Review: Get Off Live Comedy, Glasgow
- Lisa in the theatre
- Feb 16, 2023
- 2 min read
Updated: Jun 6
GET OFF Live Comedy ★★★★★
review: The Stand, Glasgow | 12 February 2023
It's only February and I've just seen the best night of stand-up comedy I'll probably see this year. Certainly the value can't be beaten at £11 a ticket for 5 brilliant comedians.
Get Off Live Comedy has been set-up to tackle bullying and sexual harassment in the UK live comedy industry. Sad that it's needed right?! But it aims to ensure minorities, women, lgbt+ or anyone who needs it really, isn't bullied or harassed out of playing the comedy circuit.
They've helped 150 cases already in the past few years.
150! That's a lot of creeps.
Harriet Dyer was our brilliant compere (and door lady!) I've found the only comedian in the UK who could give Billy Kirkwood a run for his money in the erratic, hyper, mad-as-box-of-frogs category. She was so random and I loved her! She handled the Sunday Glasgow crowd perfectly.
Next Mark Nelson. I've seen Mark a number of times and he never fails to make me uncomfortable. In a good way! Mark knows how to make his audiences squirm all whilst maintaining that eye contact. He's a bloomin funny man and a lovely one at that.
Jin Hao Li was new to me and wonderfully weird with a sort of dry, downtrodden, self-deprecating humour. I don't know how he kept a straight face!
I said after seeing Kiri Pritchard McLean's show in Edinburgh last year that she must be the kindest person in comedy. I stand by that! She drove up to Glasgow and performed a wickedly funny set for us late on a Sunday night. She is a true diamond, gorgeous and hilarious. (How unfair is that!?)
Lastly, closing the show, Susie McCabe tried out material from her new show Femme Fatality. I saw Susie 4 times last year and here again she proves she's a professional at the top of her game. Not once did she falter.
Susie must've rehearsed this new material but she's just a naturally funny storyteller. No spoilers, but if you've bought tickets for Susie's sold-out shows at The Glasgow King's Theatre in March as part of the Glasgow International Comedy Festival, you're in for a good time!
A wonderful night for a brilliant cause. We all donated an extra £10 each after the show and it's still the bargain of the century.
[Review first posted on Instagram 16 February 2023]
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