Susie McCabe speaks ahead of Coming of Rage Glasgow debut

The comedian will take Coming of Rage to the theatre for three shows on March 27 and 28 when she debuts it as part of this year’s Glasgow International Comedy Festival (GICF).  

As Susie’s take on the modern world, the show will look at the ‘ridiculousness’ of society today and the differences between generations and how they grew up.  

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“The world we live in is nothing like the world I grew up in,” she says. 

“We’re at a point now where the rules and the system are all so different and my own personal rules are so different. 

“[Coming of Rage] is a lot of laughs and a look at the ridiculousness of the world and where we fit into it.  

“It doesn’t matter if you’re Gen Z or a baby boomer, we’re all going to laugh at ourselves because we have to. 

“It’s going to be a really good show, it’s my take on the modern world and me going ‘I’m angry at the world and this is all the things I’m angry about, but here’s where I lay the blame and we all need to take a bit of responsibility’.” 

Commenting on the differences and tensions between generations, Susie continued: “Being a woman at 45 and looking at the generations, there wasn’t really much between the way my generation and my parents' generation were brought up but the world has advanced so quicky that people bringing up kids who are Gen Z or millennials, it’s two different worlds that never the twain shall meet.  

“There are a lot of people blaming other generations for problems that are not their fault, that they have inherited.  

“I do talk about stuff that sounds like I’m having a go at the kids but actually I’m not, it will be flipped to say ‘no this is the world I want to live in, I want boys to be able to try and talk about their feelings’.” 

“The baby boomers are getting it.” 

Laughing, she added: “I also get to talk about the personal experience of being 45 and raging at everything because I’m hot and sweaty all the time.” 

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In July 2024, at the age of 44, Susie had a health scare after she suffered a heart attack.  

She says the experience has made her look at the world differently because “you realise time is short and everything’s urgent,” which helped inspire Coming of Rage.  

“The climate crisis is urgent, getting the far right away from our political system and our media is urgent, and you start to realise that you cannot take stuff for granted,” she says.  

“Stuff that I didn’t think would happen six years ago, or six months ago, is happening and I’m like what the f**k is going on, and I think there’s got to be a bit where we come together.” 

Susie says the show will ‘cross the generational divide’, which is something she believes shouldn’t exist. 

“Just come out and have a laugh because we all need to be together and we all need to stop being so polarised,” she says.  

“I think that’s really important.  

“I think it's really nice that this show crosses the generational divide because that's where there is quite a divide which shouldn’t exist.” 

Susie McCabe: Coming of Rage will be at the King’s Theatre on Friday, March 27 and Saturday, March 28.  

Tickets are on sale now.    

Glasgow International Comedy Festival 2026 will take place from March 11-29.   

You can find out more at www.glasgowcomedyfestival.com.