Sajeela Kershi
Sal Stevens
Sally-Anne Hayward
Sam Avery
Sam Gore
Sam Harland
Sam Simmons
Sam Veale
Sandi Toksvig
Sandy Nelson
Sara Pascoe
Sarah Campbell
Sarah Kendall
Sarah Ledger
Sarah Millican
Sarah Silverman
Scooby
Scott Agnew
Scott Capurro
Sean Collins
Sean Grant
Sean Hughes
Sean Lock
Sean McLoughlin
Sean Meo
Sean Moran
Sean Percival
Seann Walsh
Seymour Mace
Shappi Khorsandi
Sharon Mahoney
Sharon Mannion
Shaun Paczkowski
Shaun Pye
Shazia Mirza
Shelagh Martin
Silky
Simon Amstell
Simon B Cotter
Simon Bird
Simon Bligh
Simon Donald
Simon Evans
Simon Farnaby
Simon Feilder
Simon Fox
Simon Gunnell
Simon Munnery
Smug Roberts
Snorri Hergill Kristjansson
Sody Funjabi
Sol Bernstein
Sophie Black
Special guest who cannot be named
Spencer Brown
Spike Milligan
Spiky Mike
Stan Stanley
Stanley Baxter
Stanley McHale
Stefano Paolini
Steph Davies
Stephen Carlin
Stephen Grant
Stephen Hill
Stephen K Amos
Stephen Lynch
Stephen Merchant
Steve Best
Steve Coogan
Steve Day
Steve Furst
Steve Gribbin
Steve Hall
Steve Harris
Steve Hughes
Steve Jameson
Steve McGrew
Steve N Allen
Steve Pemberton
Steve Rawlings
Steve Shanyaski
Steve Weiner
Steve Williams
Steven Young
Stewart Francis
Stewart Lee
Stewart Spaull
Stu Who?
Stuart Black
Stuart Goldsmith
Stuart Hudson
Sue Perkins
Sully O'Sullivan
Susan Calman
Susan Hanks
Susan Morrison
Susan Murray
Susan Vale
Suzy Bennett
Sy Thomas
Scott Capurro
Date Of Birth: 10/12/1962
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CV |
Books: 1999: Fowl Play. Buy Buy |
Movies: 1999: Star Wars Episode One: The Phantom Mence - voice of Fode. Buy on DVD or VHS DVD |
Movies: 1999: Star Wars Episode One: The Phantom Mence - voice of Fode. Buy on DVD or VHS VHS |
Movies: 1993: Mrs Doubtfire - Aunt Jack. Buy on DVD or VHS DVD |
Movies: 1993: Mrs Doubtfire - Aunt Jack. Buy on DVD or VHS VHS |
TV: 2004: Contestant on E4/C4's Kings Of Comedy |
TV: 2001: Presenter on BBC Choice's That Gay Show |
Theatre: 2004: Loaded performed at Edinburgh Loaded |
Theatre: 2001: Fucking Our Fathers performed at Edinburgh Fucking Our Fathers |
Stand Up: 2004: Edinburgh show Edinburgh show |
Stand Up: 2002: Edinburgh show: Scott Capurro Scott Capurro |
Stand Up: 1999: Edinburgh show Fowl Play |
Stand Up: 1998: Edinburgh show Brian Souffle |
Stand Up: 1996: Appeared at the Melbourne comedy festival and toured Australia. Edinburgh show The Doctor Is On |
Stand Up: 1995: Edinburgh show nominated for the Perrier Perrier |
Stand Up: 1994: Named Perrier best newcomer at Edinburgh for his show Risk-Gay Perrier |
America Stands Up! 2010 |
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As San Franciscan compere Scott Capurro acknowledged, America Stands Up! is something of a misnomer for this showcase of otherwise exclusively New York-based acts, with all of the metropolis’ famed confrontational attitude on display. An annual highlight of the Glasgow Comedy Festival brochure, the acts taking part tend to be virtually unknown in the UK, and only get a couple of small, warm-up gigs around the city to re-tune their material and hone their local observations. Some sink without trace, while others, like Danny Lobell, have swum successfully enough to return with a solo show this year. In previous years, I’ve felt Capurro a poor choice of host, very funny but unsettling the crowd with his sexually and racially provocative material, the worst kind of mood-setter for foreign comics in an unfamiliar situation. I might have done him a disservice though. He went through the fellatio-mimed motions a bit this evening, but the culture clash of New York’s ethnic diversity with Glasgow’s pale luminescence, and that melting pot of fiercely asserted identities and high-status posturing that seems so extrovert to UK reticence, undoubtedly benefitted from him foregrounding it right away. Not that there weren’t casualties. Rachel Feinstein’s wry ruminations on the assurance of Puerto Rican women undoubtedly have greater impact back home. But one sympathises with her faltering opening – there was something in her tone when she asked the standard question of whether anyone liked a drink provoked a strangely muted response for a Scottish crowd. Feinstein’s a confident performer but her dating material is wholly unremarkable, the broadest canvases of metrosexual men and her whoreish girlfriends. She only begins to engage when she fleshes out these caricatures with her gift for distinctive voices, bewildering a letching homeboy by channelling her Jewish grandmother. Nevertheless, likening the moans of a disinterested porn actress to the sounds she makes shifting furniture is one of the rare moments when she unites the room in laughter. Rather more successful is Alaskan-born Hailey Boyle, quick to disassociate herself from Sarah Palin but even quicker to register her seething hatred for the skinny girls in the front rows. Her sizeable frame is a starting point for any number of superb routines that effectively alternate between deadpan self-deprecation and aggressive sexuality, leaving you in no doubt that she’ll play the ugly duckling, small town rube only as far as it amuses her, her outsider’s perspective prompting some hilariously dark, counter-intuitive reactions to society’s norms – potential rapists are warned about becoming her unsuspecting victims. There’s a palpable frisson in the room when she recalls being dumped by a black Republican and starts criticising Asian girls. But we’re in safe hands, and the solid punchlines, stereotyping as they are, are free of malice and only lightly flirt with prejudice. Apropos of nothing, she claims that black men smell of coconut, a fact the next act, Chicago-born Hannibal Buress, pictured unequivocally slaps down. Because he smells of cinnamon. Standout of the evening, he slowly feels his way in with some low-energy musings on his local Mexican restaurant becoming a church and the lengthy experimentation process required to create a Flaming Dr Pepper cocktail. Soon though, he’s bristling with an unwarranted agitation and as he launches into a ungracious but logical demolition of his girlfriend’s irritation with his timekeeping, his hackles rise. So by the time he’s bawling out a character in the Grand Theft Auto computer game for criticising his dress sense or his baby nephew for some minor infraction, he’s approaching an enjoyable head of steam. Without a cellphone to distract him in the UK, he’s delighted to find he has more time for slapping people. Throughout, he retains a sense of his own ridiculousness, confusing a sandwich board promotion with an Amnesty International campaign and recalling the hubris of patronising his four-year-old niece. Mocking handlebar moustaches, he catches himself and chuckles ‘I’m tackling the real issues here, so dangerous!’ He closes brilliantly, recalling an intense confrontation he experienced when bulk-buying apple juice, the seeming insignificance of the situation and his own agenda blinding him to the true insidious cause. If Buress’s feelings are seldom far from the surface, Brian Scott McFadden gives absolutely nothing of himself away, a polished act who might have been created in a stand-up laboratory, right down to his ‘Oh, yeah!’ catchphrase. A variation on the hoary ‘Am I right folks?’, over the duration of his set, it shifts from being a quirk, to an irritation, to oddly endearing, so eager is he to bolt it onto every fifth gag. Like some sort of meta-comedian, he opens with skilled impressions of various types of laughter, before delivering the obligatory wisecrack at the expense of Glasgow’s tiny underground system. This prompts him to envisage the Tannoy announcer on his own subway system, where the laughs are located in the New Yoik accent struggling to awkwardly form the cadences of formal apology. Unfortunately, he allows this promising routine to simply dissipate. And a bit on Shawshank relationships, where one half of the couple is maintaining a show of solidarity while secretly plotting their escape, is prematurely dispensed with. The reason for this becomes apparent with his eagerness to unveil his big set-piece, the ‘what women want from a man’ routine to end all such routines. Assuming the stance of a cat confused by a laser, he reels off a series of contradictory desires to nods and murmurs of assent from both sexes, going far enough to make you think he’s finished with this clever-clever display at just the right moment, before unwisely returning to it at length, to the detriment of all that went before. While his stagecraft, for the most part, can be appreciated, this is a stand-up who’s content with the most superficial observations. An accomplished pastiche of BBC News reports is fatally compromised when he lets ‘CNN’ slip instead, corrects himself, then repeats the mistake twice more. |
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Date of live review: Sunday 28th Mar, '10 | |
Review by Jay Richardson |
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He's a bit boring. Skepticat, August 2009 |
I am all for pushing boundaries but this is just racist bilge. Neil, February 2009 |
There is no middle ground with him, you either love him or hate him. I fall into the former category, as his live show is one of the sickest, most twisted trains of thought on the circuit. Jokes about Madelaine McCann one second, and his cruising for cock on the internet the second...the sort of things other comics wish they had the balls to talk about. Yes, he will pick on an 'alpha-male' in the audience and basically try to fuck him, but it's the mark's reaction that gets the laugh every time. Utterly fantastic. Chris, December 2008 |
Please do not give this racist bigot the time of day. His attempts to shock went too far at the Ed Festival. I can handle extreme jokes but I found nothing funny about the barrage of hate he downloaded on a Chinese member of the audience. Steve, August 2008 |
Seen this guy twice now and I really can't find anything positive to say. Sorry. Makes Bernard Manning look like Jo Brand. Zzzzzz Michael Monkhouse, December 2007 |
Boos as he left the stage in Sheffield last night and deservedly so. Horrible, pointless racism from a one trick pony. Petra, October 2007 |
Terrible. Not funny. Got thrown off stage by an audience sick of his racist (and not the slightest bit funny) jokes and his bullying of individuals in the audience. It was such a relief when a member of the audience finally said "Get Off" and everyone else applauded! Kathy, April 2007 |
Terrible - By far the worst of the night at Ealing. Tried to shock, was just not funny. Booed at the end, with good reason. Will, April 2007 |
Where can I see Scott Capurro next?
20:00 - Saturday 11th Sep, '10 | |
Venue: | 99 Club Brixton |
Prices: | £10 |
Comics: | Fergus Craig, Marcel Lucont, Scott Capurro |
Info: | MC Chris Mayo |
20:00 - Sunday 12th Sep, '10 | |
Venue: | Comedy Pub |
Prices: | £5 |
Comics: | Dave McNeill, Lawry Lewin, Scott Capurro |
Info: | Bloody Funny Sunday, also featuring Toby, Liaquat Lal, Piggery Jokery |
20:00 - Thursday 30th Sep, '10 | |
Venue: | Royal Vauxhall Tavern |
Prices: | £10 |
Comics: | Scott Capurro |
Info: | Scott Capurro's Position. Chat show with Dr. Christian Jessen, Patti Boulayé, Mari Wilson |
20:00 - Friday 1st Oct, '10 | |
Venue: | Comedy Carnival Leicester Square |
Prices: | From £12 |
Comics: | Ninia Benjamin, Scott Capurro, Stuart Goldsmith, Pete Jonas (MC) |
20:30 - Saturday 2nd Oct, '10 | |
Venue: | Chuckle Club |
Prices: | £12 |
Comics: | Eugene Cheese, Inder Manocha, Rob Deering, Scott Capurro |
19:45 - Saturday 2nd Oct, '10 | |
Venue: | Leeds Highlight |
Prices: | From £10 |
Comics: | Dave Johns, James Dowdeswell, Scott Capurro, Stu Who? |
Info: | Plus Roger D |
20:00 - Thursday 7th Oct, '10 | |
Venue: | Royal Vauxhall Tavern |
Prices: | £10 |
Comics: | Jimmy Carr, Robin Ince, Scott Capurro |
Info: | Scott Capurro's Position. Chat show with Robin Ince, Lembit Opik, Jimmy Carr |
20:30 - Saturday 9th Oct, '10 | |
Venue: | Chuckle Club |
Prices: | £12 |
Comics: | Inder Manocha, Rob Deering, Scott Capurro, Eugene Cheese (MC) |
20:30 - Saturday 9th Oct, '10 | |
Venue: | Crack Comedy Club |
Prices: | Adult - £11.00, Student - £6.00 |
Comics: | Geoff Norcott, James Dowdeswell, Jim Smallman, Scott Capurro |
20:45 - Saturday 9th Oct, '10 | |
Venue: | Comedy Tree Putney |
Prices: | £14 (£12 in advance, £7 concs) |
Comics: | Scott Capurro, Stephen Carlin, Tony Law, Simon Feilder (MC) |
20:00 - Thursday 14th Oct, '10 | |
Venue: | Royal Vauxhall Tavern |
Prices: | £10 |
Comics: | Scott Capurro |
Info: | Scott Capurro's Position. Chat show with Paul Gambaccinni, Barb Jungr |
20:00 - Friday 15th Oct, '10 | |
Venue: | Comedy Carnival Leicester Square |
Prices: | From £12 |
Comics: | Andrew Bird, Scott Capurro, Will Smith |
Info: | MC Bryan Lacey |
20:00 - Thursday 21st Oct, '10 | |
Venue: | Royal Vauxhall Tavern |
Prices: | £10 |
Comics: | Scott Capurro |
Info: | Scott Capurro's Position. Chat show |
21:00 - Wednesday 27th Oct, '10 | |
Venue: | Belfast Queen’s Comedy Club |
Prices: | £5 |
Comics: | Colin Murphy, Scott Capurro, Seann Walsh |
20:00 - Thursday 28th Oct, '10 | |
Venue: | Royal Vauxhall Tavern |
Prices: | £10 |
Comics: | Lee Mack, Mark Gatiss, Scott Capurro |
Info: | Scott Capurro's Position. Chat show |
20:45 - Saturday 30th Oct, '10 | |
Venue: | Monkey Business Chalk Farm |
Prices: | £10.50 (£8.50 concs) + £2 membership |
Comics: | Abandoman, Carey Marx, Scott Capurro |
Info: | MC Martin Besserman |
20:00 - Friday 5th Nov, '10 | |
Venue: | Comedy Carnival Leicester Square |
Prices: | From £12 |
Comics: | Pete Firman, Scott Capurro, Steve Hall, Steve N Allen (MC) |
20:00 - Saturday 13th Nov, '10 | |
Venue: | Churchill Theatre Bromley |
Prices: | £10 + £1 membership |
Comics: | Darren Ruddell, Jo Selby, Scott Capurro |
Info: | MC Toni Maresse |
21:00 - Friday 19th Nov, '10 | |
Venue: | Banana Cabaret |
Prices: | £14 (£11 concs) |
Comics: | Julian Deane, Nick Helm, Paul Tonkinson, Roger Monkhouse, Scott Capurro |
21:00 - Saturday 20th Nov, '10 | |
Venue: | Banana Cabaret |
Prices: | £16 (£13 concs) |
Comics: | Meryl O'Rourke, Paul Tonkinson, Roger Monkhouse, Scott Capurro |
20:30 - Friday 26th Nov, '10 | |
Venue: | Crack Comedy Club |
Prices: | Adult - £10.00, Student - £5.00 |
Comics: | Scott Capurro, Tom Price |
20:00 - Friday 3rd Dec, '10 | |
Venue: | Comedy Carnival Leicester Square |
Prices: | From £12 |
Comics: | John Gordillo, Scott Capurro, Will Smith, Steve N Allen (MC) |
20:45 - Saturday 11th Dec, '10 | |
Venue: | Monkey Business Chalk Farm |
Prices: | £10.50 (£8.50 concs) + £2 membership |
Comics: | Felix Dexter, Scott Capurro |
Info: | Plus Barry from Watford, MC Martin Besserman |
19:45 - Saturday 16th Apr, '11 | |
Venue: | Durham Gala Theatre |
Prices: | £10 |
Comics: | Scott Capurro |
Fucking Our Fathers
Edinburgh Fringe 2002
Fuddy Meers
Scott Capurro
The Stonewall Gala
Edinburgh Fringe 2004
Loaded by Scott Capurro
Scott Capurro
Edinburgh Fringe 2005
Scott Capurro
Edinburgh Fringe 2006
Scott Capurro: Yankee Dog Pig
Edinburgh Fringe 2008
Scott Capurro Goes Deeper
Edinburgh Fringe 2009
Stephen Hill And Jessica Fostekew: Cream Eggs vs Nazi Nana
Misc live shows
Comedy HayDay
Scott Capurro's Position