Last year, comic/photographer Steve Best published Comedians, an extraordinarily classy collection of his photos of, you guessed it, comedians. Now he is about to publish a sequ… Read More

Presidents Trump and Obonjo in happier times… Benjamin/Obonjo as himself this morning Malcolm Hardee Award winning British comedian Benjamin Bankole Bello has been performing as f… 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

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

Highly unlikely to ever want to rest in peace… Yesterday’s blog was about the travails of this year’s Malcolm Hardee Awards Show at the Edinburgh Fringe. The show was can… Read More

(Photo from The Prisoner episode 4: Free For All) About a month ago, Malcolm Hardee Comedy Award designer John Ward got in touch with me about cult TV series The Prisoner. He thought h… Read More

Malcolm Hardee Comedy Award designer John Ward has got in touch with me about the cult TV series The Prisoner, which starred Patrick McGoohan… John Ward wrote: Patric… Read More

John Ward interviewed by a Russian TV reporter (don’t ask) Mad inventor and Malcolm Hardee Comedy Award designer John Ward used to be a member of a local shooting club. It was local … Read More

Yesterday, mad inventor John Ward, who designed and makes the Malcolm Hardee Comedy Awards for the annual Edinburgh Fringe, sent me this email: The other week in my Ward’s World colum… Read More

Malcolm Hardee Comedy Award designer John Ward has occasionally been described in this blog as “mad inventor John Ward”. There is a reason for this. I have recently ha… Read More

I have mentioned the Malcolm Hardee Comedy Awards in the last couple of blogs. The actual trophies were designed and made by mad inventor John Ward who is particularly keen (via an email thi… Read More

President Obonjo – the original by ten years As mentioned in my blog last week, BBC Studios have outrageously sold a stolen concept to Channel 4/E4 either by blatant amoral plagiarism… Read More

Dapper designer John Ward, earlier this week, wearing one of his many professional hats… A couple of days ago, I posted a blog about this year’s Malcolm Hardee Cunning Stunt Aw… Read More

Inventor and Malcolm Hardee Award designer John Ward has a weekly column in the Spalding Guardian newspaper. Earlier this week, he sent me a copy of this week’s piece, subsequently p… Read More

For those of you who read the previous blog posted here earlier today… It looks like performer Becky Fury is going to get the needle and have a new tattoo engraved on her arm in Edinb… 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 Wibbley Wobbley in its original berth at Greenland Dock In November and December last year, I posted a series of blogs about the late comic Malcolm Hardee’s former floating pub/com… Read More

John Ward made the Malcolm Hardee Awards Mad inventor John Ward is a man of many parts, many of them going spare. He designed and built the Malcolm Hardee Comedy Award trophies and I have o… Read More

Mad inventor and Malcolm Hardee Comedy Award designer John Ward had a hip replacement in 1998, a knee replacement in 2002 and his other hip was replaced in 2007. Guess what. … Read More

Here’s a chat I had last night with Malcolm Hardee Comedy Award winning performer President Obonjo aka Benjamin Bankole Bello for his podcast If Comedians Ruled The World. In th… 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

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

What is Dominic Holland?  A writer of books? A stand-up comedian? The father of Spider-man? Yes to all three. In 2003, he contributed to Sit-Down Comedy, an anthology of original writi… Read More