Edinburgh Fringe Comedy
Print Interviews
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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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Joe Bains
First published in Broadway Baby - Friday, June 20th, 2014Joe Bains hosts London’s up-and-coming comedy club, Licence to Laugh, featuring comedians from the city’s comedy circuit. Joe talks to Martin Walker via email about bringing his club to Edinburgh for August, swapping one capital for another. “I wanted to bring Licence to Laugh to the Edinburgh fringe, so it’s a compilation show.” Why did […]
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Ray Fordyce
First published in Broadway Baby - Friday, June 20th, 2014Ray Fordyce enjoyed last year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival so much he is back with what he promises is a bigger and better show. Martin Walker chats to Ray via email about his 11am compilation show at the Free Sisters. “The show is called Ray Fordyce’s Brunchtime Banter: Part 2. It will be a showcase of […]
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Roland Gent
First published in Broadway Baby - Friday, June 20th, 2014Would you give up a high flying sales job to manage England’s worst radio station? Martin Walker chats to Roland via email to find out. “Do You Remember Rock n Roll Radio? is a show about going for your dream and finding out it’s maybe not all you’d hoped for. “It’s got bits about being […]
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John Fleming
First published in Broadway Baby - Wednesday, June 18th, 2014Malcolm Hardee was a true original. A performer, a manager and a convicted car thief, he was one of the UK’s very first alternative comedians. He died suddenly in January 2005 – whilst still in his 50s. Martin Walker talks to John Fleming about The Edinburgh Fringe, performing with Kate Copstick and keeping Malcolm’s legacy […]
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Eddie Pepitone
First published in Broadway Baby - Wednesday, June 18th, 2014Eddie Pepitone has appeared on nemerous TV shows. In August he’ll be returning to Edinburgh to perform his comedy show, Eddie Pepitone: RIP America, It’s Been Fun. “It’s about how the USA has become a place of greater and greater inequality and the dumbing down of everyone including myself.” How long have you been performing […]
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John Hastings
First published in Broadway Baby - Wednesday, June 18th, 2014Although Canadian comic John Hastings has won copious amounts of awards on his home turf, frankly they mean nothing to us here, zilch. As a committed anglophile this wrangled him, so he decided become a successful comedian in the UK. John talks to Martin Walker about his show, John Hastings Adventure. “The show is the […]
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Rachel Parris
First published in Broadway Baby - Wednesday, June 18th, 2014The critically acclaimed musical comedian, Rachel Parris, appears at the Edinburgh Fringe for the second time, this year with her adventurous new show Live in Vegas. It features a new set of characters who present an alternative version of a glamorous Las Vegas show. “Expect power ballads, big, brash and bold moves and a whole […]
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Lloyd Langford
First published in Broadway Baby - Wednesday, June 18th, 2014Lloyd Langford is longing for simpler times. His new Edinburgh show finds him jesting about the new-fangled technologies that purport to make our lives easier, but quite often end up making things even more complicated. “The show is called Old Fashioned, and it’s an hour of jokes, invective, anecdotes and observations about how shit the […]
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