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My Stand-Up Journey 

By ​​Craig Speirs 

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Just a hard working dad really 

 

Relatively new to the comedy scene I started with ultra comedy's summer 25  course it's a 8 week course lead by the amazing Viv gee at the end of it you get to do a 5 min set in front of 200 people it was a supportive and it was really fun and lighted a passion I never new I had for comedy I had always been a joker in work most my life's so was nice to make people laugh on stage and received positive feedback from the audience that day 

 

So I decided to try my set at a local open mic night just to see how it went before further pursuing my interest and again received positive feedback from experienced comedians and had the comedy bug ever since. 

 

I would have never imagined at the start it would have took me over Scotland to the Edinburgh fringe festival where I took part in the unhinged fringe doing 7 different dates aswell as some other one off spots at other shows and venues ive been down to Dumfries to do gigs I'm booked next year for dates in Dundee also various venues acorss glasgow and Falkirk to date I've done 31 gigs since june so it's been a great experience constantly meeting new people and seeing new acts as i go and seeing acts I've bever seen before as I go and learning how more experienced acts go about it 

 

I'm currently polishing off my final preparations for MAD MEN at the Glasgow international comedy festival where me and four other friends who I have met along this comedy journey will put on great show with five completely different acts coming together 

 

For me this is just the start of this comedy journey I plan to keep going and working hard to achieve where I want to be  IE writing a 1 hour but realistic enough to understand that it's takes time to do it right make it worth the wait as they say