There is a certain kind of silence that falls before a comic walks on stage, the hush that tells you a room is ready for something special, and tomorrow night at Inverness Town House that moment will belong to Big Rab Mulheron, a man whose name has become woven into the story of Highland comedy.
Rab has spent decades shaping stages from Glasgow to Ballymena and from Benidorm to the Black Isle, but it is in the Highlands that he has built a reputation that carries both warmth and weight, the kind of presence that comes only from a life lived fully and a craft honed through years of trial, triumph and pure mischief.
He brings with him an instinct for chaos that never loses control, a gritty Glasgow wit softened by forty five years of Highland life, and a swagger that only a performer known as the Godfather of Adult Comedy could carry with such ease.
Rab Mulheron brings decades of experience and the kind of swagger that only comes from being called the Godfather of Adult Comedy.
He is one of those rare performers who can command a room before he speaks, a storyteller who slips between tenderness and outrageousness with the confidence of a man who understands that laughter is built on honesty, surprise and a touch of madness.
Audiences know him for his fearless approach to the everyday, turning Amazon deliveries into battlefield epics, neighbourly misunderstandings into operas of calamity and the simple act of opening an advent calendar into a saga worthy of its own cautionary tale.
He has performed at Belladrum, the Edinburgh Fringe and the Glasgow International Comedy Festival, delivered sets across the UK, Ireland and Spain, raised more than £116,000 for charity in the past eighteen months and once left the Britain’s Got Talent panel in open hysterics during a private audition.
He is, at heart, a natural leader, a man whose ideas spark new shows, new clubs and new confidence in the Highland scene, and it is no exaggeration to say that where Rab walks others often follow, because he has helped build the very stages he now stands upon.
Before comedy he commanded a different kind of stage, managing football teams and winning the Highland League, a journey that gives him an authority and calm that many younger comics lean towards when nerves appear.
But on the comedy circuit he is known for his signature phrase, expect the unexpected, a promise he delivers every time a microphone touches his hand.
His partnership with Joe Sweeney as Rude and Good has brought a new energy to Highland comedy, blending Joe’s sharp timing with Rab’s appetite for the wild, creating shows that have drawn packed rooms throughout the year and shaped tomorrow night’s Christmas special into one of the most anticipated events of the festive season.
A commanding presence with a big heart, a consummate professional and a man who loves what he does, Rab Mulheron steps onto the Town House stage not as a guest but as a homecoming act, a performer held in genuine affection across the Highlands for the way he can lift a night and leave people glowing.
Tomorrow night promises that and more, because when Big Rab Mulheron takes the mic the laughter never drifts, it rolls, it grows and it lands with the force of someone who has spent a lifetime understanding exactly what a room needs.
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Tickets are £15 plus booking fee and available through Skiddle with doors opening at 7.30pm on 6 December at Inverness Town House.
