COMEDY TI'IEATRE
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Comedy is listed by date, then by city. Shows will be listed, provided that details reach our offices at least ten days before publication. Comedy Listings f compiled by Ellie Carr.
Edinburgh I The Comedy Stop Stepping Stones. West Bow. Grassmarket. 225 6520. 8pm for 9pm. £5 (£3). Dallas and Packer and their popular twice-weekly comedy club showcasing three up-arni—cmning local comedians.
Glasgow
I Mellow Mischief Cottiers Theatre Bar. 95 Hyndland Road. 3—5pm. Free. More laughs in the afternoon with the team from Salon Mischief. I Fred MacAulay Paisley Arts Centre. New Street. Paisley. 887 mm. 8pm.£6 (£5) The affable ex-accountant with the shiny pate. back from down under with a
new show.
SATURDAY 3
Edinburgh
I The Comedy Stop Stepping Stones. West Bow. Grassmarket. 225 6520. 8pm for 9pm. £5 (£3). See Fri 2.
MONDAY 5 ' 1 Edinburgh
I Insinuendos Cabaret Club QT's Bar. 2 Picardy Place. 556 0499. Midnight. £2.
It’s that Blue Monday thang at the gay club again.
WEDNESDAY 7
Glasgow
I Billy and Barney's Bali-hi 880‘s Cottiers Theatre Bar. 95 Hyndland Road. 8.30pm. Free. The Salon Mischiefcrew go al fresco for summer. Free BBQ. new characters and lots of South Pacific fun. I Comedy at The 13th llote Glassford Street. 8.30pm. £3.50 (£2.50). Ford Kiernan and John Paul Leach host the action at Glasgow‘s only regular small- scale comedy club.
THURSDAY 8
Edinburgh
I The llibtickler Music Box. Victoria Street. 225 2564. 9pm (doors open 8.30pm). £5 (£3). Brand new weekly comedy club organised by local comic Mitch Benn. This week’s line-up sees Gordon Brunton as MC. with Jack Weatherall. Paul Graham and Viv Gee taking the floor.
I Comedy light Castlemilk Youth Complex, 630 0000. 8pm. Free. Over 16’s only. Local stand-ups take the mike for a one of night of comedy. Line-up includes Raymond Meams. Eddie McKean and Gary Hagen.
FRIDAY 9
Edinburgh
I The Comedy Stop Stepping Stones. West Bow. Grassmarket, 225 6520. 8pm for 9pm. £5 (£3). See Fri 2.
I Cot Yer Box Cabaret Club Sappho. Buster Browns, 25—27 Market Street.
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' SATURDAY 10
All hands off deck: the terrifyineg unstable Johnny 7. Irvine, Fri 9 I
10—1 lptn (disco to follow). £4 (£3.50). One for the girls. as Women in Theatre Scotland host a night ofcomedy. music and dance that‘s strictly women only.
I I Glasgow l I Mellow Mischief Cottiers Theatre Bar. 1 l l
95 Hyndland Road. 3—5pm. Free. More laughs in the aftemoon with the team
from Salon Mischief.
I Melanie and Susan/Johnny 7 Harbour Arts Centre. Irvine. 01294 27838]. 9pm. £4 (£3.50). Two sassy. lippy gals named
Mel and Sue with their Fringe hit Kittens (In (Irrrf. in a double-bill with Johnny 7.
song of all time.
Edinburgh
I The Comedy Stop Stepping Stones. West Bow. Grassmarket. 225 6520. 8pm for 9pm. £5 (£3). See Fri 2.
MONDAY 12 .
Edinburgh
I Insinuendos Cabaret Club QT‘s Bar. 2 Picardy Place. 556 0499. Midnight. £2. More late night Blue Monday happenings at the gay club.
WEDNESDAY 14 ‘
Glasgow
I Billy Bunkers Madcap Comedy Club. The Halt Bar. 830—] 1.30pm. Free. More crazy comedy at this fortnightly club with the man Billy as MC. ' I Comedy at The 13th llote Glassford Street. 8.30pm. £3.50 (£2.50). See Wed 7. I Salon Mischief Cottiers Theatre Bar, 95 Hyndland Road. 8.30pm. Free. See Wed
7.
THURSDAY 15 Edinburgh
I The illbtickler Music Box. Victoria Street. 225 2564. 9pm (doors open 8.30pm). £5 (£3). New weekday comedy club with Mitch Benn as MC and a line- up of new local talent. including Gerry Grant. Glen Long and lan Kendall.
Glasgow
I Comedy light MacSorley‘s Bar, Jamaica Street. 9pm. Gary Hagen hosts a freebie night of comedy with local stand- ups Raymond Mearns. Billy Bonkers and Eddie McKean.
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Eau! Eau! Eau! in a couple of months’ time the Fringe will be upon us once more and Old Game Edinburgh will let down her hair, hoist up her skirt and roll up and down the length and breadth of the city chuckling madly. As with the last fourteen years Perrier will be hosting the Ferric: Award to find
the comedians who are as sparkling and refreshing as their bottled water.
in order to help them select the most mirthsome comedy act on the Fringe they need two members of the public to join the ten-strong Perrier Panel. You need no qualifications, experience or friends in high places to join this prestigious group.
What you do need is a keen appreciation of all types of humour, sides which are easily repaired after an overdose of laughter-Induced splitting and the stamina to see at least fifteen shows between 13-27 August. The work is unpaid but all the shows are free and you’ll get a crate of fine champagne all to your little old self at the bitter end of it all.
To be a part of the rib-tickled team write us a witty, frothy letter and persuade us you’re the person for the lob. You have 250 words, so no theses on the history of comedy from Aristotle onwards please.
Send us your scribblings, including a daytime phone number, by Friday 30 June. Mark them: PElllilEli PANEL, The list, 14 High Street, Edinburgh, Elli 11E.
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