Spirits Of The Fringe

The creator of cult immersive comedy show Butt Kapinski on the importance of clowning, getting women to find their inner male chauvinist and getting the audience to love you.

www.buttkapinski.com

Rabble-rouser and mistress of chaos Miss Behave talks to Alexis from her Las Vegas lodgings. She discusses the unexpected longevity of her subversive, sarcastic Game Show in Vegas, the origins of the show and what she learned from her sword-swallowing street performer days. www.missbehavegameshow.com

A transcontinental link-up, chatting to the acclaimed Australian comedy storyteller about his nomadic lifestyle, Making It, not being a young man dressed as a gorilla dressed as an old man, and how an unlikely art exhibition kicked off his fringe festival career.www.jonbennettcomedy.com

Alternative comedy champion Martin Soan on the anarchic early days of the UK's alternative comedy scene and Edinburgh Fringe, stealing Freddie Mercury's birthday cake and what really awaits at the gates of Hell.

Portrait by Heidi Harrington (http://heidiharrington.com/standupsittingexhibition.html)

Absurdist UK comedian John-Luke Roberts on the excitement of true idiocy, establishing the Alternative Comedy Memorial Society and staging things that should never be staged. www.johnlukeroberts.co.ukwww.noblefailure.org

Trevor Lock, instigator and ringleader of Community Circle, talks to Alexis about creating a cult show by accident, managing people's expectations of entertainment with "no content" and disproving the existence of reality.www.trevorlock.co

Alexis talks to self-described "clever idiot" Lucy Hopkins about the perils of performing rituals in a spiegeltent at Edinburgh Fringe at midnight, empowering an audience, the joy of silence (and the theremin) and how (and why) to perform a show using only a scarf.www.lucyhopkins.com