This Review is from August 2025

Glaswegian comedian, Rosco McClelland, won the Sir Billy Connolly Spirit of Glasgow Award this year. Rosco proudly told me in a recent interview that he had made the Big Yin laugh. And if Billy thinks your funny, then you’re funny.

What happens when you’ve almost reached the top of a mountain? You’ve been climbing it for years, but you suddenly realise that, maybe, you should have been concentrating your efforts on another mountain entirely? Thus the shows title, How Could Hell Be Any Worse?

Rosco explores the absurdities of everyday living, in a set that is in turn charming, relatable and surreal.

Comparisons to Billy Connolly are warranted, but the truth is that in Rosco McClelland has a style all his own.

Rosco McClelland is interviewed on Episode 13 of the On the Mic: Five a Day podcast.