Comedy listings

Tue 11

Edinburgh

001‘. Got on Tuesday The Stand. 5 York Place. 558 7272. 9pm. £5 (£4). Friend of the people Craig Hill introduces foul-mouthed diva Mandy Knight. BBC New Comedy Award winner Alan Carr and games mistress Jill Peacock.

Reg Anderson’s Blg Fun Quiz nght Noble‘s Bar. 44a Constitution Street. Leith. 554 2024. 9.30pm. £1 to play. See Sun 9.

Wednesday 1 2

Glasgow

BBC New Comedy Award Regional Final The Brunswick Hotel. 106—8 Brunswick Street. 556 5626. Ross Noble hosts the final Scottish leg of the BBC’s annual search for new comedy talent. See photo

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0 1‘: Out In Glasgow The Stand. 333 Woodlands Road. 0870 600 6055. 8.30pm. £5 (£4). The profane. yet highly glamorous Mandy Knight should provide lashings of screaming good humour. Resident compere Craig Hill also introduces BBC New Comedy Award winner Alan Carr and ‘Campest Link' host Jill Peacock.

Blg Word Performance Poetry Nice ‘n‘ Sleazy. 421 Sauchiehall Street. 333 0900. 9pm. £4 (£3). Savagely funny slam champ Tim Tumbull. Michael McGill. one-liner activist Rachel Dury and political polemicist Tom White lead the charge at this hyperactive poetic cabaret.

Edinburgh

A Kick Up the Tabloids The Stand. 5 York Place. 558 7272. 9pm. £5 (£4). Breaking news from around the world is treated with cheek. irreverence and blatant contempt in some side-splitting topical satire from acting political polemicists Paul Sneddon. Susan Morrison. John Flint and Frankie Boyle.

Thursday 1 3

Glasgow

Jongleure Comedy Club Jongleurs. UGC Building. Renfrew Street. 0870 787 0707. 7.30pm. £6. London-based weegie Geoff Boyz (he of Robert De Niro impersonation fame) introduces Time Out comedy award winner Gordon Southern. razor-sharp Jeff Innocent and amiable gag merchant Paul Thome.

The Stand The Stand. 333 Woodlands Road. 0870 600 6055. 9pm. £5 (£3). Comic virtuoso Allan Miller stands up alongside John McBride and Liz Sneddon. Live F Ionr Show star Frankie Boyle comperes.

Phll Key State Bar. 148 Holland Street. 883 2334. 9.30pm. £5 (£4). Surreal meandering and bizarre flights of fancy from Scotland's improv genius.

Edinburgh

Reg Anderson’s Comedy Cellar Fin MacCool‘s. 161 Lothian Road. 622 7109. 9pm. £2. Uncompromising Glasgow tough nut Raymond Mearns and wily storyteller James Ferguson join Reg ‘voodoo‘ Anderson.

The Stand The Stand. 5 York Place. 558 7272. 9pm. £5 (£3). John Gillick indulges in some polished pontificating with support from Saj. Blair Watt and compere Donna Krachan.

Big Word Perlormance Poetry Gilded Saloon. 233 Cowgate. 226 6550. 9pm. £4 (£3). More high energy poetic ramblings from a host of acts including US balladeer Jack Shea. Skye-born author Aonghas MacNeacail. Eric Davison. Donna Campbell and Anita Govan.

Snatch Club The Liquid Room. 9c Victoria Street. 225 2564. 10pm—3am. £3.50 (£2.50). See Thu 6.

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Glasgow

Jongleure Comedy Club Jongleurs. L'GC Building. Renfrew Street. 0870 787 0707. 7.30pm. £12. See Thu 13.

The Stand The Stand. 333 Woodlands

Road. 0870 600 6055. 9pm. £6 (£5). Treacle-voiced Irishman Dara O'Briain waxes lyrical on life. John Gillick and Saj stand-up in support alongside compere Jane Mackay.

Madcap Comedy Club State Bar. 148 Holland Street. 883 2334. 9.30pm. £5 (£4). The right honourable Rupert Donaldson fraternises with the lower classes. with able support from Des McLean and Charlie Ross.

Edinburgh

The Stand The Stand. 5 York Place.

558 7272. 9pm. £6 (£5). Another graduate ofAustralia's Full Frontal stable (which also produced Julia Morris). Kitty Flanagan regales with her outrageous tall stories. Support comes

from Allan Miller. festival favourite Alfie

Joey and guest compere Vladimir McTavish.

Andy Zaltman and Mitch Benn Traverse Theatre. Cambridge Street. 228 1404. 10.30pm. £8 (£6). Double-bill of innovative stand-up. featuring Perrier Best Newcomer nominee Zaltman and comic song whiz Benn.

Kirkcaldy

Joe Pasquale Adam Smith Theatre. Bennochy Road. 01592 412929. 7.30pm. £12.50. The popular TV comedian with the squeaky voice returns with a brand new show.

Ross Noble hosts the BBC New Comedy Award regional final on Wed 1

Glasgow

West End Festival L'ntil Sun 30 Jun. Various venues. West End. 341 ()844. The West End of Glasgow comes to life with a vibrant multi-arts festival boasting a mixture of live music. theatre. comedy. children's events and the annual colourful street party and carnival.

Jongleura Comedy Club Jongleurs. L'GC Building. Renfrew Street. 0870 787 0707. 7.30pm. £12. See Thu 13.

The Stand The Stand. 333 Woodlands Road. ()870 600 6055. 9pm. £7 (£4). See Fri 14 only with guest compere Vladimir McTavish.

Madcap Comedy Club State Bar. 148 Holland Street. 883 2334. 9.30pm. £6 (£5). An almighty Celtic double-header of Scottish comedy favourites featuring Bruce Morton and Michael Redmond.

Edinburgh

The Stand The Stand. 5 York Place. 558 7272. 9pm. £7 (£4). See Fri 14 and compere Jane Mackay.

Glasgow

Cralc @ the Sac World Cup Special Ctil de Sac Southside/Attic.

l 179 Pollokshaws Road. 649 1819/649 4717. 8pm. £4. Embittered football pundit Bob Doolally delivers his vodka-fuelled thoughts on a ‘Life in Football’. Michael Redmond’s Sunday Service The Stand. 333 Woodlands Road. 08706006055. 8.30pm. £4 (£2 1. Alfie Joey. Liz Sneddon. Blair Watt and two Velvet Virgins join the deadpan lrish mirth merchant.

Edinburgh

Whose Lunch 18 It Anyway? The Stand. 5 York Place. 558 7272. 1pm. Free. See Sun 9.

Six on Sunday The Stand. 5 York Place. 558 7272. 8.30pm. £3 (£2). Lunatic comedy hero Allan Miller high- tails it out of observational city with John McBride. 50-word storyteller Stephen Barnaby and Brendan Moohan.

Reg Anderson’s Big Fun Quiz Night The Meadows Bar. Moo Bar. 42—44 Buccletich Street. 667 6907. 9pm. Free. See Sun 9.

Glasgow

Monday Rhymes Brel. 39—43 Ashton Lane. 342 4966. 8pm. Free. Comic wordsmith Viv Gee returns with her bizarre poetry cabaret.

The Comedy Module Solid Rock Cafe West. Dumbarton Road. 556 5626. 9pm. £3. Resident compering force the Trinity of Mirth welcome stuttering nemesis and Beat 106 breakfast show presenter Des Clarke.

Edinburgh

Red Raw The Stand. 5 York Place. 558 7272. 8.30pm. £1. Host Susan Morrison and headliner Allan Miller show the stand-up sticklings the path of comedy virtue.

Hang the VJ The Three Sisters. 139 Cowgate. 622 6800. 9pm—1am. Free. See Mon 10.

Reg Anderson’s Big Fun Quiz Night Fin MacCool's. 161 Lothian Road. 622 7109. 9pm. £1 to play. See Sun 9.

Tuesday 18

Edinburgh

The Fred MacAulay Show The Stand. 5 York Place. 558 7272. 9pm. £7 (£61. A monthly show from BBC Scotland's voice of breakfast radio. Join Fred and a selection of blossoming stand- up talent for two hours of hilarity.

Reg Anderson’s Big Fun Quiz Night Noble's Bar. 44a Constitution Street. Leith. 554 2024. 9.30pm. £1 to play. See Sun 9.

Wednesday 1 9

Glasgow

The Fred MacAulay Show The Stand. 333 Woodlands Road. 0870600 6055. 8.30pm. £7 (£6). See Tue 18.

Edinburgh

Bob Doolally’s World Cup Special The Stand. 5 York Place. 558 7272. 9pm. £6 (£4). A filthy two-footed tackle on the soccer happenings on the other side of the world.

Glasgow

Jongleurs Comedy Club Jongleurs. L'GC Building. Renfrew Street. 0870 787 0707. 7.30pm. £6. Comedy's globetrotter. Nick Wilty joins outrageous Australian Brendon Burns and Rudi Lickwood. See preview.

The Stand The Stand. 333 Woodlands Road. ()870 600 6055. 8.30pm. £5 (£3). Frankie Boyle introduces Brendan Dempsey. Martin Furby and Kirsty Moss.

Edinburgh

The Stand The Stand. 5 York Place. 558 7272. 9pm. £5 (£3). Liverpool's Richard Allen. Leith lad Paul McNeill. Colin McGill. natural born storyteller Jamie McKenzie and Susan Morrison. Reg Anderson’s Comedy Cellar Fin MacCool's. 161 Lothian Road. 622 7109. 9pm. £2. Ben Darcy. John McGuinness and l'krainian madman Bene Linchesticov.

Snatch Club The Liquid Room. 9c Victoria Street. 225 2564. l0pm—3am. £3.50 (£2.50). See Thu 6.