Scottish Comedy Highlights: November 2025

We’ll start things off nice and calm Oh wait, it’s gravel-voiced rockstar comic Nick Helm, ready to kick things in the dick. No One Gets Out Alive (The Stand, Glasgow, 5 Nov, 8.30pm; Monkey Barrel, Edinburgh, 6 Nov, 7.30pm, £16-18.50) will be an electric night of high energy aggression, one-liners and songs, perfect for folk who like your comedy loud and on the edge of your seat. 

For local talent look no further than the Nae Borders Comedy Night (Glee Club, Glasgow, 13 Nov, 7.30pm, £30). The line-up is STACKED with top names including CMB, Marjolein Robertson and Paul Black (there’s more too) all for a vital cause, the Scottish Refugee Council. 

Liam Withnail’s a Big Strong Boy. The Essex-born, Edinburgh-based comic talks about leaving home for Scotland in another excellent hour of storytelling stand-up (The Stand, Glasgow, 30 Nov, 8pm, £15-17). He’s also recording it as a special early December if you can’t make it this month (Monkey Barrel, Edinburgh, 6 Dec, 5.30pm and 8pm, £12).

Two more total Fringe smashers are coming your way. Helen Bauer brings Bless Her to Edinburgh and Glasgow (Monkey Barrel, Edinburgh, 20 Nov, 7.30pm; The Stand, Glasgow, 24 Nov, 8pm, £17.50), having, in our opinion, narrowly missed out on a nom for the big comedy gong this year. Her latest hour tackles self-hate, life changing illness and more with lashings of personality and incisive gags. Best Newcomer 2023 Winner and mega baddie Urooj Ashfaq returns with her second hour (Monkey Barrel, Edinburgh, 23 Nov, 8pm; The Stand, Glasgow, 29 Nov, 4pm, £16) promising girly edgelording and sassy teen erotica (mainly about One Direction).

And a book ahead banger for you: Geoffrey Chaucer’s Mediaeval Christmas Festivitye brings everyone’s favourite poot to town with a host of special guests (Monkey Barrel, Edinburgh, 11 Dec, 7.30pm, £15). Last year’s festive treat was a complete corker and this year’s lineup includes Eleanor Morton, Phil O’Shea, Amy Matthews and Jonny Donahoe (of Jonny and the Baptists), with John-Luke Roberts as the wildly funny and largely naked wordsmith.