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Ashley Storrie helps launch Glassgow International Comedy Festival 2025
The Scotsman
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08/01/2025
Ashley Storrie helps launch Glassgow International Comedy Festival 2025
GLASGOW INTERNATIONAL COMEDY FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES FULL
LINE UP FOR BIGGEST EVER EVENT
PAUL BLACK, JENNY ECLAIR, LARRY DEAN, FERN BRADY AND MORE
ADDED TO THE BILL
19 DAYS OF COMEDY WILL CELEBRATE GLASGOW AS FUNNIEST CITY IN THE WORLD
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I'm part of the Alistair Gray Project, which is celebrating, I think, probably one of Scotland's
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greatest artists, if not the world's. He captured a time and place in Glasgow and
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Anbar in his art and his writing and it's really exciting to get to celebrate that.
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I kind of want to honour him, his work and the stories within it and at the same time
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honour where I come from, so I might be doing some form of a voiceover with his paintings,
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maybe giving some voices to some of his murals. I grew up in the east end of Glasgow but I went
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to school in the west end and my parents, when I was very little, were super conscious that I was
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coming from this place of... I lived in a cupboards in a flat above a pub, like Harry Potter, but then
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they sent me to this private school in the west end. They used to take me to the breakfast chip
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and the staff there would teach me how to eat with knife and fork, silver service style,
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and they taught me about forks, knives and butter knives and crab tongs and stuff like that and I
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would always see Alistair Gray's paintings on the wall in the chip of the patrons and I was always
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so curious about it and then when Oranmore opened and I got to see his paintings there and then I
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would see them all over the place and I didn't know who he was and when I saw a picture of him
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I was like, oh I know that guy! I used to see him when I would walk about the west end by myself
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as a child. I remember that man, he was really nice to me. He's had a huge influence on me but
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also he's just like, he's very real, he's very approachable, not as a person but just as an
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idea, he's approachable. A lot of artists you kind of don't understand where they're coming from but
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him you can completely see his point of view. The school I went to has been closed down,
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the only remnants of it is a mural that he painted on Hillhead Underground. It's always exciting to
01:51
be part of Glasgow Comedy Festival. This was a huge thing for my mum, the Glasgow Comedy Festival
01:58
and I knew even though I wasn't going to be doing stand-up at it, I wanted to. I wanted to be
02:03
involved somehow to honour her as well as Alistair. So I love the Glasgow Comedy Festival, it's super
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important to support it. It supports us, there's not a lot of places for people with our voices
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and this comedy festival has always supported our voices so yeah, I love it.
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Were you here when your mum got the award? Yeah, I was outside, I didn't come in, I was so nervous.
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I was like, this is going to be really awkward if she doesn't win.
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She didn't know in advance? No, no, it was a big secret. I was really anxious for her
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but I waited outside and then we had a lovely night that night celebrating her and it's one
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of my favourite clips of footage of her is when she got that award because she got recognition
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and that was really nice for her. I think she'd just be glad that I've kept working,
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that seemed to be her big main drive at the end of her life was don't you stop working.
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It's like right, okay, mum. Scottish Baftas were a blur, I honestly don't remember most of it.
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I remember I met a guy at the Game of Thrones, got so excited, forgot I'd won a Bafta,
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anything, I was like, it's Podrick Payne and everybody was like you need to calm down,
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actually that's awfully weird and that's basically what I remember about that night.
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Also I had to keep secret that we had a second season commissioned for Dinosaur and you know,
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because it's a co-production between Hulu and BBC, there's a lot of people in charge that I'm
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scared of doing something wrong so it's very anxiety riddled but also super exciting and
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it was very special and then getting to tell everybody that we're getting a second series,
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that we're bringing, it's not just like oh I'm getting to make another bit of telly,
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it's I'm getting to make a bit of telly where people who make telly in Glasgow can have jobs
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and actors can have jobs and everybody can get a bit of work and I always think that's a nice
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knowing that you're bringing a bit of industry. And it's not easy to make TV these days or even
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to make new Scottish comedies. Yeah I'm definitely pleased we've got a new series but it is
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incredibly hard to get anything put on Scottish telling. I studied filmmaking and I'm in my 30s
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and this is the first thing I've ever made properly that's scripted, that's got any money
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behind it and that's been more pitching every year since I was 18, pitching radio shows,
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pitching telly shows, pitching constantly, just throwing anything at a lawn being like oh here's
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a thing set in an island about fishermen, no do you know like that, here's a thing set in a farm
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about farmers, do you know like that, here's a paleontologist. So just throwing everything
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and constantly trying. Have you got any other ideas or are you really focused on this for the
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time being? No I've got hundreds of things in my head. I'm working on a crime drama which is
04:49
dead exciting because I love crime, it's my favourite genre of television. I want to bring
04:53
back the bell at some point, that's my dream. Hopefully I can convince somebody to say it's
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not a bell. I want to hear it again. I've got hundreds of ideas in my head and I'm just constantly
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flying them at you, would you like that? So you'd be very much taking it home with you to keep
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working? Yeah definitely. I can feel a ghost dipping at my nose whenever I slow down slightly.
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Do you think comedy is valued as it should be in Scotland these days or is it a bit undervalued?
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I think comedy is definitely valued. I think the internet helped immensely. I think for a
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really long time the media told us, oh nobody understands you, nobody knows what you're saying
05:32
and then we put videos on the internet of people in America, like that's hilarious. I'm like he
05:37
understood what I said, maybe you don't but he did and he lives in Louisiana so it does work
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and I think that that's proof of the amount of online creators who come from Scotland
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who are killing it on the internet and are getting like 40 million views on videos when
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it can't just all be Scotch people, there's only like 6 million of us so it must be other folk
06:00
as well. If anyone has not been to the Glasgow International Comedy Festival before,
06:05
somehow, what would you advise to them? If you're coming to the Glasgow International Comedy
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Festival, see some local comedy, see Christopher MacArthur Boyd, see Roscoe, see Rachel Jackson,
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there's nobody like them, they're different, they're funny, they're weird. See something weird,
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don't see something off the telly, see something that you've not seen on the telly and then it'll
06:26
get put on the telly and then it'll get ruined by the telly because that's the telly. You'll like it!
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