“It’s full of chaos, clowning and psychical comedy with the simple aim of making people laugh!”
WHO: Oliver Fife-Nilsson
WHAT: “Sexy dads, vacuum cleaners, the German State Theatre… Welcome to Mime Club. Enjoy the pandemonium. From the minds of acclaimed idiots Jon and Ollie comes a new show packed with psychical comedy, chaos and clowning. Prepare yourself for an hour of multi award-winning sketches from the Jon and Ollie universe, each one more ludicrous than the last. Mime Club is a dream* come true for comedy lovers. *If your dreams are about Kenneth Branagh and houmous-loving fauns.”
WHERE: Gilded Balloon Patter House – Coorie (Venue 24)
WHEN: 14:20 (60 min)
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Is this your first time to Edinburgh?
This is my fourth time at Edinburgh Fringe and I’m as excited as if it was my first! Edinburgh Fringe is THE arts fringe – the biggest, the best and the most diverse. You can come back with the same show and still have a new experience – there are always new audiences – or you can come back with a new show each time and every night can feel like the first night. It’s all fresh and new, and the community is a supportive one. For me, every year has been like a new experience. The last two years at Edinburgh I was part of a kids show, Strictly Barking, and this year I’ll be performing some alternative sketch comedy for MIME CLUB – a very different show with an adult audience in mind! I can’t wait to see how it will be received.
What are the big things you’ve learned since 2023 and have you absorbed any of the lessons yet?
I want to say that I’ve learned to schedule myself better and will make a packed lunch every day this year, but I don’t know if I have yet! Last year I definitely tried to do both, but it takes just one night of ‘oh yeah, let’s stay and see this!’ to make you oversleep so you don’t have time to make food to bring with you so you have to visit Mosque Kitchen again for some delicious curry (which I love, but I think my bank balance does not! At least, after the 10th visit it doesn’t). We all know that being at the Fringe can be a bit pricey and I’d rather spend my budget on supporting fellow artists and creatives that on another vegan sausage roll. Everyone works so hard – and as I said before, Edinburgh is THE fringe to be at – so you want to make sure that people don’t miss their shot at touring and support them with a ticket to their show. It’s hard work and you want it to pay off for everyone.
Tell us about your show.
MIME CLUB is absurd, alternative sketch comedy show we’re performing at Gilded Balloon in the Patterhoose. It’s a new show having previewed at Glasgow Comedy Festival in March this year. MIME CLUB is totally mad – think dinosaurs, sexy dads, the German State Theatre and vacuum cleaners and you’ll still never guess what’s going to happen next. It’s full of chaos, clowning and psychical comedy with the simple aim of making people laugh!
This year we were amazingly grateful to be a Keep It Fringe funding recipient from the Edinburgh Fringe Society. It’s genuinely humbling to see them have faith in MIME CLUB. Now we just want to show them that it was all worth it!
What should your audience see at the festivals after they’ve seen your show?
There are so many things people should see but some highlights include – I am Claire Parry, we met while studying at Jacques Le Coq and I can’t wait to see their new standup show and Just Aretha at Greenside. My wife performed with her previously and saw an early piece of the show – it’s a self-biographical tale of what it really means to be a black woman living with disability in the UK, with a good amount of humour too! I’ve also got to recommend Old Man at Summerhall, performed by my colleague Jon (and I directed it!) for his funny yet moving performance (only on until 11th August so don’t miss it!), as well as MUSH by Jeromiah Detto (Underbelly) for an hour of clowning fun. Sam Blythe’s hour-long one-man-show of Hamlet, Method in my Madness, is something I am looking forward to seeing at Assembly, as well as Josh Glanc: Family Man, which is a new show performing at Monkey Barrel. He’s an amazing comic and I can only imagine that his latest show will be as brilliant as his previous ones. Also – John-Luke Roberts is going ALL TEN of his previous shows and I recommend all of them.
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