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Venue Information 1 FTH 6 McDONALDS West Bridge Street, Falkirk, FK1 5RS 148 High Street Box Office:0844 395 4005 / 01324 506070 Falkirk, FK1 1NR Box Office:0844 395 4005 FTH (Falkirk Town Hall) is a multi-purpose arts, cinema and conference venue situated in the heart McDonalds may have Ronald and the gang but for of Falkirk. Catch the heavyweight names here. two days only catch a new addition here! Don’t Licensed bar during all shows. forget to bring your imaginations. 2 BEHIND THE WALL 7 THE PLOUGH HOTEL 14 Melville Street, Falkirk, FK1 1HZ Box Office:0844 395 4005 507 Main Street www.behindthewall.co.uk Stenhousemuir Larbert , FK5 4EY Behind the Wall is one of Scotland’s most vibrant and Box Office:0844 395 4005 individual eating, drinking and entertainment venues. www.ploughhotel.com With a show on each night, there is plenty to choose from. Licensed bar and food during all shows. Indulge that Friday feeling at The Plough hotel with our big value Friday Night Live variety shows. 3 ARGYLL’S Licensed bar during all shows. 1 Princes Street, Falkirk , FK1 1LS 8 GRANGEMOUTH TOWN HALL Box Office:0844 395 4005 Bo'ness Road Best known as a music venue, Argyll’s offers a Grangemouth , FK3 8AN fantastic space to raise your glass and enjoy the Box Office:0844 395 4005 show! Catch some of our two shows for the price of one here! Licensed bar and food during all shows. Grangemouth Town Hall offers all the heart and soul essential for an evening of comedy. Licensed 4 ANTONINE HOTEL bar during all shows. 1 Manor Street, Falkirk, FK1 1NT 9 BO’NESS TOWN HALL Box Office:0844 395 4005 Glebe Park, Stewart Avenue Antonine Hotel offers history in the name and will Bo'ness, EH51 9NJ make history by hosting the first comedy show. Box Office:0844 395 4005 Belly Laughers, chucklers and titter-ers welcome! Licensed bar and food during all shows. With its stunning backdrop Bo’ness Town Hall delivers comedy direct to the heart of this beautiful FALKIRK OLD town. Licensed bar during all shows. 5 PARISH CHURCH 10 THE LANTERN Manse Place, Kirk Wynd 162 Stirling Street Falkirk, FK1 1JN Denny, FK6 6JQ Box Office:0844 395 4005 Box Office:0844 395 4005

Pack the juice boxes and treats! Spoil the kids at Order something to eat, get the drinks in and enjoy Falkirk Old Parish Church each Saturday with our live comedy how it should be at The Lantern. Falkirk Kids Comedy Club. Licensed bar and food during all shows.

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The festival ticket hotline 0844 395 4005 is open 9am to 9pm seven days a week and allows you to buy tickets for most festival shows using your credit or debit card. 41 shows | 10 venues | 12 days Tickets can be purchased in person for the following venues: The Steeple Box Welcome to Funny in Falkirk Office, Behind the Wall and Welcome to Funny in Falkirk – Central Scotland’s Argyll’s. Please check brand new comedy festival. For nearly two individual opening times. weeks, from July 23rd, you’ll have the chance to see dozens of Scottish and international Tickets can be purchased comedians perform right here in the very heart of through our website Scotland. As well as shows across the town of Falkirk itself, you'll also be able to catch some www.funnyinfalkirk.com 24 great acts in Bo’ness, Grangemouth, Stenhousemuir and Denny. hours a day, 7 days a week! Falkirk Council is pleased to be working with our friends in the Scottish Comedy Agency, and our partners, the Falkirk Business Improvement District, Town Centre Management, and local Please note that a booking fee will businesses, to bring this new festival to life. We hope it will be a real apply to most tickets. Please check at boost for local people – and attract visitors to our fantastic district. time of booking. So get your tickets and get ready to lap up the laughs. Have a great time. Festival ticket hotline

COUNCILLOR ADRIAN MAHONEY Convener of Leisure, Tourism and Community, Falkirk Council. 0844 395 4005 www. funnyinfalkirk.com As the Chair of the Falkirk BID, I'm delighted to see Follow the staging of this, our first, comedy festival in the us on: town centre. We are looking forward to welcoming Just search ‘FunnyinFalkirk’ visitors to the town day and night this summer. Local businesses will be sure to make everyone very welcome and we hope our guests enjoy their Funny in Falkirk time here. I'm sure the festival will be a resounding c/o Old Burgh Buildings, 12-14 New Market St, Falkirk, FK1 1JE success and invite locals and people from further [email protected] afield to check out the line-up and enjoy the laughs. Produced by the Scottish Comedy Agency Ltd CORRIE CUTHBERTSON Chair, Falkirk BID, Falkirk Business Improvement District 5 York Place, Edinburgh EH1 3EB 0131 558 9005 Registered in Scotland No.217763 VAT Reg. No. 84 277 1318

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FRIDAY 23 rd JULY SATURDAY 24 th JULY BOB DOOLALLY FRED MACAULAY LIVE! WORLD CUP BALLS 8pm £15/£12 /£8 8pm £10 Falkirk Town Hall, Falkirk Behind the Wall, Falkirk Fred MacAulay has appeared at comedy Alcoholic football festivals all over the world and is delighted to be pundit-from-hell adding Falkirk to the list. This is his first under a returns from coalition government though. 'MacAulay had the Hollywood Reporter. South Africa whole audience in stitches' 2010 with some suitably outrageous musings on Bob SATURDAY 24 th JULY the World Cup. ‘Needle- Doolally sharp observations on the THE BIG YIN REVISITED British psyche’ Guardian . 8pm £10/£8 ‘Foul-mouthed and politically incorrect’ Scotsman . Behin d the Wall, Falkirk

FRIDAY 23 rd JULY Scotland's only and ultimate Billy Connolly FRIDAY NIGHT tribute by highly LIVE! acclaimed and controversial 8.30pm £8/£7 Glasgow comic Big Yin Revisited Garry Moir . The Plough Hotel, Don’t expect a Stenhousemui load of r rehashed Funny in Falkirk is bringing gags though four of the festival’s top – Garry writes comedians to his own material and Stenhousemuir! Tonight is not afraid to shout Jeff O’Boyle ‘hilarious’ it out! **** Scotsman introduces John Gillick ‘deceptively precise musings’ List , Chris Forbes ‘immediately charismatic’ Daily Record and Vladimir McTavish ‘nothing short of superb’ Scotsman.

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SATURDAY 24 th JULY DENNY STANDS UP!

9pm £8/£7 T he Lantern, Denny

A superb comedy variety night for Denny, with four great comedians for the price of one. Tonight Billy Kirkwood 'naturally funny’ List introduces Graeme Thomas 'excellent' Scotsman Stephen Callaghan ‘a breath of fresh air’ Skinny and David Kay ‘wonderfully improbable' Fred Scotland on Sunday. MacAulay

John Gillick

David Kay

Billy Kirkwood

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SUNDAY 25 th JULY MONDAY 26 th JULY TW O FOR COMEDY DOUBLE BILL THE SUSAN CALMAN PRICE OF DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN ONE 8pm £7/£6 9pm £8/£7 Argyll’s, Falki Behin rk d the Wall, Falkirk Susan Calman (Rab C Nesbitt / The News Quiz ) JAMES DOWDESWELL takes you on a journey of her own self-discovery, MY GRANDAD WAS A CLOWN AND self-assessment and self-ishness. ‘She’ll make you chuckle your pants off’ Time Out. THOSE ARE BIG SHOES TO FILL James Dowdeswell is a storytelling comedian who has performed all around the world. As seen on Extras and The World Stands Up . ‘A real MONDAY 26 th JULY master’ **** Chortle . IMPROV WARS JOJO SUTHERLAND m £5 8p GOES FOR THE JOCULAR Behind the Jojo Sutherland invites you to join her as she Wall, Falkirk presents a glorious gallop through all things annoying. 'a performer the audience could have Hold on tight for this fast, watched all night' Herald. frantic, unpredictable showdown of improvised comedy games. Two teams of comics featuring Garry Dobson and Stuart Murphy battle it out for laughs under the watchful eye of ‘Improv Warlord’ Billy Kirkwood .

Susan Calman

Stuart Garry Murphy Dobso

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TUESDAY 27 th JULY RAYMOND MEARNS 8pm £8/£7 Behin d the Wall, Falkirk Raymond Mearns is a consistently brilliant stand- up with passion and talent in equal measure! He has been doing the business across the UK for 10 Jojo years and he’s coming to Falkirk! Miss him at your Sutherland peril! ‘The man is a genuine improvisational genius’ Frankie Boyle .

WEDNESDAY 28 th JULY GARY LITTLE 8pm £7/£6 Behin d the Wall, Falkirk Glasgow comedian with a postgraduate from the University of Hard Knocks. You know the script - buy a ticket, come and laugh, dead easy. 'Born raconteur' Scotsman . 'Consistently imaginative material' Herald.

Gary Raymond Little Mearns on

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THURSDAY 29 th JULY & FRIDAY 30 th JULY FRIDAY 30 th JULY THE GINGE, KEVIN BRIDGES THE GEORDIE 8pm £15 AND THE GEEK Falkirk Town Hall, Falkirk 8pm £8/£7 Fresh from appearances on Live at the Behin d the Wall, Falkirk Apollo, Have I Got News For You and Channel 4’s Comedy Gala , Scotland’s ‘young comedy prodigy’ Guardian After selling over 3,000 tickets at Kevin Bridges presents his last year’s Edinburgh Festival, innermost thoughts on his the boys bring their new homeland and the world sketch show to Falkirk with beyond. ‘Destined for the top’ more silliness, surrealism, ***** Herald . great characters and 80’s anthems. ‘Fantastic!’ James McAvoy . ‘All hail the new chiefs!’ THURSDAY Kevin ***** Johnny Vegas 29 th JULY Bridges **** Edinburgh Guide **** ThreeWeeks. BEST OF IRISH COMEDY 8pm £8/£7 Behin d the Wall, Falkirk

Talk about doing what it says on the tin! We’re bringing a carload of comics across the water from the Emerald isle. Great craic as host Michael Redmond 'explosively funny' Irish Times introduces Elaine Malcolmson, Andrew Stanley and headliner Brendan Burke ‘natural born wit' Michael Irish Independent. Redmond

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FRIDAY 30 th JULY FRIDAY 30 th JULY TAM COWAN FRIDAY NIGHT LIVE!

8pm £12.50 8.45pm £8/£7 Grange The mouth Town Hall, Plough Hotel, Grangemouth Stenhousemuir

Broadcaster, writer and comedian Tam Cowan Funny in Falkirk is bringing four of the festival’s brings his hilarious solo show to the Grangemouth top comedians to Stenhousemuir! Tonight Billy Town Hall. With white-hot topical material and Kirkwood 'Naturally funny, fizzing with energy' List fond recollections, this is your chance to get up introduces a stellar night of entertainment as he is close and ask Tam anything. joined by John Gavin, Michael Adams and headliner Joe Heenan ‘could get a graveyard jumping’ Daily Record.

FRIDAY 30 th JULY SIMON MUNNERY SELF-EMPLOYED 8.30pm £8/£7 Argyll’s, Falkirk An hour of polished material called Simon Munnery Self- employed which is accurate. I am. I shall wear a suit. ‘One of the most original and talented comics in the country’ Observer. 'The most original and inventive cabaret you will ever see' Sunday Times .

Tam Simon Cowan Munnery

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SATURDAY 31 st JULY SATURDAY 31 st JULY DES MCLEAN MARK NELSON & SEAN GRANT 8pm £15/£12 m £9/£8 Falki 8p rk Town Hall, Falki rk Ant onine Hotel, Falkir Des is delighted to k make his All-star show with award winning comedians appearance at the in one great night of comedy. Sean’s first Funny in Falkirk. hilariously inventive, occasionally His hilarious sell- cynical and often classic surreal out shows at the comedy is the perfect pairing to Magners Glasgow Mark’s unadulterated hour of International blisteringly funny material. “A talent Comedy Festival that is simply obscene” List. 2010 were broadcast by STV in Des's own comedy special Is This The Way To Armadillo?

SATURDAY 31 st JULY ARNOLD BROWN JOKES I HAVE KNOWN

8pm £10/£9 Behin d the Wall, Falkirk Arnold Brown recounts an Mark insider’s tale of the rough Nelson and tumble world of comedy. ‘He roams the stage like a comedy professor; a grand-master Sean of his game’ Stage . With Grant support from Antony Murray ‘an accomplished display of endearing self- deprecation and bookish absurdity.’ Evening News.

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SUNDAY 1 st AUGUST DANNY BHOY 8pm £15/£12 Falkirk Town Hall, Falkirk Danny continues to delight audiences around the World with his unique and personal brand of storytelling. He is one of the most perceptive and travelled comedians working in the world today. The Bruce SATURDAY Bhoy remains in a class Morton of his own’ Herald. 31 st JULY BEST OF SCOTTISH COMEDY

8pm £8/£7 B o’ness Town Hall

Funny in Falkirk presents an evening of the best comics on the Scottish circuit today! Tonight compere Jojo Sutherland, Bruce Fummey, Billy Kirkwood and Bruce Morton will be arriving at Bo’ness armed Danny with laughs a-plenty! Bhoy

SATURDAY 31 st JULY DENNY STANDS UP! 9pm £8/£7 T he Lantern, Denny Scott Agnew ‘one of the sharpest comperes around’ List introduces Anthony Murray, Jay Lafferty and Keir McAllister ‘impressively high punchline ratio’ Scotsman .

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SUNDAY 1 st AUGUST TW SUNDAY 1 st AUGUST TW O FOR O FOR THE THE COMEDY DOUBLE BILL PRICE COMEDY DOUBLE BILL PRICE O O F ONE F ONE 8pm £8/£7 8pm £8/£7 Behin A d the Wall, Falkirk rgyll’s, Falkirk RUSSELL KANE TOM ALLEN SMOKESCREENS & CASTLES TOUGHENS UP Russell Kane explores self, family, and the Tom Allen Star of Channel 4’s TNT Show and BBC consequences of his dad buying his own council Radio 4’s Bleak Expectations presents a show house. High energy contortions guaranteed. about feeling scared, being strong and trying really ‘Bold, defiant... shot through with hard to not get beaten up. Critically acclaimed. vulnerability’ Sunday Times . SCOTT AGNEW SADIE HASLER PRIDE (IN THE NAME LADY BONES OF LOVE) Sadie Hasler presents her Glasgow stand-up Scott Agnew bastardised explores what both you and he have biographies done in the name of love. of ladies ‘acerbically funny’ Skinny. who lived, and some who did not. Fresh from Sadie Melbourne Comedy Festival. Hasler MONDAY ‘Wonderful’ Time Out. 2nd AUGUST NINA CONTI TALK TO THE SUNDAY 1 st AUGUST HAND SUNDAY NIGHT STAND UP! 8pm £8/£7 pm £7/£6 Behin 8 d the Wall, Falkirk Bo’ness To wn Hall, Bo’ness Britain's leading Nina ventriloquist Nina Conti Funny in Falkirk is bringing four of the festival’s top Conti introduces comedians to Bo’ness! Tonight compere Bruce her sidekick Monk to Funny in Falkirk. Devlin ‘a tongue so sharp he could peel a King Following her 2008 sell-out smash Edward' Scotsman brings the jokes right to your hit Edinburgh show Evolution , don’t doorstep as he’s joined by Raymond Mearns, miss this hilarious new show. Anthony Murray and Lucy Oldham . ‘Uproariously funny’ **** Scotsman.

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TW T O FOR WO F MONDAY 2 nd AUGUST TH TUESDAY 3 rd AUGUST OR E PR THE ICE PRICE COMEDY OF O COMEDY DOUBLE BILL O NE F ONE DOUBLE BILL 8pm £7/£6 £7/£6 8pm Argyll’s, Falkirk Argyll’s, F alkirk ANDI OSHO SUSAN MURRAY AFROBLIGHTY Andi Osho Mock the Week presents her THE GLOTTAL STOPS HERE award-winning stand up with a touching and Susan Murray was raised in the West Susan hilarious story of a woman struggling to find Midlands by her Scottish family. Think Murray her own identity. ‘Hilarious’ Sun . Frankie Boyle meets Julie Walters. ‘A real talent’ Edinburgh Guide . NICK SUN DREAMFIST ADDY VAN DER YouTube me. If you like, come down. If you don’t, go away. ‘If you don't enjoy Nick Sun , BORGH ADVANCED it's because you suck as an audience' MUMBO JUMBO Doug Stanhope. Addy Van Der Borgh presents a show about the different ways we communicate including basic Jibba Jabba and intermediate Double Dutch, among other bits and bobs. ***** List .

TUESDAY 3 rd AUGUST STEWART LEE VEGETABLE STEW 8pm £10/£9 Behin d the Wall, Falkirk Ragbag of new material. Work in progress for a 2011 TV series. See it first so you can begin the backlash. ‘About as funny as bubonic plague’ Sun . ‘His whole tone is one of complete smug condescension’ Birmingham Mercury . With support from David Kay. Stewart Lee

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ENJOY A FANTASTIC VISIT TO FALKIRK THIS SUMMER

The Falkirk BID welcomes all the performers and visitors to Funny in Falkirk, and hopes that they enjoy their time in our town centre. Before your show, enjoy a meal in one of the town’s many great restaurants or have a drink after in one of the many award-winning, lively pubs in the www.falkirkbid.com town centre.

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SATURDAY 24 th JULY THURSDAY 29 th JULY & FALKIRK KIDS COMEDY CLUB FRIDAY 30 th JULY TINY TALES AT M cDONALD’S 3pm £5 Falkirk 9am Free Old Parish Church McD onald’s, 148 High Live stand-up show for younger Street, Falkirk comedy fans. Featuring Billy Kirkwood, Ro Campbell A mixture of interactive humour, story-telling and and Sian Bevan . Best for puppets. Bring your best joke along, your ages 8-12 years. imagination and help to create a wee story. Best Children must be for young comedy fans aged 4-8 years. Presented accompanied by by Bruce Henderson . an adult.

SATURDAY 31 st JULY FALKIRK KIDS COMEDY CLUB

3pm £5 Falkirk Old Parish Church Ro Live stand-up Campbell show for younger comedy fans. Featuring Bruce Devlin, Viv Gee and Steven Dick . Best for ages 8-12 years. Young comedy fans must be accompanied by an adult!

Bruce Devlin

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