Laughter In The City
A day spent shuttling between Queen Margaret Drive and the City Centre to attend the recording of the comedy shows we're staging at the City Halls.
Went down at lunchtime to see . I have to confess that when we decided to take part in the Glasgow Comedy Festival I had imagined that the we'd have Springtime weather in the middle of March. Instead it was cold and raw and today but it's great to see so many people turn up at the shows. My favourite sketch in Sabotage involves a Forfar detective investigating various pastry crimes. It's all quite unsavoury. Or savoury. I can't remember which.
I was back at the City Halls tonight to see a recording of The Why Front. Again some excellent performances and material so funny that people in the audience were literally wiping tears from their eyes. Lots of great characters including Mephisto the Magician and her down-to-earth second husband George Wilson. Poor old George was being tied up and "drapped" into a tank of water filled with trout. Naturally things didn't go to plan.
We'll be airing these shows over the coming weeks and months in the lunchtime slot on Saturdays. I plan to be back in the City Halls tomorrow night to watch Dance, Monkey Boy, Dance - a very different kind of comedy which involves lots of improvisation.
