A FEW short months after her very first stand-up gig, Maisie Adam won the UK’s largest comedy contest and life changed in the blink of an eye.

Now, the Yorkshire-born comedian who triumphed on the nationwide So You Think You’re Funny? Competition in 2017, is fast becoming a household name.

She was nominated for Best Newcomer at the Edinburgh Fringe for her debut show in 2018, and she has since appeared on all the big telly shows from Have I Got News For You and A League of Their Own to 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown and Mock The Week.

On October 5, she’s coming to Glasgow to play The Stand with her new show Buzzed, billed as the “ultimate comedy tonic, the perfect feelgood show.”

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Maisie explains: “I wanted to do a show that was happy and uplifting and looking forward. The way things have been lately I like watching stuff that makes me laugh and feel optimistic so I filled the show with all the things that make me happy that I care about.”

The title also refers, of course, to her trademark haircut: fringe at the front, brutally shaved at the back.

As she explains in the show, it was initially done to relieve the lockdown tedium but she decided to stick with it. The dilemma now, however, is when to grow it back? Next year, Maisie is marrying her boyfriend Mike, who runs a bar in Brighton where they live, and she is determined to keep it for the big day.

“I was like, if I'm going to grow it out I need to do it soon,” she says. “I thought, no, I don't want to look back in years to come and be like, ‘oh, you grew it out because you thought you should for a wedding.’ This is how I look at the moment. I really like it. In years to come where I've had to go a little bit more sensible I want to be able to get the wedding photos out and say ‘girl, you looked cool back then.’ So I don't think it's going anywhere for now.”

Maisie is travelling all over the country for her tour, making the most of her 26 - 30 Railcard.

“There’s one day when I have to get from Exeter to Glasgow,” she laughs. “I’ll have to have a word with my tour manager about that! But I like having days to myself and just mooching about.”

The first half of her show is tailored to the place she is in so a Glaswegian audience can expect a few local references.

“When I arrive I'm going to walk around, a bit like Mark Steel does for his shows,” she says.

“I can remember my mum and dad took me to see Lee Mack in Sheffield and he had all of this stuff about Sheffield, and you could feel everybody felt sort of special.”

Visit maisieadam.com and ticketmaster.co.uk for more information and tickets.