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The Comedy Café: 11/02/2011

11/02/2011

BBC Radio Scotland - The Comedy Café, 11/02/2011

Would you date a comedian and risk becoming part of their stand-up routine?

Would you date a comedian and risk becoming part of their stand-up routine? Janice Forsyth talks to a couple of comics who are dating each other.

Would you date a comedian and risk becoming their material? Sarah May Philo and Gus Lymburn would - 
they're both comedians who happen to be dating each other! In the run up to Valentine's Day they share with us what its really like being with someone who reveals all about their relationship for a living.

Three top Scottish playwrights. Three different stories. Only one ending - and you the audience decide which it'll be! Random Accomplice theatre presents "Smalltown" from playwriting trio Douglas Maxwell, DC Jackson and Johnny McKnight. Set in their respective Ayrshire hometowns each has the same starting point: there's something in the water. resulting in comedy carnage ranging from frozen zombies to oversexed adolescents to strange poisonings. Johnny McKnight and Douglas Maxwell tell the Comedy Café about this unique and quirky collaboration. 

And actor and impressionist Jonathan Watson puts on his best voices to tackle the big issues troubling Scottish society today in a new series for BBC Radio Scotland.

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