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11 Dec 2006
COMEDY/ROMANCE/DRAMA The first hour of Icelander Dagur Kári’s follow up to Nói Albínói is just as good as his quirky debut. Daniel (Jakob Cedergren) is a graffiti artist who makes money by taking commissions to write girls’ names on walls for men who…
COMEDY/ROMANCE Emir Kusturica usually works a combination of nostalgia and rumbustiousness, but often the former loses out to the latter and many of his films (like Underground, Black Cat, White Cat) end up like crazy multiple circus acts. Which is…
MUSIC COMEDY The people at Videosyncratic are so painfully desperate to prove their really cool independent credentials that they remind us of them in this DVD’s accompanying brochure and at the beginning of this ‘film’. But the definition of…
7 Dec 2006
Janey Godley The toughest dame in Scottish comedy is joined by Jason-John Whitehead, Tony Woods and Geoff Boyz in setting up the boisterous gathering for a pre-Christmas treat. Jongleurs, Glasgow, Thu 14-Sat 16 Dec.
5 THINGS YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW ABOUT . . . 1 He was the first ever Scottish compere at the Comedy Store. Which is a famous club in London apparently. 2 In 1998, The List interviewed him deep within the bowels of Ibrox Stadium for a feature on the…
Reginald D Hunter Breezing into Glasgow in March with his warm-up show for August, Reg D positively stormed through the Edinburgh Fringe with Pride and Prejudice and Niggas, which helped him lift this magazine’s comedy writing award. On the downside, he…
When Stewart Lee speaks, the comedy world tends to listen. And so when he announced Scottish comic Stephen Carlin as one to watch, many took notice. And sure enough, after supporting Lee on his 90s Comedian tour, Carlin took his own show to the Café…
6 Dec 2006
DVD Jimmy Carr Live Collection The show A double-whammy DVD set with an absolute avalanche of top-notch one and two-liners on topics including overweight and pregnant women, Geordies and gypsies, freak accidents and fuck buddies. 4 stars The extras…
CD Once voted the wittiest living person by Radio 4 listeners, Linda Smith’s death in February of ovarian cancer robbed the UK of one of its highest regarded satirical voices. Best known for appearances on The News Quiz, Just a Minute and Have I Got…
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