John Fleming (I)
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Janey Godley on social media and Turkish men
Janey published her jaw-dropping best-selling autobiography Handstands in The Dark in 2005 and also started blogging regularly in early 2005. So, during the podcast, we talked about her widespread social media presence.
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 3rd October 2015Luca Cupani almost joined the French Foreign Legion
"Part of the prize for winning So You Think You're Funny?" Luca told me, "is to go to Montreal and appear in a showcase for British comedy and I will have the spot as the up-and-coming British comedian."
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 1st October 2015Paul Boyd: from Molly Wobbly to the Tower of London
My chum comedienne Janey Godley's weekly podcast has a new signature tune from today, written by the wildly prolific Paul Boyd. "It's the same tune," he told me yesterday at the Tower of London, "I just brushed it up a bit, because I thought: They've had it for five years now. I didn't want to have an outcry from all her fans if I changed it too much."
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 30th September 2015Juliette Burton is a lesbian SuperMum who reads erotica
Tomorrow night sees the big-screen premiere of the short SuperMum at the Vue cinema in London's Leicester Square - part of the Raindance Film Festival. It stars comedy performer Juliette Burton in the title role.
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 29th September 2015iScream - Jo Burke on stage and page
Creative life can be very confusing. This Saturday, Jo Burke is performing her Edinburgh Fringe show iScream at the Museum of Comedy in London.
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 28th September 2015Comedy performer Louise Reay and her rather large wig?
Sandra Smith, this blog's South Coast correspondent, gets about a bit. And comedy performer Louise Reay has a lot of hair.
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 26th September 2015Michael Brunström likes to do things he is not good at
The annual Malcolm Hardee Awards are given to individuals. At the Edinburgh Fringe last month, Michael Brunström won the Malcolm Hardee Award for Comic Originality. His show was titled The Golden Age of Steam and, this week, he performed it at the Museum of Comedy in London - which was arranged after he won the award.
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 25th September 2015Diane Spencer gave birth to a giant dwarf
Yesterday afternoon, I had tea with comedian Diane Spencer at Soho Theatre in London, to talk about the recording next Tuesday of Diane Spencer: Power Tool, her sixth hour-long show (at the Backyard Comedy club in Bethnal Green). We got diverted from the subject, though it started off OK.
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 8th September 2015Now Peckham have absurdist comedians
Michael Brunström won the increasingly prestigious main Malcolm Hardee Award for Comic Originality at the recent Edinburgh Fringe but, by the time it was awarded, he had finished his run and was back in London. So I gave him the trophy last night.
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 4th September 2015Death, reviewers, pigs, ham-fistedness & drink
Reviews, of course, are both the dream and the nightmare of performers at the Fringe and some of the fly-by-night publications employ (unpaid) youngsters who are barely literate, let alone knowledgable.
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 31st August 2015