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Glasgow Live
Glasgow Live
National
Lee Dalgetty

Remembering Glasgow's 'comic's graveyard' where audiences famously 'shot down' acts

Those in show business have said that if a Glasgow audience likes you, they'll let you live.

This couldn't have been more true at the Empire Theatre, which reopened in 1931.

The Sauchiehall Street venue was known as the comics graveyard, where acts who flopped were quickly condemned by the crowds.

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