With all the misinformation swirling around, it is good to know that the Reuters news agency takes its journalistic responsibilities seriously when supplying worldwide news and media sources… Read More

  (Photograph by @felipepelaquim via Unsplash) As regular readers of this blog will know, I have an interest in Artificial Intelligence and its ability to mine facts and opinions&hell… Read More

Anthony Irvine aka The Iceman recently had a book Melt It! published about him – crafted by multi-tasker Robert Wringham. I posted a blog about it. Now the book has inspired a forth… Read More

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

In the summer of 1981, Malcolm Hardee and The Greatest Show on Legs were appearing in London slightly off-West End (at the Bloomsbury Theatre) in The Mad Show – a collection of kinda… 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

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

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

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

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

Malcolm Hardee while researching his autobiography in 1995 In yesterday’s blog, I mentioned British comedian Malcolm Hardee in passing. He was, to understate the truth, very anarchic… Read More

It seems to have taken six months for Facebook to decide that sticking a banger up your bum is unacceptable. This message arrived just before 07.00am this morning (UK time). Bad news for fan… Read More

President Obonjo and his fearsome bodyguards attended the Malcolm Hardee Awards last night I am in London. The Edinburgh Fringe is, as tradition dictates, in Edinburgh. Up in Edinburgh, the… 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

This week, esteemed comic Noel James posted an announcement about a last minute act appearing on the bill at his Cafe Play club in Mumbles, Swansea,Wales, this Saturday, 6th Novemb… Read More

The Edinburgh Fringe – or what passes for the Fringe in this let’s-hope-it’s-almost-over-Covid-pandemic netherworld – finishes this coming weekend. It started on 6th… Read More