End Of.

Well I've been back a couple of weeks now - had the obligatory post-festival health breakdown. I think a lot of people are effectively running on empty as the festival draws to a close and once it's over there are a lot of duvet days for the taking. I wanted to do a quick wrap-up post though which will be the last one on this blog (maybe until next year/next festival but no promises) so if you want to stay up to date from here on head over to my main blog Cruella-blog.

But to recap the festival:

Best bit - young a woman in my audience (and not one who'd come to see me specially, one who had seen the show before mine and decided to hang around) who appeared to be texting during my closing section but when questioned turned out to be signing up to the Object mailing list in reaction to stuff I'd been talking about. Yeah!

Worst bit - nasty people from The Fix magazine coming on my blog to attack me for daring to point at the Emperor's New Clothes and say "How exactly is racism and sexism alternative?"

Here's the full list of shows I did:

Fri 7th Aug Leith Talk on LeithFM, Anthologies
Sat 8th Aug The Comedy Manifesto, Some Comedy (In A Cave), The News At Kate, The Stephen Nolan Show on BBC Five Live, The Midnight Hour
Sun 9th Aug The Comedy Manifesto, Laughing Horse Best of the Fest, The News At Kate, Shaggers
Mon 10th Aug The Comedy Manifesto, Anthologies, Laughing Horse Best of the Fest, The News At Kate, The Midnight Hour
Tues 11th Aug The Comedy Manifesto, Anthologies, The News At Kate, The Midnight Hour
Weds 12th Aug The Comedy Manifesto, The News At Kate, Peter Buckley-Hill And Some Comedians, The Midnight Hour
Thurs 13th Aug The Comedy Manifesto, The News At Kate, The News At Ten(ish), The Midnight Hour
Fri 14th Aug Leith Talk on LeithFM, The Comedy Manifesto, The News At Kate, The Midnight Hour
Sat 15th Aug The Comedy Manifesto, The News At Kate, The Midnight Hour
Sun 16th Aug The Comedy Manifesto, The News At Kate, PBH And Some Comedians, Shaggers
Mon 17th Aug The Comedy Manifesto, The News At Kate, The Midnight Hour
Tues 18th Aug - MY DAY OFF!
Weds 19th Aug The Comedy Manifesto, Laughing Horse Best of the Fest, The News At Kate, The News At Ten(ish), The Midnight Hour
Thurs 20th Aug The Comedy Manifesto, Laughing Horse Best of the Fest, The News At Kate, PBH And Some Comedians, The Midnight Hour
Fri 21st Aug Leith Talk on LeithFM, The Comedy Manifesto, The News At Kate, 99 Club Prince's Street, The Midnight Hour
Sat 22nd Aug The Comedy Manifesto, The News At Kate, The Midnight Hour
Sun 23rd Aug The Comedy Manifesto, The News At Kate, Spank!
Mon 24th Aug The Comedy Manifesto, The News At Kate, The News At Ten(ish), The Midnight Hour
Tues 25th Aug The Comedy Manifesto, The News At Kate, The Midnight Hour
Weds 26th Aug The Comedy Manifesto, Some Comedy (In A Cave), The News At Kate, 99 Club Princes Street, The Midnight Hour
Thurs 27th Aug The Comedy Manifesto, The News At Kate, The Midnight Hour
Fri 28th Aug Leith Talk on LeithFM, The Comedy Manifesto, The News At Kate, The Midnight Hour
Sat 29th Aug The Comedy Manifesto, What A Weird And Wonderful Festival, The Midnight Hour

That's 85 shows in 22 days. No wonder I needed a lie-down. Thanks very much to everyone who came and contributed and bought me a beer or put up with me talking bollocks after I'd drunk too many beers. I had a really good festival.

The Vital Edinburgh Info

How to see my shows in Edinburgh:

The New At Kate is on daily 8th-28th Aug (not 18th) at 8.25pm at The Voodoo Rooms on West Register Street. That's my solo show.

I also host The Comedy Manifesto - a political panel show - at 4pm at The Beehive on Grassmarket again 8th-28th Aug and The Midnight Hour - a general late night show with different acts every night at Canon's Gait. That's every day except Sundays throughout the festival.

Better still all these shows are free. No need to book, just show up and grab a seat.

And I'll be making lots of guest appearances elsewhere too. Hope to see you on the way round.

Festival Activism

So after my fury at The Fix magazine's unprogressive selection of the "top 50" shows to see at the fringe, I decided to do something positive so I wrote a one-page (A5) leaflet which on one side criticised the homogenity of the list they had published and on the other offered some recomendations for show I felt they should have included. Those shows were Bethany Black, Chris McCausland, Nathan Caton, Pippa Evans, Paul Sinha and Susan Calman. And of course I plugged my show too. Then I printed about 1,000 and set about distributing them. And brilliantly some young feminists in the area offered to help me so they are now all over town, including I hear in the hands of a number of comedy journalists. So hopefully word will get back to The Fix and next time around they'll have a little look before publishing such a list!

So Who Will Win The Straight White Able-Bodied Cissexual Male Comedian of the Year Award?

And who cares? Nominations include Tim Key's charmingly named show "Slutcracker" and Pete Johansson who has onstage mimed raping an unconscious woman and then said "rape is funny". Really - go to 2.34m on this clip. If that's what you get prizes for - I don't want one.

And Another Thing

Carrying on from where I left off last night.

Riot Act

This story was just too important to publish on my Fringe blog - so I put it on the main one. Get in touch if you fancy a riot!!

No Sex Please

By the way I'm now NOT compering Shaggers tonight. I've been asked to do a spot at Spank! - another late night crowded notorious show and so I'm going to do that as I've only done it once before and it'll expose me to a different crowd, etc.