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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InterviewsSean Hughes: "Comedy should be emotional"
Around about the time Sean Hughes become the youngest winner of the Perrier award, people started referring to comedy as ‘The new rock’n’roll’. Comedy was bright and snappy and the only artform left with any real integrity Read more »| 15 Apr 2011 -
FestivalsLeith Festival Fundraiser
With Con-Dem budget cuts starting to bite across the country, many arts ventures have found themselves with a fraction of their normal funding. The Leith Fes... Read more »| 12 Apr 2011 -
Guide
Pappy's: All Business @ The Stand, 6 April
Value for money is important in these tough economic times, so it’s kind of Pappy’s to treat us to two shows for the price of one tonight. The fi... Read more »| 08 Apr 2011 -
InterviewsTim Minchin: Storm in a Trumpet
His debut musical has got a West End transfer, a film of one of his songs is out right now now, and he’s coming to Scotland next week with his epic show Tim Minchin and His Orchestra Tim Minchin’s come a long way for a wee lad from Perth (the other one) Read more »| 08 Apr 2011 -
OpinionCrystal Baws: April Horoscopes
ARIES April sees you drift so far up shit creek you're desperately attempting to sculpt a jobby paddle out of handfuls of floating faeces before Mt. Shit er... Read more »| 05 Apr 2011 -
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Paul Sinha: "I don’t get angry at the act, I get angry at the audience"
"There seems to be a vacuum in political comedy right now," says Paul Sinha, "which is odd when people are more interested in politics than ever." Sinha has ... Read more »| 04 Apr 2011
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Interviews
Comedy Act of the Month: David Innes
In the vast sea of entrants at last year's Laughing Horse New Act Competition, David Innes shone out. So what's his story? Read more »| 01 Apr 2011 -
FestivalsPlanet Mearns
Raymond Mearns tells us all about life in a comedy collective Read more »| 01 Apr 2011 -
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Pappy's: All Business
The credit crunch has hit Pappy’s hard. They’ve lost one member, they’ve shed the “Fun Club” part of their name and even their ... Read more »| 31 Mar 2011 -
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The Collective @ Halt Bar, 23 March
“The Collective” is a sketch show group of aspiring Scottish-based comedians. Sketche include everything from a leprechaun at a job centre t... Read more »| 30 Mar 2011 -
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Magners Festival Club / The Big Lunchtime Comedy Chat Show
There’s so much going on at the Magners Glasgow International Comedy Festival that it can be difficult to know where to go. With only one performance o... Read more »| 30 Mar 2011 -
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John Robertson: Dragon Punch @ The Griffin
Australian John Robertson’s Glasgow Comedy Festival show gets off to an uncertain start when an elderly ned begins to heckle him by bellowing, a situat... Read more »| 29 Mar 2011 -
Opinion
Simon Munnery: "This show has formed like sedimentary rock, through immense periods of time and pressure"
Simon Munnery tell us about the loop of alternativism Read more »| 24 Mar 2011 -
Festivals
The Stockholm Syndrome @ Capitol, 19 March
I love watching comedy in Glasgow. Where else can you see a genial looking old man in the front row grab the comedian’s testicles? Read more »| 23 Mar 2011 -
Festivals
Activism at Glasgow Comedy Festival
With the launch of the Magners Glasgow International Comedy Festival today, we take a look at some of the acts who bring an element of activism to their work. Read more »| 16 Mar 2011