Interview
Gabey Lucas
‘[Be] prepared to see a grown lady do resistance band butt exercises’. Gabey Lucas tells us about her sophomore Fringe show, ‘ ‘Check Out This Potato That Looks Like a Beluga Whale’
Harvey Cobb
‘I’m never 100% certain of what will happen.’ Harvey Cobb tells us about his debut Fringe show, ‘Pink Boots and An Alcoholic Sock Puppet’
Hudson Hughes
‘[It’s]… an unholy mash-up of Songs of Praise and Beetlejuice.’ Hudson Hughes tells us about his debut solo Fringe show, ‘At Your Service’
Jess Carrivick
‘It’s a Scrabble bag of all the things that I would do.’ Versatile comedian Jess Carrivick tells us about her Fringe show, ‘For Your Consideration’
Meka Mo
‘[W]hat really stuck with me was how sharp the British audiences were’. Queens comedian Meka Mo tells us about her Fringe full-length debut, ‘New York City Dreams’
Paul Hilleard
‘I guess Groggs are famously messy and so is my life.’ The Welsh comedian tell us about his debut Fringe show, ‘Grogg’
Zoe Wohlfeld
‘Did I mention that it’s also a comedy?’ We get an invatation to a ‘Dog Funeral’ courtesy of Zoe Wohlfeld
Sepideh Kaav
‘The title is partly a joke and partly the diagnosis.’ We speak to Sepideh Kaav about her debut Fringe show ‘1979: Persionality Disorder’
Rob Preston
‘I’ve curated my algorithm to be populated almost entirely by freaks’. Rob Preston tells us about his debut character comedy show, ‘Amazing Global Solutions’
Aarian Mehrabani
‘One of my favourite things to do is slaughter the sacred cows of what people feel can be joked about’. The comedian tells us about his debut stand-up hour, ‘How’s Your Head?’
Emma Crowley-Bennett
‘I tend to throw as much at the audience as I possibly can without dying’. We speak to the creator of alt-drag comedian Fanny Bleach about her debut solo Fringe show, ‘The Nearly Naked Show’
Sami Abu Wardeh
‘Hate is celebrated on the right and a taboo for the rest of us’. We talk to the comedian about his new Fringe show, ‘Sami Abu Wardeh Hates You’
Chris Forbes
‘There’s particular events in my life that are very easy to plot by going back to certain Christmases.’ The comedian tells us why he’s bringing a festive-themed show, ‘Father Christmas’, to the Fringe
Liv Rocklin
‘At its heart, it’s about loneliness and growing up’. We chat to Liv Rocklin about her debut Fringe show, ‘An American (Not) in Paris’
Sophie McCabe
‘I keep saying “night” on stage by habit, but it starts at 2o’clock!’ Character comedian Sophie McCabe talks about the newest, and earliest, New Material night in Edinburgh.
Nerine Skinner
‘I’ve always wanted to do a show about indecision and, ironically, not known how to.’ We chat to Nerine Skinner about her new WIP at Glasgow International Comedy Festival, ‘Decisions Decisions’
Juliette Burton
‘We’re all cosplaying, all the time.’ We chat to Juliette Burton about her two shows at Glasgow International Comedy Festival
Jade Gebbie
‘I think there a specific millennial kind of overthinking-ness…’ Jade Gebbie tells us about her being ‘The People Pleaser’
Kate Hammer
‘I love it when an audience surprises me’. We chat to the ‘Government-Approved Comedian’ about her show at GICF
Bronwyn Isaac
‘I think it’s easy to log onto the internet and feel like you’re the only one who feels wonky and uncomfortable’. Bronwyn Isaac tell us about her show at GICF, ‘Why Are You Here?’