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Andrew Learmonth

  • Stand-up comedian and actor

Press clippings

Writer: BBC rejected him as idea "too clever for Scots"

A comedy writer has claimed a BBC executive told him Scottish viewers were less intelligent than their English counterparts. The allegations by Glasgow-based Colin Edwards have been strongly denied by the BBC.

Andrew Learmonth, The National (Scotland), 21st May 2016

Opinion: Comedy - A Serious Business

Is comedy respected as an art form? Andrew Learmonth makes an impassioned plea for Scotland to take its comic storytellers seriously.

Andrew Learmonth, The Skinny, 31st October 2013

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