8th November – Glasgow International Comedy Festival (GICF) has today revealed the first acts for 2025’s event as Scotland’s biggest dedicated comedy festival gets set to celebrate Glasgow as the ‘funniest city in the world’ from 12th – 30th March 2025. Headline shows include popular podcast Here Comes the Guillotine, Susie McCabe, Connor Burns, Val […]

The clocks have gone back and winter is coming, so let us try and cheer you up by giving you the chance to win an amazing Glasgow International Comedy Festival 2025 competition prize. We all need things to look forward to in 2025 don’t we? The prize: Two tickets to Susie McCabe: Best Behaviour (8.30pm […]

Everyone at the Glasgow International Comedy Festival is very sad to hear of the passing of Janey Godley. Janey was a pioneer for Scottish comedy and was extremely supportive of her fellow comedians within the industry as well as the festival. She was the inaugural winner of the Sir Billy Connolly Spirit of Glasgow Award […]

You wanted more shows? We got you more shows 🙌 It’s time for our second show drop for Glasgow International Comedy Festival 2025 and believe us it’s a good one! Craig Hill, Chris Forbes, Jay Lafferty, Billy Kirkwood and Stuart McPherson are returning with their major star power to venues throughout the city. Top tip, […]

We are very excited to reveal our first big show drop for the 2025 Glasgow International Comedy Festival. This is the first of three big show drops. The next one being on Monday 28th October and then again on Monday 2nd December. Susie McCabe, Jimeoin, Russell Kane and The Horne Section’s Hit Show are amongst […]

It is that time of year when the headline acts for the Glasgow International Comedy Festival start to be revealed an we are excited to reveal our first headline acts for the 2025 festival: Connor Burns, Russell Kane and Jamali Maddix. Scotland’s very own Connor Burns is one of the UK’s most exciting new talents. […]

We know Glasgow is the funniest city in the world and the best place to watch comedy but the Edinburgh Fringe is not bad either. There are plenty of 2024 GICF acts performing this year. So, if you missed them at GICF or want to see them again check out the list below. NAME VENUE […]

Glasgow International Comedy Festival (GICF) has revealed 2024’s edition was a record-breaking year, with the highest number of shows in the festival’s history as Glasgow became ‘the funniest city in the world’. Hosting over 560 shows across 19 days, GICF issued over 50,000 tickets to comedy fans in more than 50 venues across the city, […]