British Comedy Guide

Kenny O'Brien

  • Manager

Press clippings

Scottish Comedy Awards 2019 winners

Susie McCabe, Amy Matthews, Jay Lafferty and Christopher MacArthur-Boyd, Still Game and Breaking The News were amongst the winners in the Scottish Comedy Awards 2019.

British Comedy Guide, 12th June 2019

The Stand's troubleshooter steps down

He is one of the unsung stalwarts of the Scottish comedy scene. But now Kenny O'Brien, known to generations of comedians as the general manager of The Stand, is to leave the comedy club he is so closely linked to after 20 years in the job.

Chortle, 8th November 2018

Don't ruin the Assembly Rooms as a Fringe venue

The Stand's director Kenny O'Brien has written an open letter, published exclusively below, to Assembly impresario William Burdett-Coutts about the situation, accusing him of running the site in a way that keeps audiences away from the New Town.

Kenny O'Brien, Chortle, 25th August 2016

Unsung hero: The Stand's Kenny O'Brien

This week, The Stand's Kenny O'Brien: 'My wife's birthday is in August, apparently'.

Kenny O'Brien, The List, 25th July 2014

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