Ep. 428 - Elf Lyons
My Time Capsule
Cast Off Productions
4.8 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Elf Lyons was awarded the 2024 Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Show, the Comedian's Choice Award for Best Show and the Mervyn Stutter 'Spirit of the Fringe' Award and received 12 ★★★★★ reviews and a sell out run of her show Horses at the Edinburgh Fringe. For her show Raven she was awarded Best Show at the Reykjavik Fringe in Iceland and was awarded Best Comedy at the Adelaide Fringe, Australia. In 2023 Elf was listed as number 25 in The Telegraphs 50 Best Comedians of the 21st Century' and was nominated for the Deaf Action Award for Deaf Excellence for her comedy show Heist .
Elf Lyons is guest number 428 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things she'd like to put in a time capsule; four she’d like to preserve and one she’d like to bury and never have to think about again .
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to my time capsule. I'm Mike Fenton-Stevens, and my time capsule is, as it's always been, the podcast where people tell me five things from their life that they |
| 0:21.1 | wish they had in a time capsule, four things that they cherish, and one thing they'd like to |
| 0:26.0 | bury and forget. My guest in this episode is Elf Lyons. Elf is an award-winning comedian, |
| 0:32.9 | theatre maker, director, comedy writer and mime artist. She's gained a cult reputation as one of the most |
| 0:39.2 | innovative performers on the UK comedy and theatre scene. Her work has included reenactments of |
| 0:44.8 | classical ballets, musicals about the economy, immersive horror shows and even lectures at venues |
| 0:51.1 | such as the Barbican on the surrealist movement. It's difficult to pin down |
| 0:55.6 | exactly what Elf does, but you can be certain that she's the only one who's thought of it. |
| 1:01.1 | Since 2017, Elf has been nominated for the Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Show at the Edinburgh |
| 1:06.5 | Fringe. She's also been nominated for the Malcolm Hardy Award for Comic Originality, the Fringe World Perth's best comedy show, and she won the pick of the fringe of the Adelaide Fringe. |
| 1:17.3 | In 2020, her show Unlike the Darling's with Helen Duff was one of the Telegraph's 50 best cultural moments of the year. |
| 1:25.1 | And in 2023, Elf was listed in The Telegraph as one of the top 50 funniest |
| 1:30.5 | comedians of the 21st century. And there's more. At this year's fringe, she won the comedian's |
| 1:36.3 | choice award. In other words, her show, Elf Lions, Horses, the first ever comedy show at the Edinburgh |
| 1:42.3 | Festival Fringe performed entirely by a horse, |
| 1:45.1 | was voted best show by her peers. She also won this year's Ish Edinburgh Comedy Award and the |
| 1:51.5 | Mervyn Stutter Spirit of the Fringe Award, which is a very good one to win. So this amazing performer |
| 1:57.2 | is someone to watch out for. But hopefully you'll get to know her better by hearing the |
| 2:01.6 | five things she wants in a time capsule. In fact, I know you will. Here is the wonderful elf lions. |
| 2:08.9 | Trot on. |
| 2:13.6 | Hi. Hi, elf there. I like to seem professional and organised and then I forget to send you the link. |
| 2:21.3 | That's absolutely fine. |
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