Ike Ufomadu on his debut Fringe show and PowerPoint

Emmy-nominated comedian Ikechukwu Ufomadu makes his Edinburgh debut in Amusements, a rigorously non-sensical piece of comic entertainment that examines universal themes like "Numbers", "The Alphabet", and "Humankind's Unyielding Search for Meaning in a World That Denies Us Easy Answers".

Ike tells us more about Amusements, his multi-faceted performance and what makes Microsoft PowerPoint so bloody good...

You do theatre, stand-up, alt-comedy, sketch and character - and you sing?! That sounds like a lot. Is all of that in the show?

Steve Martin once told me (by way of me reading his memoir Born Standing Up) that the late, great Johnny Carson - after doing a perfect impression of the Disney character Goofy on The Tonight Show - turned to him during a commercial break and said, "You'll use everything you ever knew". And I think this is true for Amusements. All of the modes of comic performance you mentioned have indeed found their way into the show because in my desperation to give the audience quality entertainment, I am using everything I ever knew.

The show is called Amusements: does it have a theme?

I think the show is themeless. That said, there are certainly some threads of interest that seem to have woven themselves into the show. One might see the show and find themselves reconsidering the line between seriousness and play, statecraft and stagecraft or sense and nonsense. I don't have any conscious intention of having the audience leave the show with any big thematic takeaways... but I can't speak for my subconscious.

Imagine Amusements is now a blockbuster movie. Who would play you and what would the tagline be?

The nuance and depth necessary to bring it to the big screen rules out most actors, save two-time Academy Award winner and Elder Statesman of Cinema Denzel Washington. As for a tagline... how about, "Set your sequiturs to 'non'."

What's your favourite Microsoft PowerPoint feature? And why?

Power users of PowerPoint know that it's not any one individual feature that makes it sing. It's all the features, working together in perfect harmony, that's captured the hearts and minds of the makers of slide shows the world over. Any old piece of software can give you the tools you need to make a Point. But only one will give you the tools you need to give that Point, Power. And that's PowerPoint.

You were nominated for an Emmy last year, but sadly didn't take home the prize. If you had done, what would you have said in your acceptance speech?

It's hard to know exactly what I would have said, though I'm fairly confident I would have said words. Having said that, I'm now intrigued by the idea of an acceptance speech that's only made up of sounds. In the spirit of exploration, perhaps it's time to push the boundaries of what we as a society accept as an acceptance speech.