The Comedy Unit are looking for new sketches for their monthly 'Rough Cuts' night at The Stand Comedy Club in Glasgow. This month it's on the 9th July.

If you think you've got some ideas that will make us laugh proper out loud click here to see the writer's brief.

Friday 16th may

Fags, mags and bags team at the sony awards

The Fags, Mags and Bags team had a great night at the Sony Awards at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London. Sadly they didn't come away with the spoils, Paul Whitehouse and Charlie Higson won the Gold Award with their "Down The Line" show. Worthy winners. Here's some pics from the evening...

Donald McLeary, Kayvan Novak, Gus Beattie and Sanjeev Kohli.

The Grosvenor Hotel pre-madness!

Colin Gilbert and Kayvan.

The Fags team having pre-drinkies before the awards.

Edwin Collins and his lovely wife Grace, big fans of the jeevster.

Friday 11th April

Fags, mags and bags is nominated for a sony radio academy award

After a sucessful first run on BBC Radio 4 late last year, Glasgow based cornershop sitcom Fags, Mags and Bags has been nominated for a prestigious Sony Radio Academy Award.

The glittering ceremony takes place on Monday 12th May at the Grosvenor House Hotel on London's Park Lane.

The show is written by and stars Sanjeev Kohli (Still Game) and Donald McLeary (Me Too!) along with Kayvan Novak (Fonejacker) and newcomer Omar Raza.

Fags, Mags and Bags is up against fellow Radio 4 shows, Down the Line, That Mitchell & Webb Sound, Mark Thomas: My Life in Serious Organised Crime and BBC 7's A Series of Psychotic Episodes.

Read more about Fags, Mags and Bags here

tUESDAY 4TH MARCH

Gags to go is nominated for best website at the celtic media festival

Gags to Go's fabulous website has been nominated for Best Website at the Celtic Media Festival 2008. The festival will take place in Galway from 16-18 April 2008.

Take a look at the Gags To Go website by clicking here

friday 15th february

blowout wins bafta and celtic media festival nominatioN!

Channel 4 sketch show Blowout won Best Comedy at the Scottish BAFTAs and has now been shortlisted for Best Entertainment at the Celtic Media Festival. The festival will take place in Galway from 16-18 April 2008.

Find out more about Blowout here.

tuesday 2nd october

the comedy unit have moved!

6th floor

53 bothwell street

glasgow

g2 6ts

tel: +44 (0)141 220 6400/ fax: +44 (0)141 220 6444

The Comedy Unit has now moved its core business to new offices on Bothwell Street in the City Centre. We are still using our Maryhill offices and Studio for productions.

TuESDAY 4th September

Legit

brand new series airs on bbc one scotland

from FRIDAY 7th september - 21.30

Brand new sitcom Legit will air on BBC Scotland from Friday 7th September at 9.30pm. Legit stars Jordan Young as lovable rogue Danny and Steven McNicoll as family man Fox and is written by Robert Florence and Iain Connell.Find out more about Legit here.

wednesday 7th March

Gags to go

Got two minutes?

Gags to Go is Channel 4’s search for the best new comedy for mobile phones.

We’re looking for new comedy writers and writer/performers to send in up to two minutes of shiny and original comedy gold - in whatever glorious form it comes, from stand-up to sketches to comedy characters.

A selection of the funniest applicants will be asked to perform their work, or have it performed by comedy actors, at showcase events across the country in April. And the best ten 'gags' to come from these showcases will be sent out to comedy connoisseurs all over the UK via mobile phone and email in June.

The hottest new talent will also get the chance to work with some of the top comedy script editors and producers in the business as well as have their gags included in the 4Mobile portal.

You’ll find everything you need to take part here. Go on, send us your two minutes of funny stuff.

Deadline for applications

31st March 2007

www.channel4.com/4talent/gagstogo

wednesday 24th january

Comedy unit announce glasgow comedy festival line up

The Comedy Unit have announced their full line up for the Magners Glasgow International Comedy Festival. You can find out more about who is appearing here.

Monday 12th December

Hogmanay special of Only An Excuse?

The screening of the Hogmanay special of Only An Excuse? will take place on Monday 19th December from 8.15pm at the BBC in Glasgow. Please email excuse@comedyunit.co.uk for tickets.

Monday 13th November

Successful Night for Comedy Unit at Scottish BAFTAs

Top Scottish production company the Comedy Unit had a winning streak at last night’s Scottish BAFTAS with Still Game winning the coveted viewers’ vote. The show beat of strong competition from Location, Location, Location, River City, Rebus and Taggart. It was also up against another Comedy Unit production with Chewin’ the Fat also nominated in the category. This was the inaugural year for the Lloyds TSB Award for Most Popular Programme.

Still Game’s Paul Riley also took home the Best Performance award for his role as Winston in the show. The character has had his fair share of bad luck in the series losing a leg as well as his £32,000 gambling winnings.

Best Entertainment prize went Dear Green Place which was co-written by Rab Christie, the Comedy Unit’s senior comedy producer.

The company had shows nominated in three categories in total with Will Andrews up for Best First Time Director for the E4 Funny Cut Tank Commander which stars up and coming young stand up Greg McHugh.

November 2006

HIT GAELIC SERIES COMADAIDH ÓIR ON LINE AND ON SCREEN THIS NOVEMBER!

Comadaidh Óir returns on 16th November bigger, brighter and better. The comedy series with more than a hint of reality sees five aspiring writers fighting it out in six locations to see who will be crowned King or Queen of Comadaidh Óir. This year the show’s gone one step further with Comadaidh Óir podcasts offering tantalising tasters on the internet. Contenders for the crown in series two are - Iain MacKenzie (originally from Lewis), Cailean Collier (South Uist), Murdo MacSween (Lewis), Catriona Lexy Campbell (Plockton) and Janet Evans (originally from Eglinton in Ireland). The writing muse will be able to take inspiration from some fantastic locations. This year the Comadaidh Óir team travel to Oban, Inverness, Benbecula, Stornoway, Skye and Glasgow.

Writers have just three days to prepare their comedy sketches, drawing on inspiration from the location and it’s a punishing schedule as they take in six locations in just three weeks. Even the bus was tired out by Stornoway and gave up the ghost in a roadside ditch!

The five writers are joined on the Comadaidh Óir bus by the actors who will perform their sketches at each location. The troop for the second series are Carina MacLeod, Alec MacDonald, Calum McAulay and Alex ‘Bambi’ MacDonald. Events unfold under the watchful eyes of TV and radio personalities Cathy MacDonald and Morag MacDonald.

This year viewers have the chance for sneak previews as the Comadaidh Óir podcasts reveal some of the show’s best bits as well as the behind the scenes action and footage that you won’t see on the broadcast programme. Make sure you catch them from Thursday 9th November at www.comadaidhoir.co.uk. You might even spot last year’s winner Gilleasbuig Ferguson. He so impressed the programme makers that he’s back this year advising the new writers on what it takes to be crowned king of Comedy Gold!

Transmission dates

Thursday 16th November, 7.00pm – 7.30pm (Oban)
Monday 20th November, 7.00pm – 7.30pm (Inverness)
Thursday 30th November, 7.00pm – 7.30pm (Benbecula)
Thursday 14th December, 7.00pm – 7.30pm (Stornoway)
Thursday 21st December, 7.00pm – 7.30pm (Skye)
Thursday 28th December, 6.45pm – 7.15pm (Glasgow)

Podcasts live from 9th November – www.comadaidhoir.co.uk

November 2006

Offside Returning on 20th November!

Tam Cowan returns on Monday 20th November for another series of top football fanzine show Offside.

For details on how to get tickets for the show, see: Tickets

October 2006

Scottish Bafta Nomination for Will Andrews

We’re delighted to announce that Will Andrews, director of this summer’s hit Funny Cut for Channel 4 - Tank Commander - has been nominated for a Scottish Bafta in the Best New Director category. It’s been a good year for Will who this year was also made a Broadcast Hotshot.

October 2006

Rikki & Me Finishes Sell Out Run

Rikki & Me, the show featuring the comic characters of Rikki Fulton and based on the life of the comedy icon finished its sell out run on 28th October in Perth.

September 2006

Fags, Mags and Bags commissioned by Radio 4

Fags, Mags & Bags, the radio sitcom written by Sanjeev Kohli (Still Game, Meet the Magoons) and Donny McLeary (In Voluntary, The Karen Dunbar Show) has been commissioned for a six part series by BBC Radio 4. Fags, Mags and Bags will focus on the staff of a high street cornershop in their quest to bring nice-price custard creams and cans of coke with Arabic writing on them to an ungrateful nation. The show features shop owner Ramesh Majhu and his attempts to find a worthy successor to Fags, Mags and Bags when he approaches retirement. The series is due for transmission in 2007 with casting yet to be announced.

Donald McLeary has been writing and performing comedy on TV and radio for ten years on shows ranging from Week Ending and The Big Breakfast, to the Golden Rose nominated Karen Dunbar Show on which he was script editor. He has written material for performers such as Nina Wadia, Phil Jupitus and Phil Cornwell. He’s currently starring in Me Too! on BBC Cbeebies.

Writing partner Sanjeev Kohli has also written for The Karen Dunbar Show and Chewin’ the Fat but is best known for his portrayal of shopkeeper Navid in the Comedy Unit’s Still Game (BBC TWO). He also recently appeared in Channel 4’s Meet the Magoons.

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