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Changing worlds: Drugs confusion in Canada. Amazing gay night in London.
Anna Smith, woman with her finger on pulse of Vancouver Two days ago, I got a message from this blog’s occasional Canadian correspondent Anna Smith, who lives on a river in Vancouver. The message said:...
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Comedy critic Kate Copstick explains her work on French porn movies
This week’s 30-minute Grouchy Club Podcast discusses porn movies, the British comedy industry and the fact that co-host Kate Copstick got gang-mugged on a bus in Kenya last week. She had been working...
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The paedophile sculptor and the image on the front of BBC Broadcasting House
(L-R) Edward Taylor, John Lloyd, Richard Edis, Jon Glover Last night, the highly-esteemed Sohemian Society held a celebration of British radio comedy, featuring producers John Lloyd (The News Quiz,...
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Giada Garofalo on terrorism, porn and comedy – but don’t mention the Mafia
On their way to Shepherd’s Bush tonight (L-R): Luca Cupani, Giacinto Palmieri, Giada Garofalo and Romina Puma Tonight, I am off to see the London-based Italian language comics of Il Puma Londinese...
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Critic Kate Copstick and the sexual alure of squeezing teenage boys’ acne spots
Kate Copstick recording the Grouchy Club podcast yesterday Yesterday, comedy critic Kate Copstick and I recorded our weekly Grouchy Club Podcast. Subjects ranged from how to get early reviews at the...
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Sex with comedian Giada Garofalo. Miss Behave tries to get money for dogging.
Giada Garofalo – maybe don’t mess with her ’Tis the season for jolly comedy performers to be previewing and thinking of ways to promote their Edinburgh Fringe shows next month. Last night, I went to...
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I talk to Kate Copstick about the smell of horses and the taste of human flesh
This evening I recorded a Grouchy podcast with Kate Copstick Tonight, I recorded this week’s Grouchy Club Podcast with comedy critic Kate Copstick. In 31 minutes, it included the growing trend of...
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The Edinburgh Fringe bog blog, toilet humour + replacement for crystal balls
Me with Copstick at yesterday’s Grouchy Club in Edinburgh Yesterday’s Grouchy Club was fairly full and, on the audio recording, not perfect with the sound of a fan – well, we actually had two fans,...
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David Beckham and a kinky sex party
Bunch of beautiful bananas photographed by Augustus Binu … and still my post-Edinburgh Fringe vagueness continues… I was walking along the high street in Borehamwood at lunchtime yesterday when I saw...
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Critic Kate Copstick exposes my sexism.
The podcast, recorded at Mama Biashara, London, yesterday Comedy critic Kate Copstick and I recorded our weekly Grouchy Club Podcast yesterday. She talked about the near-miraculously transformative...
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Hilary Clinton in drag. Warwick Davis on shortlist. “The Best Sex of Our Lives”
The last time I met Simon Jay, he talked about How To Survive Being Attacked With a Miniature Flame-Thrower For Being Gay. In other words, he was plugging his autobiography – Bastardography. “Remind...
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Prime Minister enters pig and prize winning sex worker enters politics.
Yesterday’s Daily Mail story online Yesterday, the Daily Mail alleged that Prime Minister David Cameron, when at Oxford University, put his penis into a dead pig’s severed head as part of a Piers...
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Kate Copstick’s Kenya: underwear, circumcision and marrying a Moslem
Some of the Kenyan children helped by Mama Biashara charity Yesterday’s blog was about comedy critic Kate Copstick’s Kenyan charity Mama Biashara, which helps local women and others with seed money and...
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Dear Sir, I am looking for information how to participating as comedian
One of the joys of life is getting e-mails from people I don’t know. For example, yesterday I got an email: Dear Sir/Madam I am looking for information how to participating as comedian in a solo show...
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Comedy critic Kate Copstick teaches me about beautiful male and feline genitalia
Copstick in Mama Biashara after the Grouchy Club Podcast Yesterday afternoon, with Kate Copstick newly returned to London from Kenya, we recorded our weekly Grouchy Club Podcast. Because there was a...
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In praise of Randy Quaid, Lynn Ruth Miller & the oddly salacious Daily Mail
Lynn Ruth Miller with a friend in Montenegro. (Photograph by Marat Abdrakhmanov) I pride myself in taking an interest in quirky real-life events. Yesterday’s blog was about 80-something performer Lynn...
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In rainy Montenegro, Lynn Ruth Miller prefers vodka to sex advice from Israelis
Lynn Ruth Miller, after the rain, in Montenegro (Photograph by Marat Abdrakhmanov) In this blog, in the last couple of days, I have included missives from American performer Lynn Ruth Miller in...
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A comedy award winner in tights; fifth Fisting Day; and confused linguistics.
Last night, my comedy year was completed when I went to The Spectacular Spectrum of Now (image above) – Cassie Atkinson and Neil Frost’s quarterly show in London’s King’s Cross. It was billed as a...
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David Beckham and a kinky sex party
Bunch of beautiful bananas photographed by Augustus Binu … and still my post-Edinburgh Fringe vagueness continues… I was walking along the high street in Borehamwood at lunchtime yesterday when I saw...
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Critic Kate Copstick exposes my sexism.
The podcast, recorded at Mama Biashara, London, yesterday Comedy critic Kate Copstick and I recorded our weekly Grouchy Club Podcast yesterday. She talked about the near-miraculously transformative...
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