Pippa Evans new comedy show ‘Joy Provision!” will be at the Pleasance Courtyard Cabaret Bar during August.

1 Tell us about your Fringe show

My show is a joyous celebration of everything that is wrong in the world and everything that is fabulous. There be songs, there be laughter there be grammatical errors.

2 Best thing about the Fringe?

Eating haggis for breakfast, lunch and tea, interspersed with trips to fabulously to watch talented performers do fabulous things.

3 Worst thing about the Fringe?

When the flyers mix with the rain. It’s like papier-mâché lava, pouring down the Royal Mile.

4 How many years have you been coming to the Fringe?

I first visited the fringe in 2004. I did my first show in 2005 and my first solo show in 2008. So 12 years! This will be my 9th solo show. 

5 Favourite Fringe venue?

I love the Pleasance Courtyard -it is so buzzy and you know you are going to have a good time the minute you pass though the entrance arch (and have a joke with Gaz on Security).

6 Best Fringe memory?

Running from Newsrevue in the C Venues (this is 2007) to Pleasance Above to do Scratch Improv, which I would run into late, and have to join in the show without knowing what was happening. It was really exciting!

7 Best heckle?

“I think I love you” during a pause in a song. It was so sincere and clearly had just slipped out, that we all fell about laughing and I ended my set there.

8 Craziest on stage experience?

Probably the time a bar room brawl started on account of me pouring some beer on a man’s head, due to his continued repetition of the phrase “Show us your tits.” It was terrifying, exhilarating and beautiful all in one. Like a scene out of a movie that would be cut because it was too unbelievable. 

9 How do you wind down after a show?

A cup of tea and an episode of something non-taxing - like Love Island or Friends. 

10 What do you love about Scotland?

The freshness of the air. The humour of the people. The music in the pubs. The fact the pubs close when they like, not at 11pm. 

11 What do you like about Edinburgh?

I love the posh ladies of MorningSide. Their clipped tones make me feel like I am in a Miss Marple book or something. An air of suspicion is always there in the most gentle of tasks, such as offering you a piece of shortbread.

12 Favourite Scottish food/drink?

I always have a can of Irn Bru before a show. And I love haggis SO MUCH. 

13 Sum up your show in three words

Joyful! Joyful! Joyful!

Pippa Evans new comedy show ‘Joy Provision!” will be at the Pleasance Courtyard Cabaret Bar for the month of August for tickets go to www.edfringe.com