British Comedy Guide

Alan Bissett

  • Comedian, actor and writer

Press clippings

Gray day for comedy festival in artist tribute

Three comedians walked into an archive. Not the beginning of a joke but a new collaboration between the Glasgow International Comedy Festival and the Alasdair Gray archive which they hope will result in some original - and funny - new material.

Pauline McLean, BBC, 6th December 2024

Edinburgh 2023: Alan Bissett Guest Blog

"I've had nine Edinburgh Fringe runs now and loved every second of them."

Alan Bissett, Broadway World, 3rd August 2023

Glasgow Comedy Festival: Top picks from the comics

Who are the best people to ask for Glasgow Comedy Festival recommendations? The comedians themselves, of course. We got 11 of them to pick the show they're desperate to see

The List, 15th March 2023

Edinburgh Festival Fringe: My Festival - Alan Bissett

The Scottish author and performer on reviving his 'one-woman show', his Fringe picks and why he never wants to see a pig in real life.

The Scotsman, 9th August 2022

Rowan Atkinson joins backlash against Scottish hate law

Mr Bean star Rowan Atkinson has joined a growing backlash against the Scottish Government's new hate crime laws.

The actor joined forces with a group of 20 other artists, comics and cultural figures to raise concerns about the proposals put forward by nation's Justice Secretary.

Christine Lavelle, The Scottish Sun, 11th August 2020

15 funniest shows at the Glasgow Comedy Festival

Here's our pick of the shows for the Glasgow International Comedy Festival 2020.

The Herald, 7th March 2020

Meet Moira Bell

Moira Bell, cleaner, single mother and hardest women in Falkirk, is the alter ego of award winning novelist and performer Alan Bissett.

The Herald, 23rd July 2017

Alan Bissett's satire thrills SNP

Bissett's black-and-white view of Scotland as a force for good and Britain as quite the opposite might go down well at the SNP conference. But how will it be viewed by the public at large.

Tom Peterkin, The Scotsman, 16th April 2014

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