Edinburgh Free Festival boss on the Cowgatehead fiasco
“This year, the Edinburgh Fringe Programme will make the Minoan labyrinth seem like the open plains of the Serengeti (and contain more rogue animals) because of the ongoing Cowgatehead affair. As a result of it, acts are going to be performing in different venues at different times to where/when they are billed. Or not at all.”
Women on panel shows
“They go up on stage and you can see the whole room going: Oh, fuck! It’s going to be tampons and ‘my boyfriend’. And then the comic has got to pull the room back and that is just the way things are.”
Jim Davidson on being ‘racist, sexist, homophobic’
“When Bernard Manning died, they had to have someone else. Someone said to me: Jim, you’re the bad guy, because it makes other people better by default.”
Comedy awards: how they start, how they get credible & where they may lead
Comedy awards seem to be a growing industry. In my blog a couple of days ago, Brian Damage and Vicky de Lacy mentioned that, at the Edinburgh Fringe one year, they had given a Derriere Award in competition with the then Perrier Award. I have been giving my own increasingly prestigious Malcolm Hardee Comedy Awards […]
Opinion: How TV comedy is changing…
“I was at the London School of Economics last night for an event called Comedy As Commentary…”
Opinion: Is the future of British comedy online?
This morning, I was on a panel as part of Dave’s Leicester Comedy Festival– ‘Dave’ being the UK TV channel which sponsors the festival.
Opinion: What comedy club owner Noel Faulkner really thinks of the comedy business.
Yesterday Noel Faulkner, Irish owner of London’s Comedy Cafe in London’s trendy Shoreditch, left for two weeks sailing off the west coast of Ireland. Before he left, he told me what he really thinks of the state of the current comedy business in the UK.
