John Fleming (I)
- Journalist
Press clippings Page 61
Is there a bias against US comics performing on UK TV?
This week, American comic Lewis Schaffer played his 250th show at the Source Below in Soho - London's longest-running solo comedy show. He has been playing there every Tuesday and Wednesday (and sometimes also Mondays) since well before we failed to elect a government.
John Fleming, The Huffington Post, 27th October 2011The return of the native speaker, by his writer/creator
The success of the long-running Scots-produced Rab C. Nesbitt TV series in England has always surprised me, given the extremely Scottish dialogue.
John Fleming, The Huffington Post, 5th October 2011Why the Malcolm Hardee Award is the REAL Comedy Award
I hate to be bitchy, but those other Edinburgh Fringe comedy awards - the ones that used to be called the Perrier Awards, which seem to have had almost annual name changes since then and are now, it seems, forever to be called "the former Perrier Awards" - well, Perrier must be laughing all the way to the bar... they no longer have to fork out any money but they still get their name splattered all over the media every August, associated with youth-attractive comedy...
John Fleming, Giggle Beats, 22nd August 2011Why didn't Show Me The Funny show us the funny?
Their main problem appears to be that the producers did not take the advice of their own title: Show Me The Funny.
John Fleming, Chortle, 19th July 2011