Hello, welcome to the monkey barrel. How are you?

Hello, hi, the monkey barrel. How are you? Hi, hi! Fantastic to be here.

Yes, amazing to be here.

This is only my second Edinburgh.

What was your first Edinburgh?

My first one was like 15 years ago saying to Tom Ballard one of our upcoming

guests that's so when I came I was more on the like pretentious theatre scene rather than the comedy scene

yeah yeah like let's go see two hours where someone talks about the view from the

supermarket shelf if you were a come quat you know what I mean you can see that in the comedy section 250 the monkey barrel every

day I'm like really heartened by that because so far I've walked around everything

seems very polished.

No, there's still some absolute shite here.

Look at the nodding faces.

For people who are listening to the audio,

there are some pained expressions on the face. There is a young person sat just on my right who looks

like they have seen conflict. Whereas in fact I know what they've seen is some experimental student theatre in a venue

that was only designed to hold 12 brooms. What was it? Can he give us a flavor of the vibe?

Oh, God, it was a magic show.

It was in the basement of a burrito shop.

And the best trick was a tree of burritos falling down the stairs?

Can I take a shot in the dark and say,

that was not intended as a part of the magician's at?

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