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Comedian Lewis Schaffer says sex is like a black man with a bullet in his head
Lewis Schaffer – a bit like sex Last weekend. I was at one of comedian Martin Soan’s many 60th birthday parties. Yesterday, I spent all day in bed, very sweaty and slightly feverish, which might...
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Comedy duo Ellis & Rose get lecherous over Miss Behave in latex in Edinburgh
Does this man remind you of Will Shakespeare? I first met Gareth Ellis at the Edinburgh Fringe last year. He did the lighting for the increasingly prestigious Malcolm Hardee Comedy Awards Show. But he...
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How comic Lewis Schaffer tongued critic Kate Copstick – and drug tales from...
Yesterday’s Scotsman article on Lewis Schaffer maligned me Yesterday morning started when I bought a copy of The Scotsman and found a two-page feature on Lewis Schaffer under the headline I WAS BORN TO...
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Comic Arthur Smith and critic Copstick talk comedy & hard core pornography
(A version of this piece was also published on the Indian news site WSN) Moi, Arthur Smith and Kate Copstick chatted in Edinburgh A couple of weeks ago, I staged five daily hour-long chat shows in the...
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“So how many pricks have you had?” I asked comedian Martin Soan yesterday
Yesterday: e-u-n friend, Matt Roper & Martin Soan talk balls I was in my living room yesterday afternoon when I thought I heard my eternally un-named-friend say something about inflating the...
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Feminist female comedians agree there are different types of rape in Edinburgh
In the final week of the recent Edinburgh Fringe, I chaired five daily hour-long chat shows. In the fourth show, the guests were Scots comedy critic Kate Copstick (always known simply as ‘Copstick’)...
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Are men really responsible for rape if women are obviously ‘asking for it’?
My eternally-un-named friend, somewhere in the British Isles My blog yesterday – an extract from one of my chat shows at the Edinburgh Fringe in which rape was discussed – got quite a lot of reaction....
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“Fourteen year old girls in these places are total sluts mate,” said the...
The extract I posted a couple of days ago from my Edinburgh Fringe chat show – about attitudes to rape – provoked quite a few comments. Three in particular struck me as particularly illuminating, The...
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Women are not funny? … B****cks!
Martin Soan, who runs the Pull The Other One comedy club in London (and soon Leipzig) with his wife Vivienne, recently told me that he thought most of the truly original new bizarre comedy acts around...
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US comedian Lynn Ruth Miller replies to critics of that controversial ‘rape’...
Lynn Ruth Miller (left) & Kate Copstick at Fringe chat show Two Mondays ago, I posted a blog which transcribed part of one of my chat shows at the recent Edinburgh Fringe. It was a conversation...
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Fish act by Mouse made John Sessions and Chris Langham bolt at comedy icon...
Would-be bidders view horror items yesterday “Certain things are always funny,” performer Martin Soan suggested to me yesterday as we drove to an ‘Auction of Horrors’ at The Old Elephant House in...
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The night comedian Julian Clary joked that he had “fisted” politician Norman...
DAVID JOHNSON, ON WHOSE ANECDOTE THIS PARTICULAR BLOG WAS ORIGINALLY CENTRED HAS ASKED ME TO DELETE THE BLOG, WHICH I HAVE REFUSED TO DO – I THINK IT IS A FASCINATING INSIGHT INTO A VIVIDLY REMEMBERED...
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Journalist Garry Bushell talks about being accused of hating gay men
Yesterday’s original blog Yesterday’s blog started as an I think interesting piece in which theatre producer David Johnson remembered Piers Morgan at the 1993 British Comedy Awards reacting to Julian...
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Corrupt cops, sado masochist whippings & how gangster Ronnie Kray described...
Micky Fawcett in London’s Mayfair yesterday Yesterday, I had tea at the May Fair Hotel in London with Micky Fawcett whose memoir Krayzy Days has, quite rightly, been called the “definitive” book about...
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David McGillivray: from cheap sex films to horror movies, art and panto scripts
David McGillivray (left) yesterday with a Halloween ghoul David McGillivray is only a few years old than me, but I first became aware of him when I was in my late teens or early twenties and he was...
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Christmas sex as performance art. How do people live such complicated lives?
Stirred but not shaken in a coffee shop I have taken to occasionally recording people’s conversations in public places when they sound interesting. I have no defence. I could say it is sociologically...
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Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novelist’s Ex-Wife Pulls Gun From Vagina While Arguing...
Sun newspaper’s headline yesterday I try to be original in this blog and to tell short (or sometimes not-so-short) stories which have not appeared elsewhere. I was going to post a totally different...
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Why performer Juliette Burton will dress as a Muslim woman, go naked and...
Juliette Burton will cover up and strip off Next Tuesday and Wednesday, Juliette Burton is performing her 2013 Edinburgh Fringe show When I Grow Up show at the Leicester Square Theatre in London and...
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Edinburgh Fringe comedy performer Juliette Burton explains why she will be...
Juliette this weekend, preparing for her shows in Melbourne Last time British performer Juliette Burton appeared in this blog, she was heading from Adelaide to Melbourne. Now she has arrived. I talked...
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How German Polly Trope went from Britain into a US mental home and wrote her...
Yesterday, I talked to writer Polly Trope in Berlin via Skype about her book Cured Meat – Memoirs of a Psychiatric Runaway. It is dedicated: “To those I left behind“ She crowdfunded the book. The pitch...
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