Chic Murray wasn't just the greatest Scottish comedian - Billy Connolly would back me up on that - he's above Hancock, Morecambe and Wise, or the procession of lame English comics who were shirricked ...

I could say that if you want to appreciate British comedy fully then you need to know about Chic Murray. I could say that, but I won't, because it sounds like I'm ordering a chore. There's no chore at ...

THERE is little doubt Chic Murray was the godfather of abstract comedy. The big man from Greenock could take the ordinary and convert into into the absurd. And it’s no wonder he inspired a clutch of ...

SO you can imagine the photographer’s dilemma. He has been sent along to the Glasgow Empire in 1957 to photograph comedian Chic Murray. Now Chic, by then a theatre star throughout Britain, had been ...

Audiences at Edinburgh’s new Multistory outdoor venue can feast their eyes on one of Scotland’s great icons this Fringe. No, not the castle, which makes a dramatic backdrop to the stage, but comedy ...

IT'S seven years since the young Edinburgh academic Prudencia Hart first took to the road, on her way to an ill-fated seminar in Kelso on the Border ballad tradition; but the National Theatre of ...

It's not uncommon for height to inform a nickname in Scotland, and the same is true for two of the nation's best-loved comedians - The Big Yin and The Tall Droll. But aside from their 6ft-plus stature ...

COMEDY legend Chic Murray’s daughter has slammed the eight-year wait for a statue of her late dad to be unveiled. Annabelle Meredith branded a council dispute over the £100,000 bronze honouring Chic ...

The “Comedian’s Comedian” Chic Murray passed away in Edinburgh on the night of the 29th of January, 1985. In a career that had taken him from an engineer’s apprenticeship in Kincaid’s Shipyard, ...