Bringing Down the Ceiling with a Smile As Festival Time Nears, Stephen K Amos Talks to Edd Mccracken About Pride, Prejudice and the Importance of Not Being Earnest
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Stephen K Amos is not a gay black comedian. Well, actually he is. Just don't call him that. Even as one of the most popular performers on the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, he attracts adjectives more readily than awards, but uses his default manner to dismiss them: bonhomie washed down with a baritone chuckle.
"There is a lot more to me than just those two things, " he says. "I would loathe to be known as 'that gay black comedian'." As the Fringe creeps closer this week, he will be swatting away other labels that are flitting around him. One such tag, fuelled by his having already sold out several dates for his show The Feelgood Factor in the Pleasance Grand and rumours of major BBC deals, is "next big thing".See the full content of this document
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Bringing Down the Ceiling with a Smile As Festival Time Nears, Stephen K Amos Talks to Edd Mccracken About Pride, Prejudice and the Importance of Not Being Earnest
But when we meet on a balmy, mid-July afternoon, he is Stephen K Amos, the actor, locked away in a rehearsal studio in north London, the traditional staging post for an assault on the Fringe, rehearsing his other Edinburgh project: RB Sheridan's high-society bitchfest School for Scandal. It i...
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