Ben Pope's new stand-up show, Baby Sasquatch, is on at Pleasance Courtyard - Bunker One, during August. 

  • What is your Fringe show about?

It’s about living in the city and travelling abroad, feeling rootless and searching for meaning. Also, there’s currently a bit about sausages.

  • How many times/many years have you appeared at the Fringe?

This is my first time doing a standup hour! But I’ve been up with various sketch groups (including cult sketch men Princes of Main) every year since 2013.

  • What’s your most memorable moment from the Fringe?

This’ll be my sixth Fringe in one form or another, and every year the Fringe is a dense neutron star of mental memorabilia. It’s hard to choose. Seeing Bo Burnham’s show in 2013 sticks out.

  • What’s the worst thing about the Fringe?

It’s a dead heat! Between student acapella groups spontaneously breaking out in song in coffee shops and bars, and the acute melancholy of, maybe twice a day, seeing a flyer with your face on lodged in a drain pipe with a boot mark on it.

  • If you were not a performer what would you be doing?

Crying (more).

  • How do you prepare for a performance?

I try and learn the words.

The dead volcano, the architecture, the views, and Snax - a greasy spoon that is like a sort of beautiful bacon vault.

  • What’s the most Scottish thing you’ve ever done?

A braver comedian than I would say ‘heroin’.

  • Favourite Scottish food/drink?

Both haggis and whisky are up there. But you know what - the winner may well be square sausage. I like meat but I love right angles.

  • Sum up your show in three words

On this August.

Show summary

Ben Pope is an award-winning comedian and cosmopolitan mammal. In this, his debut hour of stand-up, the hapless beast tries to find a nest. Expect jokes and stories on millennial rootlessness, finding and escaping yourself, Scandinavia and milk. Piccadilly Comedy Club New Comedian of the Year 2017 and So You Think You're Funny finalist 2015. 

Ben Pope's new stand-up show, Baby Sasquatch, is on at Pleasance Courtyard - Bunker One, during August. For tickets, please visit www.edfringe.com

You can follow Ben on Twitter at @BenWPope