Glasgow Comedy Festival 2026: Nine shows to see
Glasgow gets the comedy festival treatment with hunners of shows on the doorstep at this year's Glasgow International Comedy Festival – here are our picks
For local talent at GICF, you can’t go wrong with Krystal Evans’ latest WIP (Blackfriars Basement, 18 Mar, 6.30pm) as she works up a new hour. Expect tales of parenthood, divorce and Mitchell & Webb in the Edinburgh-based American’s classic no-nonsense style. Marjolein Robertson’s also back on Scottish soil with her first show post her Marj-O-Lein trilogy. Now all she wants is a holiday (The Flying Duck, 21 Mar, 1.30pm).
Glaswegian 8-bit sketch outfit King Wine (The Flying Duck, 12 Mar, 8.30pm) bring their unique brand of chiptune-chat to the festival too, if you’re after something a little different. And Susan Riddell brings the best show title to the festival. Anyone Struggling with the Work-Genocide Balance? (The Stand Glasgow, 28 Mar, 3.20pm) will no doubt touch on Palestine, her recent stint under curfew, and make it all very funny indeed.
As expected, GICF sees some of the best shows from Fringe visit Glasgow. Bestie winner and total riot Rosa Garland's Primal Bog promises the best slime x canoeing crossover in comedy (Old Hairdresser’s, 11 Mar, 8pm), while Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee Katie Norris brings TUNES and farmery to the Old Hairdresser’s (12 Mar, 9pm; also Monkey Barrel, Edinburgh, 26 Mar, 8pm). Leaving a trail of Sudocrem and pickled eggs in his wake, gleeful gruff-voiced oddball Frankie Monroe delves into hell in his new show (Monkey Barrel, Edinburgh, 18 Mar, 7.30pm; The Stand, Glasgow, 19 Mar, 8pm).
Finally, we heard excellent things about these two at the Fringe. Dru Cripps' Juicy Bits had a spot at one of the Potterrow yurts in August and every day had a big ol’ queue. Expect silly, clowny, loop pedal shenanigans now in Glasgow (Committee Room No.9, 17 Mar, 6pm & 9pm). Paul Campbell’s The Lost Tapes of Somerfield (Gael & Grain, 22 Mar, 1pm) proved a bit of a cult hit too. A love letter to the long forgotten supermarket, the show won a Malcolm Hardee Award for Comic Originality, so colour us intrigued.
Glasgow International Comedy Festival, 11-29 Mar, full programme and tickets at glasgowcomedyfestival.com