Comedy | Feature
Jen Lavery: Skinny: Hi Dave, so tell us a little bit about your show. Dave Gorman: Unusually for me there’s no particular theme. It’s a regular stan...
Lizzie Cass-Maran: In Hitler Moustache Herring examines society’s hypocrisies when it comes to race. The toothbrush moustache he has had intermittently for many m...
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 ...
Siân Bevan: Prestigious nights such as Red Raw at The Stand used to be the place for new acts to try out their funnies, but massive demand has now led to a long w...
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...
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...
Lizzie Cass-Maran: A writer for the Scotsman had the temerity to claim that we were suffering a dearth of female comedians. ‘Are men really funnier than women?&rs...
Theatre | Comedy | Feature
Lyle Brennan: Attempting to talk to six performers from as many different shows in a single sitting is, at best, a challenge. Having just stepped off the set of the...
Lloyd Langford: Blues musicians lead such extraordinary and interesting lives. Take for example Blind Lemon Jefferson, guitar, storyteller and the inventor and dogged...
Sam Friedman: It’s Thursday night and an exhausted Jane Berthoud makes her way to the tiny Pleasance Attic for her sixth comedy show of the day. The comedian ...
Fergus Craig: The same reason it’s so good. The practicalities of making five 22 minute long programmes a week, every week on a small budget don’t reall...
Ariadne Cass-Maran: Our first experience of comedy generally comes from television, old comedy recordings, or stand-up DVDs. Most of us have been exposed to Ardal O&rsquo...
Tom Hackett: The scene: the Bongo Club, Edinburgh, Monday 10th January, 2009. A small, blonde child in the front row stands on his mother’s knee, facing the ...
Jay Richardson: Interview begun at 12.05pm by Jay Richardson. Present are Alfie Moore, 43, serving officer with Humberside Police, charged with successfully impersona...
