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Live At The Stand Comedy Club

Taken from The Glasgow Comedy Festival website Richard Melvin introduces the new Magners Festival Club podcast:

Sometimes a comedy club can be quite an intimidating place, both for the members of the audience who’ve chosen to sit near the front and for the nervous comedians pacing around backstage.

Well for me, it’s been scary for a whole different set of reasons. I’ve been making the ‘Live At The Stand Comedy Club Podcast’ – a programme that includes stand-up recorded at The Magners Festival Club and backstage interviews with some of the biggest names in comedy. Most of the interviews start with words “You’ve just stepped off stage… how did it go?” Thankfully, so far everyone has replied with an enthusiastic “Brilliant!”

Amazingly, just after a comedian steps off stage, there seems to be a small window open, right in the middle of their soul, so some of the chats we’ve recorded have been extremely revealing.

Last night, for example Miles Jupp, Gary Tank Commander, Mike Wozniak, Susan Calman and Robin Ince all excelled on stage, helped along with a few words of encouragement from their backstage buddies Dara O’Briain and Frankie Boyle. Dara and Frankie hadn’t seen each other since Frankie quit Mock The Week, so they had a lot to catch up on! The banter was electrifying! I even managed to record some of it – so make sure you download the next podcast.

Richard Melvin will be recording live at the Stand Comedy Club at the Magners Festival Club which runs Thursday – Saturday every weekend during the festival.