Internet sensation Gary is set for Hamilton show

A popular Scottish comedian who shot to fame after a rant about his daughter’s eyebrows went viral online is set for a Hamilton gig later this year.

Gary Meikle’s hilarious video complaining about daughter Ainsley has been viewed more than 100million times on Youtube.

Last week he told our sister paper the Daily Record about his shock at his new found fame, with the clip having been watched all across the world.

He said: “Something happened with the eyebrow video that no-one could have foreseen.

“I was basically sitting in my car in a car park next to the Royal Infirmary in Glasgow and I pressed the record button and launched into my tirade about Ainsley’s obsession with eyebrows. I wasn’t certain many people would relate to it.

“But I must have tapped into something that both men and women could understand and it was relevant across different countries and cultures.

“Ranting as an exasperated dad about women’s attitudes to their brows turned out to be globally transferable.

“The next thing I know, I’m counting the views in terms of hundreds of thousands, then millions.

“The last time I looked, it was up to 150million or something crazy like that. People have taken the video and put their own subtitles on it – one had Chinese subtitles over my own and it made six million views.

“On my own page, there are four million views but on Facebook, there have been 110million after it’s been shared all over the place. There’s a site called Bored Panda where it racked up 54million views.”

Now the funnyman is happy to be known as the ibrow Guy, and he will bring his latest show to the Hamilton Town House on May 11, with tickets on sale now.

The show will tell Gary’s life story, detailing how he survived a troubled childhood to defy the odds, raise a daughter without her mother and became a granddad all before he was 40.

As well as all this, the new show offers an insight into the workings of his mind, his thoughts and his opinions, all of which he says he dare not verbalise until now.

Gary added: “I realised that my life was a bit unconventional and I am a very young live-in dad and granddad, which gives me a lot of material that no one else is using.

“I’m happy to tell people that eyebrows have changed my life but I’ve got a lot of other observations to share, too.”

Later in the year Gary will travel abroad, as he has a North American tour lined up, playing the likes of New York and Boston.

Before then though, he’s appearing in Lanarkshire, with tickets for his Hamilton date priced at £12.50, with the show starting at 8pm.

These are available online at www.sllcboxoffice.co.uk or by calling 01698 452299.

The show may contain strong language.