Kate Lucas: 10 Edinburgh Fringe questions

Kate Lucas answers 10 questions about her 2016 Edinburgh Fringe show...

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

I started going to open mics regularly around 2010/11 and I don't think I ever said no to anything anyone asked me to do for a year. Then eventually my boss in my day job told me he thought it would be a good idea if I gigged less, slept more and stopped bursting into tears for no reason.

Then I started to get paid work and I won the LeIcester Mercury Award in 2014 and that moved me on a bit. I did a few compilation shows in Edinburgh and now I'm doing my first full hour.

I get superstitious saying I'm excited about things, as though saying that will ruin it but I am quite excited and I'm happy to be up here and happy with where I'm at. I also have an absolutely shocking sense of direction so I'm always amazed I'm anywhere.

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

1. I once got thrown out of a pub for singing power ballads on the pool table.

2. I used to have a pet snail called Malcolm.

3. I used to call my headteacher Spanky.

Describe your new show in exactly 23 words.

I had a near death experience - which was in no way near death - and did a ridiculous hour long show about my "death".

Any cunning plans to get more punters in?

My housemate has offered to bake cookies and entice them in with the smell. But she's a dodgy character so I'm cautious.

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

Lie to myself for days one and two and then fess up to myself that I don't do yoga OR drink green tea and I probably never will and drink solidly for 27 days I imagine.

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

I always fall asleep watching a comedy DVD because I need a bit of noise to sleep, so I'll miss my own bed and the TV in my room. I'd say I'll miss London but if you regularly get the tube in rush hour it'll take more than a month to really miss London.

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

I've never climbed Arthur's seat because I'm against exercise, but this might be the year I do it. But I'd sort of rather just be at the top rather than climb to it.

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

Hmm if I was going to have a few super famous names it would probably be Amy Schumer, Louis CK and Flight of the Conchords and then I'd have Tony Law, Lou Sanders, Tom Allen and Nick Helm.

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

I would rather not bump into some of the people I mention in my songs. I may have been less than appropriate about them.

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

I hope there's something in it for everyone. There are songs about religion, office work, making a man out of dead people, quite a range... Also, every time some one doesn't come to my show a puppy dies.

'Kate Lucas: Whatever Happened to Kate Lucas?' is at Pleasance Courtyard at 10:30pm until the 28th August. Listing