Voicebox: Edinburgh Fringe

"More niche audiences are coming out to see things, which means a group like ours which has a pretty minimal amount of straight white men has been able to find success."

"We have a really annoying conservative minister in New Zealand who often is saying really frustrating things publicly, and that will always inspire me to create something quite gay in response."

"I'm an entertainer, not a social commentator. I like those who do that style if it's done well. I just want to make people laugh and tell a great yarn."

"I am not the Clive Anderson who tweets very day about Brexit, or the Clive Anderson who writes about the Bible or the Clive Anderson who runs an auction hose in America."

"The honest answer is I don’t know. I’ve realised that’s one of the smartest answers you can give sometimes apart from on exam questions."

"When I go into my gay jokes in some rooms, they feel it as a political attack when it’s purely me trying to discuss my life. That sentiment has increased in certain rooms over the past 4 years."

"Edinburgh Fringe gets into your bones, you breathe it in every morning and shit it out at night. It’s beautiful and exhausting and all-encompassing and unique."

"Number one piece of advice: don't go until you KNOW you are ready. The biggest mistake is someone doing their first hour too early."

"I prefer to take a moment to reflect on my thoughts and try and see every side of the equation before and if I commentate. I believe in today’s society people are to swift to react."

"Politics wasn’t really something Americans cared about prior to 2016, whereas now people really do care and for good reason, it just doesn’t make them laugh."

"Being a raving buffoon for the enjoyment of others is all I’ve ever been good at."

"I have a family link to the Great British Music Hall where my great grandfather plied his trade as a comedian."