Joe Wells has just released two CDs - of his two latest Edinburgh Fringe shows - 10 Things I Hate about UKIP and I Hope I Die Before I Start Voting Conservative. When I met him at the Soho Theatre Bar in London, he showed me his arm.
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 14th November 2017