Comedy
The Skinny guide to the stand-up comedy shows in Edinburgh, Glasgow and across Scotland. Exclusive previews and interviews with some of the country's best new comedians, plus stand-up comedy reviews, comedy features, and extensive coverage of comedy at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
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Opinion
STARS - June 2007
GeminiHas your faith deserted you? Was it chocolate pudding? Oooh that'll stain! She's a bitch! Lucky jibe: "Fud pus!"CancerMars is re-stimulating itself int... Read more »| 10 Jun 2007 -
Interviews
The Bad Film Club
It's been great bringing misery to the world Read more »| 11 May 2007 -
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 -
Guide
Comedy @ the State, 7 April
a pan-cultural mishmash of fringe acts Read more »| 11 May 2007 -
Opinion
Teddy on the Tube
Revel in the campness and kitchness of it all. Read more »| 11 May 2007 -
Opinion
Stars - May 2007
The one thing that's better about living with your girlfriend compared to living with your brother: uncontested sock ownership Read more »| 11 May 2007
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Guide
We Are Klang, Tron Theatre, 15 March
absurdity on a par with early 90s Reeves and Mortimer Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
Guide
We Are Klang
absurdity on a par with early 90s Reeves and Mortimer Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
GuideMartin Soan, Tron Theatre, 18 Mar
his jokes are stealth bombers flying beneath the radar of our sophisticated adult sensibilities Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
GuideSean Hughes, ABC Glasgow, 16 March
Hughes has clearly lost none of his contagious, good natured charm Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
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David O'Doherty, The Stand, 18 March
I'm gonna rock your world in quite a gentle way Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
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Ardal O' Hanlon, Glasgow Carling Academy, 17 March
we are treated to a range of musings about his wife Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
Opinion
Stars - April 2007
ARIESThe one thing that's better about living with your girlfriend compared to living with your brother: uncontested sock ownership. You have to take the smo... Read more »| 11 Apr 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 -
Guide
Sean Hughes
tea time television's loss is stand-up comedy's gain Read more »| 12 Mar 2007