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    Comedy in Scotland is described as "cheeky rather than edgy", largely in part due to its use of language and innuendos. The country has produced a number...
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    Scotland (Scots: Scotland; Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It contains nearly one-third of the United Kingdom's...
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  • best at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Scotland. Established in 1981, they are the most prestigious comedy prize in the United Kingdom. The awards have...
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    Limmy (category 21st-century Scottish male actors)
    Limmy, is a Scottish comedian, author, and Twitch streamer. While working as a website designer and Flash developer, Limmy began releasing comedy on his website...
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  • Stephen McCole (category Scottish male television actors)
    is a Scottish actor. He is best known for starring in the dark comedy series High Times, the American comedy Rushmore, and for his former role in BBC Scotland...
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  • Effingee Productions (category Scottish television comedy)
    Effingee Productions is a television production company known for its comedy in Scotland. It was created by Greg Hemphill and Ford Kiernan of Chewin' the Fat...
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  • Dinosaur (TV series) (category Television shows filmed in Scotland)
    Dinosaur is a Scottish comedy drama television series set in Glasgow. Nina enjoys her life living with her sister but is shaken when her sister is suddenly...
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    Ncuti Gatwa (category Alumni of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland)
    BAFTA Scotland Award for Best Actor in Television in 2020, and three BAFTA Television Award nominations for Best Male Comedy Performance, one in 2020,...
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  • Greg Hemphill (category Scottish comedy writers)
    work with Ford Kiernan, his long standing comedy and script writing partner, includes the BBC Scotland comedy series Chewin' The Fat (1999–2005) and Still...
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    Richard Gadd (category 21st-century Scottish comedians)
    Waiting for Gaddot won an Amused Moose Comedy Award in 2015 as well as a Scottish Comedy Award for Best Solo Show in 2016. It was also nominated for a Malcolm...
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    Channel in 1995, before rebranding as the Paramount Comedy Channel in 1997 and again as Paramount Comedy 1 in 2004 before finally becoming Comedy Central...
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    Rory Bremner (category British comedy musicians)
    Scottish Politics. Time I did. And why is there so little political comedy in Scotland outside the Parliament? Time to make sense (and nonsense) of it all...
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    BBC Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: BBC Alba) is a division of the BBC and the main public broadcaster in Scotland. It is one of the four BBC national regions...
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  • set in Dunsinane Castle in 11th-century Scotland, is reworked into a dark comedy set in 1975, centered on "Duncan's Cafe", a fast-food restaurant in the...
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    Gallery of Scotland Cinema of Scotland Comedy in Scotland Dance in Scotland Scottish country dance Scottish highland dance Ghillies Jig Scottish sword dances...
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  • Still Game (category BBC Scotland television shows)
    Still Game is a Scottish sitcom produced by Effingee Productions, The Comedy Unit and BBC Scotland. It was created by Ford Kiernan and Greg Hemphill, who...
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  • Ford Kiernan (category Scottish male comedians)
    January 1962) is a Scottish actor, comedian and writer. He is best known for his work with Greg Hemphill on the BBC Scotland sketch comedy series Chewin'...
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    Comedy music or musical comedy is a genre of music that is comical, comedic or humorous in nature. Its history can be traced back to the first century...
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  • Scottish Mussel is a 2015 comedy film, written, directed and produced by Talulah Riley that revolves around the life of a Glaswegian criminal, Ritchie...
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  • Education in Scotland is provided in state schools, private schools and by individuals through homeschooling. Mandatory education in Scotland begins for...
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    Rory McCann (category 20th-century Scottish male actors)
    disabled personal trainer in the 2002 television comedy drama The Book Group, winning the Scottish BAFTA for the best television performance of 2002...
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    Iain Stirling (category Scottish Twitch (service) streamers)
    regular on the UK comedy circuit. Having been dubbed one of Scotland's 'Hottest Newcomers' by The Scotsman after his performance in front of 750 people...
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    Ashley Jensen (category Scottish expatriate actresses in the United States)
    season. In January 2009, Jensen starred in No Holds Bard, a BBC Scotland one-off special comedy shown on Burns Night as part of a line-up of special programming...
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    Peter Sellers Award for Comedy. In 2011, he was honoured for his "outstanding contribution" to film at the British Academy Scotland Awards. Coltrane started...
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    Elaine C. Smith (category Alumni of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland)
    TV debut on the BBC Scotland comedy Laugh??? I Nearly Paid My Licence Fee; however, her first major television appearance came in 1986 as a star of the...
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    Julie Wilson Nimmo (category Alumni of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland)
    Megan Squire in the BBC Scottish comedy series Scot Squad. Nimmo started her career along with a lot of other Scottish actors and comedians in the 1995 sketch...
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    the 2011 census, Christianity was the largest religion in Scotland, chosen by 53.8% of the Scottish population identifying when asked: "What religion, religious...
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    "talkie") features a Scotland Yard Detective Frank Webber (played by John Longden). In Monty Python's 1969 comedy sketch "The Funniest Joke in the World", Graham...
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    Peter Capaldi (category Best Male Comedy Performance BAFTA Award (television) winners)
    is a Scottish actor and director. He portrayed the twelfth incarnation of the Doctor in the science fiction series Doctor Who and Malcolm Tucker in The...
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  • Comedy Connections is a BBC One documentary series produced by BBC Scotland that aired from 2003 to 2008. The show looked at the stories behind the production...
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