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THE COMEDIANS The comics featured here, and interviewed on page 17, are all performing at the Glasgow International Comedy Festival in the coming month DAVEY CONNOR 'Glasgow audiences are less whimsical. The average pub gig here, you need jokes.'
ANTONY MURRAY
'At St Andrews
University there was a comedy society.
Witnessing how shit it was made me think I could do stand-up.'
CHRIS FORBES
'There’s some sort of repressed, Calvinistic thing in Scotland where we know it’s grim and hard. Might as well make fun
of ourselves.'
JAMES KIRK
'The TV stand-up boom – it’s a worry. Folk are expecting
more when they come to gigs.'
DEE CUSTANCE
'Do comedians attract groupies? I
only get other comics, which I
wouldn’t recommend. And lesbians.'