© BBC Scotland Stop-Start
11/03/2016 … We live in sensitive times, when comedians forever run the risk of being pilloried for a misconstrued joke taken out of context and broadcasters, not least the embattled…
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Fri 11 March 2016
© BBC Scotland Thu 03 March 2016
Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle: Series 4 Episode 1
03/03/2016 … Accused of intellectual snobbery, Stewart Lee hits back, pointing out that it’s a valid performance device, under the theatrical technique of Brechtian alienation.
Wed 02 March 2016
Fri 26 February 2016
Hosptial People
26/02/2016 … Have they learned nothing? BBC One are giving airtime to another dodgy, oddly-dressed DJ who likes to hang around hospitals… After years entertaining Edinburgh…
Sun 21 February 2016
Leicester Mercury Comedian Of The Year 2016
Gig review by Marissa Burgess at the Y Theatre, Leicester
21/02/2016 … The penultimate night of Leicester's three-week comedy love-in means it's time for the Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year, the traditional beginning…
Lucy Roper: InappROPERiate
Gig review by Steve Bennett at Dave's Leicester Comedy Festival
21/02/2016 … You’ll have already spotted the name-based pun in the title InappROPERiate, but a more accurate one might be Lucy Roperrrrr, as this is an agonisingly hesitant…
Leicester Mercury Comedian Of The Year 2016
21/02/2016 … The penultimate night of Leicester's three-week comedy love-in means it's time for the Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year, the traditional beginning of the…
Chris McIlroy Presents The Legend Of Davey Kelly
21/02/2016 … For his solo debut, Chris McIlroy has certainly unearthed a cracking story from the criminal archives of 1960s Belfast.