Jeremy Lion: For Your Entertainment
01/01/2006 … Breaking through the Edinburgh hype is one thing – sustaining it quite another.
Sun 01 January 2006
Secret Policeman's Ball 2006
01/01/2006 … Quite an event, a charity spectacular for Amnesty International, using a banner title dating from 1976 when the likes of Peter Cook and John Cleese were at the helm,…
The Ho-Ho Club
01/01/2006 … Playwright Roy Smiles has made a career out of writing about comedians, with previous works examining the lives of Spike Milligan, Tony Hancock, Groucho Marx and…
Scottish Comedian Of The Year 2006
01/01/2006 … Manchester has long held a successful one, now Scotland has followed the lead with its own competition to celebrate the best in local comedy talent.
Bottom 2001: An Arse Oddity
01/01/2006 … The show's called Bottom, this instalment is subtitled 2001:An Arse Oddity, and the poster shows our protagonists emerging from a cartoon anus.
Mark Thomas: As Used on the Famous Nelson Mandela...
01/01/2006 … Mark Thomas is well into his identity crisis, admitting that he just doesn’t know what he is any more: Comedian? Activist? Investigative journalist? In truth,…