John Fleming (I)
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Interview: Mr Twonkey
"Why are we meeting?" I asked Paul Vickers aka Mr Twonkey, surrealist performer and winner of the 2016 increasingly prestigious Malcolm Hardee Award for Comic Originality.
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 25th January 2017Consignia: the anarchic post modernist comedy group
Consignia won last year's Alternative New Comedian of the Year title. The comedy group are Phil Jarvis, Andy Barr, Nathan Willcock and now "newcomer Jason Bridge".
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 23rd January 2017Queer As Jokes: new LGBT comedy night starting
So, this Sunday, I am going to a new monthly LGBT comedy night - Queer As Jokes - at Angel Comedy's Bill Murray venue in London. The evening is being organised by Simon Caine, who runs the comedy industry Facebook group The Comedy Collective and the interview-based Ask The Industry Podcast.
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 21st January 2017Simon Jay on the inauguration of the OTHER Donald Trump
For about nine months, Simon Jay has been getting noticed for his one-man show Trumpageddon in which he riffs as the esteemed President Elect, who gets inaugurated this Friday. "Are you doing anything to celebrate?" I asked Simon via Skype this morning. "I'm going to go on Facebook Live," he told me, "and, at 5.00pm (UK time), as you watch the inauguration on TV, you'll be able to hear his thoughts streamed via Facebook Live - as voiced by me."
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 18th January 2017Malcolm Hardee, squatters and the Cunning Stunt
In November and December last year, I posted a series of blogs about the late comic Malcolm Hardee's former floating pub/comedy club The Wibbley Wobbley. There were squatters living on board in November.
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 14th January 2017Why the Counting House is now free from ballooning fees
"My understanding," I said to Alex Petty, "is that the bar did not take as much money under the Gilded Balloon at last year's Fringe as it had at previous Fringes under the Free Festival. And the Gilded Balloon did not take as much money from the shows as they expected."
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 13th January 2017Malcolm Hardee: the Wibbley Wobbley venue, RIP
A few weeks ago, I posted a couple of blogs about the late comedian Malcolm Hardee's floating pub/venue The Wibbley Wobbley being removed from Greenland Dock to South Dock Marina in Rotherhithe and then, on 14th December, being taken away from there to be scrapped. To round off this sad story tale, coincidental confirmation came from comic Sinead Wheeler.
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 31st December 2016How I helped create fake US comic Lewis Schaffer
Brian Simpson, the English character comedian who performs as American comic Lewis Schaffer, was a massive fan of Tiswas, the slapstick children's TV show I used to work on. He was born and bred in Brownhills.
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 26th December 2016Wibbley Wobbley floating venue - reportedly scrapped
Last Sunday, I posted a blog about the fate of late comedian Malcolm Hardee's former floating bar/venue the Wibbley Wobbley. It got a response from Jody VandenBurg on Wednesday. He is making a long-in-production documentary on Malcolm: All The Way From Over There.
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 17th December 2016Janey Godley is accused of having a secret life
My comic chum Janey Godley, whose latest London show was the subtly-titled Donald Trump Is A Cunt, has already incurred the Orange wrath of deranged Rangers fans. Now she tells me that - before one of her recent shows in Paisley - a man was handing out sheets of paper to members of her audience.
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 16th December 2016