Interviews
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Interviews
Stand Up! featuring Frankie Boyle
Comedians cut their critical eye on what's braw and what's naw.
NOTE TO DESIGNER:(this is the subline otherwise it won't make sense - emma) Read more »| 11 May 2007 -
Interviews
What the duck?
STANDFIRST:
In his new show March of the Mallards, vitriolic comedy-master Stewart Lee appears to be looking to nature for inspiration. 'How come?', asks Emma Lennox in an exclusive inerview for The Skinny Read more »| 12 Mar 2007 -
Interviews
Out to Lunch (anyone who can come up with a better title is welcome - I'm trying to think of one)
Calling all team-building tearaways and workforce wasters: establishedEdinburgh venue, the Stand, is set to be the place to liven up your lunchhour. Starting... Read more »| 11 Jan 2007 -
Interviews
John Hegley
It's about location, location, location. Even if you are from London, you are still localised. It's a load of local places, with its churches, its little schools and foibles. I can't say that Luton is less than crucial for me: I was brought up there. But I write about other places: Dunstable, Tring - don't cast your net too wide! Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
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Bohemian Like Few
People only get angry about little things when something big is really wrong in their life Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Festivals
Shazia Mirza at the Sufi Festival
Her comedic talent is ignored, as is material that is not specific to her religious background: the furore surrounding her attracts attention. Read more »| 13 Sep 2006
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Interviews
Taking the mic...
Year-round, under their usual monikers, and at more affordable rates, the Student Unions continue to play host to a generous round of comedy events Read more »| 13 Sep 2006 -
Interviews
BOWLING WITH THE HAMILTONS
Where do you take two people that have been embroiled in sleazy political scandals, declared bankrupt and even forced themselves to endure the company of Ant and Dec in I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here? SkinnyFest goes bowling with the Hamiltons. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Interviews
Doug Stanhope, Worst
Doug Stanhope is a prophet. While our pathetic minds are anaesthetised, allowing us to live in the world, he just can't switch his off! He sees things as the... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Interviews
Kidneys and Spleen - Comedy for July
July is a chance for those who care about good comedy to beat the Fringe rush Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
Interviews
Paddy Lannigan
I have a dance routine as the pope to a track of Ian Paisley singing sexual healing Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
Interviews
Jim Jeffries
You've got to fake a smile about twenty times a day. I'm shit at it. Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
Interviews
Jake O'Kane
While going back on for an encore someone once shouted at him, ""Not you, the other one!""
Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
Interviews
Seymour Mace
The freakiest thing that has happened in his life is taking acid and then going shopping in the centre of Tokyo while working over there as a clown. Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
Interviews
Tony Law Interview
Never watched the A-Team because he knew the real version - Magyar tribesmen near the end of the first millennium. Read more »| 15 Jun 2006