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Seven Questions With… Fred MacAulay

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Fred MacAulay is a name known to many a Radio 4 listener having appeared on The News Quiz, Bridget Christie’s Mind The Gap and The Unbelievable Truth, to name just a few. The Scottish comic has also featured on episodes of QI , Have I Got News For You and Mock The Week and is currently touring his first stand up show since 2012 named Twenty Fifteen. MacAulay clearly has a great deal of experience working on the comedy circuit, having performed at the Edinburgh Festival 27 times in his career so far.
To learn more about Fred, I asked him these seven questions…

1) Are you glad that comedy wasn’t your first job?

Yes. And I’m equally delighted that it’s my last job. Can’t see me doing anything different ever. Maybe acting. Maybe singing. But they’d be sidelines. Comedy first.

2) Which time of year is your favourite?

Toss-up between summer and winter. I love the fresh crisp winter days when the hills are white with fresh snow, but I love the summer mornings when the sun is streaming in through our front door to greet me as I come downstairs to feed the dogs. If you could give me one such winters day with 16 hours of sunshine I’d be a happy man.

3) What motivates you in life?

I’ll be honest with you… I like earning, it’s not the sole motivation, but when I was a boy I was envious of the rich kids who had great skis and the best ski boots. I had wooden skis and lace-up boots, and I was determined that one day I’d be able to have the good gear. Having said that, I was doing very well in my previous occupation, so the REAL motivation is that in work terms… I get to do what I love to do. Simple as that. Ask anyone who does that and you’ll find a degree of satisfaction that is missing from people on jobs they ‘make do with’.

4) What attribute do you wish you had?

Wisdom.

5) What are you bored of?

TV shows like Cash in the Attic or Shit in the Loft or whatever it’s called. Surely there’s NOTHING left for the BBC to evaluate.

6) What is the most frightening thing about performing comedy, for you?

That I’ve no idea what the next routine is. Or even worse, the end of the current one. The former has happened, the latter thankfully, never.

7) Are you at peace with the world?

Most of it. I’m not as forgiving as I should be, so there are a few people I’ve got issues with. Given the chance to settle scores, I probably wouldn’t. I generally avoid hassle and direct encounters.

INFORMATION ABOUT FRED MACAULAY’S LATEST TOUR IS AVAILABLE FROM HIS WEBSITE

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Seven Questions With… Diane Morgan

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Diane Morgan is a face many will recognise, having starred in countless sitcoms such as Phoenix Nights and Uncle, being half of comedy double act Two Episodes of Mash with Joe Wilkinson and also performing stand up. But Diane is perhaps most well known for her hilarious role as Philomena Cunk on Charlie Brooker’s Weekly Wipe, where she explores various ‘moments of wonder’, such as “what is clocks?” and “where does your lap go when you stand up?” which are valid questions, I’m sure you can agree.
To find out more about the comedian behind the character, I asked Diane these seven questions…

1) Clockwise or anti-clockwise?

Are you asking if I prefer things that go clockwise? Because most things do. I don’t know why. It’s none of my business. Hey, let’s try and get John Cleese to make Anti-Clockwise! (The sequel.)

2) How do you feel about the result of this year’s election?

I found it utterly unfathomable. The Tories are an absolute unmitigated disgrace of a party. An abomination. Deluded. Lacking in empathy and devoid of all humanity. Too much? I don’t think so. If I ever meet Cameron, Osborne or Ian Duncan Smith it will take all my strength not to kick them in the balls repeatedly.

3) Who would you most like to impress?

Peter Cook. Now sadly no longer with us of course but if he was I’d gladly iron his newspapers before he read them, do his shopping and learn to make his favourite dish. I’d basically become his servant. I don’t think I’d impress him. I’d be too eager to please. It would be revolting.

4) Do you waste a lot of time?

The whole of my 20’s were wasted. I sat around staring into space a lot. I had a string of dead-end jobs. I went to drama school so I’m not qualified to do anything useful.

Most people waste their 20’s, it’s tradition. I do wish I could go back in time and shake myself. I didn’t start doing stand up until I was 28, although there was no way I could’ve done it before. Now, I feel sick if I waste a day watching videos on YouTube instead of writing.

5) Would you visit Mars if given the opportunity?

I would not visit Mars. There’s nothing up there! You can see that from down here! I can’t even be bothered to look at pictures of it in a book. Also, it’s asking for trouble. You’d probably need jabs and everything. Holidays are generally quite stressful and disappointing. So no thanks.

6) What is your favourite thing about performing as a comedy character?

It’s like wearing a suit of armour. Not literally of course. I mean you feel protected. You can pretty much say anything you like and get away with it because it isn’t you. It’s very freeing.

7) What stops you from being bored?

I’m never bored. Not now we have the Internet. I also have lots of funny friends and admin, and writing and food. I’m good at doing nothing too! (see question 4.) I can very easily just sit down in an empty room and not be bored. I’d make an excellent prisoner. I’d keep everyone’s morale up.

FOR MORE INFORMATION ON SHOWS AND FUTURE PROJECTS, VISIT DIANE MORGAN’S WEBSITE

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Seven Questions With… The Jest

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The Jest are a comedy sketch group made up of Ella Ainsworth, Tristan Rogers, Jack Stanley, Luke Theobald and Bryony Twydle, a group of University of Exeter graduates who originally began performing as part of nine-person sketch group Simply The Jest. The group are renowned for expertly combining humour with elements of horror and disgust and this has seen them get to the final of the New Acts of the Year Award earlier this year. The Jest are performing their show The Five Humours at the Edinburgh Festival.
To learn more about the group, I asked them these seven questions…

1) How has The Jest evolved over the years?

Well, for starters, when we were starting out we were part of a nine-person comedy group, which meant over an hour show, everyone got 6.6666667 minutes of stage time each. It was a lot of fun to be part of but splitting up material equally was, unsurprisingly, a bit of a challenge. A couple of years back we formed a five-person group and our comedy has grown increasingly surreal ever since. Last year, we probably wouldn’t have considered ending our show with an audience member helping a man give birth to a pig on stage. But it’s easy to say a lot of things with hindsight. 

2) Indoors or outdoors?

When you’re on a roll with your writing/have to write regardless of whether you’re on a roll or not, choose indoors. Then when that gets too much, you’ve gone mad and you’re banging random keys on a laptop in the hope a sketch appears on the screen, switch to outdoors. Repeat for 12 months until you have something resembling an Edinburgh show.

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3) Why sketch comedy?

Sketch comedy is all about teamwork and we love working as a team or, failing that, being on stage all at the same time. It’s also the form of comedy we loved growing up. The League of Gentlemen, French and Saunders, The Fast Show… As a child, you sit there thinking I could do that and before you know it, you’re in a leaking portakabin in Cowgate having a crack at it and telling yourself that this is how everyone starts off… right?

4) Is popularity vacuous?

No because we’re all incredibly popular so to say that the very idea of popularity is somehow meaningless, empty and a clear cover for major insecurities about careers in a risky industry is obviously inaccurate and wildly off the mark.

5) If you could add anyone to the sketch group, which one person would you choose?

Well one of our group members does a very impressive Maggie Smith impression which we use in the show and is regularly referred back to so it would be so brilliant if in the last sketch of the show he comes on and starts doing the impression when who should come join him on stage but none other than Juliette Binoche because she’s a great actress.

6) Opinions on The Great British Bake Off?

Only two of us have seen it owing to generally dreadful wi-fi in our Edinburgh flat. Thoughts from Jack are: ‘That lion bread face in episode 3 was impressive wasn’t it?’ while Ella’s are: ‘Why the hell isn’t iPlayer loading?’.

7) How did you do it?

In public, on stage, at 10.45pm every night unless we let extra people in last minute (wahey). Honestly though, we’re not sure how we do it. We get by on essentials mostly. Say a Kit Kat Orange for Tristan, a bowl of quinoa and courgette for Bryony, a breath mint for Jack, chorizoed egg on toast for Ella and a flat coke with fag ash floating on the surface for Luke… It’s little luxuries like that which really do make the difference.

THE JEST ARE PERFORMING ‘THE FIVE HUMOURS’ AT THE EDINBURGH FESTIVAL

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Seven Questions With… That Pair

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That Pair are a comedy sketch duo made up of long-lasting friends Kat Bond and Lorna Shaw. They are silly and upbeat, contrasting and complimenting their humour with more serious themes such as financial issues and the effects of gender stereotyping. As well as being featured on Radio 4’s Sketchorama, they reached the final of the Funny Women Awards in 2012 and have since been receiving great critical acclaim for their 2013 show Never Liked Her Anyway. That Pair are currently performing their latest show Letting It Go at the Edinburgh Festival.
I asked That Pair these seven questions to learn a little more about them…

1) Do you feel that life is too serious?

KB: I take life too seriously. She (life) is always trying to be chilled but I wont let her.

LS: Are you serious? You’re seriously asking me that? Get serious! Life ain’t silly enough. I think we should all remind ourselves daily that everything in this world is made up and most of it is ridiculous. So break the rules, lighten up and enjoy the ride.

2) What gets you up in the morning?

KB: Hunger.

LS: Not my alarm. I would snooze forever. The lure of a good cup of coffee usually works.

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3) Which dessert is the king of all desserts?

KB: I love sticky toffee pudding with vanilla ice-cream. Makes me less serious.

LS: Banoffee pie. Tiramisu is my Queen and New York Cheesecake my Prince.

4) Are you helpful?

KB: I try to be but often get in the way

LS: When asked I will always help if I can. I don’t like to impose offers of help for fear of offending or being told to go away. Ouch.

5) Why do you choose to perform as characters?

KB: To escape. Just kidding. No, I’m not actually, to escape.

LS: My characters are generally funnier than me… and better looking.

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6) Do you like to plan ahead?

KB: I like to the plan the past. Ignore the future and eat through the present.

LS: No. Planning years in advance scares the hell out of me. But sometimes it has to be done. I like to let things unfold like a rebellious origami swan.

7) What motivates you as a performer?

KB: I love the physical output. The endorphins.

LS: The drug that is laughter. The unifying experience of live performance. Deep eh? Oh and getting to dress up.

THAT PAIR ARE PERFORMING ‘LETTING IT GO’ AT THE EDINBURGH FESTIVAL

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Seven Questions With… Iliza Shlesinger

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Iliza Shlesinger is an American stand up comedian who is making her UK debut this month as she brings her show Freezing Hot to the Soho Theatre. Shlesinger is a sharp and powerful force in the world of stand up comedy, particularly as a result of her damning observations regarding gender stereotypes and admirable onstage fearlessness, ensuring that she will make waves on the British comedy scene.
I asked Iliza these seven questions…

1) What inspired Freezing Hot?

I was extremely motivated to put out a sophomore comedy special that blew the first one, War Paint, out of the water. I wanted Freezing Hot to serve as not just a piece where I made observations, but where I took those observations and dove deeper, offering explanations for behaviours, not just making fun of them. I really wanted to offer some insight to the way girls think and feel, I wanted to make some statements and be mindful and, dare I say, even intelligent about what I was saying. So many comics, male and female, go for shock or think just by being crass then that’s enough, but there’s not love behind the jokes, no personalisation. Every scenario I talked about I lived through, physically or in my own head, the thoughts are all uniquely my own- I love Party Goblin and I wanted to share her with the world. My inspiration was just to share in the most authentic way possible and expose my brain, heart and soul to the masses… and also a little bit of side boob.

2) What motivates you to work hard?

The fear of failure. Not by anyone’s measure other than my own. I just want to be heard on the biggest stage possible, whatever that ends up being. The fear of going unheard or unexpressed saddens me. I’m not good at much- math, sports, decorating- but I am good at being funny and I think to waste the talent I have by settling for anything less than I know I’m capable of would be a shame. This rule should apply to anyone; unfortunately, most people are feckless and convince themselves that their goals aren’t worth the effort. Also, somewhere weird in my head, I think if I make enough money I can turn my long haired dachshund into a tiny hair covered person and I can send her to private school.

3) Have you met your comedy idol?

I have a few, some I’ve met, some I haven’t. I was going to do a deal with Will Ferrell’s company, I would have met him, he is amazing. I saw Adam Sandler from across The Comedy Store once, and I teared up. I love Billy Crystal- I’m sure meeting him is in my future, I tweet him enough. I sat at a table next to Tina Fey at an AFI event… So that’s something. I’ll never get to meet Chris Farley, sadly. I’ve met others who I looked up to as a kid but… a lot of comedy stars burn bright and in person aren’t that funny, which is sad. I often wonder if it’s better to never meet your idols. Also my dad is hilarious, I’ve met him a few times.

4) Do you have any nicknames?

In high school we did a play and my character was named Bernice. So like, 3 people in the world call me Bernice. Aside from that, my close friends all call me Mew and I call them Mew, it’s a term of endearment. Oh, sometimes random dudes will call me “super hot” but that’s less of a pet name and more of a superlative… Also ridiculous.

5) Do you enjoy musicals?

Yeah, I guess I do? Always loved Guys and Dolls… Am I missing something with this question?

6) Who is the most inspiring person you know?

I’m supposed to say my mom, right? Isn’t that what everyone says? I don’t get inspired by people, I get inspired by situations and potential outcomes. That being said, my cousin has Cystic Fibrosis and I’ve always enjoyed watching how much she loves life and lives hers, seemingly, unfettered by her illness. Watching someone who has been dealt an unfair hand be happy is always inspiring.

7) What is your biggest complaint about modern life?

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Oh God, where do I start. Too many people have access to broadcasting tools- every idiot who was ever told they did a good job thinks they should be famous and they have a podcast or a web show- it saturates the market, there should be a comedic aptitude test you have to take before you’re allowed to make an account for anything from Twitter to Youtube to Periscope. We should have a boot camp that breaks people down to see how much they really want it, then again, I guess that’s sort of what Hollywood does. I hate passwords. I think it’s insane that I should have to remember so many AND if and when I do forget, I’m never able to simply “find out” your password, no, I have to reset it. I can never use old familiar passwords so all of a sudden I find myself straying into weird parts of my brain in an exasperated effort to create a new password that first the security criteria like PANCETTAcatFART##1492 and that’s insane to remember because those words mean nothing to me, on a personal note. Can we please hurry up and have retinal scans on our phones already?

ILIZA SHLESINGER BRINGS HER SHOW ‘FREEZING HOT’ TO THE SOHO THEATRE FROM 17-29TH AUGUST

Seven Questions With… Ari Shaffir

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Dude! I love it. All I look forward to in the summer is getting mushrooms and going to Joshua Tree. Or getting mushrooms and going to Sequoia National Park. Or getting mushrooms and walking around the city, but I guess that’s not really the great outdoors. The point is, yes, I love being in nature. People and their creations are overwhelming. I like being away from as many of them as possible. When I leave comedy, it’ll either be to commit suicide or to get on a boat and just sail out until I never see anyone again.

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Burr, Bobby Lee, Kinison, Brody Stevens, some dead guys, the Simpsons, Joey Diaz. I guess I’m influenced by almost every comedian I’ve seen. I like seeing different techniques, different paths to get at a problem, different styles. I can take from anything. I like arm movements and pauses. If I see somebody nailing it with a technique I’ve never used, of course that’s gonna influence the way I go at ideas.

3) Books or e-books?

Books. But probably neither. I’ve read like, 3 books in the last 15 years. I read a shitload all through university, but then I stopped cold as soon as I got out. E-books seem like a great way to have your book with you, but it seems lame for some reason. It’s probably not justified. I have the same problem with dating websites. I remember the time when online dating was for losers and mutants. But that time is done. And yet, I’m still stuck thinking it’s a problem. I gotta get over my younger self.

4) How would your friends describe you?

They’d describe me as a fun dick maybe. I don’t know. I don’t even want to think about this. I don’t know how they’d describe me. They’re my friends. They’re idiots. They’d probably describe me as tall and bearded. 

5) Is your stage persona the same as your own personality?

My stage persona is almost identical to my personality. The only difference might be that I feel freer sharing embarrassing details in front of a crowd than I do in front of a couple people. But I’m coming to things from the same place on stage or off.

6) Do you ever feel like you’re too honest?

I feel like I’m very honest compared to most people. For sure. But, no. I don’t feel too honest. It’s gotten me in trouble before. Plenty of times. But I still don’t think I’m too honest. I rather think most other people are not honest enough. If everyone was open about who they are, we wouldn’t really be judging each other so harshly. Just be who you are and don’t worry about what people are going to say. They don’t matter. So that’s what I do usually.

7) What are you waiting for?

I’m waiting for this new special to be done so I can stop touring for a while. I’m waiting for the US revolution to start moving a little faster, I’m waiting for South Park to come back on. I’m waiting for a hot girl who’s also genuinely interesting and not self-absorbed. The revolution should be here first.

ARI SHAFFIR BRINGS ‘THIS IS NOT HAPPENING’ TO THE EDINBURGH FESTIVAL

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Seven Questions With… Stuart Laws

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stuartlawsStuart Laws is a stand up comedian currently embarking on his third solo hour, entitled Who Said Anything About Stopping It?, at this year’s Edinburgh Festival. Having supported James Acaster on his UK tour throughout 2013 and 2014 as well as having directed multiple films and worked with big names such as Julia Davis and Robert Lindsay, Laws really is an interesting artist, who’s name, I’m sure, will soon be hard to ignore.
To learn more about Stuart, I asked him these seven questions…

1) Are you easily pleased?

What a great question! Thank you so much for asking it, incredibly kind of you.

2) Are you any good at doing accents?

Oh aye, absolutely I am (Scottish). To be sure, to be sure (Welsh). What a lovely potato (Cockney). Yum, yum, I love onions and baguettes and garlic (My Mum). Pop a couple of chimps on Bar-B. (Australian animal themed pub owner). Guten tag, wie geht’s dir? Ich habe eine grosse meerschweinchen mit Mayo (Bermudan who learnt German).

3) Do you ever feel like time moves too fast?

Terminator was released in 1984. So was I. There have been four sequels to the Terminator and none to me. So I think what I mean is: yes, but I manage to not fall into molten metal, so perhaps I move slowly through time.

4) Do you envy any other comedians?

I’ve ended up wearing a gilet on stage, as standard now. I’m envious of anyone who gets to wear an item of clothing that isn’t designed to keep them extremely warm. Envious of Sean McLoughlin because he has the courage to say that he hates Studio 60 on The Sunset Strip. Otherwise, no, not really, just really admire a lot of them for being really great at what they do: Acaster, Helm, Kemsley, Sanders, Wang, Pacquola, Long, Hodgson, Kearns, Cahill, Stephenson, Daykins.

5) What is your favourite item of clothing?

Invest in socks. If you have the option of a luxury purchase then prioritise new socks. Makes a huge difference.

6) Who is your favourite serial killer?

David Griffin (Keanu Reeves in The Watcher). Keanu didn’t want to do the film but was forced to after a friend forged his signature on the contract. So that makes David Griffin the most unwilling and weak-willed serial killer in history. To be that unskilled and to still qualify is pretty impressive.

7) Is comedy that offends people important?

Yeah, probably. From the point of view that never will the world achieve harmony of opinion so offence means that someone had the freedom to express a thought deemed repulsive. And really, thinking about it: freedom is more important than harmony of opinion. But it would be nice if less people had really shit opinions, but banning and marginalising those opinions won’t create less shit opinions. For example: people who like Lost In Translation. I won’t ban them, but I won’t trust them. Did I answer the question? I think my position on offensive comedy is most probably summed up in my choice of serial killer.

STUART LAWS WILL BE PERFORMING HIS LATEST SHOW ‘WHO SAID ANYTHING ABOUT STOPPING IT?’ AT THE EDINBURGH FESTIVAL FROM 8TH-15TH AUGUST

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Seven Questions With… Tony Law

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Tony Law is an absurd comedian to say the least, bettering himself with each passing year and crafting majestical shows which in the past have included musical numbers, finger lasers and puppet displays. The shouty surrealist is bringing his latest hour of nonsense Frillemorphesis to the Edinburgh Festival and it looks set to be another brash, bizarre yet beautiful assault of the senses.
I asked Tony these seven questions to learn more about the man behind the madness…

1) Why is your comedy so strange?

It’s not my comedy. It belongs to the earth. And I’d hesitate to call it comedy. Normal to some?

2) Which instrument do you wish you could play?

The flesh tuba. I’ve never learnt to masturbate. It’s high time. And piano. Be a great help the piano. Could fill my shows up with less words.

3) What bores you most?

Myself. Listening to me droning on about tree houses and cylinders all time. No one wants that.  

4) Where is your safe place?

Culverts. P47 thunderbolts. My family. Training with master Cho.

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5) If you were to write a book, what would the subject be?

Walking through landscapes and whistling new songs that are gone for ever on the wind. Just about that sorta thing.

6) How do you clear your head?

I’m afraid that’s rather easy, I just breath through my mouth and away I go. Really rather ……

7) What do you want your legacy as a comedian to be?

Hardest working man in show business. Loads of money to pay all these bills I forgot about. So then I could concentrate on whatever it is that I do on floors.

TONY LAW IS BRINGING HIS SHOW ‘FRILLEMORPHESIS’ TO THE EDINBURGH FESTIVAL

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Seven Questions With… Adrienne Truscott

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one-trick pony!Adrienne Truscott is bold; her comedy is exciting, fresh and uncompromising. Truscott is a prime example of a comedian who takes the art form by the throat, reshaping it in her own unique way to enable serious topics to become accessible and taboo subjects to become public domain. Her latest show Adrienne Truscott’s A One-Trick Pony! (which she’ll be performing at the Edinburgh Festival) is set to be high-octane, political and absurd, so surely it’s an occasion not to be missed.
To learn more about the woman behind the show, I asked Adrienne these seven questions…

1) What is the most important aspect of comedy?

Brains, timing, vulnerability and an absence of dignity. By all accounts, a fucked up childhood doesn’t hurt. Um, that’s five aspects. Apparently being good at ‘maths’ isn’t a comedic requirement.

2) Do you tend to get upset if you hurt someone’s feelings?

Yes I do. And I can lean towards an acerbic sense of humour, so sometimes I think things come out of my mouth faster than I mean for them to. I think usually however, my sense of humour is, at least, triggered by or at the expense of the powerful – which makes the target somewhat susceptible. as opposed to the powerless, as well as by hypocrisy – including my own. I’ve been the target of my own jokes a few times and really hurt my own feelings.

3) What is your favourite tourist attraction?

Any waterfall or cave anywhere in the world. I love those things and ideally those two things together. That said, as an American, a castle sort of does my head in. The USA post-revolution is so young, our sense of history can be pretty brief and self-serving over there – we don’t have castles, only mansions. The Edinburgh Castle is truly one of the most mind-blowing castles of all time. And I swear on a beheaded queen I’m not just saying that because it’s Ed Fringe. Over in the US, we conveniently exclude ourselves from the notion of more barbaric times, dungeons, plagues, etc. and even though it could be wrongly romanticized, an actual castle inspires a pretty boundless sense of adventure and imagination for this gal. In that way, the midnight tours of the underground city with some bourbon is sort of an amazing combination of castle and cave.

4) What is the worst thing anyone could say to you right now?

‘Did you vote for President Trump?! High Five.’  Both Trump and high fives make me uncomfortable in equal measure.

5) Are you a secretive person?

Oh God no. I spill the beans about myself too easily I think. Too many good stories. But I’m good with other peoples’ secrets. I have one person’s secret that I’ve still never told – even though revealing it would have dug me out of a deep hole and served as my defence in a delicate matter. But it didn’t seem like my secret to tell, even though I took a bit of a hit for something that wasn’t really my fault. Alas, it was worth it. But some secrets are good to tell and it depends on who is the keeper of the secrets. For instance, I think it’s great for artists to talk to one another about their deals, etc. and not keep them secret. I don’t think, in that instance, secrets do the right people the right service.

6) Do you enjoy competition in your profession?

I think I can be pretty competitive. I was a jock for a lot of my life. But I think I’m mostly competitive if there is a ball involved. Not a ball like a fancy dance, and not a testicle – when those are involved I say everyone have at it! I mean just a round ball, that’s in play. I’ll wanna get it.

7) What core message does your latest show convey?

Hmmm, that definitions and categories about comedy and types are irrelevant… which might not be as fun as these other messages: that irony is ironic, that pancakes are delicious, vaginas are hilarious, hookers are nice and I’m the toughest wrestler in town. Or that the late, great, legendary Andy Kaufman was a feminist performance artist. Or, that the best comedians steal. Take your pick.

ADRIENNE TRUSCOTT IS BRINGING HER SHOW ‘ADRIENNE TRUSCOTT’S A ONE-TRICK PONY’ TO THE EDINBURGH FESTIVAL NEXT MONTH

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