Comedy

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Glasgow Comedy Festival - Lesbian comedians

28 Feb 2008

Stand-up comedy has always provided a platform for historically oppressed minorities. From the self-deprecatory Borscht belt humour of Mel Brooks and Rodney Dangerfield through Richard Pryor’s fearless exploration of racism to the feminist material of…

Michelle Monaghan

4 Oct 2007

Background Monaghan studied journalism for three years at Columbia College in Chicago. To earn pocket money she worked as a model and ditched the typewriter to work as a fashion model when she quit her studies. What’s she up to now? Having…

Punch Lines

1 Aug 2007

Jim Jeffries isn’t the only comic on the receiving end of trouble from their audience. Brian Donaldson compiles some tales of terror. At a late-night Spank! show, Andrew Lawrence (pictured) foolishly challenged a heckler to a duel. As Lawrence unpopped…

Russell Howard

18 Oct 2007

A regular panellist on BBC2’s Mock the Week, with a Sunday morning radio show and an if.comeddie nomination to his name, Russell Howard recently played the biggest gig of his life, and at 27, his comedy future seems assured. ‘We just almost crashed on…

Ratatouille

4 Oct 2007

(U) 110min COMEDY/ANIMATION Writer/director Brad Bird’s animated version of The Iron Giant made him the obvious candidate to follow on from John Lasseter’s innovative groundwork at Pixar, where he scored an immediate hit with The Incredibles. So even…

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Club Noir: Nightmare
Date	Location
It's Hallowe'en, and the theme should be self-explanatory for this latest edition of Scotland's biggest burlesque club. Dressing up is positively encouraged, remember.
25 Oct 9.00–3.00am	Carling Academy, Glasgow

Tropic Thunder
Date	Location
While filming a war movie, three Hollywood actors become embroiled with a heroin cartel run by a tyrannical 12-year-old (Brandon Soo Hoo) and are forced to become the soldiers they are portraying. Like Stiller's previous directorial efforts, 'Tropic Thunder' looks like it has been plotted by a child simpleton but most of the time you'll be laughing too hard to notice, or care.
10 Oct–16 Oct 11.20am, 1.55, 4.35, 7.15 & 10.05; Fri & Sat 11.20am, 1.55, 4.35, 7.15, 10.05 & 0.25am	Showcase Cinema, Paisley, Paisley
10 Oct–16 Oct 11.25am, 1.55, 4.25, 7.15 & 9.45; Fri & Sat 11.25am, 1.55, 4.25, 7.15, 9.45 & 0.05am	Showcase Cinema, Coatbridge, Glasgow
10 Oct–16 Oct 11.40am, 5.15 & 8.00	Cineworld Aberdeen, Aberdeen
10 Oct–16 Oct 12.00, 2.45, 5.40 & 8.40; Fri & Sat 12.00, 2.45, 5.40, 8.40 & 11.30	Cineworld Renfrew Street, Glasgow
10 Oct–16 Oct 12.50, 3.35, 6.10 & 8.55; Sat & Sun 3.35, 6.10 & 8.55; Mon & Wed 12.50, 3.35 & 8.55	Cineworld Edinburgh, Edinburgh
10 Oct–16 Oct 12.50, 3.50, 6.40 & 9.20	Odeon: Braehead, Renfrew
10 Oct–16 Oct 1.00, 4.10, 6.40 & 9.15	Odeon East Kilbride, East Kilbride
10 Oct–16 Oct 1.00, 3.30, 6.15 & 9.15	Odeon At The Quay, Glasgow
10 Oct–16 Oct 1.10, 3.40, 6.15 & 8.50	Empire Clydebank, Clydebank
10 Oct–16 Oct 11.05am, 1.30 & 6.10; Fri 1.30 & 6.10	Vue Inverness, Inverness
10 Oct–16 Oct 1.30, 3.50, 6.10 & 8.40; Sat 1.30, 8.40 & 11.05; Mon 1.30, 3.50 & 8.40; Fri 1.30, 3.50, 6.10, 8.40 & 11.05	Cineworld Dundee, Dundee
10 Oct–16 Oct 1.30, 3.50 & 8.50; Sat 11.15am, 1.30, 3.50 & 8.50; Fri 1.30, 3.50, 8.50 & 11.15; Sun 11.15am, 3.50 & 8.50; Tue 1.30 & 3.50	Vue Livingston, Livingston
10 Oct–16 Oct 3.00	Odeon, Edinburgh
10 Oct–16 Oct Fri–Tue & Thu 3.15 & 8.15; Wed 3.15	Odeon Dunfermline, Dunfermline
10 Oct–16 Oct 3.20 & 8.50; Fri & Sat 3.20, 8.50 & 11.10	Vue Edinburgh Ocean, Edinburgh
10 Oct–16 Oct 12.45 & 5.50; Fri 5.50	Vue Aberdeen, Aberdeen
10 Oct–16 Oct 1.10, 6.00 & 9.00; Mon 1.10 & 6.00; Fri 6.00 & 9.00	Cineworld Falkirk, Falkirk
10 Oct–16 Oct 6.00 & 8.30	All Star Factory, Thurso
10 Oct–16 Oct 6.30 & 9.10; Tue 9.10	Vue Hamilton, Hamilton
10 Oct–16 Oct 8.05	The Waterfront, Greenock
10 Oct–16 Oct 8.15	Odeon Wester Hailes, Edinburgh
10 Oct–16 Oct Fri & Sat 8.30; Sun–Thu 8.40	Odeon Kilmarnock, Kilmarnock
10 Oct–16 Oct 8.40	Odeon Ayr, Ayr
10 Oct–16 Oct 9.35; Fri & Sat 9.35 & 11.30	Odeon Dundee, Dundee

Adam Hills Special
Date	Location
The sunshiney Australian comedian bounds into Edinburgh with his solo show. If you're not cheered up by this, you have no soul. Or, you're very easily irritated by happy people.
12 Oct 8.30	The Stand Comedy Club, Edinburgh