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Glasgow ✽✽ Jongleurs Comedy Show Jongleurs, The Glasshouse, 20
Glassford Street, 0870 011 1960. 8.30pm. £15. See Fri 2. The Saturday Show The Stand, 333 Woodlands Road, 0844 335 8879. 9pm. £15. See Thu 1 for line-up, plus Chris Stokes. Foster’s Comedy Live @ highlight Highlight, UGC Building, 11 Renfrew Street, 0844 844 0044. 10.30pm. £12–£15. See Fri 2.
Edinburgh The Beehive Comedy Club Beehive Inn, 18 Grassmarket, 225 7171. 8.30pm. £4–£7. See Fri 2. Jongleurs Comedy Show Jongleurs, Lava Ignite, 3 West Tollcross, 0870 011 960. 8.30pm. £12–£15. See Fri 2. Foster’s Comedy Live @ highlight Highlight, Omni Centre, Greenside Place, 0844 844 0044. 9pm. £10–£13. See Fri 2. The Saturday Show The Stand, 5 York Place, 558 7272. 9pm. £15. See Thu 1 for line-up. Jekyll and Hyde Comedy Club The Jekyll & Hyde, 112 Hanover Street, 225 2022. 9.30pm. £8 (£6). Rick Molland presents a night in a basement which you’ll remember for the right reasons.
Paisley ✽✽ Fit O’ The Giggles @ Hamishes Hoose Hamishes Hoose, 42 Old
Sneddon Street, 561 7105. 9pm. £5. Tonight sees hard-hitting rants from Stu Who? with Chris Conroy and Keir McAllister, all compered by Keara Murphy.
Sunday 4
Glasgow Michael Redmond’s Sunday Service The Stand, 333 Woodlands Road, 0844 335 8879. 8.30pm. £6 (£5; members £1). The moustachioed Irish comedian is joined by New Zealand’s Benjamin Crellin and his sharp views on the world. Edinburgh FREE Whose Lunch Is It Anyway? The Stand, 5 York Place, 558 7272. 1.30pm. Stu and Garry improvise their way through your hangover, with a whole heap of hot food available to munch while you chuckle. The Sunday Night Laugh-In The Stand, 5 York Place, 558 7272. 8.30pm. £6 (£5; members £1). The lovely Siân Bevan hosts Jill Baxter, Mickey Anderson and Carl Hutchison.
Monday 5
Glasgow Joe Heenan’s Movie Madness The Stand, 333 Woodlands Road, 0844 335 8879. 8.30pm. £4. Film geek and comedian Joe Heenan presents a night of showing off how much you know about the movies. With team captains Mark Nelson and Stu Murphy. Teams of up to six can enter. Edinburgh Fit O’ The Giggles Out With the Old City Café, 19 Blair Street, 220 0125. 6–8pm. £3 (£2). New material night with weekly host Keara Murphy. The Beehive Comedy Club Newbees Beehive Inn, 18 Grassmarket, 225 7171. 8pm. £2 (£1). Ben Verth steps up to introduce the Monday night new talent night, with the occasional old-timer dropping by to polish their act.
Reviews for Edinburgh Fringe
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REVIEW STAND-UP DVD DOUG STANHOPE (Roadrunner Comedy) ●●●●●
In a short introduction to this wonderfully unhinged film, Doug Stanhope (glass of lager clamped in hand) prepares the viewer to expect the unprofessional. Anyone picking up a copy of Oslo: Burning the Bridge to Nowhere anticipating a Live at the Apollo-style affair will be gutted as this is as rough, ready and authentic as a touring stand-up show comes.
Recorded in a disused chocolate factory in the Norwegian capital, Stanhope continually claims to hate being filmed, at one point visibly jumping as a camera-operator edges closer. His long-term manager, the Scottish author and comedy impresario Brian Hennigan, is verbally abused by the comic over the kind of gigs and festivals he is forced to play. ‘I don’t give a shit any more’ Stanhope states, as he insists that where once he would have offered solutions to the problems he aired on stage, now he is simply complaining with little end-product.
Still, Stanhope can assuredly whinge with the best of them and is
able to find extraordinary angles and create fresh takes on perceived wisdom about the environment, abortion, sex (wholesome and filthy) and unemployment. While it would have been fascinating to see whether he would still have performed his material to this crowd about mass shootings only ever happening in miserable locations (schools, workplaces, churches) in a post-Breivik world, the chapter titles reflect his appeal to a cross-section.
The Guardianistas adore his warped social commentaries, while others will simply lap up sections called ‘stinkless pussy’, ‘stomping kittens’ and ‘spinning dildo’. Shambolic and staggering he may be, but Doug Stanhope’s mind remains as sharp as a nine-inch nail driven through the comedy elite’s skull. (Brian Donaldson)
✽✽ Red Raw The Stand, 5 York Place, 558 7272. 8.30pm. £2. In among the
newbies is compelling storytelling and quick gags from John Robins and riffs on motherhood and life in general from Jojo Sutherland.
Tuesday 6
Glasgow ✽✽ Red Raw The Stand, 333 Woodlands Road, 0844 335 8879.
8.30pm. £2. Tonight John Robins weaves witty tales with his acclaimed stand-up.
Edinburgh ✽✽ Wicked Wenches The Stand, 5 York Place, 558 7272. 8.30pm. £6
(£5; members £3). Shaking their comedy tailfeathers tonight are Kate Smurthwaite, Liz Stephens, Shazia Mirza and host Susan Calman.
Wednesday 7 Glasgow Wicked Wenches The Stand, 333 Woodlands Road, 0844 335 8879. 8.30pm. £6 (£5; members £3). See Tue 6 for line-up.
Edinburgh The Broken Windows Policy The Stand, 5 York Place, 558 7272. 8.30pm. £4 (£2). The Stand’s monthly sketch show returns with new skits and character treats featuring the best of fresh Scots comedy. With Siân Bevan, Larah Bross, Dave MacGregor, Graeme Thomas and Ben Verth.
Thursday 8
Glasgow ✽✽ The Thursday Show The Stand, 333 Woodlands Road, 0844 335 8879. 8.30pm. £8 (£7; members £4). Wild-maned Billy Kirkwood hosts and Richard Gadd, Barry McDonald and Shazia Mirza provide the jokes.
Edinburgh The Thursday Show The Stand, 5 York Place, 558 7272. 9pm. £8 (£7; members £4). The weekend’s line-up but for fewer pennies and more room. Tonight we’ve Liz Stephens, a lady strong on intelligent punchlines, as well as Derek Miller, Aaron Counter and Anvil Springstien, not forgetting seasoned host Susan Morrison.
Comedy
Friday 9
Glasgow Jim Davidson Pavilion Theatre, 121 Renfield Street, 332 1846. 7.30pm. £20. More controversial stand-up from the x- rated comic.
✽✽ Foster’s Comedy Live @ highlight Highlight, UGC
Building, 11 Renfrew Street, 0844 844 0044. 8.30pm. £12–£15. With quick- witted musings from Limmy’s pal Raymond Mearns, also Andy Robinson, Christophe Davidson and Simon O’Keeffe.
✽✽ The Friday Show The Stand, 333 Woodlands Road, 0844 335 8879.
8.30pm. £10 (£9; members £5). See Thu 8 for line-up. Jongleurs Comedy Show Jongleurs, The Glasshouse, 20 Glassford Street, 0870 011 1960. 8.30pm. £15. This weekend enjoy your fair share of quick quips from Barry Dodds and Brendan Dempsey.
Edinburgh The Beehive Comedy Club Beehive Inn, 18 Grassmarket, 225 7171. 8.30pm. £4–£7. See Fri 2. Jongleurs Comedy Show Jongleurs, Lava Ignite, 3 West Tollcross, 0870 011 960. 8.30pm. £12–£15. Tonight, revel in absurdity and acerbity from John Ryan with Silky. Foster’s Comedy Live @ highlight Highlight, Omni Centre, Greenside Place, 0844 844 0044. 9pm. £10–£13. Deadpan humour and twisted one-liners from Anthony King, with Mike Milligan and Joe Heenan. The Friday Show The Stand, 5 York Place, 558 7272. 9pm. £10 (£9; members £5). See Thu 8 for line-up.
Perth ✽✽ Jason Byrne: Cirque de Byrne Perth Theatre, 185 High Street,
01738 621031. 8pm. £15.50. Livewire Byrne brings his sweaty, manic brand of funny to town.
Saturday 10
Glasgow Jim Davidson Pavilion Theatre, 121 Renfield Street, 332 1846. 7.30pm. £20. See Fri 9.
✽✽ Foster’s Comedy Live @ highlight Highlight, UGC Building,
11 Renfrew Street, 0844 844 0044. 8.30pm. £12–£15. See Fri 9. Jongleurs Comedy Show Jongleurs, The Glasshouse, 20 Glassford Street, 0870 011 1960. 8.30pm. £15. See Fri 9.
✽✽ The Saturday Show The Stand, 333 Woodlands Road, 0844 335
8879. 9pm. £15. See Thu 8 for line-up.
Edinburgh The Beehive Comedy Club Beehive Inn, 18 Grassmarket, 225 7171. 8.30pm. £4–£7. See Fri 2. Jongleurs Comedy Show Jongleurs, Lava Ignite, 3 West Tollcross, 0870 011 960. 8.30pm. £12–£15. See Fri 9. Foster’s Comedy Live @ highlight Highlight, Omni Centre, Greenside Place, 0844 844 0044. 9pm. £10–£13. See Fri 9, plus John Ross. The Saturday Show The Stand, 5 York Place, 558 7272. 9pm. £15. See Thu 8 for line-up. Jekyll and Hyde Comedy Club The Jekyll & Hyde, 112 Hanover Street, 225 2022. 9.30pm. £8 (£6). See Sat 3.
Dunfermline ✽✽ Jason Byrne: Cirque de Byrne Alhambra Theatre, 35
Canmore Street, 01383 740384. 8pm. £15. See Fri 9.
Kilmarnock Ardal O’Hanlon Palace Theatre, 9 Green Street, 01563 554900. 8pm. £17.50. Best known as dim-witted Father Dougal in classic comedy series Father Ted, O’Hanlon is also a really rather good stand-up. See caption.
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