EDINBURGH COMEDY WIPS

About the show

Ayoade Bamgboye The much-anticipated debut show about suffering (and smiling) from Nigerian stand-up Ayoade Bamgboye. Burdened by the gift of sight, a primeval awareness that something is not quite right, and almost three accents, she’ll ask life’s big questions and provide absolutely no answers. Born in London, raised in Lagos, sacked in Budapest, the poor woman has been there and done that – and to what end? Swings and Roundabouts is about going nowhere fast, being too British to stop apologising, and too Nigerian to stop shouting. Ian Smith Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee Ian Smith (co-host of the ‘Northern News’ podcast) returns with a new show about stress, love and buying a magic spell off Amazon. As seen on ‘Live at the Apollo’, ‘Have I Got News For You’ and ‘The Stand Up Sketch Show’ – and heard on ‘The News Quiz’, ‘The Unbelievable Truth’, ‘Just A Minute’ and his own Radio 4 series, ‘Ian Smith Is Stressed’. Celya AB Following multiple sell-out runs and a UK tour, Celya AB (‘Live At The Apollo’, ‘Off Menu’, Melbourne Comedy Festival, Just For Laughs) is working on her brand new show. Desiree Burch The ‘Taskmaster’ treasure, ‘Live at the Apollo’ star and voice of Netflix’s ‘Too Hot to Handle’ presents a new hour about our bodies corporeal and politic, and what remains through ascension and destruction. As a woman who has narrowly escaped making life and experiencing death, Desiree explores death, menopause, spirituality and nationality, staking her claim as the right voice for these very wrong times, while offering insights into middle age, identity, social demise and other apocalypses. Joseph Morpurgo Bits, bobs, odds, sods, fragments, cogs, shards and precious gossamer moments from the Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee and cult character comedian.