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Back to Comedy on the Move Programme... Thursday 20 March Stand Up Drink Up: The West End Comedy Crawl Now a festival institution, the comedy pub crawl is not for the faint hearted. Picture the scene, around 100 hardy sober souls start off their evening in the calm, chilled surrounds of The Viper, where their guest host introduces them to a comedian, they laugh some, they drink some, they laugh some more. Then repeat five times at various hostelries around the West End with a different comedian in each venue and the audience reaching varying levels of hilarity as the comedy crawlers laugh themselves stupid. Now in previous years it has been as much fun to watch the audiences on the crawl as it has the comedians. It’s a little like leading a squadron into battle – you know they’re not all going to be there at the end. Are they still standing? Are they all here? Does anyone care? And then there’s the reaction of the poor patrons at the bars the Stand up! Drink up! tour visits. They were having a quiet pint and a blether. Now they have 100 crawlers to deal with and some shouty people with microphones. And to top off the night, just in case anyone’s peckish the comedy pub crawlers can devour some fresh nibbles at various parts along the tour before enjoying an evening of more laughing and some dancing – if they can still stand. We know the Scottish Executive probably wouldn’t approve of such behaviour – in fact, Health Minister Nicola Sturgeon is probably legislating against "this sort of thing" now. So take the opportunity to do it while you can – crawl with a horde of strangers and be entertained by some of the finest comics in the land. |
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