“Egg freezing, a luxury for the privileged, ravaged my savings and left me in a new pit of insecurity, which a recession probably didn’t help with.”
WHO: Anna Beros
WHAT: “From Slut City comes an hour of honest loving stand-up. Would a hoe by any other name stank as sweet? And why not go pro? Can we reward ourselves without rimming junkiedom? What’s up with narcissists? How much motherhood can you afford? Lovingly pegging social norms from behind with warming, incisive stand-up and playful audience interaction, High Hoe is Anna’s third solo hour following Creampie Curious and Creampie Clarity, which both had successful Fringe runs 2023-2024. Anna’s an Aussie, independent full-time stand-up comedian based in Berlin, performing since 2018.”
WHERE: Little Cellar at Laughing Horse @ West Nic Records (Venue 442)
WHEN: 22:00 (60 min)
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Is this your first time to Edinburgh?
This is my 3rd time at EdFringe and I’m so excited to be bringing my 3rd solo hour as well as an afternoon ad lib stand-up show with audience participation. I love Edfringe because it’s a stand-up comedian’s paradise. To be able to perform your solo every day for a month? And to savvy stand-up audiences? And then to perform on all the other compilation shows? Sharing stages with new colleagues and old friends from around the world? It’s a feast of stage-time, a friend frenzy, an energy management bootcamp, and a buzzing microcosm of stimulation and inspiration. So naturally, I can’t wait to gourge myself and level up my craft again, but with all the lessons from the previous two years.
What are the big things you’ve learned since 2024 and have you absorbed any of the lessons yet?
The biggest lessons I’ve learnt since 2024 are that something will always be stressing you out, and once that’s resolved, something else will take its place. In 2024, planning for when I might want to have a kid consumed me – the importance of motherhood, in what forms I could experience it, how and when I might be able to do it as I approach 40. So motherhood and freedoms are massive themes of High Hoe.
Now in 2025, financial stability has been my biggest stress. Egg freezing, a luxury for the privileged, ravaged my savings and left me in a new pit of insecurity, which a recession probably didn’t help with.
So realising, if it’s not one thing, it’s something else, has helped me to get a lot of perspective and enjoy what I do have.
On the topic of planning for the future, I learnt that you’ll go crazy if you try to make decisions based on desires you think you will have in the future. Plan for the future you want, but don’t let that destroy what you want for right now.
Another invaluable lesson that applies to a career in comedy, but relates to other spheres has been, when you feel like you’re not progressing, just zoom out a little further and you’ll see that on a bigger scale, you are still moving forward and improving.
Tell us about your show.
High Hoe is an hour of my best material from club sets, worked on in 2023 to 2024, bound in narrative, which debuted January 2025 in Berlin. I’ve been performing a minimum of 5 shows per week for the last 7 years. I self-produce and toured my last 2 solos around Europe, EdFringe, Adelaide Fringe, Melbourne International Comedy Festival and Leicester Comedy Festival. High Hoe has so far toured through Germany and Luxembourg and will be touring Lisbon, Barcelona, Eastern and Northern Europe and the Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2026.
What should your audience see at the festivals after they’ve seen your show?
Mike Rice is a dear friend and stand-up legend who I try to see whenever we’re in the same place. His show this year is Mike Rice: Cruel Little Man, and he’s my favourite kind of hilarious, nasty.
Sofia May, with her first solo hour and full festival run: 9/11 Birds and the Bees. Sofia loves playing with the darkness and pushing everything she can and I love it. I’ve seen her start out and blossum in the Berlin comedy scene and at EdFringe. This show is so perfectly located in the Flight Club room that looks like you’re on a plane. If you want a 9/11 experience, don’t miss this.
Kirsty Munro: 2 Slut Drops and a Chicken Burger. Kirsty’s a Fringe legend, authentic, hilarious, cheeky, silly, top-notch vibes. Also Masai Graham’s 101 Naughty Jokes in 30 Minutes!
Kyle Legacy – any of his shows. You’ll be lucky if you don’t see him. Joke! He gets up on so many shows and has a bunch of his own, the naughtiest probably being Comedy Striptease.
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