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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Clare and I will be taking Lily and Edie to the family-friendly Latitude Festival in Suffolk next week. This will be the first time we've taken the kids to a festival, which means - of course - that it's time for me to clean up my act. My traditional festival-going holding pattern of hedonistic self-indulgence and bifurcated candle-burning has given way to a growing sense of maturity and responsibility. For one thing, I plan to blog directly from the event instead of writing it all up weeks later. Latitude is known for being quite arty and eclectic - imagine the [...]

“Does Humour Belong in Politics?”

Can you honestly imagine Lenny Bruce or Bill Hicks submitting to the discipline of the Whips? That was the Right Honourable MP for Ealing North, Stephen Pound, on this evening's PM programme on Radio 4, once again justifying his status as one of the only contemporary British politicians I'd happily buy a pint for. Following the news that US satirist Al Franken had been elected as Minnesota Senator, Pound and comedy writer John O'Farrell were discussing whether its possible for a comedian or satirist to become a politician and remain funny. Pound felt that it was unlikely, partly because a [...]

Dancing in the Dark

I should be watching Bruce Springsteen at Hyde Park tonight. As I may have mentioned previously, I tried to buy a pair of tickets on the morning they went on sale but - quelle sur-bloody-prise - it was too late. It had sold out within a fraction of a picosecond. Since then, an inordinate amount of time has been spent entering every damn chance-in-a-million competition for Springsteen tickets I could find, but to no avail. I even thought of buying tickets from an online tout but - after seeing the hideously inflated prices on offer - that option was swiftly [...]

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