Could you first introduce yourself to the reader?
My name is Glenn Moore, I am a comedian and nephew to three gorgeous uncles.
How would you describe your show?
Well, my last show was about being forced to become the newsreader for Katie Hopkins’s radio show, the one before that was about applying for the first civilian mission to Mars after a break-up, and this one’s about working in a funeral home and having a vendetta against a lifeguard.
Why do you want to perform at Edinburgh Festival Fringe?
Because the burger vans elsewhere in the UK are quite frankly too reasonably priced. I want to have to go into my overdraft every time I ask for extra cheese. That and it’s a nice compartmentalised way of getting a hell of a lot of comedy fans in one city at one time.
What differentiates it from other festivals?
It’s not the only one in the UK that runs for that length of time, but it’s the only one where the performers stay there the entire time. Speaking entirely from a comedian’s perspective, it’s an opportunity for me to watch lots of great comedians’ shows that are all being performed in the same area and at the same time.
What first motivated you to enter the industry? Who were your inspirations?
My inspirations are nothing like my material – it was a lot of Lee Evans, Jim Carrey, Eddie Murphy, French & Saunders, and inexplicably…Jethro.
How has your background, upbringing and education had an impact on your artistic career?
It hasn’t! Nobody in my family works in any kind of performing arts or entertainment, which is…probably for the best?
What is your earliest childhood art memory?
I painstakingly applied lipstick to the entirety of my face when I was 1. I vividly remember doing that at that age, and also putting an entire bag of polyfiller down the toilet.
If you didn’t have your current job, what would you probably be doing?
I’d be doing the aforementioned newsreading job, I think, and going to comedy clubs every Friday and Saturday night, whispering to myself through gritted teeth “That should be me.”
Did Covid-19 change the way you create work? Do you approach shows with a different mentality now?
Definitely a more relaxed mentality now– I think going to the Fringe year after year with a pressure to perform a better show than the last can drive you insane, so it’s nice to fully start again from scratch.
Describe the last year in 5 words or less?
Learned to click my fingers.
Do you subscribe to the idea that art should be exempt from ‘cancel culture’?
I cannot think of anyone who has been supposedly ‘cancelled’ who hasn’t been convicted of, or admitted to, behaviour that would make you lose work in any other industry, so I don’t think the debate is even a valid one in the first place. That’s not me getting annoyed at being asked that in the first place, by the way, I’m incapable of getting annoyed.
If you could work with anybody, from any point in history, who would you pick and why?
I’d work with Genghis Khan, now. Really shake things up a bit I reckon.
What advice would you give to someone who wants to take a show up to the fringe?
Go when you’re ready. It will always be there (although I did say this in 2020 and was wrong two years in a row), so don’t rush a show that you’ll be unhappy with. Oh and have a banana every day.
When and where can people see your show?
Pleasance Courtyard’s Cabaret Bar, 4:05pm every day of the festival.
And where can people find, follow and like you online?
I’m on Twitter @thenewsatglenn and Instagram at @glennrogermoore and I can’t remember my Myspace password, so my account that I stopped using when I was 18 still exists as a dreadful snapshot of my personality as a teenager.
Glenn Moore’s new stand up show ‘Will You Still Need Me, Will You Still Feed Me, Glenn I’m Sixty Moore’ will be at the Pleasance Courtyard Cabaret Bar at 4.05pm for the month of August for tickets go to www.edfringe.com
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