by Kim Skinner It’s noon on a suffocatingly hot and sticky Saturday in Barcelona. A smallish audience has gathered in the gratifyingly cool basement of The Comedy Clubhouse to see Fat Goose Goes Halves. Suddenly the Ski Sunday theme tune strikes up and Darren Cullen and Ewan May come barrelling into the room, boisterously shaking […]
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Anyone who knows Mariah Girouard personally would not call her a “good girl.” But that’s exactly what her show leads to — a series of unfortunate events that eventually bring her to the titular moment of reckoning with how the perception of who she is conflicts with who she wants to be. Mariah looks like
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Award-winning comedian Jamie Lerner brings her first solo show, F*ck Tomorrow, to the Edinburgh Fringe in 2024. Starting with previews in Barcelona, Jamie has developed the show over her eight years of on-and-off comedy into a combination of jokes, songs, and stories that chronicle her life as a boy-crazy child with undiagnosed ADHD and an
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Mariah Girouard is a Barcelona-based comedian from the USA who is taking her debut solo show, Good Girl, to the Edinburgh Fringe for the first time in 2024. She won Barcelona’s Funniest FICer in 2022, was a semi-finalist on Romanian television’s Stand-Up Revolution, and won the Brighton Fringe Award for her split show with Jamie
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TRAUMEDY: A Guide to Being a Fabulous Homeless Addict is a true story about my journey from addiction to the life I am living now. I was not always this shiny, happy, and upbeat person my whole life, and it took a lot of work to get here. During my addiction, I lost friends, my
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In 2022, Michelle Ahern was a wife and a step-mum living on the east coast of Australia. It’s now the summer of 2024 and she is a very single stand-up comedian living alone in Spain. “WTF happened and why is someone trying to sue her?” is the tagline for Michelle’s debut solo show, We’ve Had
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“Comedy is tragedy plus time.” But hey, have you heard how Barcelona-based comedians, Michelle Ahern and Iain Anderson, turn their personal traumas into hilarious jokes? Michelle’s show, ‘We’ve Had a Good Run,’ shares her divorce story with a playful twist. Meanwhile, Iain’s ‘Traumedy: A Guide to Being a Fabulous Homeless Addict’ will make you laugh with his witty storytelling of addiction, homelessness, and recovery. These comedy shows don’t just entertain, they also heal and promote growth. Because who needs therapy when they can have a good laugh, right?
