Comedy :: Preview 10 Oct 2008
Lizzie Cass-Maran: Here’s one especially for the Highlanders: hit Edinburgh Fringe show Elizabeth and Raleigh: Late But Live is currently on tour around the UK, with a Scottish date at Eden Court, Inverness on Sunday 26 October. Elizabeth and Raleigh is the second...
Heads Up :: Comedy :: News 29 Sep 2008
Lizzie Cass-Maran: The comedy community breathed a sigh a relief last night as comic Scott Agnew scooped the top prize in HaHa Comedy’s Scottish Comedian of the Year 2008, following last year’s controversy over accusations of injustice and bias amongst the ju...
Comedy :: Preview 26 Sep 2008
Penny Green: Brendan Burns? I don't know why a drunken ozzy is such a speciality in the UK when there are thousands of them in Australia. He's not even attractive, but maybe you got a ticket to his special gig at The Stand last month and actually found the usual pi...
Heads Up :: Comedy :: Preview 21 Sep 2008
Lizzie Cass-Maran: The Scottish Comedian of the Year contest is with us once more. This annual competition is open to everyone from Joe Open Spot to Billy Connolly; the only criteria is that you must come from, or base yourself in, Scotland. Winners have been chosen fr...
Film :: Comedy :: Review 16 Sep 2008
Kevin McHugh: Brought to us by the unlikely combination of MySpace and Film4, Faintheart is a moderately entertaining British comedy. Eddie Marsan plays the loveable Richard, a wannabe Viking who, with his merry men, re-enact Norse battles at the weekends – a ...
Books :: Heads Up :: Comedy :: Preview 12 Sep 2008
Lizzie Cass-Maran: Feeling dreary? Feeling just a little bit too close to reality? You need never have that feeling again, as now for the first time ever you too can have a tiny, surreal, fragment of the Mighty Boosh on your book shelf. The Mighty Book of Boosh arrive...
Comedy :: Preview 12 Sep 2008
Carmody Wilson: Tom Stade is a comedian who engages with his audience, so any punters sitting in the front row of his new show, I Swear... should be careful: you may end up discussing your marriage, sexual orientation or whatever else Stade decides is fair game. That&...
Comedy :: Feature 11 Sep 2008
Teddy: When i was around 13-14, I'd watch Lee and Herring's Fist of Fun on BBC2. Along with Sean Hughes' Sean's Show, it was probably my most formative comedic experience growing up. Imagine my excitement then when, around eight years ago, Stewart Lee was pla...
Comedy :: Feature 09 Sep 2008
Dermot McMorrow: Braws: Cereal My first morning in Edinburgh I was eating cereal for breakfast and there was milk left over, I added more cereal and more milk and ate that and there was milk left over, I added more cereal and more milk and ate that and there was milk...
Film :: Comedy :: Review :: DVD Review 01 Sep 2008
Lindsay West: Following on from 2002's The Other Side of the Bed (El Otro Lado de la Cama), Emilio Martinez Lazaro's sequel of sorts is exactly the sort of plush, Spanish comedy of errors that begs for comparisons to early Almodovar. Viewing its predecessor is worth...
Comedy :: Feature 26 Aug 2008
Des Clarke: It is finally over. This Edinburgh festival 2008 has ceased to be. It is a late Fringe. This year’s full monty is a deid parrot, climaxing more abruptly than a bus shelter fumble. It wasn’t always the way though. At times this festival dr...
Comedy :: Review 26 Aug 2008
Emma Lennox: Susan Calman may be a school boyish, four foot eleven jokester, but this is one lady you wouldn't want to cross. Calman claims in complete sincerity that she “really, really fucking hates people,” before carrying on in her chatty Glaswegian...
Comedy :: Feature 22 Aug 2008
Des Clarke: A Fringe performer’s day off at is about as rare as leftovers on Rik Waller’s dinner plate, and about as surprising as a call to his agent. Technically it is free time, at least in the sense that you don’t get paid for it. In reality ...
Fashion :: Deviance :: Film :: Comedy :: Review :: DVD Review 22 Aug 2008
Lindsay West: Despite its vague billing as a risque German 'gay interest' comedy, Fashion Victims is in truth a far straighter affair than the rainbow titles and sartorial subtext might first imply. Looking more like a mortgage advisor than a fashion rep, Wolfgang (...
Comedy :: Review 18 Aug 2008
Emma Lennox: Squeezing between the burly armed men of George Street's Standing Order pub, I spot a hand written sign in green marker. It is scrawled in straight forward letters: 'PBH's Free Fringe', and points to an empty room. Clearly this is no multimillion pound...
Comedy :: Feature 18 Aug 2008
Emma Lennox: The blood balloons out of the finger and is sucked into the plastic stick, it then seeps into the calculator; 6.1 it beeps. Comedian Karl Spain fiddles with his glucometre in tense competition. Finally he jabs his finger, the process begins again and t...
Comedy :: Feature 12 Aug 2008
Des Clarke: They used to say that being a Scottish performer at the Fringe was a bit like the story of Sting’s song ‘An Englishman in New York’. Basically, you stuck out like an ugly person on Hollyoaks. There’s no link now though. Well ...
Comedy :: Feature 11 Aug 2008
Diet of Worms: Braw: The delightfully odd woman who came to our show last week and cried, wailed and sniffled all the way through because apparently Rory somehow reminded her of her poodle who died the day before. "They have the same eyes." Naw: The friends of this ...
Comedy :: Feature 08 Aug 2008
Steve Mould, Gemma Arrowsmith: Problem #1: “I was walking down the Royal Mile when a sudden downpour meant my laptop is now waterlogged.“ Mould & Arrowsmith suggest... Next time this happens befriend a student from a theatre company doing avant garde Shakespeare on...
Film :: Comedy :: Review 08 Aug 2008
Kevin McHugh: 'Hairdresser assassin' sounds like it could be the perfect cut. Zohan (Sandler) is Israel’s finest undercover agent, who men want to be and woman want to, you know, bed. But his dream is moving to New York and becoming a famous stylist, so he fak...
