list.co.uk/comedy
Edinburgh The Friday Show The Stand, 5 York Place, 558 7272. 9pm. £12 (£10; members £6). See Thu 3 for line-up. Saturday 5
Glasgow Jongleurs Comedy Club Jongleurs, The Glasshouse, 20 Glassford Street, 0870 011 1960. 8.30pm. £16. See Fri 4. The Saturday Show The Stand, 333 Woodlands Road, 0844 335 8879. 9pm. £15. See Fri 4 for line-up. The 10 O’Clock Show Vespbar, 14 Drury Street, 204 0060. 10pm. £10. See Fri 13, but with Rob Kane and Harriet Dyer. Edinburgh The Saturday Show The Stand, 5 York Place, 558 7272. 9pm. £15. See Thu 3 for line-up.
Sunday 6 Glasgow Michael Redmond’s Sunday Service The Stand, 333 Woodlands Road, 0844 335 8879. 8.30pm. £6 (£5; members £1). See Sun 15, but with Katie Mulgrew.
Monday 7
Glasgow Improv Wars The Stand, 333 Woodlands Road, 0844 335 8879. 8.30pm. £6. With Garry Dobson, Stu Murphy and Billy Kirkwood. Wednesday 9
Glasgow BBC Comedy Presents The Stand, 333 Woodlands Road, 0844 335 8879. 8.30pm. £4. See rising stars of comedy. Edinburgh G Spot The Stand, 5 York Place, 558 7272. 8.30pm. £5. Comedy and cabaret with host Jojo Sutherland. Melting Pot The Stand, 5 York Place, 558 7272. 8.30pm. £5 (£4; members £2.50). Sketches and skits.
COMEDY F R I N G E F E S T I V A L 2 0 1 4
TH E VOO DOO ROOM S A N D BLO N D AM B ITIO N P R E S EN TS
Thursday 10 01 - 24 AUGUST* 19:45 {1HR}
Glasgow The Thursday Show The Stand, 333 Woodlands Road, 0844 335 8879. 8.30pm. £10 (£7; members £5). Billy Kirkwood hosts, with Gavin Webster, Felicity Ward, and Keiron Nicholson.
RAYGUNS L O O K R E AL E N O U G H
H A L L O F F A M E
Edinburgh Footlights Comedy Edinburgh Footlights, 7 Spittal Street, 229 6466. 7.30–10pm. £3. See Sun 15. The Sunday Night Laugh-In The Stand, 5 York Place, 558 7272. 8.30pm. £6 (£5; members £1). With Danny Angelo, Neil Pummell and Nick Davies. Edinburgh Men With Coconuts The Canons’ Gait, 232 Canongate, 556 4481. 8.30–10pm. £5 (£4). See Thu 12. The Thursday Show The Stand, 5 York Place, 558 7272. 9pm. £10 (£7; members £5). Improv-a-go-go from Stu & Garry, plus Ro Campbell.
ONLINE ORIGINAL COMEDY SHORTS BBC iPlayer ●●●●●
There has been criticism of this batch of comedy shorts for opting not to showcase new talent and simply acting as a vehicle for bigger names to get themselves more work on the Beeb. Whatever the merits of those arguments, it’s a real hoot to see some intriguing pairings in six mini-films. Reece Shearsmith and Sally Phillips get absurdist in a monochrome skit about an odd Austrian medic and his equally curious patient while Micky Flanagan and Kerry Godliman perform in the longest of these shorts (clocking in at around the nine-minute mark) about a man who becomes a national hate figure when he kills a fox in his back garden.
Most attention of all will be drawn towards the rather unlikely coupling of Bob Mortimer and Frankie Boyle in a spoof cookery show with predictably fruity language and truly off-colour remarks about the humble pea. Of all the films, this is the one that you could easily picture being taken further, with Mortimer’s quickfire surreality merging neatly with Boyle’s robust bickering. The less said about Morgana Robinson’s Channel 4-obsessed
impersonations the better (Educating Yorkshire and Benefits Street get the flaccid satirical treatment here) while the Meera Syal-led piece about spiralling tensions between a glamorous Bollywood actress and the frumpy playback artist who provides the star’s golden voice is a nice idea not especially fleshed out. And there’s an all-too-inevitable appearance from the ubiquitous Matt Berry lending his mellifluous tonsils to a wonderfully profane nature documentary about wolves and elks. (Brian Donaldson)
01 - 10 AUGUST* 21:00 {1HR} F R A N K S A N A Z I ’ S
DAS VEGAS N I G H T I I I
12 - 24 AUGUST* 21:00 {1HR} MR B
T H E G E N T L E M A N R H Y M E R
01 - 24 AUGUST* 22:15 {1HR} ASHLEY STORRIE
PUMPED
01 - 24 AUG (THU-SUN) 23:40 {1HR}
ILLICIT H
T E
(cid:51)(cid:39) (cid:49) (cid:40) (cid:43) (cid:43)
PLUS THE FREE FRINGE - 26 SHOWS IN 3 SPACES
venue 68
TICKE TS £ 10 TH U -SAT/£8 SU N -WE D (*NO SHOWS MONDAYS) OVER 18’S ONLY OPEN DAILY NOON - LATE DURING FRINGE
TICKETS AVAIL ABLE FROM THE VOODOO ROOMS , THE FRINGE BOX OFFICE (TEL: 0 1 3 1 -2 2 6 - 0 0 0 0 )
WWW.EDFRINGE.COM OR WWW.TICKETWEB.CO.UK
1 9 A W E S T R E G I S T E R S T R E E T, E D I N B U R G H W W W.T H E VO O D O O R O OM S .C OM O V E R 1 8 S O N L Y
12 Jun–10 Jul 2014 THE LIST 55