Comedy quintet Racing Minds talk about their 2015 show, Aaaand Now For Something Completely Improvised.

1. Tell us about your career so far. Are you happy with where you're at?

We have been making up madcap stories for 6 years now, and it has taken us around the world and elevated us to Edinburgh Fringe cult favourites, so it's been a very merry ride indeed! We would like to be able to do this all the time, forever, though, so if any rich benefactors with clean human rights records want to sponsor some jobbing clowns get in touch. We are happy with where we at, but we don't want it to be the end of the journey.

2. Describe your show in exactly 23 words.

There are about that many in our mammoth show title, so that covers most of it. Otherwise we peddle stuff like, "Based entirely on audience suggestions a mystery stuffed with hilarious characters, whip-smart wit and breathtaking twists will take hasty shape before your very eyes." That was 24. Ditch "and", then, they'll get the gist.

3. Why are you putting yourself through this famously stressful experience?

"If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won't see why we go."
- Edmund Hillary

4. Any cunning plans to get more punters in?

We make it different every day, so that people can just watch it again and again. Very canny.

5. How much money do you think you'll lose/make this year?

We will be rich in laughs! (Help us, please God help us, we're going to be so so poor...)

6. What's your weirdest past Fringe experience?

If you asked that to our audiences they would probably say our show...

7. What other shows are you hoping to see?

Nautilus, Aunty Donna, Cariad & Paul, Lazy Susan and Ivo Graham, plus most of the rest as well.

8. If you took over programming a venue, what would you perfect line-up of comedians be?

Tim Key, Hans Teeuwen, a live third series of Spaced, Chris Morris, Monty Python, Ivor Cutler, The Goons and Led Zeppelin.

9. Name the one person you'd rather not bump into during the festival.

The families of the five improvised comedians who we brutally murdered before stealing their identities, clothes and show.

10. Why should audiences pick your show over the 1,700+ other comedy offerings at this year's festival?

Aaaand Now For Something Completely Improvised, Aaaand Now For Something Completely Improvised, Aaaand Now For Something Completely Improvised, AAAAND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY IMPROVISED... there, now they will remember the name when they otherwise have a brain fade at the box office.

'Aaaand Now For Something Completely Improvised' is at 12pm at Pleasance Dome on 5-31 August. Listing