Brighton Fringe Show 3 was Hot Hot Hot

After a weekend off to recharge we found ourselves back at The Temple Bar on a boiling hot Saturday afternoon to deliver the third show in our four show run. With the temperature approaching thirty degrees we figured we'd be lucky to get double figures. It doesn't matter how good the comedy is - when the sun comes out you're basically ruined.

However, my pessimism was dealt an early blow twenty minutes before showtime when a taxi of four pulled up and told me they'd come for the show as I handed them a flyer. Brighton's Fringe Guide is a pricey beast to be listed in (£140 regardless of the number of shows you're doing) but it is effective at getting the people in. By the time I'd hit play on the intro track we had 25 or so bums on seats.

Performing in a sweat box is hard and, having found out how to make the spotlights work, we were melting from the off. The crowd were up for it though and joined in enthusiastically from the first hand clap. For an afternoon show there was a surprising amount of smut and drug talk from those watching but it was good natured and we kept things rolling. Anna and I got a good few improv'd one-liners in off the back of the crowd chat and even the two enormous dogs who were sat with their owner in one of the booths seemed to like it.

Fifty minutes later we we delivering our bucket speech with a degree of what some might call professionalism and sure enough most of what went in folded and we made more than with the capacity room two weeks ago. They may have been collapsing in the heat but they clearly enjoyed themselves.

Next Saturday is out last show of this fringe and it's sandwiched between an appearance in a church (yes, really) and the Laughing Horse comp show we've done twice already. We're in Hastings just over a week after that and we've just announced our London preview this evening. All is looking good for Ed this summer.