#angel comedy

[thejohnfleming]

That time Malcolm Hardee stole the contents of an entire toilet...

BEWARE! Toilet humour ahead! In December 2021, Barry Ferns interviewed me for the Angel Comedy Club’s  podcast. Back in April, I posted three blogs of transcripts from that chat – largely about the changes in UK comedy since the 1980s – slightly tidied up to avoid my wittering. Rather belatedly, this is how that 2021 chat concluded… JOHN: Some really good live stage acts are not necessarily…

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[thejohnfleming]

That time I tried to persuade comic Malcolm Hardee to fake his own death

Malcolm Hardee in his iconic spectacles In December 2021, Barry Ferns interviewed me for his Angel Comedy Club’s podcast. I recently posted a couple of transcripts from the start of that chat – largely about the changes in UK comedy since the 1980s – slightly tidied up to avoid my wittering. This is how the chat continued… JOHN: The heckling at Malcolm Hardee’s clubs was often as good as the…

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[thejohnfleming]

The 1980s... when UK comedy WAS bizarre on stage and sometimes TV...

In December 2021, Barry Ferns interviewed me for the Angel Comedy Club’s  podcast. This is a transcript of the start of that chat – largely about the changes in UK comedy since the 1980s – slightly tidied up to avoid my wittering. BARRY: When did you first move furtively into the comedy industry? JOHN: Difficult to say, because I’ve done all sorts of things. Most of my working life was in…

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[rancidclaws]

friend: i think Satan was a little tipsy when he confronted God yknow me: GUESS HE DRANK TOO MUCH AMBROSIA friend: give me that party invitation back right now me: WAIT NO

[thejohnfleming]

The anarchic post modernist comedy group named after the Post Office

The anarchic post modernist comedy group named after the Post Office

The interior of Cafe Diana in London’s Notting Hill

Consignia won last year’s Alternative New Comedian of the Year title. The comedy group are Phil Jarvis, Andy Barr, Nathan Willcock and now “newcomer Jason Bridge”.

Phil and Nathan had tea with me in Cafe Diana – a culinary shrine to the late Princess of Wales, opposite the Consular Section of the Russian Embassy in London’s Notting Hill and…

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[pupperln]

NOV / 25-27

Karin hat uns einen Kurzbesuch abgestattet. Wieder hat uns unsere kulinarische Reise zu altbekannten Lieblingsplätzen geführt. Nämlich nach Indien (Dishoom), Korea (Kimchee) und in den Vietnam (Pho). Auch haben wir (ja – zum zweiten Mal diese Woche) dem Comedy Club in Angel einen Besuch abgestattet. Und weil die gute Karin bekanntlicherweise ein Tierfreund ist, wie sonst keine von uns, schien es angebracht ins Natural History Museum zu gehen. Was an einem Samstag Vormittag eine sehr schlechte Idee ist, weil man von Kindern überlaufen wird. Dennoch haben wir uns an den Vögeln und Dinosaurier-Skeletten erfreut und die restlichen Ausstellungsstücke begutachtet bevor wir zum Schal-Schaun in die Oxford Street Gegend gependelt sind. Die Schal-Schau war letzendlich erfolgreich, weshalb Karins Hals diesen Winter Gott sei Dank überstehen wird.

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Sandra

[pupperln]

Photo-Nachtrag zu Juhanis Besuch letzte Woche.

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Sandra

[becominganexplorer]

Angel Comedy Club

This is an excerpt of an independent paper I wrote on Angel Comedy Club. It’s a bit more personal but also pretty informative.