What is the best advice for a new performer in Edinburgh?
Flyer and talk to people – you are the best person to sell your show. Commit to every aspect of your show when you perform it – your show will have flaws but try not to point out where they are. People will start coming if you do these things, so don’t worry about hype and PR and posters and all that. The one thing you have control over is your show, so just do the best job you can of that. Know that it’s very hard to do all the above so it’s ok if you don’t. Try not to flyer with the kind of earnest sincerity expressed in this answer.
What is the best advice for a new festival goer?
Set off with an umbrella, snacks and a good knowledge of cash points. Set a timer to go off in February so you can still get tickets for James Acaster.
What do you have to have in your fridge during August?
The big four: butter, milk, veg, jam.
What is the weirdest after-show comment you have had from an audience member?
We’ve never had anything that weird that I can recall. Of course we get the backhanded compliment, ‘I don’t normally find women funny but you guys were alright’ fairly often, but that’s more wearisome than weird.
Which living person would you like to spot in your audience?
Dolly Parton. I love her in the simplest, truest way.
What is the best non-Fringe thing about the city of Edinburgh?
The landscape.
How do you relieve Fringe cabin fever?
Going and exploring the above. Or getting a hair-cut. Very soothing.
Who or what last made you laugh like a hyena at the Fringe?
It’s always going to be Lou Sanders. A classier idiot there is not.
Tell us about your 2016 show.
It’s very compact and stylish. Perfect with a cocktail! Less evasively, it’s character / sketch / less categorisable bits. It’s called ‘Crazy Sexy Fool’ and this title is pretty spot on. What luck!
What are the best shows at the Fringe apart from yours?
Have not seen enough to be any authority here BUT we loved ‘My Name is Gideon’. Unique, unassuming and full of soul. You won’t see anything like it.
When you go home and your friends say “How was Edinburgh?”, what will you say?
September – ‘Relentless. Knackering. Up and down.’
October – ‘Pretty good’
December – ‘Time of my life, I’m going again.’
Catch Lazy Susan: Crazy Sexy Fool at 7.15pm at the Pleasance Courtyard until 29 August and as part of Massive Lazy Girls at 11.30pm on 24-28 August
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