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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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 -
Guide
Josie Long
Josie Long guarantees a smile. Read more »| 12 Mar 2007 -
Festivals
Glasgow Comedy Festival
a varied and exciting line-up, with every taste catered for Read more »| 12 Mar 2007 -
GuideStewart Lee - The March of the Mallards
This show could prove controversial enough to drive Lee's career further into commercial non-viability. Or it may just be a show about ducks.
Read more »| 12 Mar 2007 -
Opinion
Stars - March 2007
Pisces Give 'em an inch, they take a mile. Give 'em your kidney and they start singing A-ha's Take on Me in public. This month: hell is other folks.Aries O... Read more »| 12 Mar 2007
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Guide
The Amazing Bastards
On their own, each one of the threesome would be just average, but together they shine Read more »| 10 Feb 2007 -
GuideRicky Gervais: Fame, Festival Theatre, 17 Jan
Gervais uses the moniker of 'Fame' as mere distraction while he danders around the more familiar terrain of political correctness gone apeshit Read more »| 10 Feb 2007 -
Opinion
STARS - February 2007
Aries:Your job getting you down? Leave! Now is the time for you to take somerisks. Nothing is set in stone. Apart from the fact you will die. Oneday. But for... Read more »| 10 Feb 2007 -
Interviews
Out to Lunch (anyone who can come up with a better title is welcome - I'm trying to think of one)
Calling all team-building tearaways and workforce wasters: establishedEdinburgh venue, the Stand, is set to be the place to liven up your lunchhour. Starting... Read more »| 11 Jan 2007 -
Guide
Health is no laughing matter - or is it?
Despite ill health there is always room for some laughs, some learning and some creative expression. Read more »| 11 Jan 2007 -
Guide
Glenn Wool - The Stand, Glasgow, 24 Nov
Wool begins by gauging the supposed intellectual capacity of the audience Read more »| 11 Jan 2007 -
Opinion
STARS
AriesJupiter is in Mars' orbit which makes this the year that New Year's resolutions will be stuck to. New Year's resolution - to give a Piscean a present ev... Read more »| 11 Jan 2007 -
Guide
The Thursday Show, The Stand, Glasgow, Oc 26
His Scottish routine was as good as I've seen from an Englishman Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Interviews
John Hegley
It's about location, location, location. Even if you are from London, you are still localised. It's a load of local places, with its churches, its little schools and foibles. I can't say that Luton is less than crucial for me: I was brought up there. But I write about other places: Dunstable, Tring - don't cast your net too wide! Read more »| 12 Nov 2006