John Fleming (I)
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Steve Best: The photographer comedian
Comedian Steve Best is going to publish his third book of photographs this summer. His two previous books - Comedy Snapshot in 2014 and Joker Face in 2017 - comprised photographs of comedians plus brief anecdotes/jokes. The new book - Comedians - is a big departure.
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 30th March 2022Stories of legendary UK comic Jimbo...
This week, esteemed comic Noel James posted an announcement about a last minute act appearing on the bill at his Cafe Play club in Mumbles, Swansea, Wales, this Saturday, 6th November. The act is the legendary and sadly not widely-enough fêted UK comic Jimbo (not to be confused with Australian comic Jimbo Bazoobi). The news on Facebook of our British Jimbo's booking elicited a fair number of comments, almost entirely from other comedians.
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 1st November 2021Mr Twonkey interview
Twonkey's greatest Twitch, Princess Margaret and the pub quiz mafia...
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 15th October 2021Nathan Lang interview
The Covid pandemic, a wolf daughter and three Big Wowies...
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 11th October 2021Njambi McGrath interview
Accidental Coconut changed its title for radio to Becoming Njambi: "Because Radio 4 said: 'If you use that term on radio, referring to yourself, other people may think it's OK to use that derogatory term.'"
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 20th September 2021R.I.P. author/comic Lynn Ruth Miller...
Regular readers will know of the unique, seemingly indefatigable and gloriously multi-talented US comic Lynn Ruth Miller, an occasional and much-admired contributor to this blog.
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 8th September 2021Several comics and journalists all struck with illness
Mark Dean Quinn has been hospitalised by a stroke and was paralysed down one side; London-based Italian performer Joe Palermo has had a heart attack; Lynn Ruth Miller had what she calls a "mild" heart attack last week, and was later told she had inoperable oesophageal cancer; and John Fleming has been struck with vertigo.
John Flemning, John Fleming's Blog, 19th July 2021John Ryan interview
"Most comedy is about the self-indulgent egos of the performers."
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 10th July 2021Ariane Sherine wants to live to 100 and write 100 books
Ariane Sherine has had a busy week. It's her birthday. And she released the first episode of her weekly podcast Love Sex Intelligence. And she has published her first novel, Shitcom, about two male TV sitcom writers. She knows that about which she writes. She has been a writer on BBC TV's Two Pints Of Lager And A Packet Of Crisps and on My Family. She claims Shitcom is her first book, although she has previously published The Atheist's Guide to Christmas, Talk Yourself Better and How To Live To 100.
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 3rd July 2021The seemingly irresistible rise of Janey Godley
Some people are just unstoppable. Janey Godley's autobiography Handstands in the Dark (a bestseller in 2005 and 2006) is published for the first time as an audio book today and she appears yet again as a panellist on BBC1's Have I Got News For You tomorrow night.
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 27th May 2021