Glasgow Comedy Festival
As exclusively revealed by beyondthejoke last month, the Glasgow International Comedy Festival is to return.
Some of the biggest names in Scottish and UK comedy are set to bring the smile back to Glasgow’s face.
The Whyte & Mackay Glasgow International Comedy Festival (GICF) has announced its full programme, as it returns for its 17th year from Thursday 14 – Sunday 31 March 2019.
Top flight stand-up lined up for the 18-day festival includes Limmy, Julian Clary, Reg D Hunter, Larry Dean, Jerry Sadowitz, Al Murray, Jasper Carrott, Elaine C Smith, Foil, Arms & Hog, Russell Kane, Des Clarke, Rich Hall and Scot Squad star Cameron Miekelson.
The Whyte & Mackay Glasgow International Comedy Festival (GICF) returns in March 2019, with comedy’s best and brightest lined up for 18 days of stand up, sketches, plays, improv, films and kids shows.
The opening night of the Whyte & Mackay Glasgow International Comedy Festival made a splash last Thursday with big gigs from Katherine Ryan and Love Island’s Iain Stirling. By the time I made it to the city on the Saturday it made splash in another way. I don’t know what the festival did to upset the gods but the rain was coming down in biblical proportions. On the plus side this might have helped to shift some extra tickets. What better way to shelter than at a comedy gig?
For strictly one night only the Whyte and Mackay Glasgow Comedy Festival came to London. Appropriately on Burns night. There was no haggis, but the audience did get a distinctive taste of what is in store for them if they head up to Scotland in March.
Somehow I’ve managed to miss Iain Stirling’s TV career. That might be because his main appearances have been on ITV2’s Love Island (not as a contestant, doing voiceover) and on children’s TV. I don’t really fit into the demographic for either of these shows. But Stirling is clearly an accomplished stand-up too, as his current show, Onwards, underlines.
Marketing teams take note. It was interesting to discover how Stuart Goldsmith sold most tickets for his show at the Glasgow Comedy Festival. Not through PR. Not through advertising. Through his podcast. A mention of his excellent Comedian's Comedian interview series (200 guests and counting) got hands shooting up into the air as if he was giving away free shortbread.
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