The Glasgow International Comedy Festival is now accepting applications for the Sir Billy Connolly Spirit of Glasgow Award.
This prestigious award is open to acts, venues, and staff involved in the 2025 festival.
Applications can be submitted at www.glasgowcomedyfestival.com.
The deadline for applications is 5pm on January 13, 2025.
Previous winners of the award include Janey Godley in 2023 and Susie McCabe in 2024.
The winner will be announced on March 30, at the Comedy Gala, held at Glasgow's King's Theatre.
The award was introduced in 2023 to celebrate the city's unique blend of warmth, resilience, and humour.
It is based on criteria that both Glasgow and Sir Billy Connolly represent, such as resilience, openness, gallusness, and an ability to make people laugh.
Speaking about the award’s inception in 2023, Sir Billy Connolly said: "Glasgow defies description.
"Many great men and women have tried to describe its spirit and failed miserably.
"The winner of this award will have to be a nutter like me."
Krista MacDonald, festival director, said: "In its third year, the Sir Billy Connolly Spirit of Glasgow Award will once again celebrate the characteristics and ideals that make the city of Glasgow so synonymous with comedy.
“This year’s Glasgow International Comedy Festival is once again shaping up to be one of our biggest events yet, which means there is a huge wealth of talent who can apply for this prestigious award - we look forward to celebrating this year’s Shortlist at our Comedy Gala at the King’s Theatre.”
The award recognises a person or group of people, not a show, meaning any GICF performers, venue staff, promoters or anyone otherwise involved in this year’s festival can apply.
Applicants do not have to be from Glasgow or live in Glasgow, but instead must embody the Spirit of Glasgow as defined by the award criteria.
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