John Fleming (I)

Interview: Jim Davidson

Jim Davidson on being "racist, sexist, homophobic" - and Operation Yewtree.

The improvisers who ended up with scripted success

"I'm not sure it can get much better than this," Charlie Russell told me yesterday. "We're all very early on in our careers and to perform in a show where we have artistic input... AND it's in the West End... AND it's your best mates... That is good. I'm enjoying it while I've got it."

The Play That Goes Wrong opened at The Duchess Theatre this September and has now had its run extended until at least next September.

Comedians: humorous or humorless? Me: terrible audience

I always tend to say all comedians are barking mad. If I were more PC, I might say they were "psychologically interesting". Which they certainly are.

A desperate blog with Matt Roper

"I am a desperate man," I told comedian Matt Roper, who has been living in my spare room for the last few weeks (with my knowledge).

Comedy competitions, awards & reviews: a matter of luck

As any regular reader of this blog knows, I try not to review shows. That just leads to people unleashing verbal abuse on me in later months and years. So I really do not know why I agree to be a judge on award shows. I think I have been on two - it might have been three - this year.

Crowdfunding a UK sci-fi comedy movie

Bob Pipe was talking to me about raising money for his feature film project The Day They Came to Suck Out Our Brains!

Chris Dangerfield on Dapper Laughs: victim of jealousy?

"Look, I don't give a shit about the bullshit personal private greedy agendas of these liberal f***s who draw arbitrary lines to serve their own agendas - and that's what they've done. That's why they're not talking about Russell Brand, Doug Stanhope, Bill Burr. But Dapper Laughs - some working class shitbag from nowhere who has said a couple of pretty unfunny things - he's a target. He hasn't said anything anywhere near as 'bad' as any of that other lot. I don't care what they say, myself. I love it. But, if you look at the criteria these people have used when talking about Dapper Laughs, then these people - Brand, Stanhope, Burr - are far 'worse'. It's all bullshit."

Lewis Schaffer on Dapper Laughs + offensive jokes

"Whether what Dapper Laughs said was good or bad, I think the reason other comedians picked on him was because they were jealous of him: that he had not worked his way up through the ranks, that he called himself a comedian."

Richard Coughlan: drugs, Doug Stanhope & death threats

"At the risk," said Richard, "of sounding like a bitter and twisted old bastard about not being famous, if I can get someone to kill me, then people will think: Oh, he must have been brilliant. Let's look at all his old shit on the internet."

Richard Coughlan has been hung up on hooks

"I've been wanting to do it for about ten years. I've got a lot of tattoos and I used to have lots of piercings but I'm crap with piercings."