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Fri 12 Mar 2010

Teddy: The Magners Glasgow Comedy Festival is upon us! To join in with the spirit, The Skinny will be bringing you a selection of Dullest Blogs on the subject of Springtime, all sorts of crazy days of the week. Springtime means different things to ...

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Tue 12 Jan 2010

Elaine Malcolmson: It’s the best time of the year for making resolutions. Is it really? Really, really? Is it not a better time for sitting with your feet up, looking out at the snow, dreaming of one last sprout? Or putting your efforts into avoiding a Near Arse Experi...

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Wed 06 Jan 2010

Teddy: Now that we’re entering a new decade as well as a new year, it feels like I should take stock of my life and work out what the older, wiser (?) me needs to be doing. People I speak to often assume that because I’m a comedian, I must want to be ...

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Tue 22 Dec 2009

Gus Tawse: Fit like, With 26 shopping days left until Christmas, I was to Livingston to get the last few gifts for my fiancé, daughter and in-laws. I’ve been remarkably organised - but it wasn’t always this way. Whenever I think about the Christm...

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Tue 01 Dec 2009

JoJo Sutherland: My worst memory of Christmas was a few years ago when the winter vomiting bug came to visit and stayed right through until New Year. Either because it was terrified of me or it was feeling particularly evil it left me well alone. I suspect the latter, as I...

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Tue 17 Nov 2009

Chris Henry: Let me start by pointing out that I’m 31, single and have no kids, so when asked to write about “Family”, a broad grin spread across my face when I reminded myself that I don’t have one of my own. Don’t get me wrong, the...

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Tue 03 Nov 2009

Paul Sneddon: Underdogs When The Skinny asked me to write about underdogs, it struck me that the term is a particularly British concept. Look the word up in Italian, French or German - all literally translate as “loser”. The Spanish don't even ...

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Tue 13 Oct 2009

Teddy: When looking at the odds made up by my comedy colleagues for the last two Scottish Comedian of the Year Finals, my heart has sank as I’ve been joint favourite in each of them. There’s something so much more fun about being able to consider ...

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Tue 22 Sep 2009

Chris Henry: Back to School No sooner had I read this month's theme, it started. All my repressed memories of my school days started popping like giant acne in my brain. Being skinnier than a super model with pig flu, my hair was cut by our neighbours “hairdres...

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Tue 15 Sep 2009

Bratchy: The Dullest Blog has taken a couple of weeks' break whilst the comedians of this great country recover their livers from the Fringe. But we're Back to School now, starting with the magnificent Bratchy. ----- BACK TO SCHOOL I will begin with a recollect...

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Thu 27 Aug 2009

Vladimir McTavish: Edinburgh is without doubt the world's greatest festival. But it is a marathon rather than a sprint. Last week, every other show at my venue had a night off, but I had to collect some props from my venue, which was locked. Borrowing the keys to Stand ...

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Wed 26 Aug 2009

Bec Hill: On one particular day this Fringe, a girl called Geraldine was dobbed in by her friend because she made four different types of cake in one day. This may not seem particularly heroic, but it turns out that was the best thing anyone could come up with, so G...

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Tue 25 Aug 2009

Iona Dudley-Ward: I think one man got a little bit confused by the term festival today; he turned up to a performance I’m in called “The Hotel” wearing Wellington boots, a bun bag and a straw hat…this is not Glastonbury I said! Anyway for ...

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Sun 23 Aug 2009

Dan March: 'Oh my god he's almost semi famous' screams a young Scot at Sean Hughes, this is then followed by someone else shouting 'Sean! He's my f@*king idol'. It's three o'clock this morning, I'm at a chippie near the Gilded Balloon and Sean just wants to get some ...

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Sat 22 Aug 2009

Dave Thornton: It has been an interesting experience at this Fringe Festival for a debut antipodean performer like myself. I’ve been spellbound, swarmed and attacked. I’ve been brow beaten by an overly sensitive pedant, attacked by a swarm of bees and set upo...

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Fri 21 Aug 2009

The List Operators: 11 Things the List Operators have learnt about Edinburgh: 1. Newtown is old. 2. Hen parties can strip the meat off a Chippendale is less than 5 minutes. 3.The trams are on their way, apparently. 4. The national food of Scotland appears to be baguettes....

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Thu 20 Aug 2009

Felicity Ward: "Today my dipshittery has reached an all time high. Most days I am quite comfortable with the fact that I don't drink but sometimes my behaviour would be far more explicable if I did. It was 5am. Shennanigans had had the whistle blown on it and we decided...

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Tue 18 Aug 2009

Richard Fry: Last year, when I came to Edinburgh, I struck up a friendship with Nadira Murray who was at the Fringe with her one woman show 'The British Ambassador's Belly Dancer.' She is a very sexy lady and her performance left many a gentleman captivated. After our ...

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Mon 17 Aug 2009

Rhona McKenzie: I am an Edinburgh Festival virgin. It is so different from the festivals from my youth. My home town’s festival is the annual Riding of the Marches which culminates next week with the crowning of the Queen. The title of queen would conjure up images...

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Sun 16 Aug 2009

Miles Jupp: The festival is a jolly time. Why would anyone ever dare to think otherwise? You can convince yourself that you are busy if you are only working for a total of just two or three hours a day. It’s amazing. And people are sympathetic. They say “G...

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Sat 15 Aug 2009

Elaine Malcolmson: Not many of you will know that I spent some of my youth working on fun-fair games. That’s right, I’ve been a gypsy, a tramp and a thief. For two years my summers, school holidays and weekends were all the fun of the fair. I doubt this sounds gl...

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Fri 14 Aug 2009

Des Clarke: Some say the Fringe is like the World Cup of comedy so as a guy from Scotland it’s such a relief they don’t make me qualify. Well I’d only end up losing to Macedonia on away jokes. It is amazing how quickly that twelve months goes. It ...

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Thu 13 Aug 2009

Rosie Wilby: Here I am back at Edinburgh and its sunny! Already so much better than last year when my cheap flyers all dissolved in the rain and were only good for people to make models of mini creatures out of. A lot of people have started asking why I'm covered in g...

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Wed 12 Aug 2009

Stephen K Amos: It’s that elusive time of year again, mysteriously called summer time, when everyone looks to the sky and says 'Where’s the sun?' If you did miss the brief blast of nice weather back in May then don’t despair because for your average Brit...

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Tue 11 Aug 2009

Doc Brown: Well, festival season is upon us once more. I must say I love it. I tend to indulge in it all: the crowds, the daytime drinking, that electric excitement as the sun begins to fall, the general hedonistic vibe… As a slight dampener though, I&rsquo...

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Mon 10 Aug 2009

Celia Pacquola: As a comic, my only experience with festivals have been comedy and there are a few things that always seem to happen: 1. People getting sick Known as ‘festival flu’. And more often than not, people will give you a hug and a kiss h...

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Sun 09 Aug 2009

Tom Allen: The thing about festivals is they can feel like enforced fun. Particularly if you just happen to live in the place where a festival’s taking place and don’t have any particular interest in what it’s about. Or you just end up feeling guilt...

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Sat 08 Aug 2009

Toby Williams: When one thinks of Edinburgh the first thing that springs instantly to most minds is the story of Major Eustace Brankston, who famously foiled an attempt on his life, chasing a would-be assassin from his chambers in Morningside by divesting himself of his ...

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Fri 07 Aug 2009

Stephen Carlin: If there’s one thing that cities other than Edinburgh could benefit from it’s being built on the side of an extinct volcano. Birmingham’s perennial planning difficulties always sprung, I felt, from it’s absence of a solidified lava ...

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Thu 06 Aug 2009

Bethany Black: Most of my festival experiences as an adult have been the big music festivals – Glastonbury being a firm favourite. My mother and I went together in 1995. We found a guy who’d dug under the wall and was charging a fiver each for the use of hi...

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Wed 05 Aug 2009

Colm O’Regan: We're getting all festival special for the Dullest Blog this month, with a new collection of comedic ramblings now up every day this August. You'll be inspired ----- In Ireland, we find a reason to hold more than 400 festivals a year. A cursory glance at...

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Tue 21 Jul 2009

Elaine Malcolmson: Reality Bites Apparently you shouldn’t phone some people when Britain’s Got Talent (BGT) is on. Exactly when is BGT or one of its associated sideshows not on? Sometimes I wonder if the only way to communicate with some people would be to go o...

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Tue 14 Jul 2009

JoJo Sutherland: Reality TV Big Brother is upon us and I have a dilemma; do I commit my summer to watching it and keep up with the water cooler chat or do I get a life? I’ve already given up many an hour this year for The X Factor, Britain’s Got Talent and The...

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Tue 07 Jul 2009

Will Andrews: Why do comics still see reality TV as 'rich pickings'? To watch Big Bother haul its limp carcass into focus for the tenth time on our much loved but frankly deeply eroded fourth channel, all it elicits is a wince of embarrassed disgust. There is nothing fu...

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Tue 30 Jun 2009

Paul Sneddon: The Internet. One of the most revolutionary technological breakthroughs in human history. It keeps each and every one of us in touch with one another 24 hours a day, seven days a week at the click of a mouse. Well, that’s the theory at any rate...

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Tue 23 Jun 2009

Bratchy: Recently my gran celebrated her birthday. I made her a homemade birthday card, presuming that the personal investment in the endeavour would warm her ancient, knackered heart. She asked me if I made it on Moonpig.com. The birthday in question was her 81s...

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Tue 16 Jun 2009

Rhona McKenzie: I was asked to write this blog at short notice and was not sure if I could as I am just about to go holiday. However thanks to the power of the internet I am able to write whilst warming my bum nicely on the Caledonian Sleeper heading from Glasgow to Londo...

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Tue 09 Jun 2009

Stephen Callaghan: No question that cannot be answered. How did we cope without it? Kids nowadays will grow up never knowing a world where people could not google all over each other and do emails at each other, let alone get our Twitters out on the bus. I recalled my chil...

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Tue 02 Jun 2009

Teddy: The Internet Choice. A word which is usually seen as a positive (so long as it’s not got the word “Sophie’s” before it). I’m not that big a fan of choice. When I worked in my parents Ironmongers (I was never a very good mon...

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Tue 26 May 2009

Billy Kirkwood: The text message of ‘Let’s go for a picnic’ is clearly met with confusion by those I have invited. Lot’s of replies of ‘what?’ and ‘I’m busy’ and ‘Are you six?’. “Six am I? …....

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Tue 19 May 2009

Chris Henry: When I was a youngster, my dad, being the thrifty fellow he is, would rather drag us through hell than spend money on entertaining us. So, he’d pack the car with the family, a barbeque and our dog Frisky (no leg was safe around this horny canine).. F...

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Tue 12 May 2009

Stephen Callaghan: Stephen Callaghan on the Great Picnic of Life. In my youth, a picnic meant a day where I, along with my parents and my siblings, would be delicately folded into an overheated Volvo to have our inter-family tensions baked at 180 degrees for however long it...

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Tue 05 May 2009

Elaine Malcolmson: I have a dream: a dream of the perfect picnic. The romantic notion of gathering one’s friends (or teddy bears) together on a blanket by a tranquil riverbank and feasting on dainty sandwiches, pretty cup cakes and perfectly chilled cava. In reality, h...

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