Cambridge Footlights: 10 Edinburgh Fringe questions

The Cambridge Footlights answer 10 questions about their 2016 Edinburgh Fringe show...

Give us a quick overview of your comedy career so far. Are you happy with where you're at?

The cast of Lagoon have, naturally, been comedically inclined since birth. They say that babies start finding random things amusing from the age of around three months, and the cast were all particularly gurgling infants. It wasn't until arriving at university in 2013 that the cast actually started writing and performing sketches.

Happy? We will never be satisfied until there are 7 billion people watching a projection of our show on the moon. Keep pushing.

Tell us two truths and one lie about yourself (but mix them up, keep us guessing!).

1) We enjoy doing questionnaires.

2) We don't enjoy doing questionnaires.

3) We are indifferent towards doing questionnaires.

Describe your new show in exactly 23 words.

We think that it is utterly and most pressingly important to be concise when giving thorough and detailed descriptions of a show. It --

Any cunning plans to get more punters in?

We plan to commit large-scale banking fraud. Any publicity is good publicity.

What's your plan for trying to eat - and drink - healthily during the Fringe?

The plan is to go on regular 'cleanses' - that is, giving ourselves the shits at regular intervals.

What will you miss most while you're away from home?

The Westminster Bubble, of course.

Aside from performing, what else are you looking forward to doing in Scotland's fine capital?

Attending the Edinburgh International Youth Culture Summit.

If you took over programming a Fringe venue, what would your perfect line-up of comedians be?

Chris Morris, SpyMonkey, Richard Pryor, Orson Welles, Ab Fab, Bridget Christie, JK Rowling, and Ian Brown from the Stone Roses.

Name the one person you'd rather not bump into during the festival.

Lord Liverpool, a famously dull 19th century Prime Minister. What a bore he was, and yet he still didn't resolve the issue of Catholic Emancipation; he left that thorny issue to his successors. Remind you of anyone?

Why should audiences pick your show over the 1,800+ other Fringe offerings listed on BCG this year?

Because they kept reading until the end of the questionnaire, and that's a sign.

'The Cambridge Footlights International Tour Show 2016: Lagoon' is at Assembly Roxy at 6:55pm until the 29th August. Listing