Taskmaster champion Lou Sanders has been a festival favourite with critics and audiences for several years.
She heads to Edinburgh this year fresh from touring her show One Word: Wow and on the back of numerous TV appearances and two hit podcasts.
Here, she answers our questions ahead of the festival kicking off next month…
What is your show all about, and what inspired it?
Well, I wrote a show about roller-skating, the pandemic, falling in love and a bit about my stepdad.
Then my stepdad died and I’m on a break from the guy or we’ve split up depending on when you are reading this / what happens. So just doing some re-writes.
What can audiences expect when coming along to see your show?
Jokes of course. And, now… a lot more depth.
Have you been pleased with the response the show has had on your UK tour?
Yes most of the shows were really fun. A couple of sticky ones where the energy wasn’t on my side, but on the whole a really great old time.
How does it feel touring a show then bringing it to Edinburgh, rather than the other way around?
Well I was smug. For once I was like, ‘I have a show! I can just do other work in the day now.’ I was seeing it like a working holiday but with the emphasis more on the holiday part.
And now of course here I am adapting the beast once more, tinkering and tailoring and crying in previews.
You host Cuddle Club and Taskmaster: The People’s Podcast, how much have you enjoyed getting into the world of podcasting?
As much as a dog likes to poop! (100 percent). Is it my dharma? Could be. The school careers advisor told me I could be in air traffic control! But to be fair podcasts hadn’t been invented then and I think he was just ticking a box.
You’re a Taskmaster champion – where do you keep the trophy?
In Kerry Godliman’s garage.
What are your favourite memories of the Fringe?
Swimming, good meals with friends and making friends with a seagull
If you had to pick one item that’s essential for surviving a month at the Fringe, what would that be?
A return ticket.
What do you think it is about the Edinburgh Fringe that attracts people from all around the world to come to watch and also to perform?
The cheap rent lol
If you were in charge of the Fringe, what changes would you make?
Reduce the venue fees so university venues who cain it on the bar lower their fees, cap accommodation rental, get rid of reviewers.
And make it smaller or split it with Glasgow and they both do two weeks but no one can perform both, so the maximum you can do your show for is two weeks.
Lou Sanders is returning to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival this August with One Word: Wow. Tickets here.
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