Glasgow International Comedy Festival

The Glasgow International Comedy Festival features spectacular stand-up stars and home-grown favourites on stages across the city!

About Glasgow International Comedy Festival

The Glasgow International Comedy Festival, the largest event of its kind in Europe, has become a renowned annual event in Glasgow's cultural calendar.

The festival returns between 14th - 31st March 2019 and will feature your favourite comedy friends, top television names and spectacular stand-up stars to stages across Glasgow.

Top comedy stars from around the UK and beyond will be coming just to entertain you, only to realise the Scottish money they’ve been paid in can only be spent in this country and that they can never go home again... They’ll be complemented by the very best of home-grown Scottish talent for a comedy extravaganza that makes us Europe’s largest comedy festival.

Upcoming Events at Glasgow International Comedy Festival

The Taming of the Shrew

20th March 2019 - 30th March 2019

Turning Shakespeare's original upside down, Jo Clifford's new version of The Taming of the Shrew is a bawdy and riotous take where the patriarchy is being challenged and new possibilities abound!

It Just So Happened

26th March 2019

Glasgow Comedy Festival: It Just So Happened is the alternative history show for fans of stand-up comedy and all things historical!

Julia Sutherland: Exposed

26th March 2019

Glasgow Comedy Festival: Join Julia Sutherland for this hilarious and unique stand-up show, where she faces her toughest subject yet – herself!

Me3 Comedy: Cunning Runts

26th March 2019

Glasgow Comedy Festival: Dark, emotive sketch comedy from father and wife duo Marianne MacRae and Richard Hanrahan.

Paul Mayhew-Archer: Incurable Optimist

26th March 2019

Glasgow Comedy Festival: Don't miss the debut stand-up hour from the multi award-winning co-writer of The Vicar of Dibley, Paul Mayhew-Archer!

Iain MacDonald: Mispunderstood

26th March 2019

Glasgow Comedy Festival: Don't miss a one-liner show from 2018 UK Pun Championship finalist as he looks into why wordplay is so mispunderstood!

The Best of Red Raw

26th March 2019

Glasgow Comedy Festival: Enjoy new comedy at The Best of Red Raw! And during the Whyte & Mackay Glasgow International Comedy Festival you never know who might turn up?

Short Attention Span Theatre

26th March 2019

Glasgow Comedy Festival: Four new twenty minute plays from Karen Barclay, Tom Brogan, Catriona Duggan and Chris McQueer.

Short Attention Span Theatre

27th March 2019

Glasgow Comedy Festival: Four new twenty minute plays from Karen Barclay, Tom Brogan, Catriona Duggan and Chris McQueer.

Ambush: The Salon

27th March 2019

Glasgow Comedy Festival: Join the combined comic forces of Ambush and their pals at the Salon, Glasgow's grassroots idiosyncratic comedy cabaret night.

Damian Clark

27th March 2019

Glasgow Comedy Festival: Former Kevin Bridges support returns to Glasgow with his brand new show of rapid-fire gags!

Marc Jennings: Getting Going

27th March 2019

Glasgow Comedy Festival: Join rising star of the Scottish comedy circuit Marc Jennings for his first solo show at The Stand Comedy Club!

Philip Differ: Billy Bremner & Me

27th March 2019

Glasgow Comedy Festival: Discover the fruits of Phil Differ's failure in this autobiographical one-man show, Billy Bremner & Me, at The Bungo!

Rachel Jackson & Friends

27th March 2019

Glasgow Comedy Festival: Rachel Jackson and friends is a brand new comedy show debuting at The Tron Theatre!

New Material Night hosted by Julia Sutherland

27th March 2019

Glasgow Comedy Festival: Some of the circuit's most well know faces try out spanking new material!

Waiting for Godot

27th March 2019 - 30th March 2019

Glasgow Comedy Festival: Half.Wits Theatre returns with a rare staging of Samuel Beckett's surrealist and iconic comic masterpiece, Waiting For Godot!

Kitsch Cabaret

27th March 2019

Glasgow Comedy Festival: An eccentric mix of theatrical & aerial performances, musical comedy and sometimes a bit of live magic to spruce up your Wednesday evening!

Robert Florence is Biscuity Boyle: My Bastart Life - One Last Time!

27th March 2019

Glasgow Comedy Festival: Burnistoun's favourite son Biscuity Boyle is back for the last ever performance of his sell-out live memoir show!

Tanyalee Davis: Actual Size

28th March 2019

Glasgow Comedy Festival: Actual Size is an hour of Tanyalee Davis' most hard-hitting jokes mixed-in with a healthy dose of sidesplitting tales from her absolutely absurd adventures!

The Creative Martyrs: After the Apocalypse

28th March 2019

Glasgow Comedy Festival: After the Apocalypse, Cabaret stars the Martyrs create a New World Order through Song and Surrealism...

Just Comedy

28th March 2019

Janey Godley curates the best comedy evening in Glasgow... join her for a unique night of laughs at Wild Cabaret!

Tom Rosenthal: Live

28th March 2019

Glasgow Comedy Festival: The beaky young man from Plebs, Friday Night Dinner and Drunk History brings a new comedy show with the best of intentions.

Iain Connell: Work In Progress

28th March 2019

Glasgow Comedy Festival: Iain Connell, the guy with the hair in Burnistoun, continues his stupidly late career move into stand-up with a brand new work in progress set!

In For a Penny

28th March 2019 - 31st March 2019

Glasgow Comedy Festival: Don't miss Libby McArthur in a hilarious one woman show about how she nearly went to prison for six weeks... FOR PARKING TICKETS!

Al Murray: Landlord Of Hope And Glory Tour 2019

28th March 2019

Glasgow Comedy Festival: Citizens of Hope and Glory! Our new tomorrow beckons. A new tomorrow that smells reassuringly of yesterday, but with wifi!

Archie Henderson: Jazz Emu

28th March 2019

Glasgow Comedy Festival: The winner of IYAF Best of Brighton Fringe Comedy 2018 delivers a new hour of sharp and original musical comedy!

Bannockburn

28th March 2019

Glasgow Comedy Festival: By turns informative and daftly comic, this is The Battle of Bannockburn through the eyes of two Scots soldiers.

Janey Godley: 20 Years & Counting

28th March 2019 - 30th March 2019

The Godmother of Scottish Comedy, chief Trump annoyer and all round Glasgow mouth piece Janey Godley returns to Oran Mor and the Glasgow International Comedy Festival!

Bruce Morton, Jim Monaghan & The GSR Comedy Night

28th March 2019

Glasgow Comedy Festival: Award winning comic Bruce Morton and poetry legend Jim Monaghan with stand-up comedy guests downstairs at The Rum Shack.

Daphna Baram: Sugarcoating

28th March 2019

Glasgow Comedy Festival: How many calories do you burn in an hour of laughing and crying? Daphna Baram has the answer!

Donny Vostok: Void

28th March 2019

Glasgow Comedy Festival: The man behind cult comedian Nev and the co-daddy of CHUNKS, finally exposes his true identity to reveal? Nothing.

Stuart McPherson: Mun Tod (WIP)

28th March 2019

Glasgow Comedy Festival: Stuart returns to the Whyte & Mackay Glasgow International Comedy Festival after a sell-out debut in 2018.

Des Clarke: Broken

29th March 2019

Des Clarke has reached breaking point... Glasgow's own star of stage and screen gets it all off his chest in a roller coaster of comedy nonsense!

Magnum PI (Police Improv)

29th March 2019

Glasgow Comedy Festival: Fresh from the Fringe, improvised comedy from Improv Killed My Dog inspired by Magnum PI (a show most of the performers have never seen)!

Comedy @ The College

29th March 2019

Glasgow Comedy Festival: Catch some stand up comedy in your lunch break at City of Glasgow College on Fridays during the festival!

(Best of) Marlborough Comedy Club

29th March 2019

Glasgow Comedy Festival: Join award-winning funny man Jamie Dalgleish for an evening of laughs, featuring Glasgow's own Ashley Storrie, at The Marlborough Comedy Club!

The Late Show

29th March 2019

Glasgow Comedy Festival: Enjoy a top showcase of the best comics from across the festival. Late, live and in a basement... how comedy should be watched!

Alison Spittle Makes a Show of Herself

29th March 2019

Glasgow Comedy Festival: Guilty Feminist co-host and Irish TV person, Alison Spittle, returns with a new show about feelings!

Chris Lynott: Damage Case

29th March 2019

Glasgow Comedy Festival: Crazy train bass playing comedy.

Mitch Benn: Doing It On Purpose

29th March 2019

Glasgow Comedy Festival: He's back, with guitar in hand, a spring in his step, a bee in his bonnet and giving a piece of his mind!

Mac‘n’Laughs Lunchtime Comedy Club

29th March 2019

Glasgow Comedy Festival: We bring you the finest handpicked comedians from around the Glasgow International Comedy Festival!

Peter Pancakes’ Comedy Extravaganza

29th March 2019

Glasgow Comedy Festival: Peter Pancakes brings a handpicked selection of the most eccentric and creative comedy performers around to Glasgow for one night only!

Raymond Mearns: Confessions of A Control Freak!

29th March 2019

Glasgow Comedy Festival: Raymond Mearns has been one of Scotland's top live stand-up comedians for the past 15 years don't miss him when he performs at The Stand Glasgow!

The Big Show

29th March 2019

Glasgow Comedy Festival: You'll be laughing and dancing with the pinnacle of our week's entertainment at Wild Cabaret!

Comedy Pub Crawl

29th March 2019

Glasgow Comedy Festival: Get yer walking boots on, grab yer pals and visit 4 pubs with a surprise comedian in each on the Comedy Pub Crawl!

Iain Hume: I’m Still Standing

30th March 2019

Glasgow Comedy Festival: Iain's storytelling has covered many aspects of his life. I'm Still Standing deals with single parenthood in the 80's.

John Aggasild: Spring/Summer 2019

30th March 2019

Glasgow Comedy Festival: A work in progress show from John Aggasild.

Mr Fibbers: Out Of Tune

30th March 2019

Glasgow Comedy Festival: Mr Fibbers presents 'Out of Tune', a kid's comedy show filled with awesome songs, awesome jokes, and awesome awesomeness!

Richard Duffy: The Official Glasgow Comedy Festival Christmas Show

30th March 2019

Glasgow Comedy Festival: Richard Duffy has been celebrating Christmas every day since the day he was born. Come witness his mental breakdown... live!

Sajad Ayub and Matt Watson: One of us isn’t From Here

30th March 2019

Glasgow Comedy Festival: Sajad Ayub and Matt Watson... One of us isn't from Here.

Scott Agnew: 2019 Work In Progress

30th March 2019

Glasgow Comedy Festival: All of Scott Agnew's critically acclaimed Fringe shows started off at The State; he's hoping he has another in him.

The Festival Club

30th March 2019

Take several top acts from around the world, add a late bar and mix in some snacks! It's the Glasgow Comedy Festival Club at The Stand!

Mac‘n’Laughs Lunchtime Comedy Club

30th March 2019

Glasgow Comedy Festival: We bring you the finest handpicked comedians from around the Glasgow International Comedy Festival!

The Big Show

30th March 2019

Glasgow Comedy Festival: You'll be laughing and dancing with the pinnacle of our week's entertainment at Wild Cabaret!

James Campbell: The Hilariously Funny World of…

30th March 2019

Enjoy the best comedy for kids from the man who invented it! James Campbell's show finds The Hilariously Funny Things about everything including pets, yoghurt, bees, and why do we have hair?

Absolute Improv

30th March 2019

Glasgow Comedy Festival: The five star Scottish comedy troupe, TBC Improv, present a fast-paced show based entirely on your suggestions!

The Cutting Room

30th March 2019

Glasgow Comedy Festival: Improv comedy. A one word audience suggestion drives rapidly unfolding scenes. Somehow players draw a story out of the chaos!

Cinderella: Gagging for a Ball

30th March 2019

PANTO AFTER DARK returns to the Britannia Panopticon with a special one night only event for the Glasgow International Comedy Festival - Cinderella: Gagging for a Ball!

Comedy Pub Crawl

30th March 2019

Glasgow Comedy Festival: Get yer walking boots on, grab yer pals and visit 4 pubs with a surprise comedian in each on the Comedy Pub Crawl!

Chris Kent: Looking Up

30th March 2019

Glasgow Comedy Festival: Spending the last year balancing comedy with being a stay-at-home dad, Chris also removed the word 'mate' from his from his vocabulary!

Comedy Night at the Museum: Show Only

30th March 2019

Glasgow Comedy Festival: Gilded Balloon bring cult Fringe hit, Night at the Museum, to Glasgow's Hunterian Museum for this year's festival!

Des Clarke: Broken

30th March 2019

Des Clarke has reached breaking point... Glasgow's own star of stage and screen gets it all off his chest in a roller coaster of comedy nonsense!

Christopher Macarthur-Boyd: Home Sweet Home

30th March 2019

Glasgow Comedy Festival: Don't miss a critically acclaimed debut hour from one of the hottest prospects in Scottish stand-up, Christopher Macarthur-Boyd!

Joe McSloy & Graham Barrie: Absolute Klonk

31st March 2019

Glasgow Comedy Festival: Catch an hour of side splitting stories, razor sharp gags and sketches from two of the circuits most loved comedians, Joe McSloy & Graham Barrie!

Ben Verth: Self Hlep

31st March 2019

Glasgow Comedy Festival: Ben Verth, drinks some wine and works out his anxiety and ridiculous milleni-ill life crap.

Dave Fulton: Adapt, Adopt, Adapt Again

31st March 2019

Glasgow Comedy Festival: The f*cked up journey to what I thought would be the least important thing in my life and how it became the most important thing ever!

Michelle McManus: Pop Goes The Idol

31st March 2019

Glasgow Comedy Festival: Presenter and singer Michelle McManus' latest show tells the next instalment in the Glasgow based life of a glittering global megastar!

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