Marching Orders
An army marches on its stomach and so does an English teacher, as Daniel Pope found out. Despite my earning...
Comedy
He Who Laughs Last
In the winter of 1990, I was working in real estate in London with my business partner, Steve Collins. One...
App Fap: App-Based Transport Solutions
New application-based transportation solutions are taking Indonesia’s jammed boulevards by storm. Last time out, I gnashed my teeth at the...
Filling the Grill
In the early ‘90s, I was working in sales and marketing at the Sari Pan Pacific Hotel in Jakarta. Our...
A World of Tradition
I love traditions. Family traditions, national traditions, anything that is traditional in the true sense of the word. I guess...
Proof that Not Refusing to Save the Planet Might Not be a Bad Idea
Most people will be very surprised to learn that the world’s population of polar bears has shrunk by almost 60...
Catching a Flick
I like movies that are either funny or true, meaning I don’t generally see the point of letting precious minutes...
A Person, Another Person and a Third Person Walk into a Bar
Political correctness has become part of everyone’s lives over the last couple of decades. Everyone now needs to be very...
Fun With Weapons
Daniel Pope contemplates whether a foreigner could get away with murder in Indonesia. My local hangout in Jakarta in the...
The Greatest Show on Earth
By the time you read this the biggest and oldest comedy festival in the world will be over (or very...
Booze Blues
The price of alcohol in Indonesia continues to soar into the stratosphere as new import duties are introduced. I’ve...
Fetch the Fava Beans and a Nice Chianti
Where I come from people never die. Before you rush to buy a house next to mine, I don’t mean...
Nothing New
When I went to Istanbul recently, I was eager to submit to the full tourist experience and immerse myself completely...
Real Heroes
I’ve never been a fan of those works of fiction that portray super muscular, superheroes performing amazing and noble feats...
When All About You are Losing Theirs
Near the end of World War II, an American B24 bomber was shot down by the Japanese over North Borneo,...
Incredible Java
Very few people are fully aware of the huge impact Java has had on the world as we know it...
Lazy, Hazy, Crazy Daze of Summer
The summer of 1976 was the hottest and driest in the UK since records began, with the months of June,...
The Boys are Back in Town
April 2015 marks the 14th anniversary of the Jakarta Comedy Club and I am pleased to announce that on April...
The Great North-South Divide
I will not mention the name of the city in the north of England where I chose to go in...
The Old Hands
There is always kudos in the amount of time you have been doing something, a kind of “seniority of time”,...
See You in 2015!
November 2014 was the busiest month the Jakarta Comedy Club has ever had. We had four events in 15 days,...