Elf Lyons Returns

Elf Lyons, Queen of Edinburgh, returns to the show 8 years and 252 episodes later as we dig into the award winning show, The Woman on the Edge which combines the best of comedy, theatre, and performance art. We discuss:

what happens the moment people start saying your work is goodthe post-Fringe comedown and why it feels like a break-uphow her family taught her not to accept failurethe need to debate why something is funnywhy all clowns should do stand-up firsthow we get agency from turning what hurts into artand we find out if Elf is happy…

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