The programme for this year’s festival, set to be the biggest yet, was unveiled on Friday with a range of top comics set to take part.
Beloved comedian Godley died aged 63 in November following a long battle with ovarian cancer.
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Speaking to The National at the festival’s launch, Storrie – who recently picked up two Scottish Baftas for her work on Dinosaur – said she “loved” the festival.
“I grew up coming to the Edinburgh Comedy Festival. I think GICF is much more spiritually Glaswegian,” she said.
“There’s a lot more homegrown talent, a lot of residents of Scotland playing which is great.
“I think we have a very specific perspective on the world and it’s really fun to get to see that explored with different voices.”
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Reflecting on her mum, Storrie said: “The GICF was my mum’s favourite festival, she loved it. And it would feel bad to not honour that, even though I’m not doing stand-up, after her passing.
“It’s important for me to still feel connected to ma through this festival.”
At the festival, Storrie will be appearing alongside Christopher Macarthur-Boyd and Alan Bissett for Gray Matters as they celebrate the life of the iconic creative in the year which would have marked his 90th birthday.
It will fittingly take place at Òran Mór – where Gray’s face is one of the many portraits along the walls and where he is responsible for the iconic mural.
“Alasdair Gray has always been around me my whole life,” Storrie said.
“My parents set me to school in the west end and they were concerned that because I grew up in a working-class family that I was going to be picked upon by the posh people at the west end.
“They took me to this pub in Ashton Lane called Ubiquitous Chip and the staff would teach me silver service and the waiters taught me eating outside in with forks and knives.
“My parents didn’t have a clue. They’d watched Pretty Woman and were terrified I’d end up flicking an escargot at a waiter.”
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Gray was a regular visitor to the pub and, much like the Òran Mór, his work was all over the walls.
“I also did some of my first comedy in Òran Mór and there were his paintings,” Storrie added.
“I find his art, his paintings specifically funny and, rather than laugh out loud, I can imagine him painting and giggling to himself and when you go to the archive you see his work.
“It’s more about him being amused by it that amuses me.”
Looking at the line-up, Storrie is pleased to see a wide range of comedy on offer, not least because she got started online with her viral videos on a Scottish Harry Potter.
“People say it’s not real stand up but my Harry Potter videos got 40 million views so I think ‘shut up’.
“It delights a snide part of me when they do really well because I know it makes the old men dead angry.”
She jokes that she noticed the internet coming quite early and decided it would be wise to “get on board,” even going to film school so she could learned to edit her mum’s comedy videos.
“But then Twitter came about and my ma got obsessed with that,” she said.
“I came to think I wished I’d focused more on knitting or something.”
Gray Matters: A Laugh for Glasgow’s 850 Years is on at this year’s Glasgow International Comedy Festival. Click HERE for ticket information.