Susan Calman

It's August: you may have noticed from the cute pictures of animals and coverage of the Edinburgh Festival plastered across the media. Fred MacAulay is broadcasting his radio show direct from one of the many venues for the next two weeks, offering a daily pick of the fringe. Largely focused on comedy, MacAulay & Co brings listeners a mixture of stand-up and interviews, with a surprisingly large number of guests. It's a real fringe experience - some acts are a bit disappointing but there are so many that if you don't like one, another will be along in a minute. Wednesday's show proved to be the best so far with Doc Brown, Mark Watson and Glyes Brandreth. Other highlights include Sarah Millican on Monday and Sean Hughes on Tuesday. As an extra treat, fellow Scottish comic Susan Calman joins Fred every day too.

Susan Calman interview

A chat with loveable Glaswegian lass Susan Calman...

Susan Calman's comedy recommendations

Comedian Susan Calman, whose stand-up show 'Constantly Seeking Susan' is playing at the Edinburgh Festival, gives her pick of the stand up shows to see this year.

Interview: Susan Calman, comedian

"All these years and you've never even got round to Googling me?" says Susan Calman, somewhere between disbelief and disgust.

Edinburgh Fringe grilling: Susan Calman

Next up on Sport.co.uk's magic carpet ride of chuckles is Susan Calman - "one of the best female comics to ever come out of the land of bagpipes and haggis" (Time Out) - who takes her Constantly Seeking Susan show to the Underbelly this month...

Funny Friends and oversized clothing

Susan Calman and I are in the middle of recording a new series of Funny Friends for BBC Radio Scotland. If you didn't hear the first series, the idea is pretty simple. Susan Calman chats to her Funny Friends.

The News Quiz has now reached series 70. At first one dragged oneself into earshot expecting the worst. Would Sandi Toksvig have decided finally to give up all pretence of being the convenor of a popular comedy panel game and do the whole thing herself?

And yet, blow me down with my prejudices, series 70 has so far been something of a cracker, the last couple of weeks in particular. First, they've injected new blood into the panellists - the rapidly rising posh type Miles Jupp a fortnight ago, the drily observant Scottish stand-up Susan Calman last week. Jupp in particular took the show over, beating Toksvig into a corner with an unstoppable stream of hilarity and never letting her out of it. Then, last week, a bottle of Buckfast Tonic Wine was brought out, knocked back, and the programme dissolved into giggling and slurring of words. Artificial stimulants - this is the way to go, one feels.