Biography of Comedy Group Flying Pigs Aberdeen their shows and where they appear such as the BBC Radio Scotland show Desperate Fishwives:

Flying Pigs Desperate Fishwives

The comedy group Flying Pigs formed in 1998 at Aberdeen University during the Student Show. Their act was so successful that they formed Flying Pigs Productions and regularly appear in Aberdeen venues such as The Lemon Tree, HMT Aberdeen, The Arts centre and HMT Hilton.

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Flying Pigs Desperate Fishwives BBC Radio Scotland

The Flying Pigs are to have their own shows on BBC Radio Scotland called Desperate Fishwives. On Friday the 22 and Saturday 23 June 2007 at 7:30pm the Desperate Fishwives recorded a live show at Aberdeen Arts Centre. The audience provided the live laughing sound effects for the two pilot episodes and the BBC Radio Scotland also recorded a further two episodes. If the pilots are successful we can look forward to hearing more of the Flying Pigs. There was a small admission charge to raise funds for the Castlegate Arts charity

Many of their humorous sketches and songs are performed in Doric and about Aberdeen events and people.

The Flying Pigs BBC Radio Scotland performances took place on Saturday 1 September 2007. Each 30 minute radio comedy sketch show was broadcast on the following three Saturday's at five minutes past noon. It was called Desperate Fishwives and featured sketches such as Mither and Faither, Archie and Davie the bowling fanatics and contestants of Who Wants to be a Millionaire with Chris Tarrant, the Couthy Doric Vampire, to former Doric Fishermen fae Peterhead working as airline pilots giving the safety take off talk, Yez Is Fit Ya Eat with Doctor Gillian McKeith and a mimicry of Radio Scotland's broadcaster and Aberdonian Robbie Shepherd reporting from Afghanistan. A particularly funny sketch involved Robbie Shepherd going to report on Hollywood.

Many Radio Scotland comedies are repeated on BBC Radio 7 so it is hoped that the four radio comedy sketch shows from The Flying Pigs in Aberdeen was be broadcast on this UK and worldwide radio station.

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If you missed the Desperate Fishwives radio broadcasts you can use the listen again feature at BBC Radio Scotland at their website http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/radioscotland/

A second series of Desperate Fishwives by The Flying Pigs will be broadcast in the autumn or winter of 2008 on BBC Radio Scotland. The six part comedy series will be recorded live at the Arts Centre in Aberdeen in July 08.

The second radio series of The Flying Pigs - Desperate Fishwives was recorded for BBC Radio Scotland on Tuesday 1 July through to Thursday 3 July at 7:30pm at the Aberdeen Arts centre. The Flying Pigs second radio show once more stared popular characters such as Robbie Shepherd and there will be new characters who do not speak such broad Doric. The second Desperate Fishwives series will once more be for 6 weeks and about 39 minutes long.

The 2008 line up of The Flying Pigs - The Desperate fishwives are Moray Barber, Andrew Brebner, Greg Gordon, Susan Gordon, John Hardie, Elaine Johnstone, Craig Pike and Steve Rance. Their latest BBC Scotland radio show, Desperate Fishwives, will be broadcast from the 25th July at 6.10pm

2009 Flying Pigs Comedy

The Flying Pigs will appear live at His Majesty's Theatre, Aberdeen in June 2009. Provisional dates could mean that this will be a two week run due to the high popularity of The Flying Pigs and the demand for tickets.

2008 Performances of The Flying Pigs

From the 24 to the 26 April 2008 The Flying Pigs will be performing at HMT Aberdeen as part of the Fiddler's Spectacular. The Flying Pigs will perform alongside the Aberdeen and Banchory Strathspey and Reel Societies and Caledon.

The Flying Pigs 2008 performance at HMT Aberdeen will see the comic perform a twenty minute set during the second half of the evening which also sees performances by Caledon, the Scottish tenors and the Aberdeen and Banchory Strathspey and Reel Societies. The compere for the evening will be Jamie MacDougall from BBC Radio Scotland. The comedians will end their performance with their pavement dance routine along with the fiddlers.

On Saturday 19 April 2008 The Flying Pigs gave a comedy performance in honour of Scotland The What? who were given the Freedom of Aberdeen City in honour for their Doric Comedy. John Hardie of The Flying Pigs is the son of Buff Hardie who along with Steve Robertson and George Donald made up the Scotland The What? trio. Read more about Scotland The What?

2007 Performances of The Flying Pigs

In 2007 The Flying Pigs performed at HMT Aberdeen from Wednesday 7 March to Saturday 10 March 2007.

The 2007 The Flying Pigs show was called Desperate Fishwives a play on words of the popular Desperate Housewives Channel 4 TV programme. New characters to The Flying Pigs show included Mr Value who loves a bargain and The Janitor who is a health and safety freak. Returning popular characters include The Liar, Mither and Faither (they are on holiday to Paris this year) and Archie and Davie.

Past Performances of The Flying Pigs

7 - 10 March Desperate Fishwives - a collection of sketches and songs by Aberdeen’s own Flying Pig‘s.

The names of some of their shows are named after pig parts - past shows have been titled "Best Back"; "Flying Pig: The Seagull Has Landed" (at His Majesty's Theatre); or reflect Aberdonian humour and places: "Last Tango In Powis" (their last gig at HMT Hilton), The Madness of Kingswells and The Hunchback of Walker Dam.

The Flying Pigs comedy team consist of writer Greg Gordon, producer John Hardie (son of William "Buff" Hardie from Scotland the What?), Susan Gordon, Craig Pike and Ollie Knox. The FlyingPigs call their Doric humour Chavin awa humour.

Regular characters include The Liar; Mither and Faither; The Janitor; Archie and Davie; Selma and Eddie.

Contact The Flying Pigs Aberdeen

Website: www.flyingpigproductions.co.uk

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