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Jimmy Carr: Joke Technician @ The Alhambra, Dunfermline, 20 Jun
Jimmy Carr is astonishingly unoffensive in his latest stand-up fest, Joke Technician. Well unless you're a Hollyoaks actor or Simon Cowell. Or someone who s... Read more »| 01 Jul 2009 -
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Vladimir McTavish - 50 Greatest Scots Of All Time...Ever!
I’ve always liked comedy gigs where you get a bit extra for your ticket price. With Vladimir McTavish’s ’50 Greatest Scots of All Time&rsqu... Read more »| 18 Jun 2009 -
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Kevin Bridges Review
We’d heard he was good, we’d heard he was confident, and judging by the queue that wound up the stairs and into the bar, so had a lot of people. ... Read more »| 17 Jun 2009 -
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Fit O' The Giggles
Some comedy gigs just fall flat. Its happens to the best comics. And Thursday night at Cruz was just one of those nights. It might have been the mix of the ... Read more »| 17 Jun 2009 -
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Phil Buckley's Stupid World Tour
Was this weirdest gig I’ve ever been too? Judging by the tales Phil Buckley shared about the life of a roaming stand up, it might not have even made th... Read more »| 15 Jun 2009 -
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Improv with Stu and Garry
I admit I was dreading this gig. Too many excruciating amateur nights has left me with a horror of improv; that mix of sweat, hyperactivity and desperation w... Read more »| 10 Jun 2009
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Bruce Morton
It was definitely a show of two halves. ‘I’m just babbling’ Morton says a couple of times in the first half, and it does seem that way when... Read more »| 10 Jun 2009 -
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Keara Murphy: Lyre Burd
A weegie take on a Lyre bird, Keara Murphy has a real talent for creating comic characters. You can just about see the man-hating Stacy Broon's beehive and d... Read more »| 10 Jun 2009 -
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Virtually the best comedy gig in the world?
It started as a joke: why don’t you just do it online? But after gigging in front of a poor turnout, it got comedian Tiernan Douieb thinking. Why not d... Read more »| 08 Jun 2009 -
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Lyre Burd: One Burd, Many Voices
She started with impersonating her eccentric convent school teachers, with her audience crammed into a classroom during the lunchbreak at school; she has sub... Read more »| 05 Jun 2009 -
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Kevin Bridges Preview
One of the highlights of the festival has to be the chance to see this new young comic before he is grabbed by fame and the ticket prices go through the roof... Read more »| 05 Jun 2009 -
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Phil Kay and Freemoore
If you find the Fringe a bit too overwhelming, between the streets squeezed with tourists drunk on the myriad of acts, the cacophony of bagpipes and the impo... Read more »| 21 May 2009 -
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Dullest Blog Launches
Today The Skinny launches our latest blog, The Dullest Blog: Comic ramblings to inspire your most tedious moments. Published every Tuesday at 11:45, we bring... Read more »| 05 May 2009 -
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The Merry-Go-Round Comedy Club
Now that Easter’s over with, West Lothian comedy fans can thoroughly overindulge on a bumper box of comedic treats at The Merry Go Round Comedy Club. ... Read more »| 30 Apr 2009 -
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Elgin Comedy Festival: a Small but Perfectly Formed Festival for the Highlands
The inaugural Elgin Comedy Festival runs from 22-24 May 2009 Read more »| 21 Apr 2009