"Humor is humor, and it is not national. The references are national; the humor is international.” - Eddie Izzard
FIC is an ambitious project that will mirror the relentless expansion of English language comedy and events throughout the world and is now ready and yearns for support in all forms sponsorships, technical, logistical, everything... we are open to all suggestions, collaborations and partnerships so if you feel excited by the project and would like to be involved please get in contact to [email protected]
THE GIGGLING GUIRI RETURNS TO BCN & MADRID IN 2018/19
After the very 1st professional comedy show a 'Best of Irish Special' in 2004, as part of El Feile Irish festival, the idea for a regular club was born and in September 2005 the inaugural Giggling Guiri Comedy Club show was a sell out smash with the irrepressible Jason Byrne followed next by Danny Bhoy's 2005 masterpiece and that was it would become the hottest English language ticket in Barcelona.
The club in it's spiritual home Llantiol would go on to host everyone from Michael Mc Intyre to Kevin Bridges and 4 Edinburgh Award Winners in the year of winning selling out practically every month with the venues adapting according to the size of the artist!!
Having weathered the'Crisis' and its anti culture taxes and IVA hikes and a terminal illness to the chief gamba himself...
Gigs are already confirmed for the remainder of 2018 in Barcelona and Madrid with big plans for 2019.
Go Straight to the GG pages here for all the news
After the very 1st professional comedy show a 'Best of Irish Special' in 2004, as part of El Feile Irish festival, the idea for a regular club was born and in September 2005 the inaugural Giggling Guiri Comedy Club show was a sell out smash with the irrepressible Jason Byrne followed next by Danny Bhoy's 2005 masterpiece and that was it would become the hottest English language ticket in Barcelona.
The club in it's spiritual home Llantiol would go on to host everyone from Michael Mc Intyre to Kevin Bridges and 4 Edinburgh Award Winners in the year of winning selling out practically every month with the venues adapting according to the size of the artist!!
Having weathered the'Crisis' and its anti culture taxes and IVA hikes and a terminal illness to the chief gamba himself...
Gigs are already confirmed for the remainder of 2018 in Barcelona and Madrid with big plans for 2019.
Go Straight to the GG pages here for all the news
The world's first and still the worlds only multilingual comedy festival presenting shows in 12 languages since 2008.
In 2018 FIC BCN will celebrate its 10th edition!!! from Nov 12 -
The first BCN's Funniest FICer amateur comedy competition, Gala shows, workshops, improv, clown, cinema and more...
The cosmopolitan nature of the Mediterranean tourist mecca that is Barcelona has inherently created a unique multicultural population and via our long established comedy business in Spain (in 2003 we created the 1st professional English language comedy show!) the move to a festival was a natural one - and multilingual FIC was born!!
A lot of trial and error over the years to deliver the multilingual aspect with mixed results but we are still there with the consolidated core of languages of the local Catalan and Spanish with perennial shows in English and Dutch but we have also presented shows in Swedish, German, French, Russian, Italian and in 2015, Finnish.
In 2018 FIC BCN will celebrate its 10th edition!!! from Nov 12 -
The first BCN's Funniest FICer amateur comedy competition, Gala shows, workshops, improv, clown, cinema and more...
The cosmopolitan nature of the Mediterranean tourist mecca that is Barcelona has inherently created a unique multicultural population and via our long established comedy business in Spain (in 2003 we created the 1st professional English language comedy show!) the move to a festival was a natural one - and multilingual FIC was born!!
A lot of trial and error over the years to deliver the multilingual aspect with mixed results but we are still there with the consolidated core of languages of the local Catalan and Spanish with perennial shows in English and Dutch but we have also presented shows in Swedish, German, French, Russian, Italian and in 2015, Finnish.
We are very hopeful of bringing some major shows to Valencia in 2018
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BASED IN BENALMADENA - Our latest member of the family, which kicked off in 2017
Coming Next in Iberia...
FIC LISBON came to life in December on our Facebook page which was our fastest growing page in the family ever with 500 likes in the 1st week!!
We fought very hard to make it happen through the 1st 5 months of 2015 and unfortunately despite having an entire settled programme we were frustrated with venue availability and the regrettable decision to start moving the core headline shows to Malaga which represents this year's FIC '15 on tour programme. We still hope to take at least 1 show down there and use the show as an opportunity to plan FIC Lisbon '16 properly
We fought very hard to make it happen through the 1st 5 months of 2015 and unfortunately despite having an entire settled programme we were frustrated with venue availability and the regrettable decision to start moving the core headline shows to Malaga which represents this year's FIC '15 on tour programme. We still hope to take at least 1 show down there and use the show as an opportunity to plan FIC Lisbon '16 properly
