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✽✽ Wicked Wenches The Stand, 333 Woodlands Road, 0844 335 8879.
8.30pm. £6 (£5; members £3). See Tue 3, but Susan Morrison is replaced by Wendy Wason.
Edinburgh Beatnik Comedy The Tron, 9 Hunter Square, High Street, 226 0931. 8.30pm. £3 (students £2). New talent night hosted by Liam Withnail.
✽✽ Midweek Comedy Cabaret The Stand, 5 York Place, 558 7272.
8.30pm. £4 (£2). Lee Camp (see preview), Davey Connor, Hari Sriskantha and Richard Melvin, with host Joe Heenan.
Thursday 5
Glasgow The Thursday Show The Stand, 333 Woodlands Road, 0844 335 8879. 8.30pm. £8 (£7; members £4). Addy Van Der Borgh, Wendy Wason, Matthew Winning and host Raymond Mearns.
Edinburgh ✽✽ Bright Club: Bodies Ghillie Dhu, 2 Rutland Place, 0844 557 2686.
8pm. £10 (£8). Some witty academics tell tales of a life in science. Ages 18+. Part of Edinburgh International Science Festival. Gong Show The Shack, 119 Rose Street, 226 4311. 8–10pm. £3. See Thu 29. We Happy Few Presents . . . The Banshee Labyrinth, 29–35 Niddry Street, 558 8209. 8.30pm. £2 (members free). Sketches and stand-up.
✽✽ The Thursday Show The Stand, 5 York Place, 558 7272. 9pm. £8 (£7; members £4). Tony Burgess, Lee Camp (see preview), Davey Connor and Fern Brady, with compere Bruce Devlin.
Friday 6
Glasgow Jongleurs Comedy Club Jongleurs, Lava Ignite, 3 West Tollcross, 0870 011 1960. 8.30pm. £15. Gar Murran, Ryan McDonnell, Dave Williams and Phil Walker. The Friday Show The Stand, 333 Woodlands Road, 0844 335 8879. 8.30pm. £10 (£9; members £5). See Thu 5 for line-up.
Edinburgh Friday Night Live The Shack, 119 Rose Street, 226 4311. 8pm. £8. See Fri 30. The Beehive Comedy Club Beehive Inn, 18 Grassmarket, 225 7171. 8.30pm. £5–£7. See Fri 30. Jongleurs Comedy Club Jongleurs, Lava Ignite, 3 West Tollcross, 0870 011 1960. 8.30pm. £15. With Anthony King, Paul Pirie, Ron Vaudry and Steve Harris.
✽✽ The Friday Show The Stand, 5 York Place, 558 7272. 9pm. £10
(£9; members £5). See Thu 5 for line-up.
Saturday 7
Glasgow Comedy @ The State The State Bar, 148 Holland Street, 332 2159. 9pm. £7 (£5). See Sat 31. Jongleurs Comedy Club Jongleurs, Lava Ignite, 3 West Tollcross, 0870 011 1960. 8.30pm. £15. See Fri 6. The Saturday Show The Stand, 333 Woodlands Road, 0844 335 8879. 9pm. £15. See Thu 5 for line-up.
Edinburgh Saturday Night Live The Shack, 119 Rose Street, 226 4311. 8pm. £10. See Fri 30. The Beehive Comedy Club Beehive Inn, 18 Grassmarket, 225 7171. 8.30pm. £5–£7. See Fri 30. Jongleurs Comedy Club Jongleurs, Lava Ignite, 3 West Tollcross, 0870 011 1960. 8.30pm. £15. See Fri 6.
✽✽ The Saturday Show The Stand, 5 York Place, 558 7272. 9pm. £15.
See Thu 5 for line-up. Jekyll and Hyde Comedy Club The Jekyll & Hyde, 112 Hanover Street, 225 2022. 9.30pm. £8 (£6). See Sat 31.
Sunday 8
Glasgow FREE Fresh Meat The Butterfly and the Pig, 153 Bath Street, 221 7711. 8.30pm. See Sun 1. Michael Redmond’s Sunday Service The Stand, 333 Woodlands Road, 0844 335 8879. 8.30pm. £6 (£5; members £1). Relaxed comedy with the moustachioed Irish comedian and guests.
Edinburgh FREE Whose Lunch Is It Anyway? The Stand, 5 York Place, 558 7272. 1.30pm. See Sun 1.
✽✽ Sunday Night Laugh-In The Stand, 5 York Place, 558 7272. 8.30pm. £6
(£5; members £1). Tony Burgess, Lee Camp (see preview), Davey Connor and Bruce Devlin.
Monday 9
Glasgow Improv Wars The Stand, 333 Woodlands Road, 0844 335 8879. 8.30pm. £4 (£2). Garry Dobson, Stu Murphy and Billy Kirkwood do battle. Edinburgh Comedy Variety Show City Café, 19 Blair Street, 220 0125. 8–10.30pm. £3 (£2; £1 if booked in advance through lastminute.com). See Mon 2. The Beehive Comedy Club Newbees Beehive Inn, 18 Grassmarket, 225 7171. 8pm. £2. See Mon 2.
Tuesday 10
Glasgow FREE Pop-Up Comedy The Halt Bar, 160 Woodlands Road, 353 6450. 8.30pm. See Tue 3. Red Raw The Stand, 333 Woodlands Road, 0844 335 8879. 8.30pm. £2. See Tue 3.
Edinburgh The Beehive Comedy Club Newbees Beehive Inn, 18 Grassmarket, 225 7171. 8pm. £2. See Mon 2.
✽✽ Alun Cochrane: Moments of Alun The Stand, 5 York Place, 558
7272. 8.30pm. £12. Yorkshireman Cochrane presents his latest show of gentle observations, kitchen sink comedy and thinking out loud. Red Raw The Stand, 5 York Place, 558 7272. 8.30pm. £2. See Mon 2.
Wednesday 11
Glasgow The Fun Junkies The Stand, 333 Woodlands Road, 0844 335 8879. 8.30pm. £5 (£4; members £2.50). Magic, sketches and musical breaks. FREE Gong Show Vespbar, 14 Drury Street, 07909 822841. 8.30pm. See Wed 4.
Edinburgh ✽✽ The Maths Olympics The Jam House, 5 Queen Street, 0844 557 2686.
5.30–7pm. £10 (£8). A show for the competitive sod in all of us. Ages 18+. Robin Ince: Happiness Through Science The Stand, 5 York Place, 558 7272. 5.30pm. £7. The award-winning comedian presents a show that ponders happiness and rationality.
✽✽ Humour Me: The Science of Laughter The Jam House, 5 Queen
Street, 0844 557 2686. 8–9.30pm. £10 (£8). Robins Ince and Dunbar explore the science of laughter, with Professor Richard Wiseman. Ages 18+. Beatnik Comedy The Tron, 9 Hunter Square, High Street, 226 0931. 8.30pm. £3 (students £2). See Wed 4. Melting Pot The Stand, 5 York Place, 558 7272. 8.30pm. £5 (£4; members £2.50). Vote for the best of the new sketches and skits from local comics.
Thursday 12 Glasgow The Thursday Show The Stand, 333
Comedy
STAND-UP LEE CAMP Blackfriars, Glasgow, Fri 30 Mar; The Stand, Edinburgh, Sun 1, Wed 4–Sun 8 Apr
Were US satirist Lee Camp to retire from the comedy game tomorrow, he can always say he once made Jeremy Paxman giggle like a teenage girl. On Newsnight last autumn via satellite, Camp was involved in a debate over a gaffe made by Republican presidential nominee Rick Perry. Sharp as a pin and funny with it, Camp had his own Tea Party opponent reeling and Paxman chortling. ‘I didn’t know much about him [Paxo] before I went on but I was glad when I heard that he had laughed,’ recalls Camp. ‘I didn’t find out til afterwards when a bunch of people on Twitter were talking about him cracking up.’ It’s not just fearsome news hosts that Camp has been making laugh;
the likes of Janeane Garofalo, Roseanne Barr and Rain Pryor have been digging his rabble-rousing left-leaning schtick with its roots in the establishment-baiting provocations of George Carlin and Bill Hicks and which shares contemporary ground with Doug Stanhope and Jamie Kilstein.
A shy kid, Camp recalls his first gig at the age of 19 at an open mic night in front of some rednecks in Virginia who had been expecting a guitar band. ‘It went well enough that I didn’t jump off a bridge later and I was quickly addicted to being up on stage. My comedy started very observational but grew because I became more politically aware and I decided that if I was being given the gift of having a paying audience hearing what I say, I wanted what I had to say to matter. Laughter is the number one reason I’m up there but a close second is to say something important.’ (Brian Donaldson)
Woodlands Road, 0844 335 8879. 8.30pm. £8 (£7; members £4). Alistair Barrie, Janey Godley, Paul F Taylor and host Joe Heenan.
Edinburgh ✽✽ Bright Club: Edinburgh The Stand, 5 York Place, 558 7272. 5pm. £5. Tales about the weird, wonderful, and often very funny, world of research. Part of Edinburgh International Science Festival.
✽✽ Festival of the Spoken Nerd The Jam House, 5 Queen Street, 0844 557 2686. 8–11pm. £10 (£8). A night of nerdiness and laughs, with Helen Arney, Steve Mould, Matt Parker, Robin Ince and Professor Richard Wiseman. Ages 18+. Gong Show The Shack, 119 Rose Street, 226 4311. 8–10pm. £3. See Thu 29. The Thursday Show The Stand, 5 York Place, 558 7272. 9pm. £8 (£7; members £4). With acclaimed Belfast stand-up Jake O’Kane, Jeff Leach, Gus Lymburn and host Jojo Sutherland.
Friday 13
Glasgow Jongleurs Comedy Club Jongleurs, Lava Ignite, 3 West Tollcross, 0870 011 1960. 8.30pm. £15. Scott Agnew, Ro Campbell and Raymond Mearns. The Friday Show The Stand, 333 Woodlands Road, 0844 335 8879. 8.30pm. £10 (£9; members £5). See Thu 12 for line-up.
Edinburgh ✽✽ Bright Club: Edinburgh The Stand, 5 York Place, 558 7272. 5pm.
£5. See Thu 12. Friday Night Live The Shack, 119 Rose Street, 226 4311. 8pm. £8. See Fri 30. The Beehive Comedy Club Beehive Inn, 18 Grassmarket, 225 7171. 8.30pm. £5–£7. See Fri 30. Jongleurs Comedy Club Jongleurs, Lava Ignite, 3 West Tollcross, 0870 011 1960. 8.30pm. £15. Dougie Dunlop, with Matt Reed, Joe Rooney and Wes Zahuruk.
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