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Susie McCabe talks comedy at Glasgow International Comedy Festival launch
The Scotsman
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08/01/2025
Susie McCabe talks comedy at Glasgow International Comedy Festival launch
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00:00
This is my fourth consecutive year coming back to the Kings.
00:05
It's a venue really steeped in heritage of Glasgow.
00:10
It's a venue steeped in quality heritage of Glasgow, Scottish quality.
00:15
And you know, it's a venue that you've sat in for quite large periods of your life.
00:21
And now you're obviously, you know, you get...
00:25
The fact that I get to come out here and do a show three times, it's just...
00:32
It's mind-blowing.
00:33
It's not massive on the stage, you know.
00:36
It really comes right at the top of you, almost like a kind of high school football stadium, you know.
00:42
It really comes down on you.
00:44
And the wall of noise was like nothing I'd ever heard, you know.
00:48
It's almost like a lot of comedians come through and want to miss out on the King's Theatre and just go straight to the arena.
00:53
And you're like, listen, no, everybody can be the people, so relax.
00:57
And I think they don't understand what this theatre is and how important it is that you need to go through all those levels to get here.
01:12
And you know, I mean, if it's good enough for Frankie, and if it's good enough for Godwin, it's really good enough for them.
01:19
I love the fact that a young guy in his 20s has come to see me because his dad's a fan.
01:25
You know, his dad's, you know, maybe, what, late 50s or something like that.
01:29
Very few female, gay colleagues have as broad an audience.
01:37
And I don't know if it's just the way that I am, in the sense that the guys maybe go queer.
01:42
She'd be a lad in the van on a Monday morning, when she'd be arguing with you about the football.
01:47
I was an electrician, you know, and then I was an estimator.
01:50
And then I took on comedy, and then I was eight and a half years before I went full-time.
01:54
I've got the heart attack. I had a heart attack on the 24th of July, 2024, in Bristol.
02:00
I discussed that, and the way that I look at it, the way in which my life has had to change.
02:07
And then look at things like, it's the first time in my life that I've had to consider my own mortality.
02:15
And then what that means for you, what that means for the people around you, your life.
02:22
And then how you're then viewed, and the lens that you're viewed through.
02:28
And then subsequently, how you're viewed, you know, by your people, by your city, and then by your country.
02:35
And it's a very interesting thing when you start to kind of think about it, go through it.
02:40
How these Scots react to these type of things compared to anybody else, any other country in the world.
02:48
So, yeah, no, I'm very much looking forward to it.
02:51
For example, I talk about having to go from a room on my own into a shared ward.
02:56
And when you're a woman going into a shared ward, that's like going into a prison.
03:00
You know, it's like, oh, you're in for, you know, within the first ten minutes.
03:04
Whereas men don't speak to each other.
03:06
You know, men could be in a hospital for six months together, and there'll be two questions they'll be asked.
03:10
Are you done with that paper? And do you have Sky Sports on your phone?
03:15
That's it, that's men, right? You never know each other's name.
03:18
Woman, then what happens is your family start to visit, and they start to get announced into the hospital.
03:24
Margaret, that's Tracy, your granddaughter. She must have got the afternoon off to come and see you.
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