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A selection of video interviews conducted at the Kilkenny comedy festival, plus footage from the comedians' football match. Interviews with Rhod Gilbert, Reginald D Hunter, Sarah Millican, John Bishop, Alonzo Bodden, Eddie Bannon and Bruce Dessau can be found here

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The ListDespite just losing his farm in Victoria, Australia to the recent bush fires and flying into the UK on the morning of this interview, Ross Noble maintains he’s completely primed for questioning.‘Oh, wait, I’ve put too much pressure on meself,’ the Geordie comic suddenly falters. ‘I was about to say you’ve got me at my absolute peak. But if I don’t answer your questions like a young Peter

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Metro (Ireland)“The point of comedy and political comedy in particular is to air inconvenient truths. A political joke by definition is something that someone doesn’t want said or doesn’t want laughed at.” As the creator of Jesus: The Guantanamo Years, for which he sported a crown of thorns and orange jump suit, Abie Philbin Bowman conceived the Messiah as a stand-up comedian returning for a

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The ScotsmanThree months on from Sachsgate, it seems apparent that Jonathon Ross’ career has weathered the scandal, give or take a forthcoming £4.5million pay cut, while far from being neutered, Russell Brand is still defiantly performing off the leash.The consistent tabloid fixture has always skilfully dissected his own press, with an ego-driven personality that he admits “doesn’t work without

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Scotland on SundayThey’ve co-written two of the most eagerly anticipated films of 2009, controversial, feature-length comedies about a phoney war and British suicide bombers. As the critically acclaimed writers behind political satire The Thick of It and cult sitcom Peep Show, they’ve pilloried foul-mouthed incompetency in Whitehall and elicited award-winning laughter from a man eating barbecued

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Metro (Ireland)Hard-hitting US comedian Joe Rogan holds a second black belt in tae kwon do and brown belt in Brazilian jujitsu. The Ultimate Fighting commentator discusses squaring up to Wesley Snipes, isolation tanks and performing during the Apocalypse.Why do you think you’re perceived as a controversial comedian?Not many comics are willing to go far out. When you start talking about dark

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The HeraldIn a high-security Californian laboratory, men and women of disconcertingly uniform appearance sing beneath a giant pink vat, the looming vessel filled to the brim with surgically removed body parts. This is “man’s highest creation” maintains Armando Iannucci.“The coming together of music, theatre, design, people and coughing.” This is opera.The Glaswegian writer and producer of such

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Sunday HeraldDavid O’Doherty returns to Scotland this week for the first time since winning the if.comedy award at the Edinburgh Fringe. The 32-year-old, keyboard-toting comedian and children’s author can also be seen but not heard in his brother Mark’s forthcoming A Film With Me In It alongside Dylan Moran. He is currently compiling a collection of dubious facts about pandas. What have you been

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The Scotsman“I trained at the Xaverian Fathers in Coatbridge,” Paul Higgins explains. “Wait. Did you mean the priesthood or acting?” Good question. We’ve been discussing the 44-year-old actor’s playwriting debut, a dark comedy about a trainee priest losing his faith and returning from the seminary to find his Glaswegian family falling apart. Nobody Will Ever Forgive Us is one of four pieces by

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Sunday HeraldAlan Carr’s advice for underwhelming young stand-ups: steal the reviews of a more popular act. The camp comedian was struggling to sell his show at the 2003 Edinburgh Fringe and resorted to “unconventional methods” to fix the problem.“I photocopied a headline from a review of Jimmy Carr’s show – ‘This Carr is the Rolls Royce of comedy’ – and pasted it on my own poster” he reveals in

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The Scotsman“It was like I’d finally met my maker,” enthuses Rhys Darby of meeting Jim Carrey, speaking with a degree of awe he might otherwise reserve for a UFO sighting, explaining how the two slapsticking, physical comedians bonded over their intention to buy jetpacks. “$100,000 is nothing to him of course,” the 34-year-old Aucklander laughs, “but I might need to make more movies”. As a sound

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Fest Magazine (written as Benjamin Edwards)Stand-up comedy is one of the few vocations where failure is no impediment to success. It’s a quirk that the following gamma males offer thanks for on an almost nightly basis, and never more so than during the Edinburgh Fringe, when hour-long shows encourage them to admit their deepest flaws, fading dreams and relationship woes to roomfuls of strangers.“

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The ScotsmanThe night before I meet Andrew Lawrence, I watch him perform as part of The Dark Show at the Kilkenny Comedy Festival. He’s been coerced by other acts and audience expectations into delivering his most depraved material, ridiculing his girlfriend, brutally threatening his family and eliciting laughter simply by mentioning Joseph Fritzel.It’s a superb showcase of his ‘greatest hits’.

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The ScotsmanWhen Sarah Silverman posed as a louche Amy Winehouse in Vanity Fair recently, few could have predicted that their kinship went beyond a glossy conglomeration of the world’s most controversial Jewish princesses.But while Winehouse sparked widespread concern and incomprehension when a bizarre film she’d shot for her husband appeared on the internet featuring mice and Pete Doherty,

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The ScotsmanAbortion, suicide attempts and gender reassignment surgery – Bethany Black's debut Fringe show, Beth Becomes Her, rejects the comedy of shared experience and gratuitous "knob gags" for a detailed, funny and revealing hour about what happens when the penis itself is deemed surplus to requirements. Undoubtedly the goth, lesbian, post-op transsexual comic to watch at this year's festival

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The ScotsmanWatching the current television advert for Berocca vitamin tablets, you could be forgiven for thinking, “hmm, dancing on running machines, that’s original”. Unless, of course, you are familiar with the music video for Here It Goes Again by American band Ok Go.Released in September 2006 and viewed over 32million times on YouTube, it features all four members of the band. Dancing. On

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The ScotsmanRoddy Hart’s first studio album, Bookmarks, featured two tracks with country music legend Kris Kristofferson. The 28-year-old has been Kristofferson’s UK support act since 2004 when the veteran singer-songwriter performed his first acoustic concert in Glasgow while filming The Jacket with Keira Knightley and Adrien Brody. Their latest tour begins in Aberdeen tomorrow and concludes at

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Chortle'That could be another club I’m banned from,’ Ian Cognito laments as he takes the Glasgow Stand’s stage for the third and possibly final time to close this ill-planned, chaotic yet captivating evening of comedy, music and semi-nude gymnastics. For once, the temperamental cockney is only partially to blame, with his support act and backing band Skate Naked taking a substantial share of

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