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Rob Brydon

Glasgow Comedy Festival - Rob Brydon

5 Mar 2009

For the laughter Under the Bruce Forsyth jawline and what he describes as ‘Olympic acne’ the man just has funny bones. Fact. In Brydon’s world, the losers are the real heroes. The pathetic, the blissfully irony-free, the nice guy that always…

David O'Doherty

First Word - David O'Doherty

5 Mar 2009

First record you ever bought I got Thriller for my Communion, but my first actual purchase was the 7in single of Roland Rat’s ‘Rat Rappin’ when I was six. Last time you were chatted up I can’t remember the last time. Although I get asked if…

Alex Horne

Alex Horne

5 Mar 2009

STAND-UP ‘Oh that’s a very strange bird,’ exclaims Alex Horne looking out of the window as he chats to me. ‘Once you start birdwatching, I tell you, any noise you just can’t ignore.’ Horne took up this leisure pursuit in 2006 when he had a bet with…

Profile - Rhod Gilbert

Profile - Rhod Gilbert

5 Mar 2009

Name Rhod Gilbert Who’s he? He’s the Welsh comic who created a fictional village of Llanbobl for his early solo Fringe shows. Prior to his solo success, he was one half of the Stereocomics, the other half containing Mark Watson. Who’s not actually…

Sian Bevan

Glasgow Comedy Festival - Tell us a Joke

5 Mar 2009

Bruce Devlin ‘I’m always fascinated by the sign in the Glasgow chip shop: ‘Jack McPhee, Fresh From The Sea. ’Since when did a sausage come from the sea?’ Mark Nelson ‘I recently asked my girlfriend to role play as a nurse. She’s taken it a bit…

Joanna Neary

Glasgow Comedy Festival - Joanna Neary

5 Mar 2009

When character comic Joanna Neary worked as a nanny in a previous life, she didn’t let the job stop her imagination running wild. One boy she took to school would be entertained by stories of how he lived in a house where the food would come out of the…

The Penny Dreadfuls

Glasgow Comedy Festival - The Penny Dreadfuls

5 Mar 2009

Conspiring in the darkest bowels of BBC’s Henry Wood House in London, three earnest young men, exemplars of aggressive Victorian ambition, are hatching a dastardly, somewhat far-fetched plot to conquer Edinburgh this August. Beginning with sorties into…

The Baxter

The Baxter

5 Mar 2009

COMEDY This likeably old fashioned comedy showcasing the talents of comic actors Michael Showalter (who also writes and directs), Paul Judd, Justin Theroux and a pre-Brokeback Mountain Michelle Williams has taken four years to cross the pond. And yet…

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