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Interview: Bridget Christie
Bridget Christie on her Glasgow Comedy Festival show about Trump, Brexit and the importance of finding common ground.
Jay Richardson, The Scotsman, 12th March 2018Bridget Christie on comedians private lives
The comedian Louise Reay is being sued for allegedly defaming her estranged husband on stage. So should standups keep their private lives to themselves?
Bridget Christie, The Guardian, 1st March 2018Bridget Christie interview
The world's anxieties are bleeding into her personal life, but the comedian is done with political despair. Ahead of her new tour, she explains why it's time to bring something new to the table.
Zoe Williams, The Guardian, 23rd February 2018Bridget Christie interview
Bridget Christie is, by her own admission, a worrier.
B Journal, 20th February 2018The best comedy shows this Christmas
Bridget Christie promises a night of hope and despair, Daniel Kitson serves up a heartwarmer and Lucy McCormick delivers a trash take on the New Testament. Here are the funniest festive gigs
Brian Logan, The Guardian, 2nd December 2017Glasgow International Comedy Festival gets new sponsor
Whyte & Mackay Blended Whisky will headline sponsorship of the 2018 event.
Glasgow Evening Times, 14th November 201710 female comedians to see this autumn
Between them they represent the breadth, diversity and talent of the scene, hailing from the UK, Canada, America and Denmark. One jokes about her past job as a dominatrix, another about her Nazi grandfather, and another performs in a poundshop parrot suit. Something for everyone, then.
Alice Jones, Refinery 29, 25th September 2017When big hitters take a short cut to the punchline
The stars of the Greenwich comedy festival had to concertina their standup routines. But can the likes of Dylan Moran and Bridget Christie ruminate and rage against the clock?
Brian Logan, The Guardian, 17th September 2017With Brexit, what has happened to our sense of humour?
From Brexit gags to feminist shows, left-leaning audiences, when faced with awkward political issues, can often be ostentatiously po-faced.
Danielle Grufferty, The Independent, 19th August 2017How Edinburgh changed British comedy
Comedy did not feature at all when the Edinburgh Fringe began but over the past three decades it has become the "spiritual home" of Britain's funny folk.
Steven Brocklehurst, BBC, 6th August 2017