Tag Archives: edinburgh fringe
TV success or total creative satisfaction? The eternal choice facing comedians.
My blog yesterday was about when performers should just give up because they are not going to ‘make it’. Someone criticised me for apparently setting the choice up as: Appear on TV or fail. That is not quite the situation, … Continue reading
Filed under Celebrity, Comedy, Television
Malcolm Hardee Award nominee James Hamilton aims to prove comedy critic Kate Copstick wrong by writing weirder
At the Edinburgh Fringe last year, writer/performer/producer James Hamilton was nominated for the Malcolm Hardee Award for Comic Originality. One of the judges for the Malcolm Hardee Awards is doyenne of Fringe comedy critics Kate Copstick. James runs a comedy sketch group called Casual … Continue reading
Edinburgh Fringe becomes laughing stock as comedians & critics turn on it
(This was also published in the Huffington Post) Last week, I wrote a blog about this year’s extraordinarily heavy-handed and draconian censoring of the £400 Edinburgh Fringe Programme entries. (Performers pay almost £400 to get a meagre 40 word listing … Continue reading
Filed under Comedy, Language, Censorship
How to organise a comedy competition without ever actually meeting people
In 2005 or 2007 (it depends how you define it) I started the Malcolm Hardee Comedy Awards at the Edinburgh Fringe. So I am interested in how other people start such things. Funny’s Funny, for example, is “an organisation run … Continue reading
Comedian Lewis Schaffer’s strange offer of Edinburgh Fringe show sponsorship
Yesterday, I blogged about problems over free shows at the Edinburgh Fringe and quoted one of the most prominent free performers, London-based American comedian Lewis Schaffer. He crops up in quite a few of my blogs. I like to have … Continue reading
Filed under Comedy, PR, Sponsorship
The transvestite corrupt police officer + a comic cycling to the Edinburgh Fringe
A couple of days ago, a car knocked comedian Martin Soan off his bicycle in a road just south of Tower Bridge in London. The car did not stop. I saw Martin last night. He said he was “OK apart … Continue reading
The eccentric UK cult of the Kibbo Kift Kindred & the Greenshirts of the 1930s
I was at the Edinburgh Fringe in 1976 (yes, I am that old) but sadly I did not go to see a rock musical called The Kibbo Kift at the Traverse Theatre which was, as far as I can remember, at that … Continue reading
Filed under Eccentrics, History, Politics
