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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FestivalsMarcus Brigstocke: God Collar
Brigstocke’s material comes from the big questions about god and religion – and his irritation merrily pokes fun at the hypocrisies and misogynis... Read more »| 25 Aug 2009 -
FestivalsDavid O'Doherty: David O'Doh-Party
When David O’ Doherty, armed with his Yamaha Portatone 260, begs the anticipant audience to ‘lower their expectations’, he knows all too we... Read more »| 25 Aug 2009 -
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Frisky and Mannish's School of Pop Erin McElhiney Review
How to describe Frisky and Mannish? Take some pop songs - the more commercially successful the better - and with your own not inconsiderable keyboard and voc... Read more »| 24 Aug 2009 -
FestivalsFelicity Ward's Ugly As A Child Variety Show
Felicity Ward was ugly as a child. She was also intelligent and geeky, and now gives us an account of what it was like for her to be afflicted with all of th... Read more »| 24 Aug 2009 -
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Amazing Adventure Stories of Todd Womack
The bulk of Todd Womack’s material comes from his travels around South America. He has good stories and for the most part they are well told - I find m... Read more »| 24 Aug 2009 -
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Women Stand Up
Female comics of the world stand up to be counted. Read more »| 24 Aug 2009
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Improv Wars
Improv Wars joins regular feature Dance Monkey Boy Dance as your Monday night entertainment at the Glasgow Stand. Featuring well established local comics su... Read more »| 24 Aug 2009 -
FestivalsAidan Bishop - No Sissy Stuff at Edinburgh Fringe: Review
Christmas 2007, and good boy Aidan Bishop has just received a present from Santa. It’s Fisher Price’s My First Stand-up Show. Inside, it’s ... Read more »| 23 Aug 2009 -
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Paul Sinha: 39 Years Of Solitude
Paul Sinha is a single, gay, Asian ex GP and comedian. Often being asked what it is like to be all these things understandably drives him nuts, since these a... Read more »| 23 Aug 2009 -
FestivalsSimon Amstell: Do Nothing
Amstell’s live show is a far cry from the taunting wit that pervades his television persona. A self-deprecating, intimate set mines the human condition... Read more »| 22 Aug 2009 -
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Reginald D Hunter: The Only Apple in the Garden of Eden and Niggas
Another year and another tenacious title. Not one to shy from controversy, Reginald D Hunter rather courts it, woos it and tries to stick his finger up its b... Read more »| 22 Aug 2009 -
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A-Team - the musical
A-Team the Musical is better than you think it’s going to be. You’ve got all your classic A-Team elements in glorious cartoon extravagance. Cue ... Read more »| 22 Aug 2009 -
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Isma Almas Bombs Review by Ariadne Cass-Maran
Isma Alma's show opens with her burkha-clad alter ego, Mrs. Hussein, who delivers some self deprecating jokes about Muslim ladies which, were they delivered ... Read more »| 20 Aug 2009 -
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Gagarin Way Review by Ariadne Cass-Maran
Gagarin Way is bleak, claustrophobic, and savagely funny; and in this, it is very Scottish indeed. Gregory Burke's tale of ideology gone violently wrong in t... Read more »| 20 Aug 2009 -
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Carey Marx: The Doom Gloom Boom Comedy Review
Not as gloomy as you might think, given the title, Carey Marx takes childish and razor sharp joy in arguing with people's apathy, and the doomy gloom the wor... Read more »| 20 Aug 2009