Life in Transition is a bold, one-woman comedy cabaret that blends stand-up, storytelling, and music to tackle taboo topics with humor and heart.

Matthew used to be an entomologist so he is able to find joy in the little things- namely insects. He’ll share some weird biology facts, some fun folklore and even a bit of hilarious history about these little critters. Really, he just thinks they’re cool and wants to talk to you about them for an hour.

‘It’s me, hi, I’m the problem drinker at your child’s communion, it’s me.’ A single pringle in a Tinder world, Louise is starting to worry that she has more in common with her friends’ 10-year-olds, than their parents.

A hilarious, personal dive into the beautiful game and the not-so-beautiful bits of life.

From muddy pitches growing up in Yorkshire to chasing impossible dreams as an artist in London, Sapphire debuts her story, the story of a female footballer who refused to quit, even when life kept throwing her red cards.

Momentously Normal or “Answers to Cistener’s Questions”. Thrill at the momentous normality of a trans person!

Rory M Spence is a mammal. He is also a human male comedian from Glasgow that The Stand Comedy Club called “so weird, so funny”.

One of the best improvisers on the stand-up circuit tries to make sense of the chaos of the world. Join Ben as he squeezes the comedy juice out of everything under the sun, from hunter-gatherers to AI, XL bullies to boardgames and beyond.

After a year of not writing a new stand-up show (very relaxing), Will Duggan has in fact written a new stand-up show (less relaxing). But fear not the show he has written is definitely the best show that he has ever written and possibly the best show ANYONE has ever written. Wow. Pretty confident.

It’s the Glasgow International Comedy Festival edition of monthly Glasgow-based clowning show: That’s Clown!

Hosted by Jeff Khan and Hannah Cruickshank

Becoming the cool uncle? Easy. STAYING the cool uncle? That’s a little bit harder…

When you’re the cool uncle in the sitcom of your nephews’ lives you have certain responsibilities.

BGT Semi-Finalist, Nerine Skinner, has always been indecisive and needs your help. Ever since she was little making the smallest decision has been tricky and when you have so many ideas, how do you pick what to use?

In the sorting room of a late-night post office, a naughty 1940s postman passes an hour with pranks, letters and telegrams from the future, while waiting for news of the war in this fast-talking, absurdist character comedy.

Glasgow International Comedy Festival's most prominent comedy producers present: our flagship show featuring Scotland's best comedians in a laidback time slot for laidback folks

Glasgow International Comedy Festival's most prominent comedy producers present: our flagship show featuring Scotland's best comedians in a laidback time slot for laidback folks

Glasgow International Comedy Festival's most prominent comedy producers present: our flagship show featuring Scotland's best comedians in a laidback time slot for laidback folks

Amelia Bayler (Best Newcomer Scottish Comedy Awards, Finalist Musical Comedy Awards) is bringing a work-in-progress of her new show to GICF!

The day before the 2024 Edinburgh Fringe, Irish comedian George Fox discovered his favourite thing (sugar) was killing him. Sugar is in everything – cakes, alcohol, even bread! Having inherited this strange sweet malady – find out how what could have finished him, has instead helped him refresh his life.

Glasgow International Comedy Festival’s most prominent comedy producers present: our flagship show featuring Scotland’s best comedians. Line up to be confirmed

Look I will try my best to talk about what you want to talk about… But I won’t lie it might prove difficult, have you ever seen Heat? It’s amazing.

“Ever-versatile”- The Skinny

A comedy show aimed at parents bringing their big bairns to an adults live comedy show!

After years of unique comedy hours about being illegally gay, sex education, and emotional storytelling, Sam’s been told by his agent to do a normal stand-up show. He’s been instructed to have no slideshows, no crowd work, no edu-tainment, and NO HEARTFELT MESSAGES.

I’ve been a stand-up for quite a while. For me, part of that job means constantly keeping one eye on what’s going on in the world as you look for material and insight into the world.

Sydney export Annabelle James brings a fresh hour of stand-up about swapping beaches for bagpipes and discovering that even when two countries speak English, there’s still a wee language barrier. It’s a warm, witty & whimsical look at finding your feet (and losing your tan) far from home.

Loretta Maine, singer-songwriter and truth speaker returns to the stage after a 10 year hiatus to share her rage about motherhood, fame and the price of a flat white. Expect earworms, requests for validation and a cathartic experience for all parents everywhere.

One more song about moving along the highway, can’t say much of anything that’s new – Carole King.

John returns to the Glasgow International Comedy Festival with a work-in-progress show 200 years in the making.

I was one number off winning the EuroMillions… come and hear the story.
Diving headfirst into the mayhem of his early 30s, Michael Welch returns with a raw, razor-sharp hour — no filters, and definitely no luck. ★★★★★ “I am certain this comedian is destined for a Netflix special.”

Glasgow International Comedy Festival’s most prominent comedy producers present: our flagship show featuring Scotland’s best comedians. Line up to be confirmed

Glasgow International Comedy Festival’s most prominent comedy producers present: our flagship show featuring Scotland’s best comedians. Line up to be confirmed

The first known show of the dead supermarket comedy genre. Paul Campbell reflects on how as a socially isolated teenager he became a fan boy of the 00s supermarket Somerfield, spending at least 45 minutes a day in those sacred aisles, and how he grieved the closure of his beloved Stretford branch.

Alvin Bang and Eva Peroni have left behind their war criminal pasts, dyed their hair blue, stocked up on avocados and they’re ready to smash the glass ceiling at the Glasgow International Comedy Festival.

Ever wished your life was more like a movie? Join romantic comedy scholar Sarah Bradley as she takes you through a journey of comforting clichés, timeless tropes, falling-in-love montages and predictable endings.

Have you ever noticed those men around you who are called Andrew…. all seem to be a bit of a c**t?

This is a fundraiser for Palestine relief supported by some passionate comedians who have come together to crowd fund a donation to Medial Aid for Palestinians so please come on down to get some giggles and help Gaza at the same time!

November 2025. Writing through a haze of flu symptoms, Richard, tucked in too tight beneath a duvet of tyrannical tog levels, wheezes out the blurb for an as yet unwritten show; his failure as an adult is certain, but adults of all ilks will be investigated.

Kitch (me) comes to Glasgow with his absurd, alternative quad-award-nominated sold out Edinburgh Fringe show.

“It’s sort of about Charlatans, voices & Rasputin; there’s big laughs, lulls, shouting & faffing. Oh & I’ve got a hat.”

Matt MacDonald is a comedian. Matt MacDonald is also Disabled. Matt has been disabled all his life. Aside from one time in the 2010s where the government decided that he wasn’t. This show is about that.

Cyril Gwynn (1897-1988), also known as The Bard Of Gower, was “a tall, sunburnt, unsmiling farmer”. Gareth Gwynn (1983-Present) is none of these things.

A deadpan redhead who performs at top comedy clubs across the country such as The Comedy Store and Up the Creek, Adam Riley brings a legion of cancel-worthy jokes to the Glasgow Comedy Festival.

Dan has been a data collector for 10 years. You know when they say how much it costs to live somewhere? He’s the guy who has to find out.

New work in progress show from BBC Galton & Simpson comedy winner Grace Mulvey, an Irish stand-up taking the UK comedy scene by storm.

Hello. I (Ciaran Chillingworth*) have decided to make it in show business. As such, I have fallen in with a man called Ray who runs a tombola company. He has subcontracted me to run a tombola for one hour at your festival.

Shawn Uyosa is a Nigerian born Irish comedian who has been performing stand up comedy since he was 17 years old and has since performed all over the World including in London, Glasgow, Dublin and even New York!

You’re invited to the debut hour from local clown Hannah Cruickshank.

It’s a party.

There will be audience participation.

Photo credit: Genevieve Gates

“I’m back with a new show about how being a refugee forged my ambition and self belief. I have in no way cynically leveraged my life story and timed this tour to profiteer off the tense mood on immigration, and any such allegation will be met with litigation from my mother.” – Tadiwa

Zoe’s had many jobs — cannabis consultant, copywriter, clown — but none have been as confusing as being her mother’s daughter.

Jade Gebbie (writer for The News Quiz, The Now Show and more) has always been a people pleaser, but now that she’s hit her mid-thirties she’s delving into how it’s held her back, annoyed her loved ones and why overthinking fictional scenarios isn’t a reasonable excuse for missing a work meeting. Come along to this debut from Jade for fun, laughter and a bit of anxiety… after all, she is a millennial.

James Byron is bringing their debut solo show to the Glasgow International Comedy festival hoping that that a blend of straight stand-up and alt-comedy will reassure their audience that ‘everything will be fine,’ even if ‘everything’ currently feels far from ‘fine’.

Let Isaac take you by the hand and lead you on a light-hearted ramble down life’s dark alleyways. Assisted Dying! Unassisted Living! God! Gerontophobia! Empire Biscuits! And could Comedy Clubs really be Gateways to Hell? All this and not much more, in a show that promises nothing.

Glasgow International Comedy Festival's most prominent comedy producers present: our flagship show featuring Scotland's best comedians in a laidback time slot for laidback folks

Glasgow International Comedy Festival's most prominent comedy producers present: our flagship show featuring Scotland's best comedians in a laidback time slot for laidback folks

Glasgow International Comedy Festival's most prominent comedy producers present: our flagship show featuring Scotland's best comedians in a laidback time slot for laidback folks

Fresh from bringing a sell-out show to the 2025 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, award-winning Irish comedian John O’Keeffe debuts a new work-in-progress show to the Glasgow Comedy Festival.

Comedian Daniel Downie is Scottish, and a historian in Scottish History, but what does it mean to be ‘Scottish?’ This is a show about our perceptions of ‘Scottishness’ and if they are genuine or invented.

Glasgow International Comedy Festival’s most prominent comedy producers present: our flagship show featuring Scotland’s best comedians. Line up to be confirmed

A blasphemous dance party of cursed mash-ups and ill-advised remixes from Chris Thorburn. For fans of DMX, Dolly Parton, Smash Mouth, the Eastenders theme, Avril Lavigne, Quincy Jones, Bart Simpson, Prodigy, Whitney Houston and the YouTube To MP3 tool.

A comedy show aimed at parents bringing their big bairns to an adults live comedy show!

In her debut hour, BBC New Comedian of the Year finalist 2024 and Pleasance Reserve 2025 alum Maia Tassalini guides the audience through an odyssey of power, shame, gossip, sex, public humiliation and being the world’s number one Monica Lewinsky stan.
“Maia is a natural. Born to do it. Unreal!” Shaparak Khorsandi

Following a sold-out Edinburgh Fringe run, Hannah Ireland & Rosie Hess are bringing this chaotic and heartfelt hour of stand-up comedy to the GICF.

Erin McKinnie, stand-up comedian and singer, is getting ready for Fringe 2026 with her work-in-progress show featuring new and tested material. Drawing from personal experiences and recent observations, she will share stories, gags, and music in this WIP show. That’s right, expect a couple of songs along the way. “She embobies all that is good in Scottish comedy with a flavour of a young Victoria Wood” – North West End UK review.

A two-hander from festival favourites Richard Brown and Chris Thorburn

Following the sell-out success of his 2025 Edinburgh Fringe show “The Last Chance Saloon”, Vladimir McTavish starts work on his next solo hour with this work-in-progress show, looking at the state of the world in 2026 and how it parallel his own state of decline.

Come see the Northern Irish deadpan comic’s new show where he talks about striving to be that bit more Paul-er. Perfect if you’re a Paul or friends with one!
Tour support for Susie McCabe

Glasgow International Comedy Festival’s most prominent comedy producers present: our flagship show featuring Scotland’s best comedians. Line up to be confirmed

Glasgow International Comedy Festival’s most prominent comedy producers present: our flagship show featuring Scotland’s best comedians. Line up to be confirmed

“Good American” and Los Angeles based stand-up comedian, Andrew Cornelius, is sorry. For everything.

In this hour-long WIP / mea culpa, he will work out his new stand-up comedy, exhibit pre-recorded sketches, and improvise his way into an apology on behalf of the United States.

Multi-award winning Scottish Comedy Poet and Mentalist, Sid Ozalid is thrilled to return to the GICF after last year’s sell out show.

Bed Boy is the debut comedy hour of Celine Kuklowsky, an American existential comedian who spends a lot of time in bed. Join Celine as they investigate the planned obsolescence of their body, yours and the planet at large.

Kieran has had a few thoughts about a few things that have happened over the past few years. He has now put those thoughts into a long string of thoughts and created this show.

Jonny Brook, a shambles of a growned up, trying and often failing to adapt to being a disabled human.

Salma is a Brit Pakistani stand-up comedian from a working-class background, known for blending sharp political witty commentary with personal stories drawn from her formidable Pakistani mother and Irish family. Laugh & explore how the core of our funny lives are the great and awful humans who make us—especially the ones who tried to raise you! With sass, heart, and well-aimed political punches, her material is both fearless and refreshingly original.

As the sun sets, a new hero awakens. Calling all late-night legends, dungeon-crawling romantics, and big-hearted heroes! Juliette Burton is summoning YOU. This after-dark work in progress comedy confessional steps into the dark side.

Musical-One-Liner-Stand-Up Comedian David Hoare (aged 36) is going to teach you how to live to 100!