Samantha Baines
- Actor and stand-up comedian
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Edinburgh Fringe Festival: a performer's guide
It's here! That crazy month where tons of creative, funny and just down right weird performers (myself included) flock to Scotland for a month of drinking, flyering and probably some performing. This shall be my sixth Edinburgh so it's about time I wrote a "A Guide to the Edinburgh Fringe" blog, I mean everyone else has. This is all genuine advice to make your fringe that little bit easier...
Samantha Baines, The Huffington Post, 1st August 2014Why are there no female comics at the V Festival?
So, there are absolutely no women in the V Festival comedy line-up. Not one, in a list of over 30 comedians! Surely this is craziness. In a year when the BBC have announced there will be at least one woman on every panel show, and after the nationwide outcry when comedian Jenny Collier was cancelled from a line-up due to "too many women on the bill": Is this really acceptable? Didn't they get the memo? "We are trying not to be sexist about women in comedy anymore". Tut.
Samantha Baines, The Huffington Post, 25th May 2014