Brass (TV series) Thorn Street in Summerseat, Bury. Greater Manchester. The series is available on DVD in the United Kingdom. Brass (TV series) Brass was a British television comedy-drama, made by Granada Television for ITV and eventually Channel 4. "Brass" is northern English slang for "money" as well as for "effrontery". The series was set primarily in Utterley, a fictional Lancashire mining town in the 1930s, "Brass" satirized working-class period dramas of the 1970s, most significantly "When the Boat Comes In". Unusually for ITV comedies of the time, "Brass" eschewed a laugh track and utilized a dry sense of humour based in part
The Stand Comedy Club The Stand Comedy Club The Stand Comedy Club are three stand-up comedy venues in the cities of Edinburgh, Glasgow and Newcastle upon Tyne. The Stand hosted its first regular club night on Thursday 21 September 1995: seven people came and the total box office was £22. The Stand Comedy Club has three venues in the UK, two in Edinburgh and Glasgow, which were originally set up by owners Tommy Sheppard and Jane Mackay. The Edinburgh venue was established in 1995, in the small basement of WJ Christie's Bar in the city’s Old Town, and the Glasgow venue was opened in