Jack Chisnall and Joshua Dolphin will be performing their debut Frigne show, Moon, at Pleasance Attic during August.
- Tell us about your Fringe show
We hawk up an hour of dark and dirty comedy sketches. But it’s not like the usual fare. It’s all kind of warped through our bleak provincial worldview. We’re two proud sons of Britain’s regional backwaters so we like to bring some of that into the jokes.
- How does it feel to be playing the Fringe for the first time?
It’s very exciting. Our room, the Pleasance Attic, is where the League of Gentlemen first performed at the Fringe so it feels like sacred ground. We solemnly promise not to defame it.
- Why did you decide to perform at the Fringe?
Even though it feels like YouTube should have long made live comedy obsolete, the Fringe stubbornly continues to be the wicker gate through which all the comedy greats pass. You win the people’s hearts at the Fringe, then you get to make telly programmes: them’s the rules. Long may it continue.
- If you were not a performer what would you be doing?
Without a regular release for our desperate longing for attention and approval? Doesn’t bear thinking about. Nightclub bouncers. Priests.
- How do you prepare for a performance?
Something of a ritual for us is that the projector we use for the show has some kind of meltdown and stops working roughly about 15 minutes before we start. It ensures we get that clammy, frazzled and preoccupied look on stage that punters love.
- Best/worst advice you’ve been given ahead of your debut show?
All the advice we’ve been given remains to be judged - for the meantime, my subconscious tries to feed me sketch ideas in the form of dreams. Had one recently when I thought I’d dreamed the best ever idea, woke up and scribbled it down feverishly, only to fall asleep again. When I woke up, I picked it up and it just read: “parents sue children?”. I was sad for a long time after that.
7 Favourite thing about being in Edinburgh?
Seeing how good everyone else’s stuff is. Always so humbling and inspiring. Painfully humbling.
8 What’s the most Scottish thing you’ve done?
We were once offered the chance to leave a political union with England, Wales and Northern Ireland, but totally bottled it. 9.30pm, Pleasance Attic, see you there.
- Favouite Scottish food/drink?
Irn-Bru, the Coca-Cola of soft drinks.
- Sum up your show in three words
Sketches in accents.
Show summary
Moon is a comedy double-act by Jack Chisnall and Joshua Dolphin, two proud sons of England’s provincial backwaters. They’ll be hawking up their brand of dark, unexpected, and immersive sketches at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe for the first time.
Jack Chisnall and Joshua Dolphin will be performing their debut Frigne show, Moon, at Pleasance Attic during August. For tickets, please visit www.edfringe.com
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