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The Edinburgh Interviews 2017: Helen Duff

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Helen Duff is a comedian who specialises in clowning, and she has a lot of exciting things going on this year, from getting to the final of Amused Moose New Act Awards 2017 to starring in the film Holmes and Watson, due to be released next year. Helen will be performing her new show When The Going Gets Duff at Assembly Roxy throughout August.

1) What excites you most about the Edinburgh Festival?

So much! I’m a one woman adrenaline sluice when it comes to the Fringe; my body’s on red alert as soon as I smell buttery hops on the air. This year I’m backing myself to take some big risks with free form movement, weaving it through my anecdotes to make my body a more explicit part of the conversation.

2) What was is your Edinburgh show about?

It’s a real tapestry of experiences, all tied together around the tantric shaman that I went to see at the beginning of this year and the ways in which that sparked my synapses. Also, I do a bit of swimming through slippery fish.

3) Does your comedy attract a certain type of audience?

I really like the variety of my audiences. I get them involved because I think it’s a waste of a live performance to pretend they’re not present, and I’m not interested/confident/contained enough in myself to sustain a show without their occasional input.

4) What is the worst experience you’ve had with Edinburgh accommodation?

I once walked past a mattress abandoned next to some bins and felt it would be better than the student theatre flat I was living in with 6 to each room and a microwave that must have been a masochist.

5) What is your most treasured memory of your comedy career so far?

I feel very lucky to get to do comedy, it’s helped me feel much happier in myself and I’ve met some really inspiring sorts – like the Weirdo’s comedy collective held together by the endlessly inventive Adam Larter, who has a show at Heroes of The Fringe, and Ben Target, also at Heroes, who makes my mind smile (as well as my face).

6) What show will you definitely be seeing at the festival this year?

John Kearns is a master and I want to shake my legs to get the laughter out when I see his shows.

7) What do you hope to gain from the Edinburgh Festival this year?

I’m through to the Amused Moose New Act of the year competition on the 14th, and I have no idea how I got this far, so it already feels like I’ve made a massive leap. I would be happy to make a fool of myself in the final, just as long as it’s in a way that other people enjoy.

8) What do you imagine your last ever show will be about?

My goodness! I would love to plunge my fists into two pots of paint in an entirely white room, with white walls, a white shag carpet and a white Dulux dog, throwing the paint about in artful arcs and wobbles, maybe there’s some music playing – I’m sure by then I’ll know a fiery classical track. Each audience member gets a thin paintbrush and a part of the wall, then they make the beautiful mess into a story with whatever they weave in between. I wonder if we could find a new space to paint for every show?

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The Edinburgh Interviews 2017: Siblings (Maddy and Marina Bye)

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The sketch duo Siblings is made up of sisters Maddy and Marina Bye, and the pair are bringing their debut show to the Edinburgh Festival this year, described as ‘suitable for anyone who has or has seen a sister’, so it will probably be right up your street. They will be performing at the Gilded Balloon Teviot throughout August.

1) What excites you most about the Edinburgh Festival?

Having absolutely no idea whats going to happen over the next month… We have quite a late show this year as well so we are slowly but surely preparing ourselves for the lack of sunlight we will experience for a month and the unknown feeling that we cant really prepare for is something that’s very sexy and exciting. Another thing we are excited for is the Scottish air… Scottish air beats all… so yeah, the Scottish air.

2) What was/is your first Edinburgh show about?

Siblings is about two real life sisters who let go of any flicker of dignity and attractiveness to make the most ridiculous character comedy show, plucked from their inner childhood minds. One drama school graduate and one clown school graduate, one short, one tall, one funny, one not, both absurd, performing characters from all over the globe. We want people to leave and disco HARD because they are so pumped and happy after seeing two fools bring destruction to the stage.

Siblings

3) Does your comedy attract a certain type of audience?

Not really… So far our audiences have been amazing. We have had a half naked boy with an anarchist tattoo slapped across his thigh to an older guy with a ‘I heart tofu’ badge on and a fold up bike on stage with us, both enjoying the same moments just as much as the other. People who are up for entering into a completely absurd world tend to enjoy our show most, usually expecting your standard sketch show but leave a bit shaken and confused. There is nothing better than the “what the fuck is going on” laugh. 

4) What is the worst experience you’ve had with Edinburgh accommodation?

Maddy – 2 weeks before performing for the month at the Edinburgh Fringe 2015 I had a break up with a fellow performer who I was not only sharing a house with… but also a show. Let’s just say it was an awkward month. 

Marina – My friend and I stayed in Edinburgh and shared a bath together, she was drunk and pissed in it. 

5) What is your most treasured memory of your comedy career so far?

Finding out we were able to do comedy with a sister… Honestly never expected in our wildest dreams that this would ever happen, but we threw ourselves on stage at an open mic together and performed probably the worst piece of comedy at the Fringe. But! We realised we had something indestructible between us on stage and thus… Siblings was born.

6) What show will you definitely be seeing at the festival this year?

There are FAR too many to choose from, we have already got our highlighters out on that Fringe guide. If we had to choose one it would probably be Spencer Jones’ new show The Audition. We are his biggest fans. 

7) What do you hope to gain from the Edinburgh Festival this year?

Bigger balls, failure, success, nail the Scottish accent… and some audience members would be nice. 

8) What do you imagine your last ever show will be about?

Marina – We will probably be in space and will be in space suits because Planet Earth collapsed. The comedy will be tricky because they won’t see our faces through to suits. so I imagine a lot more physicality from the both of us to emphasise emotions more clearly through a large suit and a lack of seeing the facial expressions…

Maddy – Yes.. That. 

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The Edinburgh Interviews 2017: Sunil Patel

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Sunil Patel is a comedian who certainly seems to be a safe pair of hands. He is a calming and confident presence on stage, which makes it no surprise that he was nominated for the BBC New Comedy award in 2012. Sunil will be performing his free show Titan at the Laughing Horse @ The Counting House throughout August.

1) What excites you most about the Edinburgh Festival?

I’ll be living with Dave Green and Benji Waterstones, the two most placid men in comedy/the world, so I am looking forward to psychologically bullying them to breaking point.

2) What was/is your first Edinburgh show about?

Juicer? It was about my juicer. And also I asked my female friends for a lot of my character flaws and then I addressed them all (except the one about my head looking the same if it was upside down – I cannot do anything about that).

3) Does your comedy attract a certain type of audience?

No, thankfully it attracts all ages/sorts of people so keeps me on my toes in case I try and do too much material about mid-late nineties hip-hop or Tamagotchi’s.

4) What is the worst experience you’ve had with Edinburgh accommodation?

I’ve always been fine, I don’t know what you’re thinking if you’re sleeping in a kitchen for a month or something. Have some self-respect and pay for a room of your own.

5) What is your most treasured memory of your comedy career so far?

I lived with Richard Todd in Edinburgh 2014 and he fell over in our kitchen and then did a little fart out of shock.

6) What show will you definitely be seeing at the festival this year?

Richard Todd – Monsters. In the hope he has a fall.

7) What do you hope to gain from the Edinburgh Festival this year?

A ton of $$$ and a nagging sense that now I have crushed my enemies there is nothing else to live for.

8) What do you imagine your last ever show will be about?

Good question. I hope it’s hopelessly out of touch with the public because my enormous success would mean I only address such concerns as “Wow I’ve bought 10,000 pugs, do you guys also have too many pugs?”.

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The Edinburgh Interviews 2017: Ellyn Daniels

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Ellyn Daniels’ new Edinburgh show is about how she finds inner peace in a frantic and demanding world through performing stand up comedy. Whether through her work as a ballet dancer or model, Daniels unpicks her past struggles with mental health in an honest yet humorous way. She will be performing at Just the Tonic at The Caves throughout August.

1) What excites you most about the Edinburgh Festival?

I am most excited about being able to perform my own show every night for 22 nights and being able to see lots of other artists performing in my free time.

2) What was/is your first Edinburgh show about?

My first Edinburgh show is called “Emotional Terrorism” and it’s about emotional abuse, hypochondria, bulimia, sex, my relationships with and to men, the loss of a dream, the loss of innocence, shame, alcoholism, a desperate search for validation, failure, insanity and redemption.

3) Does your comedy attract a certain type of audience?

I’m not sure. I think my most recent stand up has connected much more with female audiences than anything I’d done prior. “Emotional Terrorism” seems to connect with a broader range of people than anything I’ve ever done, but I haven’t identified any specific type of audience that I attract.

4) What is the worst experience you’ve had with Edinburgh accommodation?

Showing up and finding out my reservation never went through and I have no accommodation and having to beg Just the Tonic to let me sleep in the venue.

5) What is your most treasured memory of your comedy career so far?

Walking away from Backyard Comedy Club in Bethnal Green after having performed this past January, heading towards Whitechapel tube station and suddenly realising that I used to walk to Whitechapel tube station every day for a year when I was 19 studying dance in London (and living in Whitechapel), and at that time I never imagined I would one day perform stand-up comedy for a huge crowd of people on a Saturday night just up the road. I couldn’t have named one stand-up comic at that time. I knew absolutely nothing about it. To be honest, I was a depressed, alcoholic, bulimic teen and I wasn’t sure I’d be alive in 10 years. It was such an amazing moment walking away from that club, because I realised our perception is so limited and we cannot see what kind of wonder the future holds, but we can believe in it.

6) What shows will you definitely be seeing at the festival this year?

I will see Lauren Pattison’s “Lady Muck” and Maria Shehata’s ‘Wisdomless”. I haven’t had time to browse through and mark every show I feel I need to see, but I know I will watch both those women.

7) What do you hope to gain from the Edinburgh Festival this year?

I hope to get deeper into my show and the emotional nuances of the performance and to connect with audiences, make them laugh and leave them feeling inspired. I hope to meet other artists and watch their work and leave feeling motivated to continue creating.

8) What do you imagine your last ever show will be about?

I think my last show will be about fear, and what life could have looked like without it.

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The Edinburgh Interviews 2017: Margaret Thatcher Queen of Game Shows

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Old Maggie Thatcher has taken the Edinburgh Festival by storm in the last few years, and is bringing her new audience-participation show Margaret Thatcher Queen of Game Shows to the Assembly George Square Gardens this summer. As well as this, she is hosting a club night, Margaret Thatcher Queen of Club Nights, which will be at Assembly Checkpoint throughout August.

1) What excites you most about the Edinburgh Festival?

That’s easy. Chips, curry sauce and a battered sausage from Central Fish and Chip shop at 4.30am on a Friday night. It’s the perfect way to end an evening. Oh, and the shows too of course.

2) What was  your first Edinburgh show about?

My first show was called Margaret Thatcher Queen of Soho and it was all about how I went from being Prime Minister of the UK to a global cabaret superstar. Although I had done a one nighter a few years earlier when I was Prime Minister… It was called the sermon on the mound.

3) Does your comedy attract a certain type of audience?

I have a very broad and diverse audience, dear. Though I must admit the Tories don’t always like it.

4) What is the worst experience you’ve had with Edinburgh accommodation?

One of my backing dancers came in late one night, put some chips and fish fingers under the grill and then went to sleep at the kitchen table. One fire alarm, a number of fireman and a trip to the hospital later and everything was fine, but there were a dicey few minutes when some late night fish fingers could have been the end for Maggie!

5) What is your most treasured memory of your comedy career so far?

I had a wonderful time at Latitude Festival in 2014. We weren’t expecting anyone to come, we lost all our sound cues because the director left his laptop out in the rain, everything went wrong technically, and we had to cut half the ending because we were overrunning so badly, but the crowd didn’t care at all. It was the largest audience we’d played to at that point and they were lovely. We expected things to go so badly for us, but they went incredibly well – much like Jeremy Corbyn in this year’s election!

6) What shows will you definitely be seeing at the festival this year?

‘Prom Kween’ by Rebecca Humphries, it’s a wonderful new musical about a non-binary prom queen and features a cameo from Ru Paul (not the real one, alas). Also, it’s produced by my wonderful producer Aine Flanagan. I also want to catch ‘A Super Happy Story (About Feeling Super Sad),’ a lovely little musical play about depression by my collaborator Jon Brittain.

7) What do you hope to gain from the Edinburgh Festival this year?

Money! Lots and lots of money. But after the venue split, agents fees, accommodation, travel, living costs and the entry fees for the various brochures… I guess I’ll have to settle for creative satisfaction.

8) What do you imagine your last ever show will be about?

I’ll never have a last show, dear! I’ll go on and on and on and on! Watch out for Margaret Thatcher Queen of the Universe coming in 2018!

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The Edinburgh Interviews 2017: Marcus Monroe

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Marcus Monroe is not only a stand up comedian, he is also a juggler. He combines these two skills in his shows, making for a truly unique comedy experience. Monroe will be performing his show The Rise and Fall of Marcus Monroe at Assembly George Square Gardens throughout August.

1) What excites you most about the Edinburgh Festival?  

I love the fact that any kind of theatre can have a place here, even if it may not work anywhere else or be considered mainstream. For example, if a guy wants to do a show about a monkey exploring a toolbox to the music from Jesus Christ Superstar, it can be done at the Fringe and will probably win awards. That’s what excites me.

2) What was/is your first Edinburgh show about? 

My show is about my actual life and struggles as a professional juggler. We go deep in the most ridiculous way. It’s my juggling show combined with some real life story telling and some soft core drug use. Bring the kids!

3) Does your comedy attract a certain type of audience? 

I feel like this hour is attracting people who are searching for something to inspire them and laugh a lot along the way.  On paper it may appear to be a silly comedy show with some juggling in it, but in reality this thing is layered like well-prepared lasagne. 

4) What is the worst experience you’ve had with Edinburgh accommodation?

Unfortunately, I am rooming with my PA Anna during the run. I hate to talk bad about someone, especially someone I’m sharing a flat with for a month. So let’s just say that our Dads are friends.

5) What is your most treasured memory of your comedy career so far? 

I’ve had the pleasure of sharing the stage with some of my favorite comedians such as Demetri Martin, Amy Schumer, TJ Miller, Chris Rock, John Oliver, and David Cross. But my most treasured memory is when I won the Andy Kaufman Award in New York City. Andy is my biggest influence and I hope my show is a reflection of that.

6) What shows will you definitely be seeing at the festival this year? 

Colt Cabana!!! That man is living the dream. He’s my favorite pro wrestler and one funny man. Also, Sam Simmons. That man is a comedy genius.

7) What do you hope to gain from the Edinburgh Festival this year?

I’m just going to take it as it comes and adapt with it. I’d love to leave Edinburgh in one piece and if I do that I will consider it a win.

8) What do you imagine your last ever show will be about?

My last show ever will probably be about how I wasted my life trying to become this super famous comedian and juggler when all I really wanted to do was work in advertising. Then people will leave the show not knowing if I was serious or not, but how meta.

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The Edinburgh Interviews 2017: Tony Law

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Love surrealist comedy or loathe it, you have to admire Tony Law for his commitment to the craft. Law’s comedy is as uncompromising as it is energetic, and Absurdity For The Common People looks set to prove that absurd, shouty humour isn’t just for an isolated few. Tony will be performing at The Stand throughout August.

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1) What excites you most about the Edinburgh Festival?

I simply get a thrill. A real kick out of making people laugh and possibly think or think I’m clever. Sad as it sounds I quite need it. I need to be funny bones.

2) What was/is your first Edinburgh show about?

This one here is about grieving for your past loved ones and past selves and about ups and downs. Buried in metaphor and trampolining and voices and absurdity. Being Alive is absurd.

3) Does your comedy  attract a certain type of audience?

Yes. Very nice, intelligent yet super diverse. People with imaginations of their own. Really cannot sum them up easily as they are so many different ages 12-80 and backgrounds. I’d say they all are flawed folks trying to be decent. Wonderful.

4) What is the worst experience you’ve had with Edinburgh accommodation?

Alcohol related. Can’t think about it. Can’t bare how we are exploited up there by greedy pricks and their shitty flats. Cunts. 

5) What is your most treasured memory of your comedy career so far?

Royal Albert hall. Making the teenage cancer kids laugh really really hard. And Roger Daltrey laughed too. 

6) What show will you definitely be seeing at the festival this year?

Adam Larter. Mostly me. I can’t wait to do my show. I love it.

7) What do you hope to gain from the Edinburgh Festival this year?

More followers. Build my audience back up. The old fashioned word of mouth way.

8) What do you imagine your last ever show will be about?

Was worried I did that already years back. Made it though. Indestructible.

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The Edinburgh Interviews 2017: Asad Mecci (Hyprov)

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Ever wondered what a combination of hypnotisation and improvised comedy would look like? Hypnotist Asad Mecci works alongside comics Colin Mochrie and Mike McShane to put audience members under their spell for a unique night of unpredictable comedy. Hyprov will be at the Assembly George Square Theatre throughout August.

1) What excites you most about the Edinburgh Festival?

The people! You meet so many different people from all different walks of life. Last year I met Lucille Cailly who was a retired female poker pro turned stand-up comic. As well, last year, I met Mike McShane for the first time. Since I met him last he was nominated for an Emmy award. You never know who you are going to meet and click with at the Fringe.

2) What was/is your first Edinburgh show about?

Hyprov-Improvisation under hypnosis. I start the show off by hypnotizing members of the audience. Then Colin Mochrie or Mike McShane from “Whose Line is it Anyway?” improvised with the hypnotized subjects. By the end of the show the audience is in tears from laughter.

3) Does your comedy attract a certain type of audience?

We cater a young fun demographic. They are usually “Whose Line fans”.

4) What is the worst experience you’ve had with Edinburgh accommodation?

My experience has been great! Love the convenience of walking everywhere!

5) What is your most treasured memory of your comedy career so far?

The time I left the stage with Colin Mochrie after our opening night at the second city and Colin said “well done”!
to me. I was on cloud nine for days.

6) What show will you definitely be seeing at the festival this year?

I’ve heard Hasan Minhaj will be there. I will check him out. His comedy special “Home Coming King” really hits close to home. Did I mention he is absolutely hilarious!

7) What do you hope to gain from the Edinburgh Festival this year?

We want to tour Hyprov around the world.

8) What do you imagine your last ever show will be about?

I will never retire. I want to stay in the business as long as possible. George Burns was my idol

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The Edinburgh Interviews 2017: Alex Kealy

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Alex Kealy’s debut Edinburgh show is an introspective look at the effects of leaving the EU on 21st century Brits, with Kealy examining issues surrounding Brexit and also aspects of his personal life, with his trademark calm, downbeat delivery. Alex will be performing The Art of the Keal at Just the Tonic at The Caves throughout August.

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1) What excites you most about the Edinburgh Festival?

Getting to perform multiples times a day – I might be onstage 100 times in August when it would be more like 20 in a usual month.

Should I have said “other people’s shows”? Sure, but it’s all about me, really.

2) What was/is your first Edinburgh show about?

Being single and Brexit. “I’m so lonely… like my country, amirite?!!?”

3) Does your comedy attract a certain type of audience?

Want to get those smug liberal audience members in. Preaching to the choir? Nah, I want to preach to bishops and above, please.

4) What is the worst experience you’ve had with Edinburgh accommodation?

I remember one year a friend very kindly had me to stay for a week and his flatmate had taken up quite a lot of living room space with an intricate home-brewing appliance. I wasn’t there long enough to taste the beer, was there long enough to be weirded out by yeast and hops.

5) What is your most treasured memory of your comedy career so far?

Smashing sold out Saturday night show for my debut hour last year; afterwards, some of the audience came up to me to get a selfie, which was very sweet.

In the interests of balance, I can tell you other stories of me dying horrifically at gigs are available.

6) What show will you definitely be seeing at the festival this year?

Joseph Morpurgo’s new one. I’ve seen half of it in preview earlier in the year and it was brilliant: he’s consistently the most inventive comic out there.

7) What do you hope to gain from the Edinburgh Festival this year?

I’d like my audiences to really enjoy my show and minimal amounts of debt would be pretty sweeeeeet too.

8) What do you imagine your last ever show will be about?

“The year is 2042 and Alex Kealy’s show is 50% comedy and 50% a plea to the All Seeing Ones to spare my family from The Sickness that has ravaged the planet.”

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The Edinburgh Interviews 2017: Rob Auton

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Rob Auton has a unique approach to the writing of a stand up show, working around an abstract theme, spring-boarding off something as simple as a word. Auton’s style of comedy is a playful and sentimental take on performance poetry, unlike anything else you will see at the Fringe this year. He will be performing The Hair Show at Just the Tonic at The Caves throughout August.

1) What excites you most about the Edinburgh Festival?

I’m not sure if it’s excitement that I feel but it’s somewhere between excitement and dread. I got excited about a gig once and really regretted it after so now I just go into gigs and try to focus on doing my job. I am pleased I will get to to test myself as a performer though. Learning stuff on stage from doing things I shouldn’t have done or remembering new ways to say things. Finding out what the show is and if my instincts have screwed me over or not. I’ve got the material that I want to perform and I’ve done it in previews but doing it day after day is great because by the end of the Fringe it’s normally a different show from the first day up there. Going into the room every day with the same plan but not knowing what the audience is going to be like. Will it be a good show that I remember or will it be a nightmare that I remember? All that stuff fills me with the same emotion. Makes me shut my eyes and swear quietly.

2) What was/is your first Edinburgh show about?

My first Edinburgh show was about the colour yellow. It was called ‘The Yellow Show’.   It was the first of my themed shows that I’ve been doing. I’ve done shows on yellow, the sky, faces, water, sleep and this year is about hair/hairs. I did them in the Banshee Labyrinth and I enjoyed it in there but have moved venues this year.

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3) Does your comedy attract a certain type of audience?

I don’t know to be honest. The people who like it seem to come back and the people who don’t like it don’t come back and probably tell their friends not to come. It works both ways though. I’m just trying to find people who are up for looking at the world and being confused/amazed by it. When I started I wanted everyone in the room to like it but I learnt quite early on that that is not what is going to happen with my stuff. I’m alright with that and just want to say my piece. If people are into it then great, if they are not then that’s alright too.

4) What is the worst experience you’ve had with Edinburgh accommodation?

I had one that was so bad that I can’t talk about it for fear of getting my head kicked in. I got out alive though so it can’t have been that bad. Another was in 2015 when I was staying with my old uni mates who live in Edinburgh. They have a nice clean flat. I got food poisoning one night and was in the bathroom after it gave me a good going over and I couldn’t find anything to clean up with. It’s alright when you’re in your own house because you can kind of let it take you and get in the foetal position in the bath but when you’re in someone else’s house it’s a different story. Well, it was for me anyway.

5) What is your most treasured memory of your comedy career so far?

Vanessa Feltz calling me ‘Just sad’ live on Radio 2.

6) What show will you definitely be seeing at the festival this year?

Kriss Foster’s show. The Mug Tree. 6pm at the Globe Bar. I went to his show four times last year. He’s a funny chap.

7) What do you hope to gain from the Edinburgh Festival this year?

I want to gain a bit of knowledge of how to be a better at what I’ve chosen to do with my life. Will that happen? I don’t know. Can I make that happen? No. I’ll get on stage and take it from there. I also want to see a load of shows that I know nothing about and I want to order some Indian food I haven’t ordered before.

8) What do you imagine your last ever show will be about?

It could be about hair. We will have to see how it goes.

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