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

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

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

Comic legend Malcolm Hardee knew a little bit about Africa. (Photograph by Vincent Lewis) The Malcolm Hardee Comedy Awards at the Edinburgh Fringe are all about originality. This blog is a l… 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

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

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

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

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

… CONTINUED FROM DIARY No 36 … SUNDAY 27th SEPTEMBER Until my illness in May, I never really remembered my dreams. Maybe once every six or nine months, I might… Read More

Today is General Election Day in the UK. Below are three extracts from the late Malcolm Hardee’s increasingly prestigious autobiography I Stole Freddie Mercury’s Birthday C… 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

#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

“It is a marketing nightmare,” Slightly Fat Features originator Goronwy Thomas aka Goronwy Thom told me. Wednesday to Saturday this coming week, Slightly Fat Features are b… Read More

WARNING: USE OF EXTREME LANGUAGE IN THIS BLOG Helen, sitting in a room with a Periscope and 1,200 visitors In the afternoon, I took the plunge and went to Helen Wallace’s Up Periscope… Read More

As far as I am aware, I only have two prejudices, both totally indefensible. One is because I really have never met a nice white South African. I think it may have been caused by the educati… Read More