Shows
Grouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John FlemingMark Borkowski on the Edinburgh Fringe - Grouchy Club Podcast 101The Edinburgh Fringe and changing comedy. PR guru Mark Borkowski joins comedy critic Kate Copstick and blogger John Fleming in Edinburgh… What is good, bad, changed and unchanged at the Fringe? Why agents not PR people are the downfall of the Fringe. Plus the return of The Establishment Club and Borkowski’s new search for comics, artists, musicians, poets etc for a new TV series on a channel you would not expect. And Copstick’s attempt to bring vaudeville back to TV. http://www.grouchyclub.co.ukYou can also downlo...
2017-08-0223 min
Grouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John FlemingPopulist comedy v the Oxbridge elite - Grouchy Club Podcast 100The snooty sneering of the Oxbridge elite and some comics against popular humour. Variable opinions on The Weirdos and the Alternative Comedy Memorial Society. The talent of Luisa Omielan. The irresistible sexual attraction of Italian comic Giacinto Palmieri. The inability of comics like Michael McIntyre, Frank Carson & Matthew Kelly to stop being themselves. Copstick’s work with Basil Brush and her admiration for the Chuckle Brothers. Coughing John’s failure to visit Amsterdam’s red light district and his attraction to heroin + LSD. The success of one Malcolm Hardee Comedy Award. The BBC’s Appreciation Index. Plus Copstick sings.John’...
2017-02-1643 min
Grouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John FlemingA role model for comedians - Grouchy Club Podcast 99The brilliance of Alan Davies at Pull The Other One. The unfeasible tallness of Darren Walsh. The formidable talent and influence but silence of Richard Herring. How Jim Jefferies did not destroy Piers Morgan over Donald Trump’s ban. How Reeves & Mortimer ‘died’ in Basingstoke. How Rik Mayall & Ade Edmondson (not Ben Elton) ‘died’ on stage in Inverness. Plus Kate Copstick’s pet hates about stand-up comics, Ariane Sherine’s “Love Song for Jeremy Corbyn”, the meaning of Alt Right and Copstick & Fleming’s failure to get talent spotted.Copstick’s quote of the week: “He doesn’t lick media’s arsehole in a...
2017-02-1327 min
Grouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John FlemingComedy courses, Johnny Depp & butt plugs - Grouchy Club Podcast 98Comic Janet Bettesworth joins critic Kate Copstick and blogger John Fleming in the busy Mama Biashara emporium in London. They discuss the usefulness - or pointlessness - of having an MA course in stand-up comedy, being an aural voyeur and Facebook arguments. Plus Copstick on her plan to become a torch song singer, how she boil-washed her passport and the rules of butt-plug hoopla. John remembers how he took an elephant up England’s highest mountain and Copstick laments how someone partially stole her idea for killing herself with a rectal thermometer and a bomb.
2017-02-0233 min
Grouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John FlemingThom Tuck - ACMS, Penny Dreadfuls & Doctor Who - Grouchy Club Podcast 97Thom Tuck joins critic Copstick and an ineffectively interjecting John at Mama Biashara in London in a doomed attempt to plug The Penny Dreadfuls’ new project. Copstick passionately attacks the Alternative Comedy Memorial Society and a female comedian but is clearly now warming to Sarah Millican. Thom talks about his indescribable new show and his ambition to appear in Doctor Who while Copstick wants to play a villain. Thom talks about panel shows. Copstick talks about him performing in her porn movies.“The one thing comedy can never be is smug” (Copstick)“The times I have done it...
2017-01-2736 min
Grouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John FlemingInternational comedy, cannibalism and Catholicism - Grouchy Club Podcast 96Italian comic Luca Cupani on representing the UK in worldwide comedy competitions. The problems of performing to US and Canadian audiences. Copstick on why English language comedy is more precise. Theresa May’s Brexit speech. New Edinburgh Fringe venues. Copstick offers to marry Luca if he eats her. The sins of the Catholic Church and why anyone who celebrates mass logically has to go to Hell. Plus Copstick and Cupani sing - sort of.http://www.grouchyclub.co.uk You can also download this audio podcast from iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/grouchy-clubs-mostly-about/id...
2017-01-1936 min
Grouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John FlemingComedy songs, Jeremy Corbyn and nervous breakdowns - Grouchy Club Podcast 95Ariane Sherine, musical comedy performer, journalist and TV scriptwriter joins critic Kate Copstick and blogger John Fleming in London’s bustling Mama Biashara emporiumThey disagree about sex on a first date, discuss hairy men, why sex is like a cup of coffee and why Charlie Brooker is kind. Plus the joys of meeting famous comics on The Guardian’s dating site, Ariane’s upcoming novel, the Simon Singh-along with Tim Minchin and Ariane’s “Love Song For Jeremy Corbyn”.Then... fear of a bad review by Steve Bennett on the Chortle comedy website; why Ariane is not playi...
2017-01-1240 min
Grouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John FlemingNick Awde and European comedy - Grouchy Club Podcast 94Nick Awde - critic, reviewer and author - joins Kate Copstick, John Fleming and a future gag writer aged 8½ in London’s Mama Biashara emporium for an even more-than-usually meandering and annoyingly interrupted podcast supposedly but only marginally touching on comedy amid discussions on linguistics, Ireland’s Black Lodge, Janey Godley’s family dog, Copstick’s family background, Brexit and the cultural influence of France - despite the fact that the French apparently do not have a word for “one man show”.But we do manage to discuss the comedy circuit in Flanders; the German version of "Allo Allo"; the cl...
2017-01-0738 min
Grouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John FlemingQuirky comedy and unique vaginas - Grouchy Club Podcast 93Martin Soan, comedy promoter and creator of The Greatest Show On Legs, talks to critic Kate Copstick and blogger John Fleming in London’s Mama Biashara emporium. Has all the quirkiness gone out of the comedy business? Can Michael Brunström and Spencer Jones save British comedy? Did the Arts Lab start alternative comedy? Memories of The Browns’ double act, the influence of Germany, teddy bear torturing, walking on the ceiling and eating your own brain. Plus political correctness, sexism, the annoying thing about women, how Martin destroyed a kitchen every night at the Edinburgh Fringe and why he now turns...
2016-12-2230 min
Grouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John FlemingLondon’s Comedy Cafe Is Saved? - Grouchy Club Podcast 92Comedy Cafe owner Noel Faulkner reveals the background to the club’s closure and possible re-birth in a perfect-sounding venue in February. Why a benefit show for the club would be “scandalous”. Why Malcolm Hardee’s Wibbley Wobbley is about to sink. The racism and sexism of club owners. How club owners schedule acts. The blame game played by comedians. Why booking women can be sexist. Why Friday night audiences are worse than Saturday night audiences. Plus rumours of a risk to the Comedy Store, the Night Czar of London and Copstick sings (again).http://www.grouchyc...
2016-12-1624 min
Grouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John FlemingHow to succeed as a comedian - Grouchy Club Podcast 91How Michael McIntyre succeeded in UK comedy. Why Louisa Omielan and Tom Binns are succeeding. The late Addison Cresswell’s talent. Five-year career plans. Copstick’s health, career and balls. The tragic closure of the Comedy Cafe in London. The effect of free entry clubs on pay-to-enter clubs in the UK. Is it necessary as a comic to play the UK comedy circuit or is there another way? The pointlessness of comics performing to comics and not ‘real’ audiences. And Copstick sings. Again.http://www.grouchyclub.co.ukYou can also download this audio podcast from iTunes h...
2016-12-0830 min
Grouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John FlemingHugging, flirting and sexism - Grouchy Club Podcast 90Often controversial London comedy club owner Martin Besserman talks to critic Kate Copstick and blogger John Fleming in a noisy Mama Biashara emporium.Martin on being mugged in a Manchester hotel. Why running a comedy club is getting more difficult. The problem (or not) of ’free’ shows. Misleading advertising. Jack Whitehall’s virginity. Patrick Monahan’s hugs. PLUS... Is it impossible for women to be sexist? Flirting and sexism in comedy. Alison Moyet. The lack of any political correctness in Kenya. The talent of Jessica Martin. And Copstick’s shocking time in an underground room with Bobby Davro.htt...
2016-12-0349 min
Grouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John FlemingBecky Fury and 5-year comedy plans - Grouchy Club Podcast 89After a disastrous attempt to record a podcast with Kate Copstick in Kenya, John Fleming (with raging toothache) talks to double Malcolm Hardee Award winning stand-up Becky Fury sitting on a freezing dockside bench outside the Wibbley Wobbley boat in Rotherhithe, a few feet from where Malcolm Hardee drowned in 2005.With the wind loudly hitting the microphone and a helicopter appearing overhead…What does a relative newbie think about the UK comedy industry? Has she sketched-out the 5-year plan promoter Hils Jago recommends comics should have? Why did a film-maker want to make a documentary about he...
2016-11-2724 min
Grouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John FlemingTrump & the sexism of the UK’s liberal Left - Grouchy Club Podcast 88Amid the drama of a very dodgy internet connection, critic Kate Copstick on the generosity of comedian Janey Godley and the Puppetry of The Penis man… on the screamingly camp men on British Airways… on the tasteless sexist posts of Britain’s mysoginist liberal Left attacking Donald Trump’s glamour model wife… on why Hillary Clinton maybe shows why women should not run for Presidential office. And I propose that New Jersey-born comic Jerry Sadowitz should stand as US President.At only 15 minutes - and despite the internet chaos - this could be the perfect taster for those who have n...
2016-11-1315 min
Grouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John FlemingDrugs, comedy and the madness of PC - Grouchy Club Podcast 87Guest Chris Dangerfield and Kate Copstick attack social justice and political correctness and the Third Wave of Feminism. Plus the success of Andrew Lawrence, Richard Gadd and Doug Stanhope… Being a student with lots of sex, drugs and money. Plus is liking Robin Williams and Bob Monkhouse un-cool? The lottery of getting on television, the downsides of having an agent and how alternative comedy descended to the mainstream.Dangerfield on the Edinburgh Fringe: “I was terrified. I’d been in the Sun with this show. I’d got the whores to sponsor it. I’d built it up. But I didn...
2016-11-0546 min
Grouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John FlemingComedy double act: Copstick & Fleming - Grouchy Club Podcast 86Even more of a double act than a comedy podcast this week… In a Hallowe’en edition, we ramble on about Copstick’s health, Kenya’s unburnt witch, South Africa’s planned “pile of wank” to ban satire, a “spectacularly good” UK comedy club and Scotland’s White Heather Club. PLUS Are Sam Simmons and Spencer Jones suitable for Live at The Apollo? Ordering drugs from Chris Dangerfield. Comics faffing about at the start of their acts. What makes a good comedy MC? Comperes who mess-up their introductions and entire shows. Susan Calman is irritating. Copstick nominates her funniest video line of the century...
2016-10-3130 min
Grouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John FlemingTrump, Clinton & UK comedy - Grouchy Club Podcast 85Copstick, on OxyContin, in a wildly busy Mama Biashara shop, tries and fails to find UK comedy news. Her plan to become a nun. The joys and talent of Miles Jupp. The horror of the Donald Trump & Hillary Clinton election debate. Plus Copstick has a go at the “smug, self-satisfied” UK haters of US Trump supporters and “the castles of cunts that have been in power since time immoral”. Plus international airline chaos and the woes of flying charity goods back from Kenya to London. Plus Copstick forces John to sing.http://www.grouchyclub.co.ukYou can...
2016-10-2124 min
Grouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John FlemingBrexit and middle class comics - Grouchy Club Podcast 84Why middle class comics were so shocked by Brexit.After an interrupted start with Copstick in camp in Kenya, back to our normal disjointed style - on the decline of British comedy clubs, the collapse of the Invisible Dot and Chatty Man Alan Carr; the rise of Ivan Brackenbury and Bill Bailey.Plus the Centre for Comedy Studies Research, a threat to break Tim Renkow’s legs, Stephen Bailey rejected by the BBC for being ‘working class’ and the annoying failed Referendum Remainers who moan endlessly but do nothing.John’s quote of the week: “C...
2016-10-1522 min
Grouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John FlemingBBC diversity dangers - Tim Renkow, Mitch Benn & blood demons - Grouchy Club Podcast 83Tim Renkow’s new BBC TV sitcom A Brief History of Tim - comedy critic Kate Copstick pitches herself for a role...With Mitch Benn and Jon Holmes sacked from "The Now Show", a plea for more comedy and less PC on BBC Radio.Plus Copstick spurns the live Grouchy Club in London for a mercy dash to Kenya on the rumour of “a demon drinking blood”. And how she became the voice of British Railways.Copstick's quotes of the week: “I don’t think diversity for diversity’s sake is ever a good idea - certa...
2016-10-0828 min
Grouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John FlemingMore sexism anyone? - Grouchy Club Podcast 82Sexism, Kate Smurthwaite, wolf whistles, Sarah Chew, Emily Hill, babes and FemiNazis. Are terms of endearment from men sexist? Are wolf whistles the equivalent of war crimes? Have I got tuberculosis? Kate Copstick gets her tits out in front of Jordan. Janey Godley and The Only Way Is Glasgow. Why a doctor thought it was a bad idea to treat Copstick. Porn films and the improvised children’s TV show No 73.http://www.grouchyclub.co.ukYou can also download this audio podcast from iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/grouchy-clubs-mostly-about/id977279883John Fl...
2016-09-3030 min
Grouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John FlemingPolitical correctness and malicious intent - Grouchy Club Podcast 81Political correctness and malicious intent. The Gazza PC hoo-hah and why we have to be upset about something. The English injustice system. Comedy MCs who become PC Heteronormatives. The changed acceptability of Harry Hill’s transgender joke. Plus Mama Biashara’s supplies to Syria. Is it impossible to have sensible comedians? And why Copstick reckons there is a lot of hate heading my way.Copstick’s quote of the week: “A heterosexual couple. What the fuck is wrong with that? I am not heterosexual and I am not part of a couple, but what is wrong with that?”htt...
2016-09-2726 min
Grouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John FlemingSex, sexism and FemiNazis - Grouchy Club Podcast 80The “proper sexism” of the mid-1980s and earlier in Northern Working Men’s Clubs remembered by comedy critic Kate Copstick while John Fleming fiddles with his nuts. Copstick reminiscences about her days as a pantomime dame, touring the northern clubs and being pelted with sweets by 2,000 children. There is talk of BBC TV currently ‘desecrating' old sitcoms but not Peter Tinniswood’s “It Takes a Worried Man”. Plus women behind the throne in British TV sitcoms. Sexual social segregation. Sheena Easton’s ex-husband. The powerful women of old-time Music Hall and Vaudeville. And the lost honesty of old-style comedy audiences.
2016-09-1635 min
Grouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John FlemingBBC TV’s unoriginality - Grouchy Club Podcast 79Unoriginal BBC TV sitcoms crucified by critic Kate Copstick. Why performers are entirely right to call her a bastard. John Fleming’s criminal background. The English and Scottish injustice systems. Copstick ‘outs' herself as a Corbynista and talks of her secret lust for her English teacher. PLUS Why Ariane Sherine wants Copstick as her mother and John Fleming as her father. And the “bundle of chaos” that is comic Neal Portenza.Copstick’s quotes of the week: “Why don’t they just put a sign on the BBC saying “Our commissioning execs don’t believe anyone can come up with a...
2016-09-1035 min
Grouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John FlemingEdinburgh Fringe: after the event - Grouchy Club Podcast 78Comedians’ careers: is it worth going to the Edinburgh Fringe? Which excellent Edinburgh venue’s press office was criticised? Richard Gadd’s shocking reaction to not winning an increasingly prestigious Malcolm Hardee Comedy Award. Plus Broadway Baby’s one-star review of a “quite creepy” comedian’s show. Tim Renkow’s brilliant online sitcom. Lorraine Bracco is not a town. Lynn Ruth Miller’s version of a soft shoe shuffle. And will comedians crowdfund to see critic Kate Copstick self-harm herself with a kebab skewer next year?Copstick’s quote of the week: “One of the worst things you can do is b...
2016-09-0331 min
Grouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John FlemingEdinburgh Fringe Comedy Awards rambling - Grouchy Club Podcast 77Comedy Awards at the Edinburgh Fringe. Before the 2016 Edinburgh Comedy Awards were announced, amid a noisy crowd in Assembly, a tired and emotional Kate Copstick and John Fleming babble and discuss comedy at the Fringe and how the Malcolm Hardee Comedy Awards winners were decided… Plus the brilliance of Richard Gadd and Phil Ellis, the million-pound baby, Becky Fury, Phil Jarvis, Peter Buckley Hill and the sexual allure of the Pillsbury Doughboy… And how Copstick, initially with nausea and diarrhoea, was recognised as “the anti-Christ of the Fringe”.http://www.grouchyclub.co.uk You c...
2016-08-3026 min
Grouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John FlemingCritic Copstick tells comedy PRs to F*** Off - Grouchy Club Podcast 76Comedy gossip with critic Kate Copstick and blogger John Fleming in a very noisy Southside Social pub in Edinburgh. Why Copstick no longer wants to hear about Fringe comedy acts from PRs next year. Comic Candy Gigi’s horrendous experience with an awards judge. Why the comedy section of the Fringe Programme has become “toxic”. How Paul Currie’s comedy show moved from “slightly scary” to “much more fun” but Copstick now wants to “smack him in the face”. Why Copstick hates the word “lover”. Why she was second choice to co-host The Grouchy Club and its original conception as a ‘real people’ TV chat...
2016-08-2129 min
Grouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John FlemingEdinburgh Fringe ruined by PR people and by Edinburgh University - Grouchy Club Podcast 75Kate Copstick rants about people jumping the queue at Richard Gadd’s show and how greedy Edinburgh University are financially raping the Fringe. Plus Copstick’s X-ray shows a shadow on her lung: could it be her last Fringe?Plus how Tim Minchin’s UK career started. How “wonderful” Karen Koren of the Gilded Balloon venue has helped acts. Michael Brunström’s brilliance. Candy Gigi’s changes. Ariane Sherine labelled a pasty-faced Jewish Princess. The origins of The Grouchy Club. And news of the Increasingly Prestigious Malcolm Hardee Comedy Awards.Copstick’s quotes of the week: Lewis S...
2016-08-1327 min
Grouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John FlemingSex and surrealism at the Edinburgh Fringe - Grouchy Club Podcast 74Sex at the Edinburgh Fringe. The most arrogant little prick of a comedian whose show critic Kate Copstick has ever sat through. The joys of Sweet venues. A woman being hit over the head by a wheelbarrow. Alfie Brown’s brilliance. Copstick nominates Twonkey for the Malcolm Hardee Comedy Award and raves about Michael Brunstrom’s surreal show and his sexually attractive legs. The perils of drinking too much Red Bull. The King of Clit Comedy. The Grouchy Club’s previews of 2017 Fringe shows. The perils of ‘papering rooms’. Marcel Lucont’s calendar. Malcolm Hardee: The Musical. And Copstick vividly shares one o...
2016-08-0633 min
Grouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John FlemingThe Week before the Edinburgh Fringe - Grouchy Club Podcast 73Comedy, teabagging, fisting, rimming, felching and threesomes. Kate Copstick announces her Edinburgh Fringe podcast without me and remembers a great fetish club. Copstick and Jim Jeffries’ sexual experiences with Doktor CocaColaMcDonalds. Ariane Sherine’s offensive songs. An alternative to the wastefulness of Comic Relief. The Underbelly venue boys in rubberwear. The best knock-knock joke. Previews of 2017 (yes 2017) Edinburgh Fringe shows. Islamic jokes. Eleanor Conway’s sex and cocaine. Comic David Mills reclaims the word faggot . Plus the Mama Biashara charity’s desperate need for a new accountant. The best Edinburgh Fringe poster, the new First Minute Awards and my hot date wit...
2016-07-2837 min
Grouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John FlemingDiane Spencer + Edinburgh Fringe tips - Grouchy Club Podcast 72The rise of YouTube videos. Critic Kate Copstick & blogger John Fleming are joined by comedian Diane Spencer. Do comedians HAVE to play the Edinburgh Fringe or even play the London circuit? Getting fined £20,000 for bad taste jokes. Plus Lewis Schaffer’s dirty protest poster; the joys of morphine; the new FirstMinute Awards at the Edinburgh Fringe; how to start a 55-minute comedy show; the liars of Facebook and are small audiences better than talking into a mirror?Copstick’s quote of the week: “It’s hard to follow a really good, graphic wank joke”Diane Spenc...
2016-07-2335 min
Grouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John FlemingExclusive revelations - Grouchy Club Podcast 71Exclusive revelations: Piff The Magic Dragon’s dog and Game of Thrones. Ed at Last’s new firstminute.com awards. Bob Slayer’s new immensely-long show. Why coming second is better. What exactly ARE the increasingly prestigious Malcolm Hardee Comedy Awards? Do funnier comedians die younger? Plus cunning stunts at the Edinburgh Fringe by Malcolm Hardee, Barry Ferns & Mark Borkowski.http://www.grouchyclub.co.ukYou can also download this audio podcast from iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/grouchy-clubs-mostly-about/id977279883John Fleming posts occasional blogs at: http://blog.thejohnfleming.com
2016-07-1726 min
Grouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John FlemingGetting comedy reviews - Grouchy Club Podcast 70How to get comedy shows reviewed at the Edinburgh Fringe. How to extract good quotes from bad reviews. The highly influential and currently very ill comedy reviewer Kate Copstick on how, why and when she decides to review shows for The Scotsman during the Edinburgh Fringe. Plus Copstick sings. Plus famous people’s semen. http://www.grouchyclub.co.ukYou can also download this audio podcast from iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/grouchy-clubs-mostly-about/id977279883John Fleming posts occasional blogs at: http://blog.thejohnfleming.com
2016-07-1226 min
Grouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John FlemingSex, politics and comedy - Grouchy Club Podcast 69John Fleming tries to get a word in while comedy critic Kate Copstick talks about the most impressive press release she has seen for an Edinburgh Fringe show this year and her mooted return to stand-up comedy.PLUS her admiration for Boris Johnson, Angus Deayton, Lady Colin Campbell, Tanya Lee Davis, Janet Bettesworth (“the best hair in comedy”) and David Mills (“uber queen of this parish”).PLUS her bowel movements, genitalia, Jeremy Corbyn, sex with prostitutes in Manchester, the return of “Radio Active” and, finally, the amazingly likely reason why current comedy is so very bland.Best...
2016-07-0132 min
Grouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John FlemingKenya, Brexit and Scotland - Grouchy Club Podcast 68Britain votes to leave the EU - plus homosexuality and devil worship in Kenya; comedy critic Kate Copstick vomits, shits blood and is threatened with arrest; Scotland’s terrible weather; a future Scottish referendum; Copstick says: “I’ve got an arse on me like a Harrier jet” and she sings with John.http://www.grouchyclub.co.ukYou can also download this audio podcast from iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/grouchy-clubs-mostly-about/id977279883John Fleming posts occasional blogs at: http://blog.thejohnfleming.com
2016-06-2625 min
Grouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John FlemingThe Joy of interviewing Stewart Lee - Grouchy Club Podcast 67On a bad line from a noisy internet cafe in Nairobi, critic Copstick talks to sleepy blogger John in London about...political tension and facial pus-filled spots in Kenya; sectarianism in Scotland and Kenya; the killing of MP Jo Cox in Britain; interviewing comedian Stewart Lee; this year’s Malcolm Hardee Award judges; John having half his beard shaved off on stage; comic Ariane Sherine’s love for Jeremy Corbyn; and the Bullshit Awards.http://www.grouchyclub.co.ukYou can also download this audio podcast from iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/grouchy-clubs-mostly-about/id97...
2016-06-1732 min
Grouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John FlemingIs comedy a real job? - Grouchy Club Podcast 66Is comedy a vocation or a desperation?(NB THERE IS SOUND BREAK-UP 14’40”-16’20” BUT IT RECOVERS!)From a Nairobi cafe, critic Kate Copstick talks to blogger John Fleming in London about...Being homeless in Kenya, racist jokes, a new Malcolm Hardee Comedy Award judge and the hypnotist who creates comedy improvisers.Plus John says there are only two sexes, Copstick inspires a show which literally takes the piss, John turns down the stage role of God and Copstick recalls what a terribly shallow stand-up comic she was in the 1990s.http://w...
2016-06-0931 min
Grouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John FlemingRacist jokes or racial jokes? - Grouchy Club Podcast 65NB CONTAINS LANGUAGE THAT SOME MAY CONSIDER OFFENSIVE (but I think they’re wrong) - Is there a difference between racial and racist jokes? Are racially-descriptive words in themselves offensive?PLUS Kate Copstick on observational comedy, “the industrialisation of comedy” in the UK and attacks three Channel 4 Comedy Gala performers for losing their originality and replacing it with formless “mush”.http://www.grouchyclub.co.ukYou can also download this audio podcast from iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/grouchy-clubs-mostly-about/id977279883John Fleming posts occasional blogs at: http://blog.thejohnfleming.com
2016-05-3135 min
Grouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John FlemingSex and Donald Trump - Grouchy Club Podcast 64The Fanny & Johnny Craddock of comedy podcasting - critic Kate Copstick and blogger John Fleming - talk about having sex, Gilbert & Sullivan, the new Angel Comedy club in London, Edinburgh Fringe comedy previews in the Mama Biashara performance space, the Jeremy Corbyn video, Clowns Without Borders, sending comedians to combat ISIS and Saddam Hussein’s creative idea plus…Comic David Mills’ major Hollywood movie, Copstick promotes Donald Trump and distrusts "raging lezzer" Hilary Clinton while John defends Bill Clinton's honesty…And then there is the origin of the legendary banger-up-the-bum routine and why (in Copstick’s opinion) "...
2016-05-2731 min
Grouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John FlemingComedy, butt-plugs & immortality - Grouchy Club Podcast 63IN A TRAGIC CYBER CATASTROPHE, the start of this podcast was accidentally erased. The background is that John Fleming had been ill with flu and Kate Copstick had been in bed in agony for two days. Now listen on...The Canadian comic being sued for a non-PC joke. The children’s cartoon series with a cure for cancer and the lure of immortality. How to fuck-over dodgy Edinburgh Fringe venue The Gilded Balloon. Why comedians should never invite Kate Copstick to a preview. A list of free Edinburgh Fringe previews in London. Copstick’s history of using butt-plugs. And...
2016-05-2130 min
Grouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John FlemingWhat is funny? - Grouchy Club Podcast 62How does a writer know their material is good? Is there such a thing as pure funny? Does mass appeal always mean bland not brilliant? +The end of the Malcolm Hardee Comedy Awards, Jimmy Carr v Michael McIntyre, John Lloyd’s new show, Radio Times and the new restrictive Scotsman contracts for freelancers.THIS PODCAST WAS RECORDED ON 6th MAY BUT, DUE TO ILLNESS, NOT POSTED UNTIL 13th MAY.http://www.grouchyclub.co.ukYou can also download this audio podcast from iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/grouchy-clubs-mostly-about/id977279883
2016-05-1325 min
Grouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John FlemingThe Sex Life of Kate Copstick - Grouchy Club Podcast 61Comedy critic Kate Copstick goes on one of her moanalogues, then explains why she is an ‘easy lay’ and talks about the man who chatted her up last week, the small African who disappeared between her legs, how to spot a large penis, her time in a jacuzzi with a poodle and her failed attempt to cut her pubic hair into a heart shape and dye it pink. Plus the comedian who is planning to get audience members up on stage to have live sex.And comic Tanyalee Davis’ clothing for dogs, her floating bottom, dead diminu...
2016-04-3026 minGrouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John FlemingSexism in comedy - Grouchy Club Podcast 60Sexual harassment by a male comedian to a female comedian. Critic Kate Copstick thrown out of her home for alleged sexual activity. Internet Fascists. Critics crowdfunded to review shows. Eamonn Holmes and Kelvin MacKenzie on dead stars.http://www.grouchyclub.co.ukYou can also download this audio podcast from iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/grouchy-clubs-mostly-about/id977279883John Fleming posts occasional blogs at: http://blog.thejohnfleming.com
2016-04-2328 min
Grouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John FlemingAdvice for comedy performers - Grouchy Club Podcast 59Comedy critic Kate Copstick’s change-of-heart over Ross Noble. What comedians should NOT do on stage. Doug Segal drowning kittens in a bucket. Lewis Schaffer’s 0-star review and comedians’ attacks on reviewers. The shift to online PC cabals. How a double bass made Jim Tavaré successful. Ariane Sherine’s strange success. The first 15 seconds that make audiences like performers. And how the Malcolm Hardee Awards gave Kate Copstick “a greater appreciation of the crazies” of comedy.http://www.grouchyclub.co.ukYou can also download this audio podcast from iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/grouc...
2016-04-1638 min
Grouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John FlemingStewart Lee analysed by Kate Copstick - Grouchy Club Podcast 58Comedy critic Kate Copstick on why comedian Stewart Lee is “unique”. Plus Richard Herring’s £100,000, Lewis Schaffer, Ang Lee, the Spank heckler and how Edinburgh venue the Gilded Balloon has 'cocked up’ and probably destroyed a planned Lady Colin Campbell Edinburgh Fringe show. All that plus Copstick’s crusty breasts.http://www.grouchyclub.co.ukYou can also download this audio podcast from iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/grouchy-clubs-mostly-about/id977279883John Fleming posts occasional blogs at: http://blog.thejohnfleming.com
2016-04-0827 min
Grouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John FlemingThe anti-Semitic Facebook posting - Grouchy Club Podcast 57Kate Copstick gives the background to the anti-Semitic posting on Facebook and the Twitter s***storm.http://www.grouchyclub.co.ukYou can also download this audio podcast from iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/grouchy-clubs-mostly-about/id977279883John Fleming posts occasional blogs at: http://blog.thejohnfleming.com
2016-04-0223 min
Grouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John FlemingKenyan witchcraft and UK FemiNazis - Grouchy Club Podcast 57In a noisy Nairobi internet cafe, critic Kate Copstick takes a break from comedy and talks to John Fleming in London about witchcraft and drug-taking in Kenya... and the FemiNazis in London.http://www.grouchyclub.co.ukYou can also download this audio podcast from iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/grouchy-clubs-mostly-about/id977279883John Fleming posts occasional blogs at: http://blog.thejohnfleming.com
2016-03-2424 min
Grouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John FlemingKenya, comedy, Fringe chaos - Grouchy Club Podcast 56On a difficult FaceTime link from Nairobi, comedy critic Kate Copstick talks to John Fleming in London about how comics ruined the Edinburgh Fringe, “Mother fucking Teresa”, her drug taking in Kenya, the late magician Paul Daniels, comedy in Africa and anarchic comedian Malcolm Hardee being reincarnated in Kenya.http://www.grouchyclub.co.ukYou can also download this audio podcast from iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/grouchy-clubs-mostly-about/id977279883John Fleming posts occasional blogs at: http://blog.thejohnfleming.com
2016-03-182h 55
Grouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John FlemingComedy newcomers - Grouchy Club Podcast 55“Comedy is often a defence mechanism... You learn a way or survival and, if it works for you, you carry on. And, if you are a comic on the circuit now, you carry on whether it’s working or not.”With Kate Copstick away in Kenya, John Fleming talks to therapist turned comedy promoter Arlene Greenhouse and journalist turned stand-up comic Ariane Sherine about...The change in the UK comedy circuit over the last 13 years. Dirty sexual comedy. Jeremy Corbyn’s eroticism. The creation of a new comedy circuit. Are therapy and comedy the same thing? And the...
2016-03-1129 min
Grouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John FlemingEdinburgh venue mess - Grouchy Club Podcast 54“I don’t wear a bra and I don’t wear knickers,” reveals the Edinburgh Fringe’s most feared comedy reviewer. Plus the outrageous poaching of the Counting House by the Gilded Balloon and The Freemasons enter the Fringe. Plus Lewis Schaffer’s breasts in Harpenden and bouncing breasts in Kenya. Plus Kate Copstick prepares to go to Syria and sings. Plus Jennifer’s Robot Arm. Ariane Sherine and Darius Davies’ prank on TV news.http://www.grouchyclub.co.ukYou can also download this audio podcast from iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/grouchy-clubs-mostly-about/id977279883
2016-03-0530 min
Grouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John FlemingEdinburgh Fringe news - Grouchy Club Podcast 53Edinburgh Fringe news - digital shows, virtual reality and new performance spaces. The Gilded Balloon controversially poaches another venue. How to stage a good show without losing money. The comedian with bigger tits. Good news for a good comic. A sex-change performer’s new show. Grouchy Club news. We Are Thomasse. Knitting for Syrian refugees. Sex kinks plus sex with insects and earthworms. You heard it first here.http://www.grouchyclub.co.ukYou can also download this audio podcast from iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/grouchy-clubs-mostly-about/id977279883
2016-02-2733 min
Grouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John FlemingMalcolm Hardee Comedy Awards under threat - Grouchy Club Podcast 52Malcolm Hardee Comedy Awards Show under threat at Edinburgh Fringe. Kate Copstick, in pain and drugged-up, attacks John Fleming... Plus Edinburgh Fringe previews, the joys of radio comedy shows, the crap commissioning of TV comedy, Copstick’s planned trip to Aleppo in Syria and Copstick climaxes with a song.http://www.grouchyclub.co.ukYou can also download this audio podcast from iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/grouchy-clubs-mostly-about/id977279883
2016-02-2040 min
Grouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John FlemingFetish and comedy clubs - Grouchy Club Podcast 51Critic Kate Copstick attacks co-host John Fleming, who is having trouble getting rubber and PVC clothes for his visit to the Torture Garden fetish club. Copstick reminisces about her days in fetish clubs and her "Hardly Camp At All" one-woman show in London, Edinburgh and New York.Then there’s Frank Sanazi’s new Dead Elvis act, an update on Copstick vomiting blood, praise for Pret a Manger and the sale of The Scotsman newspaper.All this plus Joe Bor, Tanya Lee Davis, Pull The Other One, the 2016 Edinburgh Fringe, the Malcolm Hardee Awards, Lewis Schaffer’s big...
2016-02-1331 min
Grouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John FlemingComedy genres - Grouchy Club Podcast 50After last week’s disaster, it takes critic Kate Copstick and blogger John Fleming 16 minutes of bimbling and Copstick getting very angry before they get to the meat of character comedy, spoof comedy and the joy of Jimmy Carr, Milton Jones, Spencer Jones (The Herbert), Michael McIntyre, Al Murray, Owen O’Neill, Laura Solon and Tim Vine... with mentions of Janey Godley, Lewis Schaffer and Baby Spice. So, you have been warned - non-lovers of non-sequiturs might want to miss the first 16 minutes!http://www.grouchyclub.co.ukYou can also download this audio podcast from iTun...
2016-02-0634 min
Grouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John FlemingIt never starts - Grouchy Club Podcast 49We apologise. The weekly podcast is supposed to be about the comedy industry, but this one trundles on for 28 interminable minutes without ever really starting. Somewhere along the way, we talk about Britain’s Got Talent, the reputation of the Avalon talent agency and the fact that Copstick is in a raging black mood while John is gibbering - and we start having two parallel simultaneous monologues. And Copstick sings. But, truly, it is a real dog’s dinner. Not recommended unless you want to check how not to record a podcast.http://www.grouchyclub.co.ukY...
2016-01-3127 min
Grouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John FlemingEdinburgh Fringe advice - Grouchy Club Podcast 48Kate Copstick pukes blood and gives advice on how to stage and promote an Edinburgh Fringe show. John Fleming gives advice on structuring a show and rattles his teeth. Plus how Tom Binns became Ivan Brackenbury, cabaret, James Whale, laughter and talking out of your arse.http://www.grouchyclub.co.ukYou can also download this audio podcast from iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/grouchy-clubs-mostly-about/id977279883
2016-01-2634 min
Grouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John FlemingDavid Bowie, comedy and buggery - Grouchy Club Podcast 47The David Bowie backlash. Buggery in Amsterdam. How the rise of British alternative comedy was an attack by the middle classes on the working class. The possibly destructive power of the Chortle comedy website. Why Copstick has become a fan of Ricky Gervais. Easily-shocked Americans. Copstick’s new show at the 2016 Edinburgh Fringe. Plus Michael McIntyre’s new show, more famous people dropping dead, Copstick sings again... and the unspeakable Lewis Schaffer.http://www.grouchyclub.co.ukYou can also download this audio podcast from iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/grouchy-clubs-mostly-about/id977279883
2016-01-1602 min
Grouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John FlemingFeminazis and coughs - Grouchy Club Podcast 46Kate Copstick rants about feminazis, comic Kate Smurthwaite, comedy guru Gaulier, being misquoted about rising comedy stars Sam Simmons, Spencer Jones and Elf Lyons. Plus her TV series, inevitable sex, a rudely-named Welsh coffee shop and why she had to be carried out of her house and put on a wheelie bin. John Fleming coughs, tries to get a word in edgeways and repeatedly mentions comic Lewis Schaffer.www.grouchyclub.co.ukYou can also download this audio podcast from iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/grouchy-clubs-mostly-about/id977279883
2016-01-0927 min
Grouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John FlemingJohn Fleming’s blog ends - Grouchy Club Podcast 45The danger of critics being ‘intimate’ with comedians. Kate Copstick’s three stage shows at the 2016 Edinburgh Fringe. How to be a director at the Edinburgh Fringe. How comic Lewis Schaffer was responsible for the death of John Fleming’s daily blog. The transgender comic’s satire workshop. Copstick’s work as a ‘kitchen bitch’. A theft of snow. Ebenezer McIlwham the unknown poet. AND Copstick sings!www.grouchyclub.co.ukYou can also download this audio podcast from iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/grouchy-clubs-mostly-about/id977279883John Fleming’s daily blog was at: http://blog.th
2016-01-0131 minGrouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John FlemingUK comedy deaths - Grouchy Club Podcast 44The end of the comedy section in Time Out. The end of John Fleming’s daily blog. The last live Grouchy Club. Nina Conti to join porn film set. Will and/or Sarah Franken to teach satire. Kate Copstick to consider teaching aggression in a Scottish accent. John Fleming to consult on comedy. Peter Buckley Hill contemplates an award. More chaos at the Edinburgh Fringe. The dead owners of Cowgatehead. Plus Lewis Schaffer, Juliette Burton, Bob Slayer, Mark Watson… and it all ends in an orgasm from Copstick.www.grouchyclub.co.ukYou can also download this...
2015-12-1931 min
Grouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John FlemingLynn Ruth Miller - Grouchy Club Podcast 43Lynn Ruth Miller, 82-year-old US comedian, talks to John Fleming at her home in Brighton, England, about sex, sado-masochism, her show “Get a Grip”, starting a hamster support group, the UK comedy business, World War II, US TV sets, nostalgia, Italians, the Irish, marriage, the British Royal Family and starting her own blog. Originally, this was supposed to be a Grouchy Club Podcast featuring Lynn Ruth with comedy critics Kate Copstick and Claire Smith, but Claire was tied-up elsewhere and Copstick slept through the whole thing in London. So a chat became the Grouchy Club podcast and, unusually, ther...
2015-12-1324 min
Grouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John FlemingJewish Holocaust Jokes - Grouchy Club Podcast 42Kate Copstick talks to John Fleming about the Jewish Comedian of the Year, a man with plastic testicles, the best Holocaust joke, trans-gender comic Will/Sarah Franken, Lewis Schaffer, The World of Pain, British TV censorship, how BBC TV executive Alan Yentob re-cut controversial comic Jerry Sadowitz, the power of TV advertisers and Noel Gay TV.www.grouchyclub.co.ukYou can also download this audio podcast from iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/grouchy-clubs-mostly-about/id977279883John Fleming’s daily blog is at: http://blog.thejohnfleming.com
2015-12-0738 min
Grouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John FlemingArthur Smith’s birthday podcast - Grouchy Club Podcast 41With Copstick still in Kenya, John Fleming is joined in a Soho alleyway by comedian Arthur Smith, who talks about his theory of mindlessness, synthesised comedians, writing for Frankie Howard, being in a Danish pantomime, why he may go trans-gender, Shakespeare, being pedantic, semi-colons, creative writing courses, Daphne Fairfax and his several half-written novels... plus Arthur performs the opening lines of Dante’s “Inferno” in the original medieval Italian.www.grouchyclub.co.ukYou can also download this audio podcast from iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/grouchy-clubs-mostly-about/id977279883Arthur mentions his Mindlessness videos...
2015-11-2724 min
Grouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John FlemingBob Slayer - Grouchy Club Podcast 40With Kate Copstick in Kenya, John Fleming talks to comic Bob Slayer about the second year of his Christmas Grotto 50 yards from the Bank of England, performing comedy in a double decker bus, his favourite story about touring with Snoop Dogg, why he turned down the Arctic Monkeys and how not to deal with a heckle at a Glasgow comedy show... plus mentions of The Weirdos, Stewart Lee, Terrovision, Electric Eel Shock, Tim Renkow and Margaret Thatcher.www.grouchyclub.co.ukYou can also download this audio podcast from iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast...
2015-11-2034 min
Grouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John FlemingTaboo jokes - Grouchy Club Podcast 39Matt Roper and Wilfredo robbed in New York... John Fleming locked inside his own house in the UK... Kate Copstick & a case of actual bodily harm... Chris Dangerfield & Ricky Grover... Lewis Schaffer & Bobby Davro... Paul Provenza’s The Aristocrats, The Debonaires and Porky... Shaggy dog stories & bad taste jokes... Tragedy + time = comedy www.grouchyclub.co.ukRecorded at Mama Biashara, London.John Fleming’s daily blog is at: http://blog.thejohnfleming.comYou can also download this audio podcast from iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/grouchy-clubs-mostly-about/id977279883
2015-11-1427 min
Grouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John FlemingWhy audiences laugh - Grouchy Club Podcast 38New material comedy shows. Great new UK acts. When Kate Copstick played Carnegie Hall. Abstract foreign comedy. Why UK audiences laugh. Why Chinese audiences don’t laugh. The goldfish of comedy. The death of US producer Calvin Wynter.NB CORRECTION - John says: “At one point in the podcast, I mention an act as Twisted Sisters when, in fact, it is called Twisted Loaf... I am an idiot."www.grouchyclub.co.ukRecorded at Mama Biashara, London.John Fleming’s daily blog is at: http://blog.thejohnfleming.comYou can also d...
2015-11-0636 min
Grouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John FlemingHow to interview - Grouchy Club Podcast 37Kate Copstick’s interview techniques, the joys of heroin and why John Fleming grew a beard. Plus Johnny Depp, John Waters, the erotic review, Meg Ryan, the movie “Transporting", prostitution, cocaine in television and acupuncture. Two small sections have been censored to disguise identities.www.grouchyclub.co.ukRecorded at Mama Biashara, London.John Fleming’s daily blog is at: http://blog.thejohnfleming.comYou can also download this audio podcast from iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/grouchy-clubs-mostly-about/id977279883
2015-10-3144 min
Grouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John FlemingNot about writing - - Grouchy Club Podcast - 36Kate Copstick and John Fleming fail to start their podcast about how to interview someone and, instead, go on about Copstick’s tramadol, Romina Puma’s scooter, Tanya Lee Davis’ bottom and love life, David McGillivray, Scots pronunciation, Spencer Jones’ TV ads, George Ryegold, Nicole Kidman, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, Johnny Depp, Vin Diesel, John Gielgud’s gay porn film, Game of Thrones and Rutger Hauer.www.grouchyclub.co.ukRecorded at Mama Biashara, London.You can also download this audio podcast from iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/grouchy-clubs-mostly-about/id977279883
2015-10-2324 min
Grouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John FlemingTV shows - Grouchy Club - 35Children’s TV shows, Kate Copstick’s bowel movements, Matt Roper arrested in New York, the awful Doctor Who, Russell T Davies, The Flashing Blade, Andrew O’Connor, Hammer Films, Killer Bitch, porn movie titles, the white horse joke and much more.www.grouchyclub.co.ukRecorded at Mama Biashara, London.You can also download this audio podcast from iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/grouchy-clubs-mostly-about/id977279883
2015-10-1726 min
Grouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John FlemingMichael McIntyre etc - Grouchy Club Live in London - 34Live in London, an extract from the 2-hour Grouchy Club meet-up on comedy - including a typically shambolic discussion about successful middle-class white comedians, Michael McIntyre, Mrs Brown’s Boys, Jimmy Logan, Italian comedy and Christopher Biggins.www.grouchyclub.co.ukFeaturing Kate Copstick, Andrea Gordon, John Fleming, Arlene Greenhouse, Jo Palermo, Neil O'Rourke, Luca Cupani, Giacinto PalmieriRecorded at Mama Biashara, London.You can also download this audio podcast from iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/grouchy-clubs-mostly-about/id977279883
2015-10-1411 min
Grouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John FlemingGenitalia - Grouchy Club Podcast - 33In a very noisy cafe. Kate Copstick and John Fleming talk about cats’ bollocks, men’s penises, London v Nairobi, David Cameron and the pig’s head, UK comedy, Luca Cupani, Christopher Richardson, Karen Koren, Puma Londinese and the crippling disease lupus.You can also download this audio podcast from iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/grouchy-clubs-mostly-about/id977279883www.grouchyclub.co.uk
2015-10-1025 min
Grouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John FlemingJaney Godley - Grouchy Club Podcast - 32With Kate Copstick away in Kenya, blogger John Fleming talks to comic Janey Godley about sexist Turkish men, strange acts, swearing, David Cameron & the pig, Moth storytelling, free shows at the Edinburgh Fringe, getting hits on Periscope and UK comedy.You can also download this audio podcast from iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/grouchy-clubs-mostly-about/id977279883Janey Godley’s weekly podcast is athttp://janeygodley.podomatic.comwww.grouchyclub.co.uk
2015-10-0322 min
Grouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John FlemingNoel Faulkner - Grouchy Club Podcast - 31“The Clintons were pure evil... The electronic age is destroying us... America is a Third World country... How come there are very few right wing comics?” - With Kate Copstick away in Kenya, blogger John Fleming talks to London Comedy Cafe owner Noel Faulkner about the upcoming US election, Jeremy Corbyn, capitalism, socialism, drugs, free comedy shows, Ireland, the BBC and much more.You can also download this audio podcast from iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/grouchy-clubs-mostly-about/id977279883www.grouchyclub.co.uk
2015-09-2019 min
Grouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John FlemingAcupuncture - Grouchy Club Podcast - 30Comedy critic Kate Copstick tells blogger John Fleming about the remarkable effect acupuncture had on her, uses some choice Scots language phrases, mentions the naked man in the back room, her sexual promiscuity, Team America, lesbianism and having no place to stay in Kenya.You can also download this audio podcast from iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/grouchy-clubs-mostly-about/id977279883www.grouchyclub.co.uk
2015-09-1227 min
Grouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John FlemingEdinburgh Awards - Grouchy Club Podcast - 29Comedy critic Kate Copstick and blogger John Fleming discuss the Edinburgh Fringe’s Fosters Awards and Malcolm Hardee Awards - how and why the winners are chosen in general and specifically at the 2015 Fringe. Plus news of Grouchy Club live shows in LondonYou can also download this audio podcast from iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/grouchy-clubs-mostly-about/id977279883www.grouchyclub.co.uk
2015-09-0527 min
Grouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John FlemingPorn Movie - Grouchy Club Live - 28NB NOT FOR THE EASILY OFFENDED. SEXUALLY EXPLICIT DESCRIPTIONS. The Grouchy Club live at the Edinburgh Fringe was not all about comedy. In this brief extract from the penultimate show, Kate Copstick talks about the logistical problems of writing and shooting a porn movie.You can also download this audio podcast from iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/grouchy-clubs-mostly-about/id977279883www.grouchyclub.co.uk
2015-09-0107 min
Grouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John FlemingLuca Cupani - Grouchy Club Live - 27When the audience en masse did not arrive on 16th August for the live show, Kate Copstick and John Fleming talked to Italian Luca Cupani about comedy and Italy.You can also download this audio podcast from iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/grouchy-clubs-mostly-about/id977279883www.grouchyclub.co.uk
2015-08-1726 min
Grouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John FlemingEdinburgh excerpt - sex - Grouchy Club Live - 26An excerpt from the Grouchy Club live at the Edinburgh Fringe on Saturday 15th August 2015... Kate Copstick talks about juggling her work as a comedy reviewer, running a charity in Kenya and writing scripts for porn films. You can also download this audio podcast from iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/grouchy-clubs-mostly-about/id977279883www.grouchyclub.co.uk
2015-08-1611 min
Grouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John FlemingEdinburgh Fringe update - Grouchy Club Podcast 25Comedy critic Kate Copstick and blogger John Fleming on good Fringe shows including Al Porter, Bob Slayer’s toilet, Will Durst, Norwegians, racism, xenophobia, Laurence Owen, Disney, Martha McBrier, Papa CJ, Lewis Schaffer, Immigrant Diaries, Patrick MonahanYou can also download this audio podcast from iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/grouchy-clubs-mostly-about/id977279883www.grouchyclub.co.uk
2015-08-1024 min
Grouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John FlemingCopstick’s Fringe recommendations - Grouchy Club Podcast 24Edinburgh Fringe recommendations. As comedy critic Kate Copstick raves about Australian act Alice Fraser, also mentioned are Wil Hodgson, Twonkey’s Stinking Bishop, Michael Brunström and comedy couples Alfie Brown & Jessie Cave, Bobbie Mair & Harriet Kemsley, Matt Price & Martha McBrier and Lindsay Sharman & Laurence Owen. We also chat about the requirements to win a Malcolm Hardee Cunning Stunt Award and, in a stunning break from tradition, there is absolutely no mention of Lewis Schaffer. You can also download this audio podcast from iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/grouchy-clubs-mostly-about/id977279883www.grouchyclub.co.uk
2015-07-3123 minGrouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John FlemingEdinburgh Fringe 2015 recommendations - Grouchy Club Podcast 23Kate Copstick on Patrick Kielty plus Freestival’s new Edinburgh Fringe venue and rambled witterings about John Robertson, Bob Slayer, Phil Nichol, Patrick Monahan, Duncan Norvelle, “Blind Date”, Matt Roper, rather too much about Lewis Schaffer and why Copstick does not like preview shows.Recorded at the Mama Biashara shop in London.You can also download this audio podcast from iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/grouchy-clubs-mostly-about/id977279883www.grouchyclub.co.uk
2015-07-2539 min
Grouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John FlemingSex & namedropping - Grouchy Club Podcast 22The Edinburgh Fringe. Comedian Will Franken becomes transgender Sarah Franken. The risk of casting comics Lewis Schaffer and Patrick Monahan in a play. The increasingly prestigious Malcolm Hardee Comedy Awards Show. Disabled Romina Puma and sex toys. Abnormally Funny People. Robert Downey Junior lookalike Phil Nichol. Kate Copstick’s stage performance with Richard O’Brien, her encounter with Stephen Sondheim and her risk of being sued by Jason Donovan and Andrew Lloyd Webber. Recorded at the Mama Biashara shop in London. You can also download this audio podcast from iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/grou...
2015-07-1931 min
Grouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John FlemingLewis Schaffer - comic turns actor - Grouchy Club Podcast 21With Kate Copstick incommunicado in Kenya, John Fleming talks to Lewis Schaffer in the middle of London's River Thames about the American’s move into plays and about the Edinburgh Fringe... while Lewis Schaffer tells him how he should be recording the podcast.You can also download this audio podcast from iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/grouchy-clubs-mostly-about/id977279883www.grouchyclub.co.uk
2015-07-1319 min
Grouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John FlemingAcne & Edinburgh Fringe with Kate Copstick - Grouchy Club Podcast 20The sexiness of squeezing acne pus; how to get early reviews at the Edinburgh Fringe, Facebook attacks on Copstick, why stand-up comics are lazy PLUS how to audition to be Kate Copstick PLUS George Egg, Stu Francis, Janey Godley, Omar Hamdi, Brian Logan, Jerry Sadowiz, Lewis Schaffer, Doug Segal, Bob Slayer. Recorded with John Fleming at Mama Biashara in London.You can also download the audio podcast from iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/grouchy-clubs-mostly-about/id977279883And see the video version on YouTubehttp://youtu.be/A9WUPQPh5DU...
2015-07-0528 min
Grouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John FlemingPoverty in Kenya with Kate Copstick - Grouchy Club Podcast 19Life in Kenya described by comedy critic Kate Copstick - and how her Mama Biashara charity works there.Plus a couple of bits about comedy at the Edinburgh Fringe but - beware - this is mostly serious and includes explicit discussion of genitalia.Kate Copstick and John Fleming were recorded at the Mama Biashara shop in London.You can also download the audio podcast from iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/grouchy-clubs-mostly-about/id977279883www.grouchyclub.co.uk
2015-06-2831 min
Grouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John FlemingEdinburgh Fringe comedy previews? Why? - Grouchy Club Podcast 18Comedy critic Kate Copstick & blogger John Fleming on Edinburgh Fringe show previews and putting press quotes and stars on posters.Plus Copstick on getting drunk and vibrators from Poundland... Why Sean Penn’s hair in "Carlito’s Way" lost her a job on TV’s "Good Morning with Anne and Nick”... and passing references to comedians Lewis Schaffer and Njambi McGrath.Recorded at the Mama Biashara shop in London, interrupted by reality and suddenly disintegrating into chaos.You can see the video version of this podcast on YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1bhvA...
2015-06-2123 min
Grouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John FlemingHow to publicise an Edinburgh Fringe show - Grouchy Club Podcast 17Kate Copstick on how Edinburgh Fringe publicity works, the importance (or not) of PR people, how to twist reviewers’ words and much more.PLUS a preamble including Mel Moon, Milton Jones, Darren Walsh, Graeme Garden, Phil Nichol, Wil Hodgson, Christian Talbot, Trevor Noah, Reggie Watts, Chris Lynam, Miss Behave, Janey Godley, Richard Herring, Juliette Burton, Alfie Brown, Kunt & The Gang, Bob Slayer, Daniel Sloss, George Egg, the Malcolm Hardee Awards and Russian Egg Roulette. PLUS the first of 21 things you did not know about pornography.www.grouchyclub.co.uk
2015-06-1539 min
Grouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John FlemingCowgatehead Edinburgh Fringe chaos argument - Grouchy Club Podcast 16Disagreement about the ongoing Edinburgh Fringe venue chaos - between grumpy comedy critic Kate Copstick and increasingly girlie blogger John Fleming... Plus bits about religious sectarianism in Glasgow, iconic Jewish comedian Jackie Mason and much else...Also in vision on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTKUNypengAwww.grouchyclub.co.uk
2015-06-0732 min
Grouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John FlemingSectarianism, xenophobia and comedy - Grouchy Club Podcast 15The Grouchy Club Podcast with a little bit of sectarianism, xenophobia and laughter. Recorded before a comedy show at the Mama Biashara shop in London but repeatedly interrupted and we never quite gets round to talking about the recent Edinburgh Fringe chaos at the Cowgatehead venue. With Kate Copstick, Giacinto Palmieri, Luca Cupani and John Fleming.Also in vision on YouTube at http://youtu.be/h8S_Yy-SLAQwww.grouchyclub.co.uk
2015-05-3135 min
Grouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John FlemingFree Fringe Chaos in Edinburgh- Grouchy Club Podcast 14Kate Copstick and John Fleming discuss the Edinburgh Fringe chaos over the Cowgatehead free venue... The impact of the Scottish legal system... and Edinburgh comedy previews at Mama Biashara in London. Recorded at Mama Biashara and live streamed on Periscope.www.grouchyclub.co.uk
2015-05-2639 min
Grouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John FlemingMental health problems - Grouchy Club Podcast 13Kate Copstick auditions for “Little Shop of Horrors” and talks about the excitement of motor bike racing. Plus we talk first-hand about alcohol, self-harming, drugs, mental health problems and attempting suicide. Also... Copstick reveals who is “the best fuck in comedy”. It’s not all about comedy. Recorded at Mama Biashara in London.www.grouchyclub.co.uk
2015-05-1728 min
Grouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John FlemingFrench porn movies & Kenyan mugging - Grouchy Club Podcast 12Kate Copstick on being gang-mugged in Kenya and writing scripts for French porn movies. Plus the UK General Election, the Royal baby, the SNP and occasional bits about the comedy industry. Recorded at Mama Biashara in London.www.grouchyclub.co.uk
2015-05-1029 min
Grouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John FlemingMalcolm Hardee speaks - Grouchy Club Podcast 11Comedian Malcolm Hardee 1995. While writing his autobiography “I Stole Freddie Mercury’s Birthday Cake” Malcolm Hardee talked to John Fleming. This extract explains how he started his legendary comedy club The Tunnel with its weekly shows "Sunday Night at The Tunnel Palladium". Malcolm drowned in 2005. NOTE This recording was made to collect facts for Malcolm’s book. It was never meant to be heard in public, so the technical quality is not ideal. www.grouchyclub.co.ukwww.malcolmhardee.co.uk/award
2015-05-0408 min
Grouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John FlemingJuliette Burton - Grouchy Club Podcast 9With Copstick trapped in Kenya, comic Juliette Burton talks to John Fleming about Vlogging, Abnormally Funny People, mental health issues, the UK General Election and psychotic hallucinations. Recorded at King’s Cross station in London. www.grouchyclub.co.uk
2015-04-2138 min
Grouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John FlemingLewis Schaffer - Grouchy Club Podcast 7With co-host Copstick ill in bed, John Fleming talks to UK-based American comic Lewis Schaffer about why he became a comedian, his visits to a New York psychiatrist and what makes a good comedian. Recorded at Five Guys, London, after Lewis Schaffer’s weekly show at the Leicester Square Theatre. www.grouchyclub.co.uk
2015-04-0626 min
Grouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John FlemingAgeism, sex, paedophiles - Grouchy Club Podcast 6Ageism and sex in comedy. Showbiz paedophiles. The Manchester hotel that was a brothel. Camp v homosexual. Plus talk of Richard Herring, Jeremy Beadle, Mike Smith, Jimmy Savile v Jeremy Clarkson, Copstick’s love for Matthew Kelly and John throws down the sexual gauntlet to Stewart Lee. www.grouchyclub.co.uk
2015-03-3025 min
Grouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John FlemingJohn Fleming - Grouchy Club Podcast 5John Fleming babbles on about his life in TV promotions and entertainment. Plus his relationship with Malcolm Hardee, the real deceased Godfather of Alternative Comedy. Plus the early days of the British Alternative Comedy scene. And how Copstick tried to bribe a TV producer with fresh fruit. www.grouchyclub.co.uk
2015-03-1631 min
Grouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John FlemingNoel Faulkner - Grouchy Club Podcast 4Comedy critic Kate Copstick and daily blogger John Fleming at London’s Comedy Cafe Theatre with its owner Noel Faulkner... Copstick on female comics... Noel on his time as a drug smuggler and being on the US ‘Ten Most Wanted’ list... Plus why drugs should be decriminalised and a surprising compliment to the UK police. www.grouchyclub.co.uk
2015-03-0935 min
Grouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John FlemingFree Fringe origins - Grouchy Club Podcast 3Comedy critic Kate Copstick and daily blogger John Fleming on the origin of Edinburgh’s Free Fringe, bad UK sitcoms, William Shatner’s funniest role, why Copstick dislikes comic Lee Evans and Peter O’Toole but loves Tom Cruise and lusts after a famous actress. Plus the sound of a woman begging and Copstick attacking children. Recorded at the British Library. www.grouchyclub.co.uk
2015-03-0144 min
Grouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John FlemingComedy - Grouchy Club Podcast 2Comedy critic Kate Copstick and daily blogger John Fleming - both with diarrhoea - discuss British comedy, Kenyan comedy, West Indians & Indians, racism, Winston Churchill, Jewish humour, paedophilia, Kim Noble, the Edinburgh Fringe and the inevitable Lewis Schaffer. Recorded at the London Jewish Cultural Centre. www.grouchyclub.co.uk
2015-02-2325 min
Grouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John FlemingUK Comedy - Grouchy Club Podcast 1Comedy critic Kate Copstick and daily blogger John Fleming discuss the British comedy scene - sexism, bad comedians, UK TV, Dapper Laughs, Andrew Lawrence, rape victims, police corruption, PC Fascists and Copstick’s criminal career - all made chaotic in the first 16 minutes by an intrusive Africal drummer
2015-02-1543 min