John Fleming (I)
- Journalist
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How publicists can lose you an Fringe award nomination
The story was picked-up yesterday by comedy industry website Chortle - as part of a list of false publicity claims by various performers - which reported re Cally Beaton that: "The press release for her delightfully named show Super Cally Fragile Lipstick boasts that she won the 'Malcolm Hardee First Minute Award', last year. Today, Chortle has a piece which includes the suicidal lines: "Comedian Cally Beaton also felt that she had ended up on the list through no fault of her own... Her publicist said they were told Beaton had won a 'First Minute Award at the Malcolm Hardee Awards."
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 26th July 2017Arthur Smith interview
Comic Arthur Smith, an Edinburgh Fringe regular spanning two centuries, is only going up for three days this year, to perform his legendary Arthur Smith Sings Leonard Cohen show - re-titled Arthur Smith Sings Leonard Cohen - The Final Tribute.
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 24th July 2017Feeling slightly happier with Nathan Cassidy
When I talked to comedian Nathan Cassidy/ in a Haggerston cafe, he told me he had just been asked to audition for Puppetry of the Penis, the globe-trotting performance group who specialise in penile origami.
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 23rd July 2017Editing your script & not being invisible at the Fringe
If you fancy yourself as a wordsmith on stage or screen, my advice is to write as little dialogue as possible.
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 15th July 2017A Malcolm Hardee stunt: the legend & the truth
Malcolm was famous for his stunts at the Fringe. One of the most famous was writing a review of his own show which he conned The Scotsman newspaper into publishing in 1989.
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 14th July 2017Lewis Schaffer and the unopened letters from his mother
The penultimate time I saw London-based American comedian Lewis Schaffer, he was touting a show in a venue "near Leicester Square" in which the audience had to turn up at a corner of the square and be led to a highly secret venue.
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 8th July 2017Rich Hardcastle interview
Rich Hardcastle has photographed comedians for 25 years.
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 6th July 2017Dick pic etiquette with Becky Fury
At The Grouchy Club both three months ago and two months ago, there was gossip about a Scottish male comedian who had allegedly sent offensive unsolicited text messages and photos - 'dick pics' - to various younger female comedians. The story was not discussed at this month's Grouchy Club, but resurfaced as a front-page story in the Scottish Daily Record and was then picked up by the English Daily Mirror and the English Sun last Saturday. Unconnected to the above, I know other female comedians who have received 'dick pics' from male comics. So I thought: Who do I know who is likely to talk about this subject ON the record? Well, obviously, Malcolm Hardee Comedy Award winning Becky Fury.
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 29th June 2017Paul Vickers to write play about David Lynch
So I had a chat with Mr Twonkey aka Paul Vickers at King's Cross station in London. He was on his way back home to Edinburgh. Last year, he won the increasingly prestigious Malcolm Hardee Award for Comic Originality at the Edinburgh Fringe.
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 22nd June 2017Tit grabbing & throat-slitting at the Grouchy Club
Yesterday, performer Samantha Pressdee posted in Facebook: "Frenzied tit grabbing in Wetherspoons, all in the name of feminism, is where last night's Grouchy Club wound up."
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 15th June 2017