Kevin Bridges

Kevin Bridges

Kevin Bridges started stand-up shortly after his 17th birthday, and reached the finals of the So You Think You're Funny? talent contest at the 2005 Edinburgh Fringe, when he was just 18.

He staged his debut hour-long solo show at the Glasgow Comedy Festival in March 2006, and made his Edinburgh Fringe debut the following year.

In 2009, he appeared on BBC One's Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow, which hugely boosted his profile to the extend he played the Glasgow SECC in 2010.

Bridges won the breakthrough award at the 2010 Chortle Awards.

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Kevin Bridges 'developing a Netflix comedy-drama'

Pilot shot in the spring

Kevin Bridges is reportedly developing a comedy drama for Netflix.

The British Comedy Guide reports that the stand-up has written a pilot for a show called Somewhere On The Outskirts, which was filmed in spring.

It was directed by Andrew Chaplin – whose credits include Smoggie Queens – and produced by Joe Nunnery for The Reluctant Vampire programme-makers Boffola Pictures.

Neither Netflix nor Boffola commented on the project, but some of these involved have mentioned it on their CVs, including Scottish actor Cameron Jack.

Bridges, who grew up in Clydebank on the outskirts of Glasgow, has previously been in talks about adapting his 2022 novel, The Black Dog, for television, but this is understood to be a separate project.

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Published: 26 Oct 2026

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