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Scottish Comedy Awards: Taking Comedy Seriously?
The first annual Scottish Comedy Awards were held in an unassuming space in the basement of the Blythswood Hotel on Monday 31 March in Glasgow. Who knew? Read more »| 30 Apr 2014 -
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Opinion: Men Aren't Funny
... said no one. Ever. Read more »| 07 Apr 2014 -
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Opinion: In Defence of BBC Three
Comedian Liam Pickford takes a look at the lost legacy of the Beeb's brief dance with the next generation, and dreams of what might have been Read more »| 02 Apr 2014 -
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Crystal Baws: April 2014 Horoscopes
ARIES In April the BBC commission a pilot of your ultra-realistic soap opera, where all the characters do is talk about all the soap operas they watched on T... Read more »| 02 Apr 2014 -
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Ask Fred: Money
Whatever your financial status, Fred Fletch is here to help – unless you haven't seen Roadhouse, in which case, you're officially screwed Read more »| 01 Apr 2014 -
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Ask Fred: Independence
Our resident empathetic heavyweight helps shed some light on some tricky political quandaries Read more »| 11 Mar 2014
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Crystal Baws: March 2014 Horoscopes
ARIES Peering over the railings on a day out at Sellafield, your safety goggles slip off into a vat of highly radioactive fission waste. Not wishing to break... Read more »| 03 Mar 2014 -
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Ask Fred: Language
When deciding which writer was best qualified to kick the crap out of our readers' problems, there really was only one man for the job Read more »| 04 Feb 2014 -
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Crystal Baws: February 2014 Horoscopes
ARIES Landing a finance job at Canary Wharf the yellow-eyed intern showing you around the office habitat boasts about the “heat mats under each floor.&... Read more »| 01 Feb 2014 -
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Crystal Baws: January 2014 Horoscopes
ARIES This month you invent an ingenious solar powered bulldozer for decimating the Amazon rainforest in a carbon-neutral manner. TAURUS Though you can some... Read more »| 13 Jan 2014 -
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Timecop: The Nativity
Time Cop Spurt Maximum fondly reminisces about travelling back to 0 A.D. to save the baby Jesus and punch Joseph in the balls Read more »| 09 Dec 2013 -
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Crystal Baws: December 2013 Horoscopes
ARIES With your guts heaving you scour the streets this Christmas for somewhere to use the loo only to be told there is “no room at the inn” time... Read more »| 06 Dec 2013 -
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Esoteric Christmas Gift Guide 2013
I’m joined by my colleague Dr. Darren Icke for the return of our Esoteric Xmas Product Guide, this year brought to you by our colossal friends at OMNICORP®, who are about to release a new anti-ageing cream we’ve been literally wetting the bed about Read more »| 06 Dec 2013 -
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Opinion: Vince Hase is funny. Somewhere.
When Vince Hase's comedy album His First Attempt arrived for review, there was only one man for the job: Fred Fletch... Read more »| 21 Nov 2013 -
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Opinion: Comedy – A Serious Business
Is comedy respected as an art form? Andrew Learmonth makes an impassioned plea for Scotland to take its comic storytellers seriously Read more »| 31 Oct 2013