Tom Lennon • Freelance Writer: comedy and pop culture

Freelance writer specializing in comedy and the geekier end of the pop culture spectrum.

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Next Gig: Howling Mad Comedy

I really do need to set-up a seperate section of this for stand-up related missives. In the meantime, though, this'll have to do. Details of my next stand-up gig are as follows: Howling Mad Comedy Wharf 10 Bar 10 Wolverhampton Street Walsall Thursday, August 26th 7.30pm-10.30pm The night is being organised by my pals at Half-a-Dog-Comedy and also appearing on the bill will be Bethany Black and Andy Jones (with more to be confirmed). The compere is Mr Phillip McCullough. That will be all.

Alejandro Jodorowsky Interview

Here's an interview I did with cult filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky about his acclaimed comics work.

Bob Dylan at Hop Farm

In 1970, the year I was born, Rolling Stone magazine published a review by learned rock journalist Greil Marcus of what was then Bob Dylan's latest album, Self-Portrait. The review's high impact opening sentence has since earned itself a place in the annals of popular culture for its succinct precision and evocative use of language. It simply asked the question: 'What is this shit?' It's 2010 and Bob Dylan and Greil Marcus are both nearly 40 years older and I'm nearly 40 years-old. Dylan has just performed a storming set on a sizzling Saturday night in front of Clare, the [...]

Capello, Cook and Alan Latchley

The mounting speculation over Fabio Capello's future as England coach reminds me of a character that legendary satirist Peter Cook created shortly before his death. Football manager Alan Latchley was one of three Cook creations that Clive Anderson 'interviewed' in a special edition of his early-90s Channel 4 chat show, each a perfectly-formed slice of improvisational brilliance. When Anderson grilled Latchley over rumours that he was being lined up to replace that era's disgraced England manager, Graham Taylor, Latchley's response was a priceless and strangely prescient given this week's events: "He did a cracking job. When you look at the [...]

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