Tell us about your show. Why should we go and see it?
My show this year may surprise many people. It is a gameshow for children. I feel it is important to challenge oneself and I also felt it was time to welcome in a new generation of Marcellites. Naturally it won the award for Best Kids Show at the UK Kids Comedy Festival last year.
What are your hopes and dreams for the Fringe?
I hope it grows up to be the festival it always dreamed it would be. Perhaps it will meet another festival and give birth to many little festivals.
What makes you laugh?
Wit, sarcasm and insouciance.
What three words best describe your performance style – and why.
Witty, sarcastic and insouciant.
Why? We do not get to choose the genius bestowed upon us, we must simply re-gift it to the world.
How will your audience think/feel differently after an hour in your company?
Well, as always, the audience will leave in awe, but in this particular show the adults will also leave with a great revelation of the true awful nature of children. It is my mission to undo several years of parents’ work to show what actually lies beneath the facade they have created for their offspring.
What kind of shows – apart from your own – are you looking forward to seeing at the Edinburgh Fringe?
The avant-garde, the bold, the daring. For once my own performance will be in the afternoon, so I finally get my evenings to myself. However I’m not ruling out throwing in a special one-off performance somewhere as a reward for those who do not have children.
The cost of living is a big issue this year – will it make this Fringe more challenging?
Yes, as the British government continue their Rich Lives Matter movement alas the public will have to conclude that they cannot eat, wear or heat their homes with art. I am hoping a revolution occurs before August, but in this country I do not hold out much hope.
What do you predict will emerge as the big themes of this year.
French comedy, gameshows, child-baiting.
Who is your showbiz idol and why.
Jean-Jacques LeFebvre, if I am allowed to choose a dead one (I see no small print in the question). In a way the forgotten hero of French comedy, perhaps mostly because many of his routines would be deemed unprintable. That man showed a disdain for his audience that I can only dream of.
What is your idea of a perfect Fringe moment?
I shall probably never tire of walking from the venue after another great success, to my favourite brasserie, casually accepting the praise hollered at me by festival-goers throughout the city as I pass by. Once there, wine is poured out, as are ideas onto a page, and the beginnings of even greater oeuvres begin.
Marcel Lucont: Les Enfants Terribles – A Gameshow For Awful Children
14:55
Assembly George Square Gardens
August 2-21
