Edinburgh Festival Fringe

suddenly she got noticed.

She teamed up with another comedian, Joe Wilkinson, did shows at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, then in 2013 auditioned for a part on TV satirist Charlie Brooker's weekly wipe show.

playing a new character called Philomena Kunk, who was supposed to talk super posh, though Morgan had other ideas about the role.

Charlie Brooker.

That is to come.

We're going to be chatting to Martin about his book and about his Edinburgh Festival appearances and a limited tour off the back of it.

That'll be exciting as well.

And we're going to be in a minute or two discussing managerial sack races.

And with all of us together, with the new app, with the Anfield app, we will share the journey.

All right, Martin, you're in.

Last time we had you in, in person, it was prior to the Edinburgh Festival.

I made a chat about what you were doing, how you were looking forward to it and the show that you were going to do whilst you were there.

He's one third of the Young Hot Guys podcast.

He did a massive sold out two week run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

He's the host of new RTE show First Class Takes.

Our very last name for the big night of laughs, Fiona Frawley.

So I'm often faking it.

I had this guy come up to me at the Edinburgh Festival, and he was like, it is so good to see you again.

I was like, you too.

I don't know.

I mean, is that the selectivity that you're talking about?

Yeah, I think so.

Maybe I remember text better than, you know, where I met that one guy at the Edinburgh Festival.

I know.

So that was a fun exercise.

But the show that Van is talking about, I co-wrote a play with one of my good friends, Meg Hayes, that we took to Edinburgh Fringe this year.

And we had an eight show run there called Holmes and Shaw.

And it's about Jen Shaw and Elizabeth Holmes, two felons.

different from what you might expect from... from a traditional literary event, but that's done on purpose.

I mean, Jonathan, I heard you speaking on The Breakfast Show the other day and talking about Al-Marhang is basically on the fringes of, so talking about the Edinburgh Fringe and how it kind of has a bit of inspiration there.

Yeah, I mean, the idea in a way is to do away with maybe the formality of other types, you know, of the theatre, with all due respect to the theatre, and of more kind of professional musicians who are doing bigger concerts, or even authors presenting books in places, again, with all due respect and love for places like the Garrison Library and Macintosh Hall, which have another kind of formality to it.

We try to...

It's a funny one.

I mean, I performed that in the Edinburgh Festival.

I performed it in Hydebank Young Offenders Centre where the young fellas had no idea who Frank Carson was and it still worked.

But Frank's currency is kind of, it ebbed a little bit from the comedy point of view.

I just drove in and normally there was a guy in a little kiosk and I paid him every time.

And I was like, because I was at the Edinburgh Festival, I'd pay him and I'd pay him.

He wasn't there this day.

And it was like a QR code on the wall.