Comedy :: Feature 03 Dec 2008
Interviews by Ariadne Cass-Maran and Siân Bevan: Scott Agnew on winning HaHa Comedy’s Scottish Comedian of the Year Until September I'd only ever won one thing in my life - a Blue Peter annual from the nuns for having drawn a nice wee picture of Jesus. How times have changed - now folk were ha...
Comedy :: Feature 01 Dec 2008
Scott Agnew: Until September I'd only ever won one thing in my life - a Blue Peter annual from the nuns when I was at primary school for having drawn a nice wee picture of Jesus. How times have changed - now folk were handing me MDF Bananas and taking my picture fo...
Susan Calman: In case you hadn’t noticed, a few weeks back a comedian and a TV presenter made a few phone calls to a man who was in a British sitcom three decades ago. Put like that it seems fairly innocuous, so for those who have been dead to the world for t...
Comedy :: Feature 30 Nov 2008
Siân Bevan: Greg McHugh is doing pretty well. After starting life on the Scottish stand-up circuit, he’s now caught in the exciting zone where important people in suits recognise his name, read his scripts and pat him on the back at parties. Some comedy-love...
Comedy :: Feature 28 Nov 2008
Ariadne Cass-Maran: This year ‘the big four’, the Pleasance, Underbelly, Gilded Balloon and Assembly Rooms formed the Edinburgh Comedy Festival in the name of corporate sponsorship, throwing the Scottish comedy community into hysterical worry. The corporate ...
Heads Up :: Comedy :: Feature 20 Nov 2008
Ariadne Cass-Maran: Virgin Trains have refused to advertise The Stand Comedy Club because of concerns that their logo [pictured] promotes gun crime. Tommy Sheppard, the owner of The Stand, has directly appealed to Richard Branson for good sense, following Virgin's decisi...
Comedy :: Feature 10 Nov 2008
Ciaran Woods: So Sean, you've just finished recording your first live DVD. How do you think it went? I'd say it was very good. I don't know. I'm probably the least effective public relations man on earth - I'm the anti-Russell Brand. I'm fucking shit at publicizi...
Music :: Comedy :: Feature 22 Oct 2008
Erin McElhinney: Hello, thanks for doing this interview! My pleasure. Well, it might be, I don't know, we'll see. Well you can rate me at the end, mark me out of five stars? Right, well, you're losing stars now, come on! [giggles inanely] What was the inspiration for...
Heads Up :: Comedy :: Feature 15 Sep 2008
Lizzie Cass-Maran: Hoards of screaming teenagers lining up in the rain and camping overnight in Glasgow city centre. Security guards leaping on bins to protect the stars. A 14-year old getting a guitar signed. Everyone has not only the T-shirt, but the makeup, the outfit...
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...
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 :: 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 ...
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...
Robert Duffin: Everyone has a George W. Bush joke. Not since a certain ex-President forgot to hand his assistant a Kleenex to dab her dress has a Commander in Chief generated such an industry of humour around his occupancy. The same goes for Tony Blair, forever cast ...
Comedy :: Feature :: Preview 04 Aug 2008
Luke Wright, Joel Stickley: F*ck! F*ck! F*ck! Cutting-edge standup from Australia's own Jim Bowdler. With material ranging from 'George Bush is stupid' to 'men and women are different in some regards', Bowdler isn't afraid to tackle the big subjects. Watch out for his infamous ca...
Comedy :: Feature 01 Aug 2008
Emma Lennox: What made you give up being a lawyer? There was no money in law, obviously! I'm writing a new show about leaving law for comedy. It's entitled What the hell was I thinking? My family are writing most of it. On top of that I was kind of tired of making ...
