Comedy | Feature
Ariadne Cass-Maran: Write Here Write Now, part of the Scotland Writes initiative from the BBC Writer’s Room, has invited us to put together a Scottish comedy/drama ...
Lizzie Cass-Maran: Last night saw the programme launch for this year's Magners Glasgow International Comedy Festival, which runs from 11-28 March. And what a programme ...
Comedy | Preview
Anna Kynes: I hate January. Everyone hates January. It’s cold, it’s slippy, you’re poor, fat and nauseous, it’s ages ‘til Christmas ...
Lizzie Cass-Maran: If you really want to know about comedians, ask another comic. Once you go through the usual, obvious and dubious recommendations of people’s be...
Film | Comedy | DVD Review
Scotty McKellar: Maxi (Cámara) is a foul-mouthed, flamboyant and mostly unlikable chef in Madrid, whose professional and personal lives are thrown into ...
Michael Gillespie: This rare misfire from cinema’s greatest entertainer was one of several productions to mark the end of the New Hollywood era. 1941 is a mess of ...
Comedy | Review
Lizzie Cass-Maran: Eddie Izzard has entered the 21st century. As we walk into the stadium at the SECC, giant screens feed live Twitter messages to the crowd, who are mo...
Lizzie Cass-Maran: Going to a tenth birthday party and seeing some clowns probably isn’t quite what you had in mind for a night on the town. Hell, you probably di...
Film | Comedy | Review | DVD Review
Michael Gillespie: Sunshine Cleaning is a a lovely wee film. Not, however, in the way that so many American indies (In Search of A Midnight Kiss, Away We Go, 500 Days of...
Siân Bevan: It would be something of an achievement not to have heard of Eddie Izzard. You may know him best for his surreal, rambling comedy, his serious acting ...
Edward Whelan: Glasgay! has already been running since 3 September, so if you’ve not seen anything yet, where have you been? Fortunately, the UK's leading LGBT...
Ann-Marie Reilly: There’s a packed house and a lively, attentive audience as compere Des Clarke takes the stage for the fourth installment of Ha Ha Comedy's annua...
Lizzie Cass-Maran: Whilst I admit to a soft spot for both the Gingers and the Aussies, most musical comedy leaves me cold. I’ve seen too many good musicians who j...
Stu Who?: Being an uptight, insecure wee hooligan from Easterhouse had left me relatively unprepared for my first days of studenthood. I was eighteen and rebell...
Adrian Choa: It takes a lot of talent to pull off a comedy adaptation of George Orwell’s ‘1984’. To somehow turn an ominous narrative which explo...
