2011 Edinburgh Fringe

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Fresh from the Montreal Just for Laughs festival, award winning Fringe favourite Sammy J returns with a freshly baked tray of stories, songs, and quizzical expressions. You are welcome to join him. Anything could happen. You will enjoy it... potentially.

Reeling from a cult smash hit with Sammy J in the Forest of Dreams and never looking back, Sammy J is fast becoming one of the Fringe's skinniest, but by no means, smallest, legends. His 2009 solo show 1999 received rave reviews and sell-out audiences, last year's Skinny Man, Modern World repeated the whole process (there is a rumour that Sammy was even mobbed by a greengrocer. If you saw the show, you'd understand), cementing his emergent reputation as one of the most exciting and inventive comics on the international circuit.

Born in 1983 without incident, Sammy spent his teenage years avoiding alcohol, watching Disney films, and writing songs about his teachers. At 15 he performed awkwardly on an Australian TV talent show, but it wasn't until 2003 that Sammy formally arrived on the stand-up circuit. His first solo show won the Best Newcomer award at the 2006 Melbourne International Comedy Festival, and since then regular television appearances in his homeland have won him a swag of followers, alongside his award-winning collaborations with puppeteer Heath McIvor. He has most recently released a solo DVD, 58 Kilograms of Pure Entertainment, and has also launched the ridiculously ambitious 50 Year Show, a comedy spectacular that will continue until 2058.