What’s your show called for Edinburgh Fringe 2025?

The Listies: Make Some Noise! It’s a live comedy gig for kids (and their grown-ups) that turns music history, toilet humour, and absurdity into a 55-minute sketch, song, Think: a musical education with fart jokes, wacky arm inflatable tube men and the world’s ugliest baby.

How long have you been doing the Edinburgh Fringe?

This will be our 12th (!)  Fringe. We first came in 2009 with a show that involved fewer nappies but just as many props!

How do you cope with the overwhelming chaos that the Fringe brings?

TUNNUCKS TEA CAKES. Meditation (accidental naps). And deeply unhelpful advice from our stage manager like “Just breathe” as we run through a crowd holding a banana, costumes, and a slide whistle

ALSO: Don’t forget to get away from the Fringe for an arvo- climb the crag, go to the beach oh, and eat a vegetable.

What sort of shows will you see if you have time?

Of course we will have time- it’s why we are there! We love weird, wonderful theatre for young audiences from all around the world, puppets made out of junk, clown shows that feel like a fever dream, and any gig that has props you can’t take on a plane. Very novel to us Australians.

Have you performed at any other Fringe festivals?

Yes! We’ve played just about every major Fringe in Australia – Melbourne, Perth, Adelaide – and even gone international with Dublin Fringe, Edinburgh, Brighton and Busan Comedy Festival in South Korea.

If so which has been your favourite so far?

Edinburgh still takes the tea cake. The scale, the energy, the sheer number of flyers you’ll accidentally take home in your pockets. We love it here.

Any advice to newbies about flyering?

Costumes help. So do jokes.

Our actual advice is simple: Edinburgh has 2 types of people, A: People who want to find out about a show and B: people who don’t. The only way to find out is to ask them.

Don’t take it personally if they are category B people! They are just living their life. And Most towns DON’T contain category A people at all so count yourself lucky!

Do it with a smile for 26 days and then have a rest.

What are your plans for the show after the Edinburgh Fringe?

Thanks to our friends at House of Oz, we go to London for the Little Angel Puppet Festival, and ArtsDepot shows,  then Chester Storyhouse. Then back to our Australia tour- tell your aussie mates and any kangaroos you are in contact with! We’re also recording more podcast episodes (The Listies Make U Lolcast) , and working on the sequel to our latest joke book. THIS BOOK IS A JOKE!

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