Comedy and "Aberdeen"

Aberdeen vs Glasgow vs The World II - Free
Date	Location
FGC Comedy / Laughing Horse Free Festival. For two years running, Chris Stephen has brought you the finest upcoming Scottish comedians as well as guest acts from around the globe, and this year is no different – except this time we're going for it! Through the entire festival we will bring you stand-up comedians, ventriloquists, character acts, games, fun and general mayhem. Last year was our most successful after receiving a four-star review and touring the show afterwards in Scotland. View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
2 Aug–26 Aug Mon–Sun 4.30–5.30pm	Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, Edinburgh

Alan Davies: Life is Pain
Date	Location
Best known as Stephen Fry's mop-topped buffoon on QI and duffle-coated detective in Jonathan Creek, Alan returns to his stand-up roots. View full details (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
19 Oct 8pm	Music Hall, Aberdeen

The Boy With Tape on His Face
Date	Location
It's comedy but without the chat. A chance to see the phenomenon of BWTOHF, in a show which is kinda cabaret, kinda theatre and kinda beautiful. Stand-up to make you spit out your drink then break your heart. View full details
5 Jun 7pm	Studio at The Lemon Tree, Aberdeen

Breakneck Comedy Charity Night
Date	Location
A bunch of scene stalwarts are eager to make you laugh in the name of charity, so who are you to refuse? There's Vladimir McTavish, Gus Lymburn and Neil Skene (Scotland's only blind comedian), alongside MSP Mark McDonald. Money raised goes towards Friends of Anchor. View full details
1 Jun 8pm	Blue Lamp, Aberdeen

Breakneck Comedy
Date	Location
A night of comedy with open mic opportunities and a different line-up every time. View full details
2 Jun 8.30pm With quick witted Tanyalee Davis, Daniel Downie and host Gus Lymburn.	Blue Lamp, Aberdeen
5 Jun 8.30pm With Tom Stade.	Snafu, Aberdeen
8 Jun–9 Jun Fri & Sat 8.30pm With satire from David Whitney and guests.	Blue Lamp, Aberdeen
12 Jun 8pm With Graham Mackie plus guests.	Snafu, Aberdeen
15 Jun 8.30pm The odd charms of Paul Foot headline this gig.	The Carmelite Hotel, Aberdeen
16 Jun 8.30pm With Harry Garrison, Gus Lymburn and guests.	Blue Lamp, Aberdeen
19 Jun 8pm With Raymond Mearns.	Snafu, Aberdeen
23 Jun 8.30pm With Gary Little and guests.	Blue Lamp, Aberdeen
26 Jun 8pm With Nathan Caton.	Snafu, Aberdeen
29 Jun 8.30pm Andre King plus guests.	Station Hotel, Stonehaven
30 Jun 8.30pm With Andre King and guests	Blue Lamp, Aberdeen
3 Jul 8.30pm	Snafu, Aberdeen
7 Jul 8.30pm With Billy Kirkwood and guests.	Blue Lamp, Aberdeen
10 Jul 8.30pm With Bill Dewar and guests.	Snafu, Aberdeen
14 Jul 8.30pm	Blue Lamp, Aberdeen
17 Jul 8.30pm	Snafu, Aberdeen
20 Jul 8.30pm A charity comedy night in aid of Cyrenians.	Blue Lamp, Aberdeen
21 Jul 8.30pm	Blue Lamp, Aberdeen
24 Jul 8.30pm	Snafu, Aberdeen
28 Jul 8.30pm	Blue Lamp, Aberdeen
31 Jul 8.30pm	Snafu, Aberdeen
19 Aug 8pm 9 Sep 8pm 14 Oct 8pm 18 Nov 8pm 16 Dec 8pm	Woodend Barn Arts Centre, Banchory

Comedy Night
Date	Location
Patrice 'hairdresser to the stars' (or so he claims) tells tales of his celeb clientele with John McRuvie headlining and raising funds for VSA, Aberdeen's major social care charity. View full details
1 Jun 7.30pm	The Forum, Aberdeen

Craig Campbell
Date	Location
He's built on his circuit reputation by supporting that Frankie Boyle on his final tour, now Campbell is here on his own two feet, spinning ferocious yarns. View full details and ticket info
1 Jul 8pm	Lounge at The Lemon Tree, Aberdeen

Danny Bhoy: Wanderlust
Date	Location
One of Scotland's finest comedy experts out on tour with a new show about his itchy feet. (Travel adventures, not athlete's foot). View full details and ticket info
14 Sep 8pm	Music Hall, Aberdeen

Eddie Izzard: Force Majeure
Date	Location
Often hailed as one of this generation's best stand-ups, the master of absurdity takes his whimsical ramblings on tour in his first new show in four years. Expect fast-paced wordplay, a spot of multilingualism and surreality aplenty. View full details and ticket info
3 May 8pm	AECC, Aberdeen

Frankie Boyle: The Last Days of Sodom
Date	Location
Controversial, shocking and in poor taste? Perhaps, but bloomin' funny with it. Frankie once again tries to heal the country's fools on a final tour (apparently). No doubt he'll have saved all his most terrifying material 'til now. View full details
19 Jul–21 Jul Thu–Sat 8pm	Music Hall, Aberdeen

Jason Byrne: People's Puppeteer
Date	Location
Livewire Byrne returns with another frantic show full of props, clowning and fast-paced lunacy. View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
6 Sep 8pm	Music Hall, Aberdeen

Jimmy Carr: Gagging Order
Date	Location
The deadpan one presents his new crude, rude, but clever show, no doubt packed with puns aplenty and jokes that teeter on the verge of acceptability. View full details
30 Jun 8pm 14 Jul 7pm	Music Hall, Aberdeen

John Bishop: Rollercoaster
Date	Location
Stand-up from the genial and witty Liverpudlian, as he continues his meteoric rise to megastardom. View full details and ticket info
30 Oct–31 Oct Tue & Wed 6.30pm	AECC, Aberdeen

Julian Clary: Position Vacant, Apply Within
Date	Location
Julian's sweeping the nation in search of love, ruthlessly auditioning potential suitors in each town, determined to find a partner by the end of the night. Buckle in for a night of high camp fun and frolics. View full details
24 Oct 8pm	Music Hall, Aberdeen

Kevin Bridges: The Story Continues…
Date	Location
The biggest name in Scottish stand-up continues his reign with another show packed with astute observations and deathly funny gags. View full details and ticket info
9 Oct–10 Oct Tue & Wed 6.30pm 15 Oct 6.30pm	AECC, Aberdeen

Michael McIntyre
Date	Location
The dapper dafty performs to gigantic audiences following his massively successful Comedy Roadshow series and his stint on Britain's Got Talent with his biggest tour yet. View full details
1 Nov 6.30pm	AECC, Aberdeen

Rhod Gilbert: The Man with the Flaming Battenberg Tattoo
Date	Location
The (formerly) angry Welshman takes his perennially hoarse voice on the road for a far more mellow tour (he says) and hopefully an explanation as to how he ended up with a tattoo on his shoulder of a flaming slice of Battenberg cake. View full details and ticket info
2 Sep 8pm	Music Hall, Aberdeen

Ross Noble: Mindblender
Date	Location
The wild-haired Geordie, prone to wondrous tangents and surreal interludes, wanders back out on tour with a brand new show. View full details and ticket info
31 Oct 8pm	Music Hall, Aberdeen

Scottish Opera: The Pirates of Penzance
Date	Location
About Pirates of Penzance we're teeming with a lot o' news: it was written in a hurry so that Gilbert & Sullivan could open it on Broadway and finally taste those sweet, sweet American royalties, but in spite of its mercenary origin it's one of the best-loved operettas ever written: a crazily sparkling farce with a bumbling but patriotic pirate crew, some spectacularly inept policemen and a major-general who can't tell a rifle from a javelin. Sullivan's catchy and ebullient score matches… View full details
23 May–28 May Tue, Thu & Fri 7.30pm; Sat 2.30pm & 7.30pm	His Majesty's Theatre, Aberdeen

VSA presents Comedy Night and Disco
Date	Location
John McRuvie and Patrice, Hairdresser to the Stars dole out laughs in aid of VSA, with a disco afterwards. View full details
1 Jun 7.30pm	The Forum, Aberdeen

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