STAGE
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Surreally, I won
a 2010 Fringe Report Award
as "Best Awards Founder" for the Malcolm Hardee Awards, started
in 2005.
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Until 2017, I am sponsoring three comedy awards at the Edinburgh Fringe: The Malcolm Hardee Award for Comic Originality, The Malcolm Hardee Cunning Stunt Award for the best Fringe publicity stunt and the Act Most Likely to Make a Million Quid award. The 2012 Awards will take place during a 2-hour variety show on the evening of Friday 24th August.
The 2011 Awards were presented during a 2-hour variety show in August. I also chaired two debates about the comedy business and arranged two spaghetti-juggling contests. It seemed like a good idea at the time.
At the 2010 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, I produced two separate comedy shows by Helen Keen: It is Rocket Science:V2 and Keen & Khan: Starstruck! plus Free Until Famous with Lewis Schaffer.
In 2009, I produced two Fringe shows: Helen Keen's The Primitive Methodist Guide to Arctic Survival and a 90-minute charity event Aaaaaaaaaarrghhh! - It's Bollock Relief! - The Malcolm Hardee Award Show. I was also Fringe consultant on Aindrias de Staic's award-winning The Summer I Did The Leaving and the show Bigger and Blacker by Lewis Schaffer.
2007-2010 I was consultant to two off-Broadway theaters in New York. I am currently UK consultant for US entertainment company Inbrook. |
NEW MEDIA
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I write a daily blog and also write for the Huffington Post and occasionally the Indian news website We Speak News. I wrote comedy
reviews from the Edinburgh Fringe for
the chortle.co.uk website, 2004-2006 plus a 2005 Fringe blog and a Fringe
feature for the Writers' Guild of Great Britain. I have built and webmastered sites for, among others, Scottish comedians Janey
Godley and Ian
Watt, Cardiff-based comedy scriptwriter Nigel
Crowle, London-based comedian Ricky Grover, eccentric inventor John Ward, and a tribute site for the late comedian Malcolm
Hardee. I also designed, built built and webmastered the original Cass Pennant website and
a now defunct website for imprisoned artists called ConArtists.
PRINT
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I edited and advised on Handstands
in the Dark, the non-humorous, pre-showbiz autobiography of comic Janey
Godley,
a No 3 hardback bestseller in 2005 and a UK Top Ten paperback bestseller in 2006. Previous books include Sit-Down
Comedy, an anthology of specially-commissioned writing by 19 British
and Irish stand-ups (now available in Apple iBooks and for Amazon Kindles); I
Stole Freddie Mercury's Birthday Cake, the autobiography of 'godfather of alternative comedy' Malcolm Hardee; and I contributed three
chapters to Anatomy of The Movies (other chapter contributors included
Martin Scorsese and Donald Sutherland). I have also written for various magazines, newspapers
and partworks including Halls of Horror, House of Hammer,The Independent, International Times, Mensa Magazine, The Movie, Screen International and Starburst.
TV PROMOS & CORPORATES
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I've written, produced and directed promo trailers for all the major
ITV companies and many others in places as diverse as Amsterdam, Dublin
and Prague as well as in languages I didn't understand (Czech, Danish,
Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish). Oh and I've also produced-directed multi-language
corporates in England, Wales and the Czech Republic. And managed promotion departments at Anglia TV & Granada TV in the UK. Oh! And I worked in the News Depts at Anglia TV, BBC TV, Granada TV and ITN. |
TV PROGRAMMES
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In 2008, I production managed a series of Underground Boxing events transmitted on the TWC Fight channel. In the last few years, I've also researched a TCM documentary The A-Z
of Crime Movies, was script consultant on a TCM documentary The
First 100 Years of The Western, a consultant on promo/script/style
elements within the Granada/ITV series This Morning and gave
an alleged 'script masterclass' to the production team of Trisha.
My credits in various production capacities include Tiswas, Game For a Laugh, Surprise Surprise, The Last Resort With Jonathan Ross as well as Jools Holland's The Happening, The Last Laugh with Jerry
Sadowitz, Prove It (with Chris Tarrant), Jack Dee's Saturday
Night and, well, you get the general idea......comedy, punters &
jollity. I've also produced a couple of Gong Show style pilots.
FEATURE FILM
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I financed the highly controversial 2010 British gangster film Killer Bitch. Its Facebook page has extensive links to reviews, features and photos. You can read a Sunday Herald interview with me here and see the trailer banned by YouTube here. Click on the logos above to buy the DVD from HMV, Amazon or play.com
FACTUAL DVDs
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2002-2010, I advised on and production managed 48 UK titles and 8 North American titles for Gangster Videos.
OTHER INTERESTS
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I've holidayed in Albania, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Bolivia, Brazil, Cambodia,
China, Colombia, Ecuador, India, Kosovo, Laos, Lebanon, Mongolia,
Montenegro, Nepal, North Korea, Pakistan, Paraguay, Peru, Russia, Serbia,
Siberia, Tibet, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Vietnam. I have eclectic
interests....In music, I like Bach, Randy Newman, Stereophonics
and Kurt Weill. In writing, George Eliot, James Joyce, Richard Matheson and Terry Southern. My favourite films include The Wild Bunch, It's
a Wonderful Life, Once Upon a Time in The West and Fight Club. Television: Quatermass and The Pit (1958-1959), Talking to a Stranger (1966), The Cops (1998-2000) and Doctor Who (2005-2009)
AND FINALLY...
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In its early days, I worked as a features researcher and news sub-editor on the BBC's CEEFAX teletext service. I have done a little bit of radio (promos
and programme) and written questions for a Basque-language children's
TV gameshow. I like new projects and the unexpected. The Chinese curse "May you live in interesting times" has always seemed a rather attractive option to me... |
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