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1999: Phil Nichol (Is A Puppet)
The following year, 1999, was difficult one. Buoyed by the overwhelming success of the previous year and hoping to exploit the Time Out Comedy Award 1998 the producers decided to move my show to The Pleasance upstairs at a 9pm timeslot. This show was the most complex and intricate monologue show that I had yet[…..]
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Categories: Edinburgh, Standup.1998: Phil Nichol
This eponymous third show was supposed to have been called Phil Nichol is Brigitta Von Trapp but a move to the Pleasance with the Off the Kerb agency meant that I dispensed with fancy titles and wore a suit in the publicity material. The show, however, continued stylistically with short sharp character monologues and songs[…..]
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Categories: Edinburgh, Standup.1997: Phil Nichol Is A Spy
was my second Edinburgh Fringe show a year later, 1997, again in the Gilded Balloon’s Wee Room. It continued stylistically with short fast-paced monologues and songs, however, in this show I thread a long personal story throughout the monologues. It was the story of an emotional breakdown that I had suffered in Cork, Ireland caused[…..]
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Categories: Edinburgh, Standup.1996: Phil Nichol Is Schizo
was my first solo Edinburgh Fringe show that I performed daily in the Wee Room at the Gilded Balloon in 1996. It was a mad mixture of short fast-paced monologues and songs with no costume changes and only brief blackouts between each character. All the thirty-some characters in this show were related by their questionable[…..]
