Edinburgh Fringe Comedy
Print Interviews
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David Jesudason
First published in Broadway Baby - Tuesday, June 24th, 2014he Comedy Store King Gong winner and Comedy Cafe New Act winner David Jesudason, explains to Martin Walker why his dad says things like: ‘Now that we own Afghanistan why can’t we get them in the Commonwealth Games? They’d be good at the shooting events’. “Things My Dad Says is about my father and how […]
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Sahar Mirhadi
First published in Broadway Baby - Tuesday, June 24th, 2014After running a successful compilation night at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2013, this year Sahar Mirhadi has joined forces with Dan O’Gorman for a new hour: My Mother Made Me Do It. Martin Walker asks what the show is all about. “In one word: Mothers. Or to put to it more bluntly: Our Mothers. […]
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Andrew Watts
First published in Broadway Baby - Tuesday, June 24th, 2014Previously a solicitor in London, Andrew Watts is now a full-time comedian and has written and performed two full-length Edinburgh shows, I wish I could be like Andrew Watts and Born to Be Mild, both of which received four-star reviews. Martin Walker asks about his latest 2014 offering. “The show’s called Feminism for Chaps and […]
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Dan Lees
First published in Dan Lees - Tuesday, June 24th, 2014Dan Lees can be seen in various guises on London’s alternative comedy and cabaret circuits. At last year’s Edinburgh Festival he appeared in Victor Brainchild and Mystic Maud Explain Everything and Pekka and Strangebones Comedy Showpeice who also performed at the Glastonbury Festival. Martin Walker wonders what he’s doing this year. This is my first […]
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Chris Joyce
First published in Broadway Baby - Tuesday, June 24th, 2014Chris Joyce is Medway, Kent’s foremost 6’6″ musical comedian. Chris specialises in musical comedy, with performances that offer everything from tongue-in-cheek ballads, to raw Kentish hip-hop. He talks to Martin Walker about this year’s Edinburgh Fringe appearances. “I am performing as part of a three-man show called Dancing with the Inflatable Colonel, with comics Adam […]
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Adam Hess
First published in Broadway Baby - Tuesday, June 24th, 2014According to his website Adam Hess loves gnocchi, goats and is rubbish at football. Martin Walker caught up with him to talk to him about his latest Edinburgh show. “It is a forty minute show telling the story about how I found out I was born a triplet but me and my brothers were taken […]
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Alex Smith
First published in Broadway Baby - Tuesday, June 24th, 2014Alex Smith’s mix of laser sharp observations and cleverly crafted comedy songs have helped him rapidly climb the stand-up circuit ladder. Martin Walker asks what he’s up to this year at the Edinburgh Fringe. “This year Jack Barry, Steve Bugeja, Adam Hess and myself are taking over The Comedy Zone. Put simply every year it’s […]
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Fiona Herbert
First published in Broadway Baby - Tuesday, June 24th, 2014Storyteller, Fiona Herbert tells Martin Walker she knows about everything from tee-total vegan dinner parties to dolphin assault; getting dumped at sea to getting dumped on Skype; mentoring the feral to entertaining the slightly dead… topics all covered in her 2014 Edinburgh Fringe Show. “It’s called Frequently Asked Questions, and it’s my first solo stand […]
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Christian O’Connell
First published in Broadway Baby - Sunday, June 22nd, 2014Christian O’Connell is a broadcaster, stand up comedian and writer. He’s a record breaking ten time Sony Gold award winning DJ and hosts his own National Breakfast Show on Absolute Radio. As Martin Walker discovers, he’s also performing a solo show at the Edinburgh Fringe. “It’s called Breaking Dad but not just a show for […]
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Alan Hudson
First published in Broadway Baby - Sunday, June 22nd, 2014Alan Hudson’s new Edinburgh Fringe show has no theme, camera tricks or bullshit, just a collection of his best sleight of hand tricks and some new ones. He’s an Associate of The Inner Magic Circle, so expect near miracles. Martin Walker talks to a magician who privately fooled Penn & Teller. “I’m doing a magic […]
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Daphna Baram
First published in Broadway Baby - Sunday, June 22nd, 2014Daphna Baram, AKA MissD, is an Israel-born human rights lawyer come journalist. She’s been gigging relentlessly in the UK and Ireland and has taken shows to Brighton, Edinburgh and Leicester Fringe festivals.. Martin Walker exchanges emails about her new Edinburgh Fringe show. “AKA MissD is an invitation to spend an hour in my world and […]
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Ben Verth
First published in Broadway Baby - Sunday, June 22nd, 2014Ben Verth is a stand-up comedian, show producer for the Beehive Comedy Club, and one half of Doctor Who podcast On The Time Lash and Star Trek podcast A History of Star Trek in 100 Objects. Martin Walker finds out about his new Edinburgh Festival Fringe show. “The show is called Ben Verth: Anxious. About […]
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Jonny Lennard
First published in Broadway Baby - Sunday, June 22nd, 2014Believing that sugarcoating contemporary issues for kids only leads to more childhood diabetes, this debut hour from one of the brightest and most inventive new stars of the comedy scene sees Jonny exploring and rewriting the rule book for bedtime stories. Martin Walker discovers Jonny Lennard’s Tale Blazer. “It’s a show about myself and the […]
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Anthony Timmons
First published in Broadway Baby - Sunday, June 22nd, 2014“The logic of war seems to be if the belligerent can fight, he will fight. That leaders will not surrender until surrender is academic. How is a national leader to explain the sacrifice of so much for nothing?” – Thomas Powers (author and intelligence expert from the US). We sent a Q&A to Anthony Timmons […]
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Tom Holmes
First published in Broadway Baby - Sunday, June 22nd, 2014According to his website, Tom Holmes first got into stand-up comedy in July 2011 and has done spots all over London and the South East, most recently headlining nights. Apparently he gets mistaken for a member of staff every time he’s in JD Sports. Martin Walker asks about his new Fringe Show. “Is there any […]
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Rachel Fairburn
First published in Broadway Baby - Sunday, June 22nd, 2014Misery loves company. Which is just as well, as at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Rachel Fairburn will be bringing her own brand of dark humour and melancholy to the masses. Martin Walker enjoys his chat with a future star. Tell me about your 2014 Edinburgh Fringe show. “It’s called All the Fun of the […]
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Viv Groskop
First published in Broadway Baby - Sunday, June 22nd, 2014When should you give up on a dream? This Edinburgh Festival Fringe you can go behind the curtain with BBC Radio 4‘s Viv Groskop, in I Laughed, I Cried. Martin Walker finds out more about this unique stand-up comedy experiment, and also about Viv’s celebrity chat show with a difference, The Night I Died. “I […]
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Josh Smith
First published in Broadway Baby - Sunday, June 22nd, 2014After last year’s From Top to Bottom Show Josh Smith returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Not What You Expected explores the various plans Josh’s family had for him. He never became an astronaut or brain surgeon, but a stand-up comedian which, of course, is not what they expected. “My Show is Called Not What […]
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Abi Roberts
First published in Broadway Baby - Friday, June 20th, 2014Popular comedian, Abi Roberts, is bringing two shows up to the Edinburgh Fringe this year. Her début solo stand up hour is the intriguingly entitled Twerk in Progress, but Martin Walker first asks about her wholly original chat show idea, Musical CID. “I’m very excited about this show. It’s on at the Gilded Balloon, every […]
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Alan Anderson
First published in Broadway Baby - Friday, June 20th, 2014This year Alan Andreson returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with his globetrotting, comedy whisky show, Whisky for Dafties. Sample six malty, peaty beverages whilst Alan explains the history, methodology and lore of the great drink that is whisky. Martin Walker finds out more. “Is there a more quintessentially Scottish show at this year’s Edinburgh […]
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Sam Wills
First published in Broadway Baby - Friday, June 20th, 2014Sam Wills is an internationally renowned silent street performer, best known to UK audiences as his alter ego The Boy With Tape On His Face. Martin Walker briefly conversed with Sam by Twitter and by email, as the multi award winning mime was waiting for a flight. What are you plans for Edinburgh this year? […]
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Terry McHugh
First published in Broadway Baby - Friday, June 20th, 2014Terry McHugh, makes his Edinburgh Fringe solo show debut with Reservoir Dad. Martin Walker talks to Terry via email about fatherhood, his comedic highs and lows and being an international yoyo champion. “I came up with the name of my show after I looked at a photograph of me and my kids at a wedding. […]
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Pete Firman
First published in Broadway Baby - Friday, June 20th, 2014You’ll recognize Pete Firman from TV on The Sarah Millican Show, Channel 4’s Comedy Mash-Up or as a star of BBC1’s The Magicians. But as he tells Martin Walker, it’s at live stage shows were the magic works best. “My latest Edinburgh show is called Trickster. It’s a year’s work. I like to think it’s […]
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Angus Dunican
First published in Broadway Baby - Friday, June 20th, 2014Angus Dunican’s performing two shows at the Edinburgh Fringe this year, The Bravery Test and The Great Indoors. Martin Walker talks to Angus via email about performing for relatives since he was nine and the joys of staying home. “I’ll be doing last year’s show – The Bravery Test a couple of days a week […]
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Freddie Farrell
First published in Broadway Baby - Friday, June 20th, 2014Now that Freddie Farrell is a family man, he’s trying his best to be responsible. Unfortunately life has other plans. But with the likes of Joe Lycett and Dan Nightingale as fans his future in stand up comedy looks bright. He talks to Martin Walker via email about his Edinburgh show, Lock Stock and One […]
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