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Doug Stanhope: 'I'm a generous, good-hearted, overly polite citizen'

Doug Stanhope interview: 'I'm a generous, good-hearted, overly polite citizen'

Controversial comedican claims that he’s just a decent American guy

7 Mar 2011

Doug Stanhope’s manager tells The List ‘that the later it gets in the day, the better he is at the interview.’ So at almost midnight, when it’s early evening out in Arizona, Stanhope comes to the phone. ‘Oh he likes me to be drunk,’ he announces…

All-American Heroes

The best of the upcoming US comedians hitting Glasgow

Yank comics at the Magners Glasgow International Comedy Festival

7 Mar 2011

Carla Rhodes New York Magazine picked this curly-haired ventriloquist in their ‘Ten New Comedians Funny People Find Funny’ poll and her show is a comedic rock‘n’roll extravaganza about a young girl’s dreams of making it big in New York. You may have…

Magners Glasgow International Comedy Festival

Magners Glasgow International Comedy Festival

American beauties

20 Jan 2010

IT’S been a busy old year for Stand Comedy chief Tommy Sheppard. As director he enjoyed his busiest and most successful Fringe to date, and this year he’s programmed a Glasgow International Comedy Festival that is bigger and better than ever before.

Ardal O’Hanlon

5 Things you might not know about - Ardal O’Hanlon

19 Mar 2009

1. O’Hanlon’s very first TV role was in Graham Linehan and Arthur Mathews’ iconic priestly sitcom as Father Dougal, the doe-eyed buffoon sidekick to the more subtly daft Father Ted. He insists that he played Dougal not as an unreconstructed idiot, but…

All the world’s a stage

All the world’s a stage

15 Sep 2008

Merchant City Festival (25-28 Sep) www.merchantcityfestival.com Located in the heart of old Glasgow, this event locates a programme of film, theatre, comedy, visual arts, street theatre, live music, food and fashion within an area of real…

Jim Jeffries

Top comedy gigs to look out for

10 Sep 2007

Tom Stade It takes years of hard, dedicated gigging to appear as relaxed as Tom Stade does on stage. Charming, handsome and unflappable he may be, but the Canadian émigré also possesses that indefinable knack of drawing you completely into his offbeat…

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