Comedy | Preview
Edward Whelan: Miles Jupp is a bit of a polymath, with a sizable CV of television and radio appearances as a stand up, an actor and part of sketch team The Lost and ...
Edward Whelan: Sean Collins has a smooth, laidback style of comedy you don't see so much any more. His laconic manner is reminiscent of a time before frenetic and wi...
Comedy | Feature
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 ...
Ariadne Cass-Maran: Improv Wars joins regular feature Dance Monkey Boy Dance as your Monday night entertainment at the Glasgow Stand. Featuring well established local co...
Comedy | Review
Chris Williams: With its bizarre determination to actually pay its acts for performing on its well-trodden boards, The Stand has become a popular choice for the more ...
Pete Myall: Stephen Carlin's Big Thing is that he is apparently one of Stewart Lee's all-time top ten stand-up comedians, a fact that brings with it the surprisin...
Pete Myall: An early joke in Simon Munnery's set ends with the single word punchline, 'hypnosis' – curiously fitting for a comedian who loves to lead his au...
Ben Judge: Carey Marx is the dark heart of the ‘Stand Pack’, that band of Fringe comedians whose names have become synonymous with Edinburgh’s ...
Edward Whelan: They won’t sit still, they won’t shut up and they won’t leave. Hen and stag parties are a nuisance for anyone close to their crash s...
Lifestyle | Comedy | Deviance | Heads Up | Feature
Edward Whelan with Catriona MacPhee: On the left we had three representatives from the university (or so we were told) and on the right Steppenwolfe, Raymond Mearns and Frankie Boyle, com...
Scotty McKellar: If your experience of Aussie comedy begins and ends with Kath & Kim, you missed a great opportunity to ditch the chardonnay, crack open a tinnie a...
Lifestyle | Comedy | Heads Up | Feature
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 ...
Scotty McKellar: Regulars to The Stand’s Melting Pot, a monthly showcase for new comedy writing talent, were in for a nasty surprise this week when it was usurpe...
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 fiddle...
Paris Gourtsoyannis: The introduction to the Stand Fringe programme reads like a French revolutionary slogan – Unity! Quality! Affordability! Like the values of the ...
