Grouchy Club Podcast - Kate Copstick & John Fleming

Comedy 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 diminutive singer Prince and the availability of the Mama Biashara stage area for Edinburgh Fringe previews.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

Sexual 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

Comedy 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/grouchy-clubs-mostly-about/id977279883John Fleming posts occasional blogs at: http://blog.thejohnfleming.com

Comedy 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

Kate 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

In 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

On 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

“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 chance for John of naked-from-the-waist video stardom.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

“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/id977279883John Fleming posts occasional blogs at:http://blog.thejohnfleming.com

Edinburgh 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

Malcolm 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

Critic 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 secret, Copstick’s duet with “Rocky Horror Show” creator Richard O’Brien, borrowing a song from Bill Bailey and comedians boxing for cancer.“The future of comedy is here” (the Independent on Copstick)“I am not pleasant enough to do anything on my own” (Copstick on herself)http://www.grouchyclub.co.ukYou can also download this audio podcast from iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/grouchy-clubs-mostly-about/id977279883

After 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 iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/grouchy-clubs-mostly-about/id977279883

We 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.ukYou can also download this audio podcast from iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/grouchy-clubs-mostly-about/id977279883

Kate 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

The 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

Kate 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

The 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.thejohnfleming.com

The 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 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

Lynn 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, there are some edits in it. 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