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Comedy is listed by date, then by city. Shows will be listed, provided that details reach our offices at least ten days before publication. Comedy Listings compiled by Mark Fisher.
FRIDAY 18 -
Edinburgh
I The Comedy Stop Stepping Stones. West Bow. Grassmarket. 225 6520. 8pm
. for 9pm. £5 (£3). Lively twice—weekly Comedy club introduced by Dallas and : Packer (formerly the Bri Nylon Five).
Tonight's line-up features Andy Walker. Stuart Murphy and guests.
SATURDAY 19 - .
= Edinburgh
I Gwen O’Neill Gilded Balloon Main
Theatre. Wilkie House. Cowgate. 226
6550. 8pm. £6 (£5). A hot tip for this
' year's Perrier Award and sometime stage
partner of Sean Hughes. Irishman ()wen O'Neill is a captivating story-teller and hilariously funny to boot. John Butler is the support act. See preview.
I The Comedy Stop Stepping Stones. West Bow. (irassmarket. 225 6520. 8pm for 9pm. £5 (£3). Close-quarters comedy from Joe lleenham. Mike 8; Dom and guests. with everything kept moving along by Dallas and Packer.
I lnsinuendos Cabaret Club QT‘s Bar. 2 Picardy Place. 556 (H99. Midnight. Free. The gay bar‘s first Women's Night featuring — wait for it — prize mud- wrestling.
MONDAY 21
Edinburgh
I Blue Monday lnsinuendos Cabaret Club. QT's Bar. 2 Picardy Place. 556 0499. Midnight. Free. Double act Boyz stai‘ in the gay basement club.
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Edinburgh
I Bentleys Home Street. 3-16 4686. 9.30pm-Iate. Free. Stand-up stress release with audience participation featuring Stuart Calverto and Jordan Le Roq. Weekly.
and God of the Week is Part Butcher. Warning: there will be some shopping involved.
Edinburgh
I The Comedy Stop Stepping Stones.
; Glasgow ;
g I Comedy at The 13th Note Glassford Street. 9.30pm. £4 (£3). Central
Glasgow's only regular small-scale comedy club hosted by John Paul Leach and/or Ford Kiernan.
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Glasgow
I 0" the Wall 942 Parrot Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. 2 Sauchiehall Street. 9pm. £7.50 (£6.50). Fast talking. hard living Greenock man with a sample. of his prodigious comic output (fact fans will remember that he brought three completely different shows to this year's Edinburgh Fringe). Raucous fun.
I Max and Jill’s Corduroy Hostess Blackfriars Underground. 36 Bell Street. 552 5924. 8.30pm for 9.30pm. £2.50 (£2). Darlings of Sweet FM come out from behind the radio desk and gather some friends around to bring their own special something to a live audience. Tonight. the first in a series of four weekly gigs. it‘s lfrtsteltrlerx. the Allotment Special Show
temple at tyre
a new sculpture by David Mach Victoria dock, Ieith, edinburgh. 10 november - 4 december 1994 admission free
West Bow. Grassmarket. 225 6520. 8pm for 9pm. £5 (£3). Resident competes Dallas and Packer introduce Spooky June. Dorothy Dunnett and other rib-tieklers.
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l I Hunter and Docherty Queen’s Hall.
7 Clerk Street. 66.5 20“), 7.30pm. £3.50
1 (£7.50). llotne territory for 'l‘\"s Mr Don I and Mr (ieorge in a speedy return to their native city alter a run on the Fringe. See rl preview
1 I Blue Monday lnsinuendos Cabaret
l Club. Q'l”s Bar. 2 l’icardy Place. 556 ‘0499. Midnight. liree. .let Star in the gay
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Glasgow
Royal Concert Hall. 2 Sauchiehall Street. 9pm. £7.50 (£6.50). He‘s had a higher profile than usual recently. what \\ ith his weekly radio talks to the nation and his guest spots on TV‘s l.(m.w ’litlk. but let it not be forgotten that Jeremy Hardy is one of the most perceptive. endearing and funny live Cottietlians in the business.
Edinburgh
I The Comedy Stop Stepping Stones. West Bow. (irassmarket. 225 6520. 8pm for 9pm. £5 (£3). More close-quarters comedy as Dallas and l’acker introduce Mitch Benn. l‘ranklin Smith attd guests. I lnsinuendos Cabaret Club ()T's Bar. 2 l’icardy Place. 556 (H99. Midnight. l’ree. Comic cabaret with I.es (iit'ls.
remy Hardy Glasgow
Edinburgh
I Bentleys Home Street. 346-1686. 9.30pm late. Free. See Tue 22.
? WEDNESDAY so -
, Glasgow
: I Madcap Comedy Club llalt Bar.
Woodlands Road. 3.30pm. Free. MC Billy Bonkers presents another mixed bill of
entertainment.
Glasgow
I Max and Jill’s Corduroy Hostess Blackt‘riars l‘nderground. 36 Bell Street. 552 592-1. 8.30pm for 9.30pm. £2.50 (£2). lllt’ li'e-l/u I love ('uti/tl/ji' um/ lli'rlerlt Slum: (Tod ol the Week: Dolly l’arton. Who will win the jigsaw'.’
East Kilbride
I Comedy Club Iiast Kilbride :\t'l.\ Centre.
()Id Coach Road. 0.3552 61000. 8pm. £5 (£2.50). l’arrot is this month's star name (see Thurs 2S above) and he's supported by Ford Keirnan.
SAUCHIEHALL STREET, GLASGOW ; 6 NOVEMBER-4 DECEMBER T994 A colouriul collection oi paintings, prints and sculpture from artists I throughout Scotland and the UK. The exhibition is sponsored by: fig 4w, J.TREv0R ' I ‘ &WF.BSTER FREE BUSES -.“,_ GRANT AID FROM To & é .itx. Ionsi on * <~ .\ t ~\"-'»| u '\ u t ‘ \ ~ VICTORIA DOCK .' " . r - -
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54 The List l8 November—l December I994