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Comedy @ The State The State Bar, 148 Holland Street, 332 2159. 9pm. £7 (£5). Joining compere Chris Bloomfield tonight is Charlie Ross. The Saturday Show The Stand, 333 Woodlands Road, 0844 335 8879. 9pm. £15. See Thu 7 for line-up. Edinburgh The Beehive Comedy Club Beehive Inn, 18 Grassmarket, 225 7171. 8.30pm. £7. See Fri 25. The Saturday Show The Stand, 5 York Place, 558 7272. 9pm. £15. See Thu 7 for line-up.
Sunday 10
Glasgow Michael Redmond’s Sunday Service The Stand, 333 Woodlands Road, 0844 335 8879. 8.30pm. £6 (£5; members £1). Redmond returns with his brand of lo-fi comedy and Matt Green. Edinburgh FREE Whose Lunch Is It Anyway? The Stand, 5 York Place, 558 7272. 1.30pm. See Sun 27. The Sunday Night Laugh-In The Stand, 5 York Place, 558 7272. 8.30pm. £6 (£5; members £1). Charge your batteries in preparation for the week ahead with Neil McFarlane.
Monday 11
Glasgow The Holyrood Secondary School Charity Benefit The Stand, 333 Woodlands Road, 0844 335 8879. 8.30pm. £10. Holyrood Secondary School presents an evening of comedy featuring former pupils Eddie Cassidy, Des Clarke and Scott Agnew, alongside Gary Little, Joe Heenan and Des McLean. Edinburgh The Beehive Comedy Club Newbees Beehive Inn, 18 Grassmarket, 225 7171. 8pm. £2. See Mon 28. Red Raw The Stand, 5 York Place, 558 7272. 8.30pm. £2. See Mon 28, but with Danny Angelo and host Chris Forbes.
Tuesday 12
Glasgow FREE Pop-Up Comedy The Halt Bar, 160 Woodlands Road, 353 6450. 8.30pm. See Tue 29. Red Raw The Stand, 333 Woodlands Road, 0844 335 8879. 8.30pm. £2. See Tue 29, but with Chris Forbes and Danny Angelo. Edinburgh Electric Tales The Stand, 5 York Place, 558 7272. 8.30pm. £5 (£4). Susan Morrison and Siân Bevan blend comedy and storytelling for a chilled night of yarns and verse.
Wednesday 13
Glasgow New Material Night Vespbar, 14 Drury Street, 204 0060. 8pm. £3. See Wed 30. The Fun Junkies The Stand, 333 Woodlands Road, 0844 335 8879. 8.30pm. £5 (£4; members £2.50). Magic, sketches and musical breaks. Edinburgh Melting Pot The Stand, 5 York Place, 558 7272. 8.30pm. £5 (£4; members £2.50). Vote for the best of the new sketches and skits from local comedy types.
Musselburgh ✽ Russell Kane: Posturing Delivery Brunton Theatre, Ladywell Way, 665 2240. 8pm. £17.50. Kane keeps on playing up his flamboyancy in this show about men and birth. See 5 Things, page 55.
MY COMEDY HERO STUART GOLDSMITH The Stand, Edinburgh, Thu 31 Jan–Sun 3 Feb
Simon Munnery is like a soothsayer, who peers into another dimension of comedy, and reports back to the real world. I wish I could spend five minutes seeing the universe from his extraordinary perspective, which I imagine is a bit like Photoshop but for reality instead of images. His anti-heckling flash-box, which sears the king of swearwords onto the retinas of his unwilling audience, is the single best idea anyone has ever had. In 1999, after watching Anthony Livingspace’s act at the Fringe every
day for a whole festival, I wrote my dissertation on this grubby, bald, Australian street-clown, who looks like he sleeps in his clothes. He’d throw fistfuls of sachets into the audience: ‘kids, you want sugar?’ to a mad scramble. Ten minutes later: ‘kids, you want more sugar?’ Up they all jump: ‘this time, you pay!’ He’s astonishingly inventive and anarchic, and absolutely fearless. In many ways, he’s the street-performing world’s Daniel Kitson, but with sink-plungers instead of heartbreak.
When I was 16, I saw Harry Hill in the Pleasance Courtyard. I
wandered back and forth nearby for ages, trying to pluck up the courage to tell him how much he meant to me, and how he’d blown my comedy mind wide open. He gave me one of the sweetest, most utterly chivalrous jokes, when he signed an autograph to me: ‘Dear Stu, glad to finally meet you, Harry Hill’. What a gent. (Interview by Brian Donaldson) ■ Stuart Goldsmith’s podcast is comedianscomedian.com
Thursday 14 Glasgow The Thursday Show The Stand, 333 Woodlands Road, 0844 335 8879. 8.30pm. £10 (£7; members £5). Susan Morrison hosts a motley crew of comics this weekend, including mischievous Carey Marx, Andrew Stanley, Mikey Adams and Wayne Mazadza.
Edinburgh The Thursday Show The Stand, 5 York Place, 558 7272. 9pm. £10 (£7; members £5). Scene stalwart Raymond Mearns is host this weekend, bringing Phil Nichol, Paul Myrehaug, Susie McCabe and Richard Melvin to the stage. Friday 15
Glasgow The Friday Show The Stand, 333 Woodlands Road, 0844 335 8879. 8.30pm. £12 (£10; members £6). See Thu 14 for line-up.
✽ Jongleurs Comedy Club Jongleurs, The Glasshouse, 20
Glassford Street, 0870 011 1960. 8.30pm. £15. Matt Reed, Dougie Dunlop, Mike Wilkinson and Keith Carter as Nige!
Edinburgh The Beehive Comedy Club Beehive Inn, 18 Grassmarket, 225 7171. 8.30pm. £7. See Fri 25. The Friday Show The Stand, 5 York Place, 558 7272. 9pm. £12 (£10; members £6). See Thu 14 for line-up. Saturday 16
Glasgow ✽ Jongleurs Comedy Club Jongleurs, The Glasshouse, 20
Glassford Street, 0870 011 1960. 8.30pm. £16. See Fri 15 Glasgow Gong Show The State Bar, 148 Holland Street, 332 2159. 9pm. £4. Newbies take to the stage to see if they can go the full five minutes against the vicious red cards given to the audience. The Saturday Show The Stand, 333 Woodlands Road, 0844 335 8879. 9pm. £15. See Thu 14 for line-up.
Edinburgh ✽ Milton Jones: On the Road Venue 150 @ EICC, 150
Morrison Street, 0844 847 1639. 8pm. £20. The king of one-liners takes his bizarre nonsense On the Road. See preview, page 56.
COMEDY
The Beehive Comedy Club Beehive Inn, 18 Grassmarket, 225 7171. 8.30pm. £7. See Fri 25. The Saturday Show The Stand, 5 York Place, 558 7272. 9pm. £15. See Thu 14 for line-up.
Sunday 17 Glasgow Improv Dogs The Bungo Bar & Kitchen, 17–21 Nithsdale Road, 423 0023. 7.30–10pm. £5. Cheeky blend of improv and sketch from the Dogs.
✽ Milton Jones: On the Road Pavilion Theatre, 121 Renfield
Street, 332 1846. 7.30pm. £20. See Sat 16. Michael Redmond’s Sunday Service The Stand, 333 Woodlands Road, 0844 335 8879. 8.30pm. £6 (£5; members £1). End of the week comedy with Andrew Stanley and Kieran Nicholson.
Edinburgh FREE Whose Lunch Is It Anyway? The Stand, 5 York Place, 558 7272. 1.30pm. See Sun 27.
✽ Tom Stade Totally Rocks! The Stand, 5 York Place, 558 7272.
8.30pm. £15. The charmingly vicious Canadian presents his latest solo show.
Monday 18
Glasgow Imaginary Friends Improv Comedy The Old Hairdressers, Opposite Stereo, Renfield Lane, 222 2254. 7.30–10pm. £3 (£2). See Mon 28. Edinburgh The Beehive Comedy Club Newbees Beehive Inn, 18 Grassmarket, 225 7171. 8pm. £2. See Mon 28. Red Raw The Stand, 5 York Place, 558 7272. 8.30pm. £2. See Mon 28, but with Chris Conroy.
Tuesday 19
Glasgow FREE Pop-Up Comedy The Halt Bar, 160 Woodlands Road, 353 6450. 8.30pm. See Tue 29. Red Raw The Stand, 333 Woodlands Road, 0844 335 8879. 8.30pm. £2. See Tue 29, line-up tba. Edinburgh Jo Caulfield Presents the Good, the Bad and the Unexpected The Stand, 5 York Place, 558 7272. 8.30pm. £5. Some of Edinburgh’s finest present an evening of experimental stand-up, sketches, characters and a game show.
Wednesday 20 Glasgow New Material Night Vespbar, 14 Drury Street, 204 0060. 8pm. £3. See Wed 30. Benefit for Quarriers The Stand, 333 Woodlands Road, 0844 335 8879. 8.30pm. £8 (£6). Banding together to raise cash for Quarriers are Raymond Mearns, Chris Forbes, Keiron Nicholson, Colin Geddis and an extra- special guest headliner.
Thursday 21
Glasgow The Thursday Show The Stand, 333 Woodlands Road, 0844 335 8879. 8.30pm. £10 (£7; members £5). Joe Heenan hosts Junior Simpson and Nick Beaton.
Edinburgh ✽ The Thursday Show The Stand, 5 York Place, 558 7272. 9pm. £10 (£7; members £5). Susan Morrison takes on hosting duties this weekend, introducing laughs from Nick Revell (see preview, page 54), Anthony J Brown and Chris Conroy.
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