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Welcome to the official page of GLASS, Glasgow University's Stand-up and Sketch society. Students from other Glasgow-based universities are welcome to join.

From University of Glasgow, GLASS is Glasgow's premier university stand-up comedy and sketch society. We do weekly workshops and monthly showcases. If you're keen to join the club, slide into our DMs. If you are keen to perform at a show, slide into our DMs and we might also do open calls on our social media.

26/07/2025

GLASS is coming to the Fringe!

On the 7th of August, 5:30 at Leith Depot. We’ll be showcasing some of the best stand up and sketches from the past year.

Come along to Edinburgh, see some shows (including us), make a day of it!

Get your tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/glass-comedy-presents-this-is-our-glasstonbury-tickets-1481504031439?aff=oddtdtcreator

PS: we confirmed the show name before the Tyler album came out, it was the most topical glass related name we could come up with at the time

29/04/2025

[MEMBERS ONLY]

Join GLASS for it's Annual General Meeting, where we make ammendments to our constitution, and vote to elect our next board!

Get in touch to know more.

Wednesday 28/05, location TBD.

01/03/2025

Presented by GLASS for the Glasgow International Comedy Festival:

Do you fear your life is constantly permeated by the endless need for comparison, trying to better your life in any way you can, and to know you’re not the worst off of every single person you’ve ever met?

Well fear no more! And get yourselves along to this student-run comedy night to finally know some peace.
Yes, the life of the working world, with it’s labour and toil might get ya down, but there’s nothing to pep you right back up like knowing that there’s some freaks around to look worse.

Yes, putting together a compilation of stand-up & sketches that they’ve optimistically determined to be their ‘best-bits’, the comedians of GLASS aim, at the very least, to satisfy that you’ll get your £3 money’s worth.

Maybe you’ll even enjoy it? Who’s to say? But no matter how it goes, just remember: the GLASS is always gleener on the other side!

16/02/2025

[A stand-up & sketch comedy show]

For millennia, man has asked the question, how best can I complain about the arbitrary trivia of my day to day life, and still not seem like an impenetrable bore? Many have painted, many have journalled, and some have even tried therapy... To clarify, all of the above listed mediums work and like, well. In fact, if I were to recommend them from least to most effective, I would list them in precisely that order, personal preference, obviously, but Y'know by-the-by, not entirely disagreeable. Anyway! We've got tickets to sell, and thanks to the medium of stand-up comedy, Strife finds a way - Welcome, to Glurassic park.

Yes, we're aware this pun doesn't exactly work, but it's our 2nd to last show of the year, give us a break! And, Y'know, at this point if you're trusting in the comedic content of our shows *less* than the credibility of our one-off-show-title-puns, then our advertising wasn't really going to work on you anyway, now, was it? God you lot make me sick - just turn up! It's 3 quid, and we've even got the card machine back this time, so no excuses. Wednesday 26th of February, 7:30pm, Tennent's bar basement - be there.

08/02/2025

[Members only] - Join GLASS for our next society social: The laugh rumble!

A bracket tournament pitting our favourite comedians against each other and judging who does it better and how! So come along: we'll eat, we'll drink and, if nothing else, we'll get to watch a bunch of funny tight 5s, what's not to love?

Location TBD via the members' group chat

18/01/2025

Glasstic surgery - A Stand-up & sketch comedy show brought to you by GLASS:

Another year rolls by and another semester of studying to go along with it... but wait, what's this? Glasstic surgery?! Uh, there must be some kind of mistake- I didn't enrol for this! Is it mandatory? Will there be an exam? Heaven forbid a practical. I mean what's it even about, is it medical? Is it engineering? Oh god, well, whatever it is, it says there's only one in-person session for it, at tennents bar basement, at 7:30pm on Wednesday the 29th of January. Oh, okay, fair enough, it also says 'tell you friends...' alright, well, guess I have to, here goes nothin'

21/11/2024

05/12: Join GLASS at the QMU games bar at 7pm for the QMU’s final weekly quiz of the semester, which can only mean one thing, a cash prize!

Compete in rounds of the quiz based on the week of news across the UK and world at large and watch as the comedians from GLASS take part in the special rounds to poke fun at, satirise and mock the week!

20/11/2024

SCANDAL! The members of GLASS have become embroiled in a whole new kind of affair, as they stand to testify to the jurors at the basement of Tennent's bar at 8pm on Wednesday 04/12. Choosing to represent themselves, their ring-leader, insistent upon calling herself the host: Vice-President Nina Owens-Friday will stand the trial of the public in a desperate attempt to prove that the stand-up and sketch society is, in fact, funny enough to justify a £3 entry fee. When asked to comment, the lead defendant said only "we need this."

With the evidence still remaining to be seen, one can only hope that the jurors come to the right conclusion; as the punishment, already well-established for this variety of self-indulgent waffling, is looking to be silence, followed by awkwardly excusing oneself off of stage a little early, and finally, deep shame.

With the trial open to the public, it is encouraged that as many viewers should attend as possible, owing to, if not laughter, the respect that all citizens hold for the judicial process.

16/10/2024

Do you find yourself trapped, under an immense sense of pressure as the weight of a thousand suns pulls you spiralling infinitely downwards, gasping for air without so much as a hope of escape?

You might well have considered these to be the symptoms of long-term academic burn out and fatigue, the protracted mental breakdown you've felt oncoming ever since you first learned the meaning of the word 'shame'... that, or you're falling into a black hole.

Either or, nothing a stand-up & sketch comedy night can make much worse, eh? Might even make things a little better, well unless you're actually in a black hole, but then you've got bigger things to worry about.

Anyway, it's £3, it's on campus, and it'll hopefully be quite funny, so, seeya there!

12/10/2024

Join GLASS for it's annual Halloween tradition: The Clown crawl!

The schedule:

-Starting at the JMS room 408 at 6pm to get into costume
-Moving onto Vodka Wodka for 6:45pm
-Taking the subway to Kelvinbridge, we'll get to Inn deep for 7:45pm
-Then the hug & pint at St. George's cross at 8:45pm
-Onto Macconnell's bar at Cowcaddens at 9:45pm
-Next, taking on Cova for our Buchanan Street stop at 10:45pm
-And finally finishing at Cathouse at St. Enoch's from 11:45pm onwards

We'll have 45 minutes at each pub, so if you can't get there straight away, keep an eye on our story to be kept up to date for our location!

02/10/2024

Introducing the all-new GLASS actor's membership, for people who want to act in the sketches at our shows, but can't make the sessions.

It's available at the discounted price of £2! (compared to our standard £3 membership.) All you have to do to get it is go to our SRC page, (linked in our bio) purchase it, and DM us to let us know that you have, so we can put you in contact with our sketch officer, who'll sort everything else.

Address

138-142 Leith Walk
Edinburgh
EH6 5DT

Website

https://www.glasgowunisrc.org/organisation/7408/

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