Polly Glynn
@apollyglynn.bsky.social
Comedy Editor at The Skinny (and other things). Probably doing something stupid. Suggestions for cool comedy things in Scotland are always welcome. She/her.📍Edinburgh
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In this month's Behind The Mic column, @apollyglynn.bsky.social chats to Eva Peroni and Nicholas Elliott, the duo behind HOT COMEDY
Behind the Mic: Hot Comedy – The Skinny
We shine a light on one of Edinburgh's newest regular comedy gigs, Hot Comedy, brought to you by stand-ups Nicholas Elliott and Eva Peroni.
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April 14, 2025 at 1:45 PM
In this month's Behind The Mic column, @apollyglynn.bsky.social chats to Eva Peroni and Nicholas Elliott, the duo behind HOT COMEDY
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Bit of fun for you all to break up the doom. Here’s the Dilophosaurus in Jurassic Park singing Phantom of the Opera
March 9, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Bit of fun for you all to break up the doom. Here’s the Dilophosaurus in Jurassic Park singing Phantom of the Opera
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March's Scottish comedy highlights, inc tours from Chloe Petts + Ahir Shah, and Glasgow Comedy Festival picks inc @jainedwards.bsky.social @davidcallaghan.bsky.social Ayo Adenekan, Marjolein Robertson + more
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buff.ly/AbVAYoe by @apollyglynn.bsky.social
Scottish Comedy Highlights: March 2025 – The Skinny
Local laughs, jokes getting a workout and hot talent you need to know about – our picks from Glasgow Comedy Festival and some must-see gigs elsewhere.
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March 3, 2025 at 3:25 PM
March's Scottish comedy highlights, inc tours from Chloe Petts + Ahir Shah, and Glasgow Comedy Festival picks inc @jainedwards.bsky.social @davidcallaghan.bsky.social Ayo Adenekan, Marjolein Robertson + more
buff.ly/AbVAYoe by @apollyglynn.bsky.social
buff.ly/AbVAYoe by @apollyglynn.bsky.social
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YOUNG MAN, there's no need to feel down
i said YOUNG MAN, pagliacci the clown
you can SEE HIM
he is playing in town
you should go
and
have
a
good time
i said YOUNG MAN, pagliacci the clown
you can SEE HIM
he is playing in town
you should go
and
have
a
good time
February 23, 2025 at 12:24 PM
YOUNG MAN, there's no need to feel down
i said YOUNG MAN, pagliacci the clown
you can SEE HIM
he is playing in town
you should go
and
have
a
good time
i said YOUNG MAN, pagliacci the clown
you can SEE HIM
he is playing in town
you should go
and
have
a
good time
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"Cowcaddens gives confident queer energy, though St. Enoch sounds like the next star of Drag Race UK"
ALL MOUTH is a monthly lineup of queer, funny folk with a dedicated following. @apollyglynn.bsky.social interviews organisers Kate Hammer & Rae Brogan
ALL MOUTH is a monthly lineup of queer, funny folk with a dedicated following. @apollyglynn.bsky.social interviews organisers Kate Hammer & Rae Brogan
Behind the Mic: All Mouth Comedy – The Skinny
The brainchild of Glasgow-based comics Rae Brogan and Kate Hammer, All Mouth is a monthly lineup of queer, funny folk with a dedicated following. We pop behind the mic to find out more.
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February 10, 2025 at 12:05 PM
"Cowcaddens gives confident queer energy, though St. Enoch sounds like the next star of Drag Race UK"
ALL MOUTH is a monthly lineup of queer, funny folk with a dedicated following. @apollyglynn.bsky.social interviews organisers Kate Hammer & Rae Brogan
ALL MOUTH is a monthly lineup of queer, funny folk with a dedicated following. @apollyglynn.bsky.social interviews organisers Kate Hammer & Rae Brogan
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Got interviewed by The Skinny with Sunil. Edinburgh coming up next week!
“We thought we were aiming for a 'young person's podcast, broad cut-through', but [the audience] is basically people who are starting to take medication on a daily basis.”
We talk Rural Concerns with Sunil Patel and @chriscantrill.bsky.social
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We talk Rural Concerns with Sunil Patel and @chriscantrill.bsky.social
www.theskinny.co.uk/comedy/inter...
Chris Cantrill and Sunil Patel on their Rural Concerns podcast: The Skinny
Rural Concerns duo Chris Cantrill and Sunil Patel talk podcasts, trifle and creativity.
www.theskinny.co.uk
February 5, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Got interviewed by The Skinny with Sunil. Edinburgh coming up next week!
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February’s an absolute belter for comedy - award-winning podcaster @chriscantrill.bsky.social comes to @monkeybarrelcomedy.bsky.social, and @samlakecomedy.bsky.social headlines Edinburgh's first All Mouth queer comedy night
Read our round-up for more!
https://www.theskinny.co.uk/comedy/guide/sc…
Read our round-up for more!
https://www.theskinny.co.uk/comedy/guide/sc…
Scottish Comedy Highlights: February 2025 - The Skinny
February’s an absolute belter for live comedy with Edinburgh Comedy Award nominees, one-off gigs and home-grown talent aplenty.
www.theskinny.co.uk
February 3, 2025 at 2:45 PM
February’s an absolute belter for comedy - award-winning podcaster @chriscantrill.bsky.social comes to @monkeybarrelcomedy.bsky.social, and @samlakecomedy.bsky.social headlines Edinburgh's first All Mouth queer comedy night
Read our round-up for more!
https://www.theskinny.co.uk/comedy/guide/sc…
Read our round-up for more!
https://www.theskinny.co.uk/comedy/guide/sc…
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Art should be funded like science. To properly fund art, you fund failure. Funding failure will give you occasional excellence. Creating any art with the aim of it being popular enough to make money, will give you consistent mediocrity. Arists need funding to play and fail because that's the process
Let me tell you about the weird business that delivers art into our lives, and the impact it has on the long-term careers of artists. This is a thread prompted by yet another article on authors' incomes, and the inevitable reactions from the 'people-would-pay-if-it-was-worth-it-to-them' brigade. 1/
January 7, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Art should be funded like science. To properly fund art, you fund failure. Funding failure will give you occasional excellence. Creating any art with the aim of it being popular enough to make money, will give you consistent mediocrity. Arists need funding to play and fail because that's the process
I know we’re only a week into 2025 but I’m already on the hunt for Scottish comedy gigs in February 🪩
Giz a dm or an email if you’ve got something in the pipeline.
Giz a dm or an email if you’ve got something in the pipeline.
January 7, 2025 at 5:15 PM
I know we’re only a week into 2025 but I’m already on the hunt for Scottish comedy gigs in February 🪩
Giz a dm or an email if you’ve got something in the pipeline.
Giz a dm or an email if you’ve got something in the pipeline.
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Three mentored placements available for Edinburgh-based people interested in a career in the arts. @lyceumedinburgh.bsky.social
January 6, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Three mentored placements available for Edinburgh-based people interested in a career in the arts. @lyceumedinburgh.bsky.social
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Treasure Island at @lyceumedinburgh.bsky.social is gorgeous, especially if you want to take kids to a Christmas-flavoured show that’s not a panto. It’s funny and adventurous, and it’s got great songs played with inventive live music. Plus, there’s a cool puffin.
December 15, 2024 at 9:14 AM
Treasure Island at @lyceumedinburgh.bsky.social is gorgeous, especially if you want to take kids to a Christmas-flavoured show that’s not a panto. It’s funny and adventurous, and it’s got great songs played with inventive live music. Plus, there’s a cool puffin.
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Introducing Chortle Hotshots: New bursary for five comedians making their Edinburgh Fringe debuts
Introducing Chortle Hotshots
New bursary for five comedians making their Edinburgh Fringe debuts
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December 11, 2024 at 5:15 PM
Introducing Chortle Hotshots: New bursary for five comedians making their Edinburgh Fringe debuts
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If your in Edinburgh, this is tonight! Two hours of high concept low art, a great poet, a terrible old crone, and a terrific line-up: Phil O'Shea, Marjolein Robertson, Josie Long (@josielong.bsky.social) and @eleanormorton.bsky.social (@eleanormorton.bsky.social)! events.liveit.io/monkey-barre...
Geoffrey Chaucer’s Mediaeval Christmas Festivitye!
With an astonishing line-up of the finest in alternative comedy, John-Luke Roberts presents a night of ridiculous carousing hosted by the “great poot” Geoffrey Chaucer. **** The Guardian
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December 8, 2024 at 11:38 AM
If your in Edinburgh, this is tonight! Two hours of high concept low art, a great poet, a terrible old crone, and a terrific line-up: Phil O'Shea, Marjolein Robertson, Josie Long (@josielong.bsky.social) and @eleanormorton.bsky.social (@eleanormorton.bsky.social)! events.liveit.io/monkey-barre...
Deliriously excited to see this mayhem on Sunday at Monkey Barrel 🪩
2024 Besties winner and gloriously silly comedian John-Luke Roberts chats colours, crackle and crying ahead of his festive fête at Monkey Barrel this month
The Skinny on... John-Luke Roberts
2024 Besties winner and gloriously silly comedian John-Luke Roberts chats colours, crackle and crying ahead of his Chaucerian festive fête at Monkey Barrel.
www.theskinny.co.uk
December 5, 2024 at 2:57 PM
Deliriously excited to see this mayhem on Sunday at Monkey Barrel 🪩
A totally stellar December in comedy land ✨
This month in the Scottish comedy scene, treat yourself to a gigs with greats like @susiemccabecomedy.bsky.social, or have an alternative Christmas night out with @jlukeroberts.bsky.social
Scottish Comedy Highlights: December 2024 - The Skinny
December’s got a distinctly local flavour to its comedy offering, with each one of these gigs set to be a cracker!
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December 4, 2024 at 9:49 PM
A totally stellar December in comedy land ✨
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An incredible interview here
Terry Wogan - Random 8 - British Comedy Guide
He's back - having apparently possessed the comedian Ben Alborough - and now Terry Wogan tackles London's Soho Theatre. And our random questions.
www.comedy.co.uk
December 3, 2024 at 11:22 AM
An incredible interview here
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🎺 Edinburgh actors and Indian college kids: here’s a chance to be involved in a project with the great Vir Das from THIS coming Sunday.
December 3, 2024 at 2:34 PM
🎺 Edinburgh actors and Indian college kids: here’s a chance to be involved in a project with the great Vir Das from THIS coming Sunday.
Halfway through my annual listen of The Dark is Rising on @bbcsounds.bsky.social and thought I’d flag to anyone after a new tradition.
Beautifully made (thanks Complicité and @bbcworldservice.bsky.social), magical and a sprinkle of festive menace for all ❄️
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Beautifully made (thanks Complicité and @bbcworldservice.bsky.social), magical and a sprinkle of festive menace for all ❄️
shorturl.at/a2iQv
December 3, 2024 at 5:32 PM
Halfway through my annual listen of The Dark is Rising on @bbcsounds.bsky.social and thought I’d flag to anyone after a new tradition.
Beautifully made (thanks Complicité and @bbcworldservice.bsky.social), magical and a sprinkle of festive menace for all ❄️
shorturl.at/a2iQv
Beautifully made (thanks Complicité and @bbcworldservice.bsky.social), magical and a sprinkle of festive menace for all ❄️
shorturl.at/a2iQv
Has your train ever been cursed to live a life as an evil pig?
November 29, 2024 at 8:22 PM
Has your train ever been cursed to live a life as an evil pig?
Saving for later when I inevitably run out of stuff to watch this December…
Just added @samnicoresti.bsky.social's Wokeflake to our ACTUALLY VERY HANDY list of comics who've done #ACMS* with free specials on YouTube: noblefailure.org/specials
* @alexanderybennett.bsky.social! @howardread.bsky.social! @josielong.bsky.social! @joznorris.bsky.social! @robinince.bsky.social!
* @alexanderybennett.bsky.social! @howardread.bsky.social! @josielong.bsky.social! @joznorris.bsky.social! @robinince.bsky.social!
November 29, 2024 at 3:47 PM
Saving for later when I inevitably run out of stuff to watch this December…
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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
BUY YOUR LOVED ONES TICKETS TO GREAT COMEDY SHOWS.
I’m going to start a (possibly slow) thread of recommendations.
BUY YOUR LOVED ONES TICKETS TO GREAT COMEDY SHOWS.
I’m going to start a (possibly slow) thread of recommendations.
November 29, 2024 at 1:46 PM
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
BUY YOUR LOVED ONES TICKETS TO GREAT COMEDY SHOWS.
I’m going to start a (possibly slow) thread of recommendations.
BUY YOUR LOVED ONES TICKETS TO GREAT COMEDY SHOWS.
I’m going to start a (possibly slow) thread of recommendations.
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this festive wee guy is now doing the rounds across Scotland – grab a copy to The Skinny guide to Christmas + Hogmanay, it's free, ho ho ho, etc etc
November 27, 2024 at 2:55 PM
this festive wee guy is now doing the rounds across Scotland – grab a copy to The Skinny guide to Christmas + Hogmanay, it's free, ho ho ho, etc etc
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Back in Edinburgh and about to crack on with a busy print week schedule @theskinnymag.bsky.social - any good gigs in December I should consider for my What's On column? If yes, please email me by no later than 10am tomorrow (Tues 26 Nov) - tallah@theskinny.co.uk ✨
November 25, 2024 at 1:08 PM
Back in Edinburgh and about to crack on with a busy print week schedule @theskinnymag.bsky.social - any good gigs in December I should consider for my What's On column? If yes, please email me by no later than 10am tomorrow (Tues 26 Nov) - tallah@theskinny.co.uk ✨
This sounds like the most joyful way to spend a December evening! ✨
If you’re after some Christmas spirit, come to my choir’s concert at the Queen’s Hall on 17 Dec 🎄 www.thequeenshall.net/whats-on/suf...
Sufjan Stevens Songs for Christmas | Tue 17th Dec
A joyous festive celebration for all ages
www.thequeenshall.net
November 25, 2024 at 12:53 PM
This sounds like the most joyful way to spend a December evening! ✨