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

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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 12th - 29th March 2020 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.

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Upcoming Events at Glasgow International Comedy Festival

The Panopticon Comedy Club

24th April 2020

Laugh til the tears run down your legs when Glasgow's finest comedians take to the stage at The Britannia Panopticon Music Hall‎!

The Panopticon Comedy Club

29th May 2020

Laugh til the tears run down your legs when Glasgow's finest comedians take to the stage at The Britannia Panopticon Music Hall‎!

The Panopticon Comedy Club

26th June 2020

Laugh til the tears run down your legs when Glasgow's finest comedians take to the stage at The Britannia Panopticon Music Hall‎!

Simon Munnery: Alan Parker Urban Warrior Farewell Tour

19th July 2020

Glasgow Comedy Festival: Multi award-winning comedian Simon Munnery reprises his notorious alter ego, the bedsit anarchist Alan Parker Urban Warrior.

The Panopticon Comedy Club

31st July 2020

Laugh til the tears run down your legs when Glasgow's finest comedians take to the stage at The Britannia Panopticon Music Hall‎!

Billy Kirkwood: Happy Goth - RESCHEDULED DATE

15th August 2020

In his most personal show ever, multi award winning comedian & presenter Billy Kirkwood covers negotiating changes in life on your own terms as a rebel, an idiot and a parent!

The Panopticon Comedy Club

28th August 2020

Laugh til the tears run down your legs when Glasgow's finest comedians take to the stage at The Britannia Panopticon Music Hall‎!

Susie McCabe: Born Believer - RESCHEDULED DATE

27th September 2020

Susie McCabe, The fastest selling act at the Glasgow International Comedy Festival 3 years running, is back in 2020 with another brand new show!

Jim Smith: Back to the Teuchter - RESCHEDULED DATE

28th September 2020

Jim Smith returns with another collection of stories of rural life on his Perthshire farm, catch him at the King's Theatre Glasgow on September 28th and 29th!

Jim Smith: Back to the Teuchter - RESCHEDULED DATE

29th September 2020

Jim Smith returns with another collection of stories of rural life on his Perthshire farm, catch him at the King's Theatre Glasgow on September 28th and 29th!

James Campbell: The Funny World of… - RESCHEDULED DATE

17th October 2020

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?

John Shuttleworth’s Back! - RESCHEDULED DATE

18th October 2020

John Shuttleworth returns to Glasgow to regale audiences with an evening of his classic songs (plus new ones and hilarious 'back' stories)!

Jerry Sadowitz - RESCHEDULED DATE

25th October 2020

Jerry Sadowitz - comedian, magician, and all round scary man is back! Catch him at the King's Theatre Glasgow on Sunday 25th October!

Josie Long: Tender - RESCHEDULED DATE

1st November 2020

Three-time Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee and very-hard-to-pin-down-indie-underdog-nightmare Josie Long is back with brand new show, Tender!

Sofie Hagen: The Bumswing - RESCHEDULED DATE

2nd November 2020

Sofie Hagen returns with a brand new show about the things you forget, the things you remember, and the things you wish you could forget!

Ray Bradshaw: Deafinitely Baby - RESCHEDULED DATE

4th November 2020

Glasgow International Comedy Festival presents multi award-winning comedian Ray Bradshaw with his new show Deafinitely Baby, catch him at Oran Mor on Wednesday 4th November!

Paddy Raff: Raff Out Loud - RESCHEDULED DATE

5th November 2020

Northern Ireland comedy sensation Paddy Raff brings his popular brand of stand-up & musical comedy to Oran Mor on November 5th!

Dane Baptiste: The Chocolate Chip - RESCHEDULED DATE

6th March 2021

Dane Baptiste is back on international tour with a brand new stand-up show! Catch him at Oran Mor Glasgow on Saturday 6th March!

Stewart Lee: Snowflake / Tornado - RESCHEDULED DATE

18th March 2021

Glasgow Comedy Festival: Don't miss a double-bill of two new 60 minute sets, back to back from comedian Stewart Lee at the King's Theatre Glasgow!

Fascinating Aïda - RESCHEDULED DATE

19th March 2021

Dillie Keane, Adele Anderson and Liza Pulman are heading out on tour with a selection of old favourites, songs you haven't heard before and some you wish you'd never heard in the first place!

Janey Godley’s Soup Pot Tour - RESCHEDULED DATE

26th March 2021 - 27th March 2021

NEWS ALERT... Janey Godley and her soup pot are on tour... get ready for the Queen of Scottish Comedy coming to the Glasgow International Comedy Festival!

Stuart Mitchell: Is It Just Me?

26th March 2021 - 27th March 2021

Glasgow Comedy Festival: Join Stuart Mitchell, the longest running panellist on BBC Scotland's Breaking the News, for his new show 'Is It Just Me?' at Oran Mor Glasgow!

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