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Comedy DVD Round-Up

We judge the Christmas comedy contenders, from Sarah Millican to Brendon Burns

With a ridiculously vast amount of live comedy DVDs out for Christmas (30 at the last count), it’s a disappointing sign of the times that Pam Ann and Sarah Millican are the only females releasing new work. And it’s a proper shame that Thoroughly Modern…

Return of the Lumberjacks reunites three Canadian comics

Glenn Wool, Craig Campbell and Stewart Francis at 2012 Edinburgh Fringe

Glenn Wool. What’s the best thing about working with Craig Campbell? The complimentary massages. Tell us one thing that might surprise the world about Stewart Francis? How easy it is to trick him out of his massage vouchers. Tell us your favourite…

2012 Edinburgh Festival Fringe: Comedy highlights

Tim Key, Andrew Doyle, Andrew Maxwell, Dylan Moran and more

Andrew Doyle. Last year, Doyle’s show featured some pretty ripe comedy bravado during a Crash Course in Depravity, while for this August he’s doing Whatever it Takes. Bold words from a daring comic. Andrew Maxwell. One of the most reliably gifted…

5 things you might not know about Tiffany Stevenson

The actress comedian from Talk Radio to Show Me The Funny

1 Tiffany Stevenson began her career in the entertainment biz as an actress and has appeared onscreen in The Office, took a lead role in gritty indie feature Spinning Candyfloss and popped up in Dizzee Rascal’s ‘Dirtee Cash’ video [see below]. 2 Her…

Fringe 2011 comedy blogs: Pokermen

Late night poker event which has featured Ed Byrne, Glenn Wool and Hardeep Singh Kohli

I’m a big fan of late-night comedian talk shows at the Fringe. To me it feels like we’re eavesdropping backstage at the end of a Festival day - unwinding, listening to comics gossip and bitch about their world. Sometimes, the eagerness to shine and be…

Glenn Wool: No Lands Man

Hobo comic’s killer dispatches

Gruff Canadian Glenn Wool hasn’t been at the Fringe for a couple of years, instead travelling the world, performing and gathering material inspired by his en route adventures. The hobo comic’s set opens with an account of the time he was strip-searched…

Edinburgh Fringe Festival comedy shows to look out for in 2011

Margaret Cho, Todd Barry and Imran Yusuf among 2011 ones to watch

Down List way, we’ve just about recovered from the devastating news that there will be no sign this year of Bo Burnham, Jonny Sweet, Tommy Tiernan or Pappys. But if you think that kind of comedic void can be filled by this year’s galaxy of acts, then…

Glenn Wool

Has never been funnier or more lustily discombobulated

This disreputable Canadian soapboxer is truly in the ascendant. A perfectly realised tragicomic stage persona (or maybe Glenn is just being Glenn), great lines, heartfelt rage and a skewed but intimate audience rapport make for a rousing, boisterous…

Office Party

Tasteless delights

Seldom were ham and cheese so well combined in a sandwich as in Cal McCrystal’s interactive version of that familiar titular institution, the office party. The show may be disrupted here and there by its structure, but this seems to do nothing to dampen…

Jason Cook

Bringing joy with honeymoons, confessions and midgets

Geordie comedian Jason Cook looks at the Fringe like a month-long Christmas day. In fact, he wants his show this year to be a caring, sharing, warm hug of a thing, where people feel so uplifted, they’ll be crying when they leave. As his alter ego, Herr…

Glenn Wool

If ever a comic had an appropriate surname, then it’s this surrealistic Canadian. You could knit a jumper with the majority of this set, but while it may be overflowing with material, give one of its many loose ends a tug and all the threads would come…

James Campbell's Onomatopeia Society III & Spinistry of Moonerism

James Campbell is, deservedly, at the forefront of the children’s comedy scene and his shows will always attract a loyal following, which makes the slight flatness of this year’s offering confusing. Alongside the popular Comedy Club 4 Kids, he’s written…

Glenn Wool

Having missed Glenn Wool in Ireland on a day that he played three gigs and one football match, I eventually track him down to Amsterdam, where he’s spent two days balancing stand-up with the sit-down distractions of beer and ogling Dutch women.

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Glenn Wool According to this moustachioed Canadian geezer, you don’t go to hell for eating elephants. It’s certainly a reassuring theory, but what can it mean? This may be your chance to find out. Jongleurs, Glasgow, Thu 12-Sat 14 Apr.