Frankie
When I was invited to review Frankie McNair’s London preview before her Edinburgh Fringe run I was warned that she might be jetlagged after just flying over from Australia. All I can say is that if this is McNair knackered I can't imagine what she will be like after a decent night’s sleep. Onstage McNair is a veritable powerhouse of pithy punchlines. She makes a tornado seem like a puny gust of wind.
After a lifetime of anxiety, childhood trauma, complex PTSD, and low self-esteem, Frankie is finally done making themselves small. So now whenever self-doubt creeps in, they ask themselves one simple question: ‘What would someone with a huge ass do in this situation?’. Now, Frankie McNair makes their Edinburgh Fringe debut with HUGE ASS MINDSET as part of Soho Theatre’s Edinburgh Fringe programme.
We are in a grotesque, unsettling but strangely familiar world. The Misty Moon club in Rotherham is an old-fashioned working men’s club threatened with closure.
Here Comes the Guillotine, the brand-new weekly entertainment podcast, sees comedians Frankie Boyle, Susie McCabe and Christopher MacArthur-Boyd share their subversive and darkly funny opinions on the chaos of the world, offering wholly unqualified dissent to popular opinion.
One of the key contributors to the BFI’s Missing Believed Wiped initiative, Kaleidoscope, the classic TV archive based in Birmingham, returns to BFI Southbank on 5 August to celebrate their 35th anniversary with a bumper Missing Believed Wiped programme hosted by veteran ITV Central news presenter Wesley Smith and host of Kaleidoscope’s The Long Lost Shows Show on Big Centre TV, as well as leading puppeteers, Warrick Brownlow-Pike and Phil Fletcher, best known as playing Dodge the Dog on CB
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