Tell us about your show. Why should we go and see it?
I have three shows this year – something for everyone:
Married At First Fight is a split bill with my Irish husband where we each do a comedy set and the audience decides who is the funniest and we maybe or not get divorced – this is for the gamblers.
Ew Girl, You Nasty is an hour of me regaling tales from my hedonistic era and shadow self. I don’t find any of it shocking… because I lived it, but based on audience reactions, some might, so come to this if you want to freak yourself out.
Filthy Funny Females is just what it sounds like. Women from all over the world doing comedy in a daily changing line-up. It’s 2023 and they’re still letting women speak freely into a microphone so get a whole hour of it while you can – for the culture!!
What are your hopes and dreams for the Fringe?
That my blender that I bring with me from London doesn’t break during the month and that I get a good night’s sleep every night.
What makes you laugh?
The Larry Sanders Show. Better Off Dead. Animals. Absurdist reality. Judge Judy.
Seeing someone getting angry through a window but you can’t hear anything they’re saying.
What three words best describe your performance style – and why.
See My Shows – you get who I am that day at that hour during that minute as it’s getting harder and harder for me to be strictly a “performer” doing the same thing the same way all the time. At some point during the Fringe, the wall between performance and reality disintegrates completely. Might be Day one or Day 19. If you really want three words, make them “Dark Stormy Genius” and put them on my headstone while you’re at it.
How will your audience think/feel differently after an hour in your company?
I haven’t written the show that might achieve what I would hope to embed into an audience yet, and maybe I never will, but it would be nice if people would leave an hour of my comedy feeling less judgemental of those around them and of themselves. And also having laughed (important and often overlooked in stand up).
What kind of shows – apart from your own – are you looking forward to seeing at the Edinburgh Fringe?
Anything by any of the cast of RuPaul’s Drag Race or a Consignia reboot.
The cost of living is a big issue this year – will it make this Fringe more challenging?
Having not come from money, the cost of living has always been something to factor into my life. When you pay your own way for things, you get creative. I’m not going to say where the pictures of my feet are. The rich stay rich but I keep my secrets.
I would like to be the change I want to see in the comedy world for however long I choose to be a part of it, and all I can do is do my best with what I am given so the main message here is – if you can, give a lot at Filthy Funny Females!
What do you predict will emerge as the big themes of this year.
I don’t pay attention to what’s happening unless it’s directly in front of my face. I don’t know what the big themes were last year, the year before, or in 2019 (I think the theme of 2020 was Covid?). If I had to guess, based on what I see while working various stand up circuits all over the world, people will be looking for the theme that makes them “stand out” or “sets them apart” from everyone else rather than finding the ones that unite us as a whole.
Who is your showbiz idol and why.
After working in show business, I can safely say there are no idols here. I might explain the “why” in the book I haven’t written yet or you can find me doing new material about it on random line-up shows during the Fringe.
What is your idea of a perfect Fringe moment?
When it’s over and I take my bag of change and use it to board a plane to Bermuda (dream big).
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