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QQ: Stephen Grant

ThreeWeeks favourite Stephen Grant answers the Quick Quiz

1. What is your 2008 show about?
It's called 'Second' and it's all about society's obsession with class and coming first. I'm reclaiming the moral high-ground for nearly-men everywhere.

2. Why should we come and see it?
- Because the show contains tales of real life dismemberment & murder, two-dimensional male nudity and the beating of a disabled boy.

- Because it's a purist's Edinburgh show; most comedians will take an hour of stuff they've been doing for years or wrote weeks before the fest, and loosely fit it under a common theme. This is a show where the point was written first, and then the material was written about the message. It'll stick in your head long after it's finished.

- Because it's got the best method of saving postage you'll ever see or hear about ever - I guarantee.

3. If your show was an Olympic sport, what would it be and why?
Decathlon - because I squeeze in ten times the amount of stuff you'll get elsewhere. And it's chock full of variety (i.e. original subjects, not dancing, vaudeville, and white men blacked-up and singing mammy).

4. What are you most looking forward to about this year’s Festival?
The immense glow I get doing this show. I'm really, really proud of it.

5. What are you least looking forward to about this year’s Festival?
Losing my voice. It happens every year and no amount of scarves, hot ginger, and vocalzone stops the inevitable.

6. What advice would you have for someone trying to navigate the Festival?
Don't use a map. It's not 3d. The road you think turns left off Cowgate is actually 120 feet above your head.

7. What advice would you have for someone trying to survive the Festival?
Pace yourself - you've got well over 3 weeks to get wasted. Do it slowly. It's a festival, not last orders.

8. Describe your show in three words.
Counterrevolutionary antidisestablishmentarian floccinaucinihilipilification.

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Stephen Grant performed 'Second' at the Pleasance.

published: Oct-2008

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