A tale of two Fringes...
But the only predictable thing about Edinburgh is its unpredictability, writes John Fleming
16/02/2011 … A lot of people have been asking me about performing on the Fringe for the first time this year.
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Wed 16 February 2011
Thu 10 February 2011
You don't have to be paranoid to work here...
Dave Cohen on the curse of the comedian
10/02/2011 … If I had to describe the ten years I spent as a working stand-up in and around the Eighties using just one word, what would it be? An impossible task, but I reckon…
Wed 02 February 2011
Birth of a comedy scene
02/02/2011 … I did a run of gigs in Croatia last week, for the second time in two months – not expat gigs, but in front of locals on the new, if small, comedy circuit developing…
Tue 01 February 2011
Oh teenagers, Inbetweeners isn't *meant* to be for you...
Nick Page on the arrogance of youth...
01/02/2011 … I love the arrogance of teenagers – like Alex Green writing on these pages yesterday – who assume shows like The Inbetweeners are aimed at them just because…
Mon 31 January 2011
In defence of racist jokes
John Fleming sticks up for Bernard Manning
31/01/2011 … I once put on a show at the Hackney Empire theatre in London where a top-name comic refused to introduce or be on stage with comedian Jimmy Carr because, in the…
Tue 25 January 2011
The tragedy of great sitcoms
25/01/2011 … One night last year, I sat through an entire evening of BBC3 comedy – four programmes – without a single smile.
Jerry Sadowitz: More than just nigger jokes
Gavin Allen enters the heart of darkness
25/01/2011 … Have you ever seen a magician saw a woman in half?One has to wonder at the sick mind that invented that illusion; dismemberment as entertainment with an added gush…