The Stand Comedy Club Podcast · The Stand

Chris Rutter

·1 hr 28 min·5 clips

Chris Rutter says he was caught watching porn at school at age 14.

1. The Stand Comedy Club Podcast episode with Chris Rutter centers on school-era embarrassment, the Stand’s comedy pipeline, and Chris’s route into live comedy. 2. Chris Rutter is the guest, and Fraser and the Stand team steer the conversation because they know the Red Raw system, Edinburgh Fringe planning, and the venue’s day-to-day work. 3. The episode asks what it means to grow through the Stand’s comedy circuit while also explaining how Stand Five is meant to support five debut fringe acts. 4. Chris starts with being caught watching porn at school at 14, while trying to use a French-class computer-lab task about a film poster for Triple X as cover. 5. He names the school computer lab, the IT worker who walked in, and his teacher Miss Chadburn, who gave him a detention that was later rescinded. 6. The story includes his friend Steven Ross, the search terms that led to pop-ups, and the moment the screen ended up on captaincumshot.com. 7. Chris and the hosts then move to another school-era story about a receptionist who was fired after being found viewing porn at school. 8. The episode also mentions a teacher who was rumored to have appeared in a porn video, and the hosts discuss how the school told students she died. 9. Chris uses a memory of watching the first Transformers film on an iPod Nano on a bus to Paris to connect the theme of tiny screens and awkward viewing habits. 10. He also mentions watching High School Musical 2 on an iPod Video every night and skipping the songs he did not like. 11. The conversation shifts into the Stand’s internal systems, including Red Raw, weekend tenders, and the idea that newcomers need stage time to develop. 12. Fraser explains that he is general manager of the Glasgow club and head of production for the company, with responsibility for technicians and Edinburgh Fringe venue design. 13. The Stand Five scheme is described as a company plan to select five acts from its roster and cohort and support them at the fringe with rooms and marketing. 14. Chris names Keir McAllister as the key person who led the Stand Five idea, while also crediting Alice in marketing for suggesting a practical bar-room redesign. 15. The discussion makes clear that the scheme aims to help acts who have not yet done a debut hour, including Amanda Dwyer, who has done fringe shows but not a debut hour. 16. Chris describes his reaction to the offer as a 'baby reindeer moment,' because he expected a catch before being told the condition was simply to be funny. 17. The tone is conversational and loose, with interruptions, side branches about windows and school punishments, and a lot of name-checking across the Glasgow comedy scene. 18. The format is an interview that keeps turning into shared memory, with Fraser, Chris, and the others trading stories about Red Raw, flyering, and early gigs. 19. Listeners who know the Stand, Edinburgh Fringe, or Glasgow comedy names will get the most out of it. 20. People wanting a tightly structured, topic-specific interview may skip it.

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Loose comic back-and-forth that turns small details into the joke.

Chris Rutter gives this episode a loose, easy rhythm. The talk moves through names, school embarrassment, stage nerves, and the awkward mechanics of being heard, while the hosts keep tugging it toward smaller comic details.

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For when you want a comedian chat that keeps swerving into sillier territory.

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