Comedy review: Scottish Comedian of the Year

The 12th instalment of this competition hinted that the barrel of Scottish comedy may have run close to dry, featuring several former finalists and two previous winners. Contrary to previous years though, there was not a duff performer on the night and the likes of oddball Donald Alexander and the caustic Marc Jennings put in credible showings without quite making the podium places. Former winners Rosco McLelland and Jamie Dalgleish couldn’t reproduce the form of their previous triumphs but were further respectively hamstrung by taking the difficult opening spot and being sabotaged by a faulty microphone.