Scottish Comedy Highlights: December 2025
Time to get your festive funny fix with December’s comedy picks, plus a big name tries some exciting new stuff out at the beginning of next year
December’s really spoiling us (must mean we’ve been pretty nice). First up is the wickedly funny Rosie Jones playing Glasgow and Edinburgh with her latest hour (Glee Club, Glasgow, 3 Dec, 7pm, £18 / The Stand, Edinburgh, 4 Dec, 8.30pm, £18). That’s followed by Josie Long performing a homecoming version of her gorgeous Fringe show Now Is The Time Of Monsters at the suitably grand Òran Mór (5 Dec, 7pm, £22).
That weekend there are even more shows we’d recommend. Liam Withnail’s recording Big Strong Boy, his hit Fringe show about his dramatic move to Edinburgh in the mid-00s, on 6 December (Monkey Barrel, Edinburgh, 5.30pm & 8pm, £12). 7 December has even more in store: half of The Delightful Sausage, Chris Cantrill, tests out new material about murder mysteries and the Sycamore Gap (RIP) (Monkey Barrel, 8pm, £7); The Stand Edinburgh is hosting a Benefit in aid of MAP with a stellar lineup (4pm, £12/£8); and new(ish) on the scene clowning showcase, That’s Clown!, has their last show of the year at Gael & Grain in Glasgow (7.30pm, £5).
And for getting you in the festive spirit, here’s three of the best: John-Luke Roberts appears once more as the delirious ‘poot’ (his words, not ours) Geoffrey Chaucer with a slew of cracking guests (Geoffrey Chaucer’s Mediaeval Christmas Festivitye 2025!, Monkey Barrel, 11 Dec, 7.30pm, £15); Adam Riches hot-foots it to Glasgow for another go at being Yorkshire’s second biggest bastud (after Frankie Monroe) Sean Bean (The 12 BEANS OF CHRISTMAS, The Stand, Glasgow, 10 Dec, 8pm, £16); and Paddy Young gets in on the action with A Night With The Stars!, a late night madcap Stars-In-Your-Eyes of sorts featuring Dan Tiernan and Sam Campbell (Monkey Barrel, 13 Dec, 11pm, £16).
Finally, there’s a real treat in the new year with the lovely Sara Pascoe gracing Edinburgh for three nights to work up her new show Jazz (Monkey Barrel, 12-14 Jan, 7.30pm, £10). Based on her dad’s wild ambition to turn Joyce’s Odyssey into an epic jazz one, this is her probably less saxophonic take on it. [Polly Glynn]