Greater Shawland's Republic - Christmas Event

The Great Shawlands Republic will be meeting again this weekend and here is what they had to say for themselves.

"The Executive Committee of the Greater Shawlands Republic have thought long and hard about whether Santa is a construct of a rich, feckless, corrupt Western elite only concerned with material possessions or if he is in fact the greatest socialist hero known to humanity. No means testing for Santa. He is a universal benefit. In the end we couldn't decide but we have asked him for a new coat of paint for our submarine.

The next gala night of the Greater Shawlands Republic falls on Sunday December 2nd and will once again be held in the Bungo on Nithsdale Road. We have the wonderful Pearse James and a very special, mystery guest. All we've told people so far is that HE's been on Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow and last year he sold out the Kings. Further information will be unveiled on our facebook page.

The night starts at 8pm and tickets are 5 polloks and 99 shields for Southsiders and 6 polloks for Westenders."

Sunday 2nd December 8pm at The Bungo

NOW SOLD OUT

Spooky & Funny at Bungo

Lots on at Bungo over the next couple of weeks with a grown-ups Hallow's Eve Party on Friday (That's two days after Hallow's Eve?) a kids Halloween party on the Saturday and comedy on the next two Sundays as you can see from the above photo.

Stewart Lee @ Citizens

Really looking forward to seeing Stewart Lee tonight at the Citizens. We're going to the 5:30pm show which was added after the 8pm one sold out. (Though I see the Citz just tweeted that there have been some hold tickets just released for the 8pm show if you are fast.)

Should be a good show, the advert promises "opinions on, amongst other things: Top Gear, piglets, bees, Iggy Pop, riots, cider adverts and emigration. For this, he will use various techniques such as: some punchy stuff near the top, inexplicable hostility towards relatively innocuous figures, silence, repetition, long routines experimenting with form rather than content, the possibility of failure, a quasi-serious bit at the end, and there might even be a song!"

Good set of comedy on in the Southside as part of the Magners Comedy Festival. At the Citz they are showing Des Clarke, Chris Addison, Jenny Eclair and Shappi Khorsandi.

Citizens Theatre
119 Gorbals Street, Glasgow, G5 9DS
Box Office: 0141 429 0022

Free Comedy Night at the Ivory Hotel

The Ha Ha Raw Comedy night at the Ivory Hotel has become a regular event over the last year or so. We've been along a few times, but not for a while. ....so when I walked passed the Ivory hotel the other day, I was pleased to see it's still going strong and attracting quite a crowd.

I am a bit of a coward when it comes to comedy nights, I am always a little scared I am going to be picked on, but I have to say I really enjoyed it. It's a bit of a mixed bag, there are a round ten acts on the Sunday night ranging from professional comedians, to people who are just starting out.

It's on every Sunday from 8.30pm

The good news it's a free event, so if you don't like it you can just leave..

More details can be found here

Ha Ha Comedy at the Ivory

The Ivory Hotel presents the HA HA Comedy night on Saturday night. It's part of the Southside Festival, starts at 8.30pm and is free.

Rockon Tommy

When you mention comedy double acts I could list a host of famous duos, Bing and Crosby, Laurel and Hardy, Seinfeld and David, Morecombe and Wise even the Two Ronnies but the act that I am going to talk about is not in that league.
They are on a much higher plane - they are in the realms of true 1980's Saturday greats like Little and Large, The Krankies or even the ultimate champions - Paul and Barry Chuckle. They used to draw in millions every Saturday night for twelve years in their own TV show and sitcom. One of them is tall, one is short and has a moustache and braces - who are they? Well I guess the photo gave it away it's Cannon and Ball.

Quite bizarrely they are coming to Shawlands on Sunday for a free concert at 6pm in Destiny church on Pollokshaws Road, behind the arcade. Even more bizarre, its not the first time they've performed there.

Not sure if its a comedy show based around the bible but I guess from the venue that they are big Christians. Unfortunately I'm going to be in London and will miss it but can someone go along and tell us all about it after all its free and should have been worth at least £10.