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Chris Dangerfield on his unique 'missus' and his current life in Cambodia...
Chris Daangerfield and his ‘missus’ in Phnom Penh, Cambodia… The last couple of blogs have been me chatting to the admirably individualistic Chris Dangerfield, who is plugging his new semi-autobiographical novel Love in the time of Nudie Mags and who is planning to move into the jungle with his lady friend. Now read on… JOHN: So where are you living at the moment? In Phnom Penh or rural…
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Chris Dangerfield on the perils of vanity publishers and movie scriptwriting...
In yesterday’s blog, online from his current home in Cambodia, Chris Dangerfield was plugging his new novel Love in the time of Nudie Mags. We chatted about more than that, though… JOHN: You mentioned you wrote a novel when you were around 23 years old. CHRIS: Yes. Tired, etc. I wrote that on a quarter ounce of sulphate and chain-smoking blunts when I was at Leeds University. The internet was…
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Chris Dangerfield - from Cold Turkey to Love in the time of Nudie Mags...
So I got a WhatsApp call from a number starting +855. I looked up +855. It’s the code for Cambodia. So, of course, I was going to ignore it – I have had enough offers of million dollar windfalls – but the person had left a voice message and I listened to that. It was Chris Dangerfield, a stalwart of this blog a few years ago. He once told me he enjoyed reading my blogs about the chats we had but…
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Christmas in Cambodia with former comic and addict Chris Dangerfield
Christmas in Cambodia with former comic and addict Chris Dangerfield
The always-controversial businessman and former comedian Chris Dangerfield has not cropped up in this blog for a while. He now lives in Cambodia. Things have turned out OK for him. When the weather is suitable, he wears $2,000 suits and $600 shoes. We spoke via Skype. As always, blogs involving Chris are not for the faint-hearted reader. JOHN: Here we are in the middle of a world-wide economic…
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“Frenzied tit grabbing in Wetherspoons” after throat-slitting at the Grouchy Club
“Frenzied tit grabbing in Wetherspoons” after throat-slitting at the Grouchy Club
Yesterday, performer Samantha Pressdee posted in Facebook: “Frenzied tit grabbing in Wetherspoons, all in the name of feminism, is where last night’s Grouchy Club wound up.”
Critic Kate Copstick and I run The Grouchy Club. This was originally conceived by me as a one-hour chat show for the Edinburgh Fringewhere I would not have to do any advance work – boring things like booking guests and…
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Chris Dangerfield - detained with a quarter ounce of heroin in his mouth
Chris Dangerfield – detained with a quarter ounce of heroin in his mouth
Dangerfield – a man, a mouth, a shining light
A few days ago, I posted a blog about performer Chris Dangerfield getting ‘clean’ from heroin by spending time in a Thai brothel. Our chat was shortened for length. Below is part of what I cut out. It refers to a time before he was ‘clean’.
“There is no heroin in Patong,” Chris told me.
“Why not?” I asked.
“Because Thai people don’t have a lot of…
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This conversation with two comedians really happened and I don’t even drink
This conversation with two comedians really happened and I don’t even drink
Brian Simpson/Lewis Schaffer (left) & Martin Soan yesterday
Yesterday’s rather self-indulgent blog was about my rail trip to see comic Martin Soan at his home in Nunhead, London. Also there was Brian Simpson, the English character actor who performs as the New York Jewish comic Lewis Schaffer. We chatted…
BRIAN John, is this really the end of the line for your daily blog?
JOHN On the 31st of…
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