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This page was last updated on 23 July, 2010

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Read the recent Sunday Herald
interview with me HERE.

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banned by YouTube
HERE.

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Surreally, in January, I won a 2010 Fringe Report Award as "Best Awards Founder" for the Malcolm Hardee Awards, started in 2005.

Until 2017, I am sponsoring three comedy awards at the Fringe: The Malcolm Hardee Award for Comic Originality, The Malcolm Hardee Cunning Stunt Award for the best Fringe publicity stunt plus a new, annual Act Most Likely to Make a Million Quid award. Last year 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 award-winning American Lewis Schaffer. At this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe, I will be producing two separate comedy shows by Helen Keen: It is Rocket Science:V2 and Keen & Khan: Starstruck! plus Free Until Famous with Lewis Schaffer. The Malcolm Hardee Awards will be announced and presented on Friday 27th August.

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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, actress Yvette Rowland and a tribute site for the late comedian Malcolm Hardee. I also built and webmaster the Killer Bitch movie site and the sales websites for Gangster Videos. I designed & webmastered the original Cass Pennant website and a now defunct website for imprisoned artists called ConArtists. 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.

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2002-2010, I advised on and production managed 48 UK titles and 8 North American titles for Gangster Videos. Their latest non-fiction DVDs are Jason Marriner: Football Hooligan!... Carlton Leach: The Real Rise of a Foot Soldier... CFC: The Cage Fighters Championship... and Gangsters UK.

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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.

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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; 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 newspaper, The International Times, Mensa Magazine, The Movie, Screen International and Starburst.

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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.


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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)

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...