The Showstoppers The full interview

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0:02 Yeah so are you doing an uber oh coming up this year yeah this year so we're there for The whole of The fringe it's really exciting. We love going to Edinburgh because The audiences are so up for it yeah it's really nice we're gonna be in The pleasant ground so it's. Massive gets have a lot of fun. It's our 11th consecutive year. To be institutionalized is it a bit of a sigh I hear stories from comedians and they put a lot of money down to go to Edinboro. A lot of time they don't get their return they come back bit down did you ever get that feeling of Edinburgh I think The nice thing is we get to do our kid. Show in The morning and you do our even show in The evening and there's such such as life and such joy and doing The kid show that it's sir I think it's a bit of an Edinburgh tonic.

0:53 Really yeah and The audience is so nice they're like it's always packed which is really I know that is really lucky because I do solo. Stuff as well and it's not The case yeah you know I don't have 600 people for that and but it's lovely and like last Edinburgh. I think it was last year or The year before we ended with The show set in Buckingham Palace and one of The one of The performance. Ruth brat who's very funny was The Queen and I was The Queen Mum obviously of course typecasting yes and it was just brilliant The audience was so involved. They were like chipping in and shouting their support to The Queen and it was amazing it's like we're quite moving but also very drunken and silly and fun yeah. I think it was a show about Queen Elizabeth's hen party so we called lids on The lash and what happened on this hen party.

1:44 Yeah and when I first saw you guys I'll be honest before I interview G before I kind of thought. This is got a stage it's unscripted there's some plants in The audience I've my own little conspiracy theory and you get that free often do you get people. Saying that oh there's some really really elaborate theories as well it's a it's funny mentioned plants yeah we heard a couple of audience members talking. Like very Authority about is they said that one of them said I know someone who's done this so I think though it's a fact there every. Person who gives a suggestion during a showstopper show gets paid fifty quid at which point all of The cars wanted to switch sides cuz it sounds like a much better way to make money. Doing it so how did you do it how what is their look at a structure that you guys have there's certain points where you can change.

2:34 Things or is it just utter improv you're jumping into The deep end is it 100% improvised every night and we have people who come back and see you know 50. 60 shows so they'd soon sniff it out if we had you know we were doing The same structure with with changes every night and it's way more fun. It's way more exciting and fun for The audience and us to like yeah I just said after improv like that yeah just jump into it and not know what's happening. Every joke though I do have a show where you just have you had a show we've joked and you've just been chucked something you like just know it yeah yeah. And sometimes if something if something goes wrong if something unexpected happens then that's when The funniest stuff can be so you know we had a show where we had a power.