Bruce Devlin Guest Blog

Well it that's time of year again when the other comedy festival starts. I remember back in its infancy staying in a lot of hotels with "Scottish Comedy Legend Jane Mackay". We pop over from Edinburgh, ply our filth at a few gigs then get on with the serious business of "networking", which as you can imagine was really just lamming into litres of gin, terrorising the gay community at large and staying in various hotels.

One particular evening, an establishment in the west of the city did put the willies up us and not in the way either of us would have liked (nudge nudge, wink wink). There we were, comatose, when someone burst in our room demanding our autographs as they had seen us in the bar downstairs and thought we were Jo Brand and Dom Jolly respectively. Jane politely asked them to leave and when they wouldn't I threw a bedside table at them. They then promptly left. Also in another city centre establishment a man was convinced we were the same person as at different points of the same evening we had on the same dress. That's a long very long story, however it goes to show just how stupid some people are.

Journeys to Glasgow were problematic as on one occasion we saw fit to travel with a ready-mixed keg of gin and slim. Running late, we both ran onto the platform at Haymarket and once on the train promptly opened the keg and it went everywhere, much to the horror of the bint sitting opposite. She soon calmed down when we offered to take her to Bonapartes (the lovely bar in the station) where we did speed drinking for an hour then went to a show, which I can't remember.

Glasgow and its festival have very fond memories for me - there really are a lot of good things on and I'm on almost constantly and will be tweeting throughout (www.twitter.com/brucedevlin), so do come to one of my shows or follow my filth on twitter. Have a fantastic festival and STAY ALERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Find Bruce Devlin online at www.brucedevlin.co.uk You can catch Bruce performing at the following festival shows:

Stand Up @Sloans : Thursday 11 March, 8.30pm, Sloans

Comedy Out WEST: Friday 12 & Friday 19th March, 9pm WEST Brewery

The Late Show: Friday 12th & Saturday 13th March, 11pm, Blackfriars Basement

Best of Red Raw 2010 with BBC SCotland: Monday 15 & Monday 22 March, 8.30pm, Universal

Magners Festival Club: Thursday 25th (10pm), Friday 26th (10.30pm) & Saturday 27th (10.30pm), Stand Comedy Club