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LLETET UUSS EENTERTAINNTERTAIN YOU!YOU! TUETUE 2929 MARMAR - SATSAT 2 APRAPR TUE 31 MAY - SAT 4 JUN TUE 7 - SAT 11 JUN MON 4 - S AT 9 JUL MON 8 - SAT 13 AUG T UE 4 - S AT 8 OC T KING’SKING’S TTHEATREHEATRE 00844844 887171 77648648 www.atgtickets.com/glasgowwww.atgtickets.com/glasgow BKGBKG FFEESEES AAPPLY.PPLY. CCALLSALLS 77PP PPERER MMIN,IN, PPLUSLUS YYOUROUR PPHONEHONE CCOMPANY’SOMPANY’S AACCESSCCESS CCHARGEHARGE BOOK NOW! Tickets can be purchased online from www.seetickets.com and from some individual venue websites. The See Tickets festival ticket hotline 0844 873 7353 is open 9am – 9pm seven days a week and allows you to buy tickets for most festival shows using 420 shows | 42 venues | 18 days your credit or debit card. Welcome from Councillor Frank McAveety Leader of Glasgow City Council and Chair of Glasgow City Marketing Bureau Tickets can also be purchased in person from some individual As the curtain opens on the 14th annual Glasgow International Comedy Festival it provides the venues. Please note that a perfect opportunity to reflect on what has become the widely anticipated showpiece at the heart booking fee will usually be of the city’s cultural calendar. charged with the exception of Since its inauguration the festival has grown from humble beginnings to become Europe's premier most tickets bought in person. comedy event; bringing some of the biggest – and funniest – performers in the world to Glasgow Shows at the King's and Theatre over the years. The calibre of the Festival programme is a strong reflection of why Glasgow enjoys Royal include a compulsory an enviable worldwide reputation, both for its prominent position on the global comedy scene and as a must-visit £1.25 restoration levy. destination. But don’t just take our word for it. Recently Glasgow was named by global travel magazine National Geographic Traveler as one of its 20 ‘Best of the World’ destinations for 2016. In 2014, our city was voted ‘World’s Friendliest City’ by travel publication Rough Guides – as Glaswegians continue to be recognised the world over for their iconic hospitality and good humour. With these credentials it’s no surprise that we’re home to one of the best comedy festivals in the world. With more than 420 shows across 42 venues over 18 laughter-filled days, I hope everyone who attends the Glasgow International Comedy Festival has a fantastic time. Festival ticket It’s true that PEOPLE MAKE GLASGOW laugh: let's celebrate! Best wishes Councillor Frank McAveety hotline Introduction from Linda Allan, Festival Manager Glasgow International Comedy Festival 0844 873 7353 Welcome to the amazing 14th year of the Glasgow International Comedy Festival! What a cracking year it is for comedy, with the top household names rubbing shoulders with the very best up and coming comedy talent. The programme is our most varied to date, spanning everything glasgowcomedyfestival.com from kids comedy shows and films with a comedy commentary to sketches, the best of character comedy and late night festival clubs. Adam Hills, Russell Kane, Julian Clary, Paul Merton’s Impro Chums, Reginald D Hunter, Jenny Eclair, Dylan Moran, Omid Djalili, Jerry Sadowitz, Rob Delaney, Frankie Boyle, Shappi Khorsandi and Tom Stade are glasgowcomedy some of the top names to look out for joined by a host of Scottish talent including Craig Hill, Fred MacAulay, Daniel Sloss, Janey Godley, Raymond Mearns and Des Clarke . Comedians will be joining us from the US in America Stands Up and we’ll have the cream of the Irish crop performing on St Patrick’s Day, not to mention a host of newer talent at venues like Blackfriars, The Griffin and Yesbar. There’s a venue, a show and a ticket price to suit everyone (some are free) and plenty of chances to stumble upon the next big thing. So follow us on Twitter and Facebook or register at glasgowcomedyfestival.com to be the first to get latest news and special offers. Have a great time! Linda Allan Festival Manager Main Funder Funding Partner Media Partner Radio Partner Glasgow International Comedy Festival 278 High Street, Glasgow G4 0QT, 0141 552 2070 [email protected] www.glasgowcomedyfestival.com With support from Produced by the Scottish Comedy Agency Ltd 5 York Place, Edinburgh EH1 3EB 0131 558 9005 Registered in Scotland No.217763 VAT Reg. No. 84 277 1318 Designed by Whitespider Ltd: 07720 713685 [email protected] SCOTLAND – LONDON. BOOK NOW. TIME FLIES. YOU RELAX. Why fl y when you have the whole evening to catch the Caledonian Sleeper? Choose from a menu created from the fi nest Scottish produce. Enjoy room service in your cosy cabin. Then wake up to breakfast in bed – refreshed and relaxed. You won’t miss the plane when you catch the Caledonian Sleeper… Book now at sleeper.scot tickets: 0844 873 7353 THU 10 / FRI 11 MARCH 8.30pm Free - non ticketed What’s Up THURSDAY 10 MARCH John Aldiss’ Bar @ Braziliant FRIDAY 11 MARCH 7pm £12 Stand Comedy Club Magnificent 7 1pm £5 (£10 including pizza) Yesbar The best new and established comedians perform the best bits Alun Cochrane: 0141 212 3389 from their own shows, hosted by John Aldiss. A Pizza 0844 873 7353 A Show With A Man in It Lunchtime Comedy A man who has jokes. As seen on Michael McIntyre, Mock The 10pm £12/£10 Stand Comedy Club Come and enjoy some top laughs and amazing pizza at the festival’s longest running lunchtime show! Different line up daily. Week and 8 Out Of 10 Cats . The Festival Club 0141 212 3389 See the pick of international acts from across 7.15pm £5/£4 Yesbar the festival, plus the best in home-grown and up-and-coming 5.40pm £8/£6 Stand Comedy Club Robin Grainger: 0844 873 7353 comedy talent. Kai Humphries: 0141 212 3389 A Year And A Day How to be Happy ‘Happy, original and surreal… Immensely gifted stand up' Skinny . Join rising star Robin Grainger for his debut hour of funny. Acclaimed solo show from high-octane, happy-go-lucky, Geordie 'A confident man who commands the stage.' Skinny . stand up. ‘Side-splittingly funny’ Fest. 7.30pm £16 Garage 6pm £5 Bob's Blundabus @ Candleriggs Russell Kane: 0844 873 7353 ComedyOpoly: 0844 873 7353 Right Man, Wrong Age Board Games With Comedians Russell Kane unleashes another blisteringly-funny, award- The biggest names in comedy are literally queuing up to throw winning stand up performance about growing up, growing down, dice, play tiddly winks and lark about... and why farts will always be funny. 7.15pm £5/£4 Yesbar 7.30pm £10/£6 Saint Luke’s Liam Withnail: 0844 873 7353 Gagging For It 0844 873 7353 True Defective (Work In Progress) Gagging For It: Riotous comedy leaving you hoachin’ for more. Liam Withnail returns to Glasgow to tackle his arch nemesis: Booze. ‘Slick, fast paced banter’ Skinny. 7.30pm £6/£5 Avant Garde 7.30pm £10 Bob's Blundabus @ Candleriggs Woman Up Improv 0844 873 7353 Phil Kay: Mega Busy 0844 873 7353 Comedy show ‘It's easy to get lost in Kay-World, it's the close proximity to Scotland’s first all-female improv comedy troupe. Performing improv such high energy levels, emotionally charged and visceral games and short pieces, all on the spot from audience suggestions. storytelling.’ Herald 8pm £14/£12 Tron Theatre 7.30pm £12/£10 Tron Theatre Sean Hughes: 0141 552 4267 Alan Bissett: 0141 552 4267 Mumbo Jumbo The Moira Monologues The two sides of award winning comic Sean Hughes ’ brain Meet Moira: cleaner, single mum, hardest woman in Falkirk. 'The are in conflict, common sense vs mumbo jumbo…mumbo audience were literally shouting with laughter' ★★★★ Scotsman . jumbo seems to have the upper hand. 7.30pm £6/£5 Avant Garde Woman Up 0844 873 7353 8.30pm £8 Wild Cabaret Improv Comedy show Just Comedy 0141 552 6165 See Thu 10 March Janey Godley curates the best comedy evening in Glasgow. Join her hand picked comedians for a unique night of laughs. 7.30pm £10/£8 CCA It’s 1985 0844 873 7353 Two new plays from Karen Barclay and Tom Brogan , both 8.30pm £10/£8 Blackfriars Basement set in the heady days of the 1980s. Chris Martin: 0844 873 7353 This Show Has A Soundtrack 7.30pm £9/£7 Blackfriars Basement Movies have a soundtrack, so why can’t stand up? Join Chris Ashley Storrie 0844 873 7353 Martin for a new show with an original soundtrack. and Other Erotica Coming off the back of a successful 2015, Ashley is home with 8.30pm £5/£3 Admiral Bar hilarious tales of sex, drugs and Star Trek. Bright Club presents 0844 873 7353 7.30pm £16 Garage 'Science vs. The Arts' Russell Kane 0844 873 7353 Bright Club - Glasgow's favourite research-fuelled comedy night - presents a special show for the Glasgow International Comedy Festival. Right Man, Wrong Age ticket soup See Thu 10 March 8.30pm £3 Yesbar ad 7.30pm £7/£5 Saint Luke’s Yesbar Virgins 0844 873 7353 Russell Kane WITSHERFACE 0844 873 7353 Yesbar Virgins have handpicked the best new comedy acts 7.30pm Sketch comedy from WITSHERFACE – a collective of the best Scotland has to offer. Come and watch the next big thing. female comedy writers and performers in Glasgow. @ The Garage 8.30pm £5/£4 Hug and Pint 7.40pm £12/£10 Stand Comedy Club Upstarts 0844 873 7353 Tony Law: 0141 212 3389 Sharp, witty and award winning stand up from three of Frillemorphesis Scotland’s brightest new comedians, Chris Rutter, New stand up art show from the multi award-winning Christopher KC Sit and Stuart McPherson.