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No ease in lockdown for Edinburgh
Nicola Sturgeon has delivered a blow to Scotland's comedy circuit and the Edinburgh Fringe by keeping the capital under level 2 Covid rules.
Chortle, 1st June 2021Scotland gives green light to indoor comedy
Indoor comedy can resume in Scotland from Monday after First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced a relaxation of lockdown measures.
Chortle, 11th May 2021No date for return of live entertainment in Scotland
First minister Nicola Sturgeon says she is "optimistic" about summer 2021, despite not setting a date for the return of non-capacity-limited events.
IQ, 16th March 2021Janey Godley to join First Minister in comedy sketch
Janey Godley will join First Minister Nicola Sturgeon in this year's STV Children's Appeal telefundraiser. The First Minister will "address the nation" to call for support for the STV Children's Appeal, which raises money for vulnerable children and young people across Scotland. However, her words will be dubbed over by Godley's tongue-in-cheek, "Glasgow patter" impression of the First Minister that has become familiar to Scots throughout 2020.
Ruth Suter, Glasgow Evening Times, 16th October 2020Scottish Covid-19 measures raises fears about Fringe
The measures announced by Nicola Sturgeon to tackle Covid-19 may add to concerns about this year's Edinburgh Fringe Festival. The Scottish First Minister has advised that mass gatherings of over 500 attendees should be cancelled from next week.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 12th March 2020What I think Rab C Nesbitt would say to Nicola Sturgeon
Govan's honest chancer, Rab C Nesbitt, can still hold his own among shows as good as latest hit Guilt and it would be interesting to hear his take on politicians like Nicola Sturgeon, Boris Johnson and the rest, writes Aidan Smith.
Aidan Smith, The Scotsman, 19th November 2019Matt Forde announces guests for Political Party Podcast
It was announced today, Monday 22nd July, that the former leader of the Scottish Labour Party Kezia Dugdale will join Matt Forde for a Political Party Edinburgh Festival Fringe special on the 14th August at 3pm at the Gilded Balloon Debating Hall. The First Minister of Scotland and leader of the Scottish National Party Nicola Sturgeon will join Matt for the second special on the 20th August at 1.30pm at the same venue.
Avalon, 22nd July 2019The Last Leg: Re-United Kingdom review
The message running through the evening was that, following the example of Jo Cox, we should seek to set aside our differences and remember what we have in common.
Ed Power, The Telegraph, 17th June 2017Preview - The Last Leg: Re-United Kingdom
Inspired by the courageous MP, Jo Cox, tonight's extended episode of The Last Leg, is dedicated to all her hard work and beliefs.
Eloise Craven-Todd, On The Box, 16th June 2017Who says satire is dead? After this, I would imagine just about everybody.
According to Jon Culshaw, one of the prime movers in ITV's new puppet-CGI farrago Newzoids
Where did it all go wrong? Of course, Spitting Image profited hugely from being the product of the Thatcher era, when the political battle lines were starkly drawn and the whiff of anarchy and grapeshot was in the air. Now we've entered an insipid (yet disturbing) era in which politicians posture, bluster and say anything that might nudge the all-powerful opinion polls half a percentage point in their direction. Conviction is dead, and everybody has fired off their personal opinions all over Twitter before the Newzoid scriptwriters have managed to pull the caps off their biros. And besides, doesn't the EU make all the big decisions for us anyway?
Take out the ads and Newzoids only last about 23 minutes, but even so it could hardly drag itself to the finishing tape. The team had laboured hard to draw up a checklist of likely targets, but then couldn't think of anything satirical to say about them. Ed Miliband appeared as a gormless geek with Ant and Dec (or perhaps it was vice versa). A barely-recognisable David Cameron was carried around like Nero in a sedan chair, talking like Ken Clarke impersonating the Duke of Kent. And why have him saying "get me to a hospital, a private one obvs" when his use of the NHS is well documented?
There was a sketch called "Mrs Crown's Boys", in which the Queen and Prince Philip kept saying "feck", and we had a pantomimic Nicola Sturgeon and Alex Salmond singing "sod the English". It looked as if there might be a daring moment coming up when we saw a Muslim couple worrying about their son joining Isis, but it stopped before anything controversial happened. Nigel Farage was depicted as a stand-up comic with a fag and a pint of beer. Then Gary Barlow sang a song about not paying tax. It was like Anti-Pointless, where you had to find the laziest, most obvious answers that everyone else had already thought of.