{"id":669255,"date":"2026-07-02T05:43:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T05:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/669255\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T05:43:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T05:43:12","slug":"tributes-paid-to-treasured-scottish-comedian-vladimir-mctavish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/669255\/","title":{"rendered":"Tributes paid to &#8216;treasured&#8217; Scottish comedian Vladimir McTavish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tributes have been paid after the death of comedian Paul Sneddon &#8211; better known as Vladimir McTavish.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Announcing his death, The Stand Comedy Club in Glasgow said he was &#8220;a much treasured and loved&#8221; part of the Scottish comedy circuit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sneddon became a mainstay of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe during a 30-year long stand-up career and appeared on several BBC radio and TV programmes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was due to perform at the festival in August, with a show exploring &#8220;three months of chemotherapy&#8221; he underwent at the start of the year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a statement, The Stand said:  &#8220;He was as known for his kindness, encouragement and generosity as he was for his immense talent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He made every green room brighter, every line-up funnier and the world a nicer place to live in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We are broken at the loss of our dear friend and will in time be marking his life appropriately.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tributes have been paid after the death of comedian Paul Sneddon &#8211; better known as Vladimir McTavish. Announcing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":669256,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-669255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}