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The Dullest Blog: comedy ramblings to inspire the most tedious minute of your week
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 th... Read more »| 19 May 2009 -
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The Dullest Blog: comedy ramblings to inspire the most tedious minute of your week
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 ... Read more »| 12 May 2009 -
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The Dullest Blog: comedy ramblings to inspire the most tedious minute of your week
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 rive... Read more »| 05 May 2009 -
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Glasgow Comedy Festival Blog: The Last Laugh
I am writing this at 2 in the morning as I have been struck by insomnia again. It occasionally plagues my life and it has arrived like a mofo today. I... Read more »| 29 Mar 2009 -
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The Reverend v The Students
The audience for the Glasgow Stand this 23 March found they’d wandered into an unexpected comedy situation – Reverend Obadiah Steppenwolfe III (aka comedian Jim Muir) had invited representatives from Stirling University’s LGBT Society to join him in a debate on stage Read more »| 25 Mar 2009 -
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Glasgow Comedy Festival Blog: Almost there
The Festival is almost over and we enter the last weekend of shows with some excitement and trepidation. There are still some corkers about and there a... Read more »| 25 Mar 2009
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Glasgow Comedy Festival Blog: Regrets – I may well have a few
Monday dawns bright and sunny in Glasgow. The weekend is over and it seems to have been rather more hardcore on the drinking and carousing side. I met ... Read more »| 23 Mar 2009 -
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Saturday night is alright for fighting. Or comedy
Just a quick one today as I am knackered as it is possible to be. My show last night was excellent – a packed house and hopefully lots of enjoyment. I... Read more »| 21 Mar 2009 -
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Glasgow Comedy Festival Blog - Friday Night Will (hopefully) Be Alright
It’s Friday midway through the festival and as ever you could watch comedy from dawn to dusk (almost). For me, this week has been quietish. I even had... Read more »| 20 Mar 2009 -
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Glasgow Comedy Festival Blog - Part II
Comedy for kids, Trevor Nelson and Triffids I performed at Comedy for Kids on Saturday and survived. I was unsure what to do with the little darlings ... Read more »| 17 Mar 2009 -
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Glasgow Comedy Festival Blog - Part I
And we’re off. The 2009 comedy festival has started and already I have met exhausted comics who are trying to cram in eight gigs a night. I am taking a... Read more »| 17 Mar 2009 -
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Meet your blogger
The Glasgow International Comedy Festival runs from 12-19 March. Comedian Susan Calman will be online throughout the festival giving us all an insight into its day to day shenanigans. Susan explains below what it is she loves about blogging. Read more »| 02 Mar 2009 -
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Melbourne International Comedy Festival
As part of our travel special, Aussie stand-up Harley Breen tells The Skinny that, despite his wide experience of festivals, the one taking place in his hometown of Melbourne is bigger and better than the rest. Read more »| 09 Jan 2009 -
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"The Hoff"'s world domination plans...
David Hasselhoff has made a globe containing just his image to show the impact he has had on the world. The former ‘Baywatch’ actor claims the m... Read more »| 19 Nov 2008 -
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Braw or Naw: Dermot McMorrow
Dermot McMorrow takes a surreal yet critical look at what he thinks is braw or naw. Read more »| 09 Sep 2008