Glasgow International Comedy Festival launches for 2025

We speak to Susie McCabe and Rosco McClelland on 2025’s GICF.

Transcript

00:00I'm a storyteller, long form, comedy, taking a wee journey, we go on a wee story, we hopefully tie

00:05it all up at the end, fingers crossed. I get into this because of a dare, because a friend had made

00:09diagnosed with stage four cancer, ovarian cancer, and I get into it as a dare to go and try stand-up

00:15comedy, and I did, and it turns out I was, I was no bad, I was all right, and I just kept plugging

00:22away and kept working, and the festival was a real part of that. I've pretty much done a festival

00:27show every year since 2013. I always think, whenever I go somewhere else, I'm always, I'm

00:34sort of comparing it to Glasgow, and nowhere's been as good so far, but I love it, the people

00:41are incredible, and people do say that, that like, Glaswegians are, they're warm, they're funny, and

00:46they're kind, and it sounds like a load of ****, but they're no lying, some of them might stab you to

00:53death, but they'll be nice about it. Funniest city in the world, right, it's heritage, Glasgow is soaked

01:02in comedy heritage, and not even just from people that have played this room, or you know, travelled

01:09the world and done their stuff, Glasgow as a city, it's just full of really funny people, it's full of

01:15funny people, it's full of friendly people, it's full of people that will make you laugh, whether

01:19you're in a pub, a building site, a bus stop, a train, doesn't matter, there's always somebody

01:23will make you laugh, even sitting at a football game, your team can be getting beat, and somebody

01:28will say something that'll make you laugh, so I think we've got, and I think that comes from, because

01:32Glasgow, you know, historically, and is now a hard, you know, a hard place to live in, certainly had a

01:39lot of poverty and deprivation, and I think the humour, and the darkness of those times, kind of

01:45humour brings the light to that shade. I think Glasgow's funny just because, at the core of it, it's such a

01:52miserable place, it's such a, it should be, it should be a miserable place, it should be, it's

02:01raining all the time, it's cold, we hardly see the sun, it should be miserable, and you can either lay

02:08down and let that get to you, or you can just have a laugh about it, and I think generations of people just

02:16trying to make the best of what they've got has instilled this kind of comedic

02:22overtone in the city and its people.