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Masai Graham
First published in Broadway Baby - Thursday, June 26th, 2014For his Edinburgh Festival fringe show, the award-winning gag merchant Masai Graham delivers over one hundred jokes in just half an hour. Expect puns, one liners and wordplay in this 3.3 laughs per minute bonanza. Martin Walker meets a very funny man. “Hi, I’m Masai Graham and My Edinburgh Fringe show is called Aaaaargh! It’s […]
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Sadia Azmat
First published in Broadway Baby - Thursday, June 26th, 2014The full title of Sadia Azmat’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe Show is: I Am Not Malala: The Girl Who Did Stand-up for Entertainment and Was Not Shot by the Taliban. Christina Lamb, Co-Author of I Am Malala called the show, ‘An Hilarious and insightful take on what it’s like to be a young Asian Muslim woman […]
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Michael Brunström
First published in Broadway Baby - Thursday, June 26th, 2014Calling all sensation seekers! Michael Brunström, part man, part longest river in France and winner of the 2013 Gareth Morinan Alternative New Act of the Year Award, performs a selection of weird and astonishing alternative comedy stunts during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for your bewilderment and delight. “The Human Loire is a solo variety show, […]
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Stephanie Laing
First published in Broadway Baby - Thursday, June 26th, 2014Lovable little weirdo Stephanie Laing realises that she is a very silly young woman. Her Edinburgh Fringe Festival show will include odd noises, several drawings of ducks, a confession about some vomit, and a song about a newt. Martin Walker asks the questions. “This is my first solo show. It’s called Nincompoop, because it’s a […]
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Wild Card Kitty
First published in Broadway Baby - Thursday, June 26th, 2014Wild Card Kitty presents a showcase exploring the glamorous world of being a showgirl in show business. Mixing deadpan humour, character comedy and cabaret seamlessly, she makes the sexy look funny… “My Edinburgh show is called Wild Card Kitty: The Showgirl Show and features three character creations: a young girl desperate for fame no matter […]
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Jenny Collier
First published in Broadway Baby - Thursday, June 26th, 2014Jenny Collier moved from the Welsh mountains to the Big Smoke in 2010 and has since embarked upon a career in stand-up comedy. Martin Walker asks about her 2014 Edinburgh Festival Fringe offering, Love in the Time of Collier. “It’s a stand up show written and performed by me on a bus. I didn’t write […]
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Luke Burrage
First published in Broadway Baby - Thursday, June 26th, 2014Luke Burrage is a comedian, musician, juggler, fiction writer and an all-round talented bloke. Sadly, at the time of writing, you won’t find his debut Edinburgh Festival Fringe listed anywhere. But don’t let that put you off. Martin Walker discovers what promises to be a real hidden gem. “My show is a musical comedy show […]
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Ellie Taylor
First published in Broadway Baby - Thursday, June 26th, 2014Ellie Taylor brings Elliementary to the Fringe, all about looking at love, life, Matalanand other such hard-hitting issues, like Russian foreign policy. Martin Walker talks to Ellie via email. “My show is about all the big issues: Russian foreign policy, cats and how to get a sparkly finger decoration to prove a man owns me. […]
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Martin Pilgrim
First published in Broadway Baby - Thursday, June 26th, 2014Martin Pilgrim works in a Bristol Post Office. His online dating profile says that he is a stand-up comedian. Martin Walker asks about his 2014 Edinburgh Fringe show. “It’s called Diary Farmer and it’s a mixture of storytelling and conventional stand-up. It’s basically three extended stories tied together with some jokes and a bit of […]
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Sophie Willan
First published in Broadway Baby - Thursday, June 26th, 2014Sophie Willan is a comedian, writer and actor, making work for theatre, cabaret, stand-up and TV. Sophie’s work is darkly optimistic, candid, comical and wild! And her solo show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe looks pretty special. Martin Walker asks what it’s all about. “Sophie Willan: Novice Detective is an interactive comedy show. Fusing together […]
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Rob Coleman
First published in Broadway Baby - Thursday, June 26th, 2014According to his website there are two important facts about Rob Coleman. Firstly, he writes beautifully crafted gags, stories and rants that increasingly come from his ever bleaker persona. Secondly, and more importantly, he possesses one of the finest heads of hair on the stand-up circuit. Martin Walker finds out about Rob’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe […]
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Luca Cupani
First published in Broadway Baby - Thursday, June 26th, 2014What happens when an Italian in his late 30s discovers that his only talent is to be funny? He moves to UK and decides to become a comedian… His first gig ever is at the King Gong Show at The Comedy Store in London. But Luca Cupani is so naive that he doesn’t even know […]
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Tim Key
First published in Broadway Baby - Thursday, June 26th, 2014Following two sold-out London runs, a sold-out award-nominated trip to the Melbourne Comedy Festival, and a third London stint in the West End – award winning comedian, relentless innovator, author, and poet, Tim Key brings a new show to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Martin Walker exchanges emails with a comedy innovator. “My show is called […]
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Katie Mulgrew
First published in Broadway Baby - Thursday, June 26th, 2014Warning: may contain high levels up optimism, cynicism and some foul-mouthed enchanted objects. So goes the tagline on Katie Mulgrew’s new Edinburgh Festival Fringe show. Martin Walker finds out more. “My show is called Happily Ever After. I got married this year and went on Honeymoon to Disneyworld. It was amazing but it made me […]
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Maggy Whitehouse
First published in Broadway Baby - Thursday, June 26th, 2014When not performing in comedy venues Rev. Maggy Whitehouse is as an independent Catholic priest. Women Catholic priests do exist apparently! Martin Walker sought to find out more about this most unlikely stand-up comedian and her new Edinburgh Fringe show. “It’s the modestly-named The Maggy Whitehouse Experience and it extracts the Archangel Michael out of […]
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Paul Duncan McGarrity
First published in Broadway Baby - Thursday, June 26th, 2014Emerging from the London comedy circuit, Paul McGarrity has become a mainstay of some of the best clubs in the English capital performing at the Comedy Cafe, Downstairs at the King’s Head and the Leicester Square Comedy Club, to name but a few. Martin Walker finds out about his debut Edinburgh offering. “In short my […]
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Ellie White
First published in Broadway Baby - Thursday, June 26th, 2014The urgently striving to be unstoppable Ellie White presents an hour of idiosyncratic character comedy. As heard on BBC Radio 4’s Fresh from the Fringe seen on BBC3’s Live at the Electric. Martin Walker asks about her Edinburgh Festival Fringe debut. “It’s a character comedy show – so it’s me, performing about 6 characters over […]
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Sean Brightman
First published in Broadway Baby - Thursday, June 26th, 2014Sean Brightman: Almost Sean Brightman is a hotly-tipped debut show from Sean Brightman at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Martin Walker converses with Sean Brightman by email. “It’s called Sean Brightman: Almost Sean Brightman and it’s my very first Edinburgh Fringe solo show. You could call it a postmodern new alternative adventure in what a […]
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Charmian Hughes
First published in Broadway Baby - Thursday, June 26th, 2014Drug-crazed moon worship, human banana sacrifice. A trip to India in footsteps of feisty mutiny-escaping great grand-mamma ends in Charmian Hughes escaping herself. Martin Walker learns more about this unique Edinburgh Festival Fringe show. “My new show Charmian Hughes: Raj Rage is comedy storytelling rather than my normal stand-up. “Last year I went to India to […]
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Steven Vickers
First published in Broadway Baby - Thursday, June 26th, 2014This Edinburgh Festival Fringe you can enjoy the dulcet tones and tall tales of Teeside’s troubled troubadour in Victor Pope’s new show, Infinitely More Deluded. Martin Walker seeks an explanation. “It’s basically musical comedy. In that there will be songs and they will be funny. There’ll be bits in between like poems and amusing lists […]
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Rebecca Humphries
First published in Broadway Baby - Thursday, June 26th, 2014Disney lied to Rebecca Humphries. She never married a Prince, her flat is no castle, and her nannies definitely never looked like Julie Andrews. Martin Walker emails the Comedy Central star about her Edinburgh Festival Fringe Show, Dizney Rascal. “It’s a comedy cabaret centred around my fondness for/obsession with all things Disney. There’ll be songs, […]
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Gemma Layton
First published in Broadway Baby - Thursday, June 26th, 2014Gemma Layton, the comic actor and Laughing Horse and Funny Woman semi-finalist delivers several characters for the price of none at this Edinburgh Fringe. Martin Walker asks the questions. “My Fringe show is a multimedia, character comedy show, presented by my stand up alter-ego, Mercedes Benson. You meet five other characters during the hour; all […]
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James Bennison
First published in Broadway Baby - Thursday, June 26th, 2014James Bennison grew up in the slums of Warwick. Fighting his way through the mean cul de sacs of the small town he managed to make it to Manchester and learn the ways of mathematics, mainly due to the degree he was studying. Martin Walker enquires about his maths based Edinburgh Festival Fringe show. “My […]
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Harriet Dyer
First published in Broadway Baby - Thursday, June 26th, 2014Three years into he rcomedy career and Harriet Dyer already has heads turning with her baffling stories of a misspent youth and bewildering personal tales that are so ridiculous they must be true. Martin Walker finds an up and coming comic who has found her voice very quickly. “My Fringe show is called Barking at Aeroplanes […]
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Chris Cook
First published in Broadway Baby - Thursday, June 26th, 2014At this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Chris Cook presents a tender tale of bittersweet love, combining magic tricks and storytelling to make a funny and touching show that reminds us of some of the tricks we play when we’re falling in and out of love. Martin Walker wants to know more. “My show, Chris Cook: […]
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