THINGS YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW ABOUT . . .
1 In 1999, Andy Zaltzman’s fledgling comedy career took off in a big way when he reached the final of So You Think You’re Funny. Also nominated that year were Josie Long and Russell Howard while the winner was David O'Doherty. 2 Two years later he was the support for Joan Rivers at her Edinburgh Festival Theatre run while he simultaneously launched his own debut hour, Andy Zaltzman Versus the Dog of Doom. 3 With long-standing political comedy pal John Oliver, he has given us shows with clever titles such as Erm, It's About the World. . . / Think You’d Better Sit Down and John Oliver and Andy Zaltzman Issue a List of Demands and Await Your Response with Interest. We have no reason to believe that the pair are not still on speaking terms despite Oliver jetting off to America last August to appear on Jon Stewart’s Daily Show leaving Zaltzman behind to perform alone. Sniff. 4 Not one to sell his soul to the television devil, his only credited appearance on the box is in the BBC4 grammar game, Never Mind the Full Stops. 5 He looks absolutely nothing like Art Garfunkel. (Brian Donaldson) The Pleasance, Edinburgh, Tue 27 Feb.
Wednesday 21
Glasgow
Red Raw The Stand. 333 Woodlands Road. 0870 600 6055. 8.30pm. £2 (£1 members). See Tue 20.
Rough Cuts The Stand. 333 Woodlands Road. ()870 600 6055. 8.30pm. £5 (£4—£2.50). A special showcase of the best in new comedy material that's attempting to clamber its way onto our television screens. In association with the Comedy Unit.
Edinburgh
Out to Lunch - Live! The Stand. 5 York Place. 558 7272. 1.05—1.55pm. £5 Meal & Show. See Thu 15.
Benefit in Aid of Waverley Care The -
Stand. 5 York Place. 558 7272. 8.30pm. £6 (£4). Mat Reed. Tom Stade. Gary: Tank Commander and Wendy Wason are all giving up their time and mirth for free: how nice is that? Waverley Care is Scotland‘s leading charity providing support to those living with HIV.
Glasgow
Red Raw The Stand. 333 Woodlands Road. 0870 600 6055. 8.30pm. £2 (£1 members). See Tue 20.
The Thursday Show The Stand. 333
Woodlands Road. 0870 600 6055. 8.30pm. £7 (£6—£3 members). Bruce Devlin hosts the show firmly rooted on the catty side of genial. with guest comedians Trevor Crook. Des McLean and Mat Reed who only needs one ‘1‘: he‘s that good.
Edinburgh
Out to Lunch - Live! The Stand. 5 York Place. 558 7272. 1.05—1.55pm. £5 Meal & Show. See Thu 15.
Big Word City Cafe. 19 Blair Street. 220 0125. 8.30pm. £4 (£3). Regular host Jenny Lindsay presides over a true variety night. with turns from Thick Richard. Jennifer Williams. Robin Cairns and music from Jim McAteer. From the sublime to the ridiculous. it'll be a fun night.
Heresy The Jekyll & Hyde. 1 l2 Hanover Street. 225 2022. 8.30pm. £3. See Thu 15. The Thursday Show The Stand. 5 York Place. 558 7272. 9pm. £7 (£6—£3 members). Thursday is ace cos it's nearly Friday and so is comedy because it makes you laugh. Combine the two and watch Sean Percival. Ben Hurley. Raymond Mearns and Wendy Wason. then block up your ears for Poetry Pete as he is very rude indeed.
The Snatch Social The Liquid Room. 9c Victoria Street. 225 2564. 1 lpm—3am. £5. See Thu 15.
Glasgow
Jongleurs Comedy Club Jongleurs. UGC Building. Renfrew Street. 08707 870707. 7pm. £10. It‘s the last weekend of the month. at last. so spend your hard- eamed pennies on drinking. dancing and laughing until your face melts. Enjoy Mr Andy White. Steve Hughes. Joe Heenan and Kevin Gildea.
The Stand The Stand. 333 Woodlands Road. 08706006055. 8.30pm. £9 (£8—£5 members). Bruce Devlin hosts this evening. with the all-boy line-up of Trevor Crook. Des McLean. Mat Reed and John Cooper. Bravo them.
Edinburgh
Out to Lunch - Live! The Stand. 5 York Place. 558 7272. l.05-—l.55pm. £5 Meal & Show. See Thu 15.
Jongleurs Comedy Club Jongleurs. ()mni Centre. (ireenside Place. (18707 870707. 7pm. £10. Harvey ()liver. (iavin Webster. Tom Stade and Angie McIivoy offer a genuinely cracking line-up for the weekend. Price includes access to the aftershow club.
The Stand The Stand. 5 York Place. 558 7272. 9pm. £9 (£8—-£5 members). Scary Raymond Mearns hosts the evening btit don‘t be frightened. he‘s nice really. Just smile and nod. He‘s joined by Sean Percival. Ben Hurley. Wendy Wason and Poetry Pete.
Saturday 24
Glasgow
Jongleurs Comedy Club Jongleurs‘. UGC Building. Renfrew Street. 08707 870707. 7pm. £13. See Fri 23. Comedy Womb The State Bar. 148 Holland Street. 332 2159. 9pm. £9. See Sat 17.
The Stand The Stand. 333 Woodlands Road. (1870 600 6055. 9pm. £10. Same line-up but this titne Susan Morrison hosts.
Edinburgh
Jongleurs Comedy Club Jongleurs. ()mni Centre. (ireenside Place. 08707 870707. 7pm. £12. See Fri 23.
The Stand The Stand. 5 York Place. 558 7272. 9pm. £10. See Fri 23.
Glasgow
Michael Redmond’s Sunday Service The Stand. 333 Woodlands Road. 0870 600 6055. 8.30pm. £5
5 (£4—£1 ). Last Sunday of the month!
Which means nothing at all to anyone.
Michael Redmond will put the meaning
1 back into your life. with the help of Mat Reed and Mark Bratchpiece.
Edinburgh
Whose Lunch is it Anyway? The
Stand. 5 York Place. 558 7272. 1pm. Free. See Sun 18.
The Sunday Night Laugh-In The Stand. 5 York Place. 558 7272. 8.30pm. £5 (£4—£1 members). Go and digest your Sunday roast in a sttitably relaxed atmosphere while being entertained by Ben Hurley. Wendy Wason. Phil Differ and Tony Carter.
Monday 26 l
3 Glasgow
Dance, Monkey Boy, Dance The Stand. 333 Woodlands Road. 0870 600 6055. 8.30pm. £4. Monkey boys Sandy Nelson. Allen Chalmers. Paul Pirie and Raymond Mearns bring you a night of stand-up. sketches and songs.
Edinburgh
Out to Lunch - Live! The Stand. 5 York Place. 558 7272. 1.05—1.55pm. £5 Meal & Show. See Thu 15.
Jongleurs Comedy Club Jongleurs. ()mni Centre. Greenside Place. ()8707 870707. 8.15pm. £26. See Thu 15.
Red Raw The Stand. 5 York Place. 558 7272. 8.30pm. £2. Newer comedians get
. to try their stuff in this bargain night of
laughter. See them now before they’re on
A Channel 4 and you want to kill them
every time they speak. With Matt Reed and Andy Sir.
m l
Glasgow
Red Raw The Stand. 333 Woodlands Road. 08706006055. 8.30pm. £2 (£1 members). See Mon 26.
Edinburgh Out to Lunch - Live! The Stand. 5 York Place. 558 7272. 1.05—1.55pm. £5
Meal & Show. See Thu 15.
Andy Zaltzman and Diane Morgan The Pleasance Cabaret Bar. 60 Pleasance. 650 2349. 8pm. £5.50 (£4). Political ramblings made funny froin Monsieur Zaltzman. with the delightful Diane Morgan with some observations and that. See 5 Things for Zaltzman.
Boothby Graffoe The Stand. 5 York Place. 558 7272. 8.30pm. £9 (£7). More loveable whimsy and inventive comic songs from the musical maestro. in his show Getting ()[I'Ilie Sig/21.
The 50p Show The (‘anons' Gait. 232 Canongate. 556 4481. 8.30pm. £50p. Two hours of fresh. student—friendly comedy
, for only 50 shiny pence. with sketches
and stand-up aplenty.
' Wednesday 28
Glasgow
Best of Irish The Stand. 333 Woodlands Road. 0870 600 6055. 8.30pm. £7 (£6). Bejesus and begorrah. it‘s more comedy imports froin the Iimerald Isle. Ian Coppinger. Colttm McDonnell. Sonya Kelly and Michael Redmond do stand—up the Irish way. Which is a good way.
Edinburgh Out to Lunch - Live! The Stand. 5 York Place. 558 7272. l.05-—l.55pm. £5 Meal & Show. See Thu 15.
Best of Scottish The Stand. 5 York Place. 558 7272. 8.30pm. £6. Susan ‘The
Q Brave‘ Calman hosts the evening. with
fellow Scots Bntce ‘()ch Aye' Morton. Andy ‘See You‘ Sir and Keir ‘Irn Bm‘ McAllister.
Thursday 1
Glasgow
Red Raw The Stand. 333 Woodlands Road. 0870 600 (1055. 8.30pm. £2 (Cl
; members). See Tue 20. - The Thursday Show The Stand. 333
THE BEST COMEDY
Comedy Academy 4 Kids Got a nipper at home who is just a little bit too quick off the mark for their own good? Send them to school on a Saturday as punishment. The workshop run by James Campbell might even do them some good. The Bongo Club, Edinburgh, Sat 77 Feb.
The Amazing Bastards! Messrs Dick, Miller and Teddy bring us some mad old sketches, crazy characters and a little bit of stand—up. And for barely any money at all. The Stand, Glasgow, Mon 79 Feb; The Stand, Edinburgh, Tue 20 Feb.
Andy Zaltzman The curly- mopped comic with an eye for the topical brings his killer instincts to the surface for one night only. Or at least until he shows up at the Glasgow Comedy Festival. See 5 Things. The Pleasance, Edinburgh, Tue 27 Feb.
Boothby Graffoe A comic named after a Lincolnshire hamlet? It doesn’t get any funnier than that, does it? Actually, Boothby does. With a musical twist, no less. The Stand, Edinburgh, Tue 27 Feb.
Bruce Morton The godfaither of Scottish comedy heads up a Best of Scottish list as he looks over his shoulder at the wisecracking weans chomping at his tail. The Stand, Edinburgh, Wed 28 Feb.
Woodlands Road. ()870 600 6055. 8.30pm. £7 (£6—£3 members). Comedy Krankie wannabe Susan (‘alman hosts tonight's show. with performances from Ian Coppinger. Graeme Thomas. Poetry Pete and Sonya Kelly.
Edinburgh
; Out to Lunch - Live! The Stand. 5
York Place. 558 7272. 1.05—1.55pm. £5
Meal & Show. See Thu 15.
Heresy The Jekyll & Hyde. I I2 Hanover Street. 225 2022. 8.30pm. £3. See Thu 15.
The Thursday Show The Stand. 5 York
Place. 558 7272. 9pm. £7 (£6—£3 members). Today is the anniversary of the death of the Italian composer (iirolamo I‘rescobaldi. who died in 1620. If this news is a bit of a shock. go and see Jake ()‘Kane. Column McDonnell. Woody and Jane Mackay to cheer yourself tip.
The Snatch Social The Liquid Room.
3 9c Victoria Street. 225 2564. l lpm-r 3am. £5. See Thu 15.
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