Comedy and Issue 565

Dark Horse

(15) 106min

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…

Do You Remember Dolly Bell? - DVD review

Do You Remember Dolly Bell?

11 Dec 2006

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…

Jerkbeast - DVD review

Jerkbeast

11 Dec 2006

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…

Review of the year

Comedy editor Brian Donaldson digests the best com

7 Dec 2006

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…

* Hitlist

Hitlist

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.

Fred MacAulay

7 Dec 2006

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 BBC…

Stephen Carlin

7 Dec 2006

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…

Christmas comedy DVDs

Comic cuts

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…

I Think the Nurses Are Stealing My Clothes: The Very Best of Linda Smith

6 Dec 2006

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…