Comedy, Anna Burnside

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Mr Snot Bottom's Stinky Silly Show

10 Aug 20123 stars

Fifty minutes of fart, bum, booger

The scatological stage is one that all pre-schoolers go through, and Mr Snot Bottom’s hour of fart-bum-eugh gags is cunningly calculated to get as many hot-button words into 50 minutes as is humanly possible. He is a fit Australian chap with a whiff of…

Dr Brown Brown Brown Brown Brown and his Singing Tiger

4 Aug 20125 stars

Mighty Boosh-style physical comedy for quirky kids

An unassuming chap in a tiger-striped onesie plucks a ukelele. On the corner of the stage, a giant laundry bag is moving. From its depths emerges a pink woolly hat then safety goggles and a bushy beard. Jacket, tie, then very short white shorts and…

The I Hate Children Children's Show

4 Aug 20124 stars

Dude in pith helmet does close up magic to Muddy Waters soundtrack

I wish I had a louche American uncle who cracks open the ‘champagne’ (warm cava) at noon and does magic tricks in his skanky flat while the lodger strums a blues guitar. The I Hate Children Children’s Show is the next best thing: Paul Nathan is as…

The Hot 100 2010 - Mark Millar, Kevin Bridges and Alasdair Gray take top 3 spots

16 Dec 2010

Our annual chart of the top creatives in Scotland

The Hot 100 is a list of Scots who’ve made a sizeable creative splash in 2010. It includes musicians, artists, writers, actors, fashion designers, technological innovators, shop owners, festival directors, record label heads and one mad cyclist.