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Had a brilliant wee post-Fringe four day mini holiday (despite the weather! 🌧️) showing a Swedish lassie around the best country in the world! 😊🏴👍🏻 (Glen Affric, Glenfinnan, Glen Nevis, Fort William, Oban, Glencoe and Drummond Castle)
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The Fringe is over I’m on holiday back home in the Highlands and just learnt I got an A for my dissertation! 🥳🥃 I now officially have a masters degree in Scottish History and after 3 and a half years of studying can finally call myself a historian! 🏴 I’m a very chuffed wee laddie this evening! 😊Thank you to for having me back and giving me the opportunity to put on my show dram(a)s in an outstanding venue, thank you to everyone who came to see the show in August and thank you to everyone who came on a tour with Brahan and I, we’re now enjoying some well earned down time this week as well as a few drams 😊👍🏻🥃
Brilliant Mountebank audiences at the Fringe this week, and a distinct lack of unhinged folk 😊👍🏻 - with the exception of the one woman who complained the tour had ‘too much comedy’ and I didn’t provide enough spaces where she could lean on stuff! Thank you to everyone who joined the BP and I on a tour and let us be a part of your Fringe, especially Rachel and Graham who will have seen 173 shows by the end of the run and came on the tour and came to my Fringe show! 😊👍🏻
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4.5 ⭐️’s for dram(a)s 🥃 there are only six more opportunities to see the show, come see the show this week and get a dram with the Bonnie Prince and I, tickets are available via the link in my bio 😊👍🏻
http://one4review.co.uk/2024/08/daniel-downie-dramas-4-5/
Lots of fun at the Fringe this week, brilliant audiences everyday has made this such a fantastic Fringe so far and a lack of completely unhinged folk this week definitely helped! Although I did scare off a couple from Berlin and one woman took exception to me reciting Robert Burns, aside from that an almost 100% ‘not insane’ rate this week, hasn’t happened in a while! 😊👍🏻🙌🏻
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Award winning Scottish comedian Daniel Downie takes his latest show all about whisky to the Edinburgh Fringe Dram(a)s is an hour of ‘drams’ and ‘dramas’ 🥃 ‘Outstanding!’ - Scotsman
Yesterday I handed in my dissertation, the final piece of work as part of my Masters Degree in Scottish History I’ve been working towards for the last three and a half years. I decided to ‘mark’ the occasion by getting this amazing tattoo of Mary Queen of Scots. It’s been a long and at times painful journey, I definitely underestimated the amount of work involved in getting a Masters degree while simultaneously trying to run a business! 🙈 excited to have a wee rest after the Fringe and put my energy into something new, hopefully in a few weeks I’ll be able to officially call myself a Scottish Historian! 🤞🏻🥰😍
Poster reveal and some new headshots for my 2024 Edinburgh Fringe show Daniel Downie: dram(a)s you can get your tickets here 🎟️ 👉🏻
https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/daniel-downie-dram-a-s #:~:text=Award%2Dwinning%20Scottish%20comedian%20Daniel,go%20hand%2Din%2Dhand!
My (and your) best pal is seven years old today! 🥳🥰🐕❤️ 🎂🍻🎁🎉🎊🎈🏴
Brahan and I had a lovely time performing our solo show in Dunkeld at the weekend 😊👍🏻🏴
The refurbishment of Edinburgh Castle’s ‘Red Coat Cafe’ has caused some controversy and highlighted some old popular divisions in Scotland, were the Scots victims of imperialism or enthusiastic Empire Builders? The most Scottish thing is we’ll certainly keep arguing about it for another 300 years 👍🏻🏴🇬🇧
Happy Hogmanay from the Bonnie Prince and I and a huge thank you to everyone who joined us on a tour or at a show in 2023 you keep us both in the best job in the world! 🏴🥳🥰🥃🎊🥂
A Merry Mountebank Christmas! 🥳🎅🏻🎄🎊🥃
Tonight was my favourite night of the year, the Mountebank Christmas night oot! 🎄Every year I get to treat my incredibly supportive best pals to some top scran and whisky courtesy of Mountebank and I’ll keep doing it as long as I’m able to able to make a living from this ‘job’ I’ve created for myself, a huge thank you to everyone who has booked a tour and made that possible 😊👍🏻
Give the gift of Mountebank this Christmas! 🎄🥳
Purchase your 2024 Mountebank gift cards here 👉🏻 https://www.mountebanktours.com valid on any available date in 2024 😊👍🏻
It’s St Andrew’s day today! 🥳🏴🏴 But aside from Buckfast tonic wine St Andrew’s day is probably the most Scottish thing in Scotland that isn’t actually Scottish! So why is St Andrew our patron saint? And why do we not celebrate St Andrew’s day as vehemently as the Irish celebrate St Patrick?
With Scotland playing Norway on Sunday I thought I’d do a wee video about another time we faced Norway, the 1263 Battle of Largs, that day we sent the Norwegians homeward ‘tae negotiate a reasonable price by which we could win back the Western Isles!’ 🏴 🇳🇴
Since its halloween here’s a wee video about the most infamous Witch Trials in Scottish history, the North Berwick Witch Trials of 1590
That’s the end of the most intense summer I think I’ve ever had! Very proud of what I achieved professionally and academically, I’m excited to go again in a few weeks but in the meantime I’m going to enjoy some down time! 😎Thanks to everyone who came on a tour or to a show over the summer 😊👍🏻🙏🏻
A lovely ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review this time from the Scotsman 😊👍🏻 (I’d like to make it very clear I never made the ‘gashes’ comment, that was a misogynist comment made by an audience member that I didn’t expect to make the review! 🙈)
A nice review for my Edinburgh show ‘Jacobite’ 😊👍🏻🏴 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
You can get tickets here 🎟️👉🏻 https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/daniel-downie-jacobite
Daniel Downie: Jacobite, at Scottish Comedy Festival, is "a laugh-out loud, whirlwind tour of Scottish cultural touchstones".
Read Recs' reviewer Chris Berry's ★★★★ 4-star review of Mountebanktours's latest Fringe show: https://therecs.co.uk/daniel-downie-jacobite/
The Edinburgh Fringe is upon us and you can catch me everyday 4th - 27th August
✅ 10.30am The Mountebank Comedy Walk of Edinburgh Monkey Barrel Comedy
✅ 2pm Daniel Downie: Jacobite Scottish Comedy Festival
🎫 - Walking Tour https://www.mountebanktours.com
🎟️ - Fringe Show https://www.mountebanktours.com
The Bonnie Prince and I had a great time performing my solo show in Dunkeld last night! 😊👍🏻🏴
Performing my solo show at Monkey Barrel this Sunday 5pm 😊👍🏻🏴
Tickets 🎟️ 👉🏻 https://tockify.com/monkey.barrel/detail/502/1687708800000/1
✨ £7 SOLO SHOWS THIS WEEKEND! ✨
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🌟 Helen Bauer
As seen on Live at The Apollo and star of ITV2, BBC Three, Dave, Comedy Central and Radio 4 Helen Bauer presents a work in progress show of her new thoughts and feelings on pretty much everything but mainly a tortoise called Smooth Sides.
🎟️ https://event.bookitbee.com/42919/calendar/2023-6-24
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🏴 Daniel Downie (Mountebanktours)
Daniel aims to showcase Scotland’s best historical characters and stories; you’ll learn and laugh about everything from William Wallace to Susan Boyle! So come along and laugh a lot while you learn a little!
🎟️ https://event.bookitbee.com/44422/calendar/2023-6-25
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It’s my best pal, Brahan aka the ‘Bonnie Prince’s’ birthday today! Six consecutive years of being the Mountebank/world’s best dog! 🥳🎂🎁🎈🎉🐕🎊6️⃣
‘Daniel Downie: Jacobite’ part of the Scottish Comedy Festival at the Beehive Inn, 4th - 27th of August 2023
Tickets 🎟️ 👉🏻 https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/daniel-downie-jacobite
A nice few days professionally hosting my solo show at Monkey Barrel followed by back to back headline spots at the Edinburgh and Glasgow Stand 😊👍🏻
A massive thank you to everyone who came to see my show at Monkey Barrel last night 😊🙏🏻🥰
Very excited and proud to be performing my solo show ‘Hour of Scotland’ at the phenomenal Monkey Barrel on the 21st of May and 25th of June. I’m turning 36 on the day of the first show and my dad is coming to see me, if we could sell it out that would give this ‘career’ choice of mine at least some semblance of respectability! 🙈
Let’s sell this puppy out! 🏴🤩
https://event.bookitbee.com/44422/calendar/2023-5-21?fbclid=IwAR1dC2WzQAHDKr9ulfjIUzYiYeZUKqfByVa5qR5OT7FOb2_Pqb9jC875URw
Wee bit of crowd work about Edinburgh Castle with David the Swiss Banker!
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Scottish people, we take our whisky seriously! 🏴🥃 #whisky #scotland #scottishcomedy #guns #standupcomedy
A wee snippet from my Edinburgh show all about whisky 🥃 tickets are available via the link in my bio 🎟️ the show is on everyday until the 25th of August @scotcomfest #danieldownie #whisky #drams
With the lovely weather we’ve been having in Scotland this weekend here’s a wee bit about how my granny used to spend the hottest day of the year! 😎🏴
The refurbishment of Edinburgh Castle’s ‘Red Coat Cafe’ has caused some controversy and highlighted some old popular divisions in Scotland, were the Scots victims of imperialism or enthusiastic Empire Builders? The most Scottish thing is we’ll certainly keep arguing about it for another 300 years 👍🏻🏴🇬🇧
It’s St Andrew’s day today! 🥳🏴🏴 But aside from Buckfast tonic wine St Andrew’s day is probably the most Scottish thing in Scotland that isn’t actually Scottish! So why is St Andrew our patron saint? And why do we not celebrate St Andrew’s day as vehemently as the Irish celebrate St Patrick? #StAndrewsDay
With Scotland playing Norway on Sunday I thought I’d do a wee video about another time we faced Norway, the 1263 Battle of Largs, that day we sent the Norwegians homeward ‘tae negotiate a reasonable price by which we could win back the Western Isles!’ 🏴 🇳🇴 #Vikings
Since its halloween here’s a wee video about the most infamous Witch Trials in Scottish history, the North Berwick Witch Trials of 1590
Do you know who Susan Boyle is? #danieldownie #standupcomedy #scottishcomedy #susanboyle
The Loch Ness ‘Monster’ 🏴😂🐍
Wee bit of crowd work about Edinburgh Castle with David the Swiss Banker!
Wee bit of crowd work about Edinburgh Castle with David the Swiss Banker!
🚨BREAKING NEWS the Scottish Leadership campaign has been blown wide open with MSP for ‘everything up the road’ Hector Ballengiech announcing his decision to run, Hector is promising to introduce ‘Baby Making Boxes’ to Scotland, is hoping for a Runrig reunion, and aims to tackle climate change in Scotland vowing to stop 34 degree days in summer by promising to ‘Make Scotland Grey Again’ 🏴 #votehector
🚨BREAKING NEWS the Scottish Leadership campaign has been blown wide open with MSP for ‘everything up the road’ Hector Ballengiech announcing his decision to run. Hector is promising to introduce ‘Baby Making Boxes’, is hoping for a Runrig reunion, and will tackle climate change by promising to ‘Make Scotland Grey Again’ 🏴 #votehector #futurefirstminister
Happy Burns Night! 🏴 This is my reimagining of a Burns classic ‘A Man’s a Man For a’ That’ it’s dedicated to every Tory MP, every cabinet member, oor PM, and every democracy denier in Westminster and Holyrood celebrating Burns Night this evening, Slàinte Mhath! 🥃 #BurnsNight2023
#23 As the Confederate Lords bore down on Edinburgh Mary and Bothwell were forced to flee the city - they had to leave the city as an army of arseholes came marching towards them, they were like Edinburgh residents preparing for the Fringe…🤔
#22 Bothwell abducted Mary then presented her with the ‘Ainslie Bond’ showing the support of the nobles for their marriage, ‘we’re getting married because these powerful men say we should’ - which will likely be the next law they introduce in the states where they banned abortions 🤔 You can buy tickets for my Edinburgh Fringe show about Mary here 🎟👉🏻 https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/daniel-downie-there-s-something-about-mary
#21 Most folk suspected Bothwell of being behind the Darnley murder and Mary’s continued coalition with this unscrupulous, slimy character meant that her public image took a nosedive, she was like Nick Clegg 🤷🏻♂️
#20 On the 10th of February 1567 Darnley is killed in Scottish history’s biggest ‘whodunnit’ the Scottish Gunpowder Plot Mary offered a reward for any information that led to catching the culprits, this was back in the days when the royal family would use money to try and catch culprits as opposed to to covering them up 🤷🏻♂️
#19 Despite leading the conspirators up the private staircase into the queen’s bedchamber, his dagger being used as the murder weapon and his signature being on a bond stating his intention to murder Rizzio, Darnley still claimed he had nothing to do with the Rizzio conspiracy, he was only at Holyrood for a ‘workplace event’ and we’d have to await the outcome of an inquiry to determine the extent of his involvement 🤔
#18 the Baptism of Prince James at Stirling Castle in December 1566 was a three day extravaganza the likes of which had never been seen before in Scotland, there were three days of constant masques, banquets and parties, it was like 10 Downing Street during a Lockdown!
