John Fleming (I)
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The untold story of Malcolm Hardee's odd wedding
I was there the day Malcolm Hardee got married and - like his funeral in 2005 - it is not an experience anyone present is ever likely to forget.
John Fleming, , 15th May 2012The origin of absurdist comedian Charlie Chuck
I was chatting to absurdist comedian Charlie Chuck this week. Or, rather, to the real person who performs as Charlie Chuck - Dave Kear. He told me he had been researching his family tree.
John Fleming, The Huffington Post, 15th May 2012How comedian Janey Godley conned Gordon Brown
Janey Godley's autobiography Handstands in the Dark mentions encounters she had with Prime Ministers Margaret Thatcher and James Callaghan. But my favourite story of hers involving a politician is about former Prime Minister Gordon Brown and it is not in the book, because it took place after the book ends and after the Trainspotting years.
John Fleming, The Huffington Post, 9th January 2012Is 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