Computer-generated image: an even older me Today, a chum of mine asked ChatGPT about John Fleming… John Fleming (1947-2019) was a British blogger, comedy promoter, and talent scout… Read More

The BBC ignored the slight visual differences between John Ward (left) and Tina Turner… (Photograph of Tina Turner by Philip Spittle via Wikipedia) Singer Tina Turner died this week… Read More

What is the net worth of Julia Masli, the clown girlfriend of BGT 2023 winner Viggo Venn? She became popular online after cheering her boyfriend on in the audience at the final of the BGT Sh… Read More

ITV’s Tiswas – Good clean family fun I was a researcher on the final series of anarchic Saturday morning ITV children’s show Tiswas. It had been going for years at the poi… Read More

A week ago, I posted a blog was about mad inventor and Malcolm Hardee Comedy Awards designer John Ward’s interest in guns.  (John Ward would like it pointed out he is not actuall… Read More

I received this recent anecdote from John Ward, designer of the Malcolm Hardee Comedy Awards. It was a much normal day as such – weather atrocious outside – so I made myself b… Read More

John Ward in a photograph where it is probably best if you supply your own caption… I first worked with mad inventor John Ward – designer of the Malcolm Hardee Comedy Awards &n… Read More

This morning, a month after this year’s cut-down-by-Covid Edinburgh Fringe finished, the 2021 Malcolm Hardee Cunning Stunt Award winner was announced. Yes, a month after it fini… Read More

The late, out-standing comic Malcolm Hardee. The final increasingly prestigious Malcolm Hardee Comedy Awards Show took place in the ballroom of Edinburgh’s Counting House. The winners… Read More

Mad inventor John Ward has an ever-fertile mind. He designed the Malcolm Hardee Comedy Awards and is a regular contributor to the Daily Mail’s letters column. A few weeks ago, he ment… Read More

I stumbled on a YouTube video a few days ago.  It was of Orson Welles chatting on The Dick Cavett Show half a century ago, on 14th May 1970. I always thought Welle… Read More

Ian Wolf is a man with a plan I am posting this on April Fool’s Day. But it is after midday, so all that follows is true. And today is also CLAMP Day.  Next year, on 1… Read More

John Ward with some of the Malcolm Hardee Awards for Comedy which he designed and made I got an email today from John Ward – mad inventor of eccentricities and designer of the Malcolm… Read More

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 cr… Read More

#JusticeForObonjo ! BBC TV has a track record for simply stealing ideas. Kate Copstick, doyenne of UK comedy critics agrees: “They do have a bit of a rep for being sticky-fingered.&rd… Read More

Copstick & the seldom-seen real Benjamin Bankole Bello As previously mentioned here,  BBC Studios and E4 (part of Channel 4) have ripped-off Benjamin Bankole Bello’s well-esta… Read More