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March 17, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Bob Odenkirk: Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama

Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama Bob Odenkirk Penguin Random House I love Bob Odenkirk. Have done since before I knew his name. He just kept popping up on things. That same face in everything. A mild smirk. A guy who had some sadness, some trauma etched onto him and laced all through his comedy. A guy […]

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October 6, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: How Not To

There’s a clip I watch on YouTube and I’m not joking when I say I look at it most weeks. It’s a film-student interviewing John Cusack and she can’t believe her luck, you see the class was watching American Beauty that day, and she skipped out to interview its star – only Cusack, quite reasonably […]

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November 14, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: The TED.Danson Talks

* I first knew Ted Danson from Cheers. He played a guy called Sam Malone. But he could have been named Ted Danson. * Ted Danson had been in a load of TV before Cheers – rubbish soaps and sitcoms, a walk-on here, a bit part there. But he was in Taxi… it was […]

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May 13, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Gig Review: Noel Fielding (May 11, Wgtn)

Noel Fielding: An Evening With Noel Fielding Opera House Monday, May 11/Tuesday, May 12 Noel Fielding found fame with The Mighty Boosh, also Never Mind The Buzzcocks. He’s a cult hero, on panel shows and occasionally doing stand-up, he’s got a rock-star demeanour (minus the attitude). He’s somehow genuinely endearing and with this surrealist thread […]