Becky Fury’s erotic hypnotism and her Fringe show on why she is British-ISH
Malcolm Hardee Award winning performer Becky Fury’s latest Edinburgh Fringe comedy show British-ish opens in the Just the Club Room at Just The Tonic Legends on Friday. When we met for a chat,...
View ArticleWas it gentrification that started killing off Canada’s strip clubs…?
(Photo by Samantha Craggs/CBC) Yesterday I received an email from Canada. I have, over the years, posted memories from this blog’s very own occasional Canadian correspondent Anna Smith. They have been...
View ArticleHow Don Cullen, a Canadian cultural icon, ran a striptease club – Part 3 of 3
Dave Hughes concludes his story (which started HERE) of his friendship with future Canadian cultural icon Don Cullen who owned and ran the Le Strip ‘burlesque’ club in Toronto in the 1980s and 1990s… A...
View ArticleHow playing cricket created the British Empire… via evading sex…
(image by Yogendra Singh via UnSplash) Cricket is basically a non-contact sport in which a school-gang-sized number of men stand around well-distanced from each other dressed in white doing very...
View ArticleDo British doctors actually understand female anatomy…?
My opinion of the Britain’s National Health Service, from experience, is that, like all large bureaucracies, it is an utter, incompetent mess. But my opinion of doctors and nurses working within the...
View ArticleThings to eat in Brussels, Belgium…
News reaches me in London from far-off Europe that, if you are ever hungry in Brussels, there are multiple options… The official Brussels travel website has one suggestion… and that option is...
View ArticleDan Harary (Part 2): Seinfeld, sex and party night at the Playboy Mansion…
In yesterday’s blog, I chatted to US publicity guru Dan Harary, who is publishing four books between now and next Spring. Last month saw the publication of Flirting With Fame: : A Hollywood Publicist...
View ArticlePR, lateral thinking, political porn and Channel 5 TV’s new Tractor World…
A tractor attracter… Even if you are on painkillers and muscle relaxant drugs for a sore spine/hip/leg/ankle… when you get an email from an unknown person called Xander with the heading TRACTORS: BIG,...
View ArticleHow come the only thing I knew about actress Sarah Bernhardt was her leg?
…The answer is because, of course, my ignorance knows no bounds. I was on a train in London yesterday, reading the latest issue of the Camden New Journal. It had an article headlned The Divine Sarah –...
View ArticleAriane Sherine wants to live to 100 and write 100 books, starting with this one
Ariane Sherine has had a busy week. It’s her birthday. And she released the first episode of her weekly podcast Love Sex Intelligence. And she has published her first novel, Shitcom, about two male TV...
View ArticleThe oddity of no sex north of London
This morning my chum, writer and songstress Ariane Sherine, Tweeted about the oddity of London postcodes. There are SW (south west) postcodes, SE (south east), postcodes, NW (north west) ones but no...
View ArticleAdam Wilder on the importance of togetherness, empathy and compassion
Adam juggling spaghetti in Edinburgh, 2011 So I had a chat last month (I am only just catching up) with Adam Wilder (previously aka Adam Oliver, previously Adam Taffler). We first met at the Edinburgh...
View ArticleJohn F is no more. He is transitioning.
It all started at St Pancras station… So I was having tea with a chum at St Pancras station in London and somehow the subject of ‘transitioning’ and trans-gender came up. I can’t remember why and I...
View ArticleWhat it’s like to be gay in Kenya today…
The below is from journalist Kate Copstick‘s ongoing diary in Kenya, where her Mama Biashara charity is based… Cologne Pride, 2015… a banner with the flags of 72 countries where homosexuality is...
View ArticleThe man who made equipment for Brenda the dearly-departed dominatrix
John knew the drill for the Malcolm Hardee Award Eccentric inventor John Ward designed and made the trophies for the Malcolm Hardee Comedy Awards at the Edinburgh Fringe. He can turn his creative mind...
View ArticleThe greatest hits and the Jungian psychology of a London dominatrix
So I know this dominatrix. Not professionally. On Friday, we had a chat in London, at McDonalds in The Strand. Outside, Extinction Rebellion protesters were blocking traffic in the street. JOHN: So you...
View ArticleBecky Fury + the creepy clown sex cult
As if she had not suffered enough, Becky risked all by travelling on a rare Thameslink train So I got an email from Malcolm Hardee Award winning comic Becky Fury. It read: “Do you want to do a blog...
View ArticleDavid McGillivray’s autobiography: if you are in it, be afraid… be very afraid
David McGillivray has been described as “the Truffaut of smut” and (by Jonathan Ross) as “a comedy legend”. He has appeared in this blog at various times – in 2015 touting Trouser Bar, his film of an...
View ArticleAre the Facebook PC police about to ban me because of my sexually risqué name?
I have a Facebook account in my own name – John Thomas Fleming. On it I post links to articles which I think are interesting and/or funny. The Daily Mash is a satirical British website. Today I tried...
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