Stand Up Drink Up
25/03/2011 … ‘The more you drink, the funnier we are,’ goes the familiar compere’s maxim, so what better union of booze and stand-up than a comedy pub crawl? The idea is…
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Here are our reviews of comedy Gigs
Fri 25 March 2011
Thu 24 March 2011
Boothby Graffoe at the Glasgow Comedy Festival
24/03/2011 … Many of the headliners of the Glasgow Comedy Festival are of a particularly spiky sort: Jerry Sadowitz, Frankie Boyle, Doug Stanhope… By way of contrast, Boothby…
Wed 23 March 2011
Doug Stanhope at Glasgow Comedy Festival
23/03/2011 … Doug Stanhope fears someone has stolen his act since he was last in Britain.
Tue 22 March 2011
Teenage Cancer Trust benefit 2011
22/03/2011 … Comic Relief might be the most symbolic melding of laughter and charity, but it’s far from the only comedy fundraiser in the calendar.
Stand Up For Palestine
22/03/2011 … Given that Frankie Boyle’s threatened to give up stand-up imminently, the prospect of his only gig this year – and on home turf, too – easily filled The King’s…
Mon 21 March 2011
New Act Of The Year final 2011
21/03/2011 … If variety is the spice of life then this years rebranded Hackney Empire New Act of the Year Award was a veritable vindaloo.
Glasgow Comedy Festival: The Stockholm Syndrome
21/03/2011 … An amorphous, regular late-night showcase in which acts are encouraged to be experimental, Stockholm Syndrome is intrinsically bound up with its location on Glasgow’s…
Glasgow Comedy Festival: Maureen Langan
21/03/2011 … The Glasgow comedy festival earns its ‘international’ tag with a generous smattering of genuine intercontinental visitors in shows such as this intimate back-of-a-pub…