Comedy / Milo Edwards
Rising standup star Milo Edwards brings UK tour show to The Gaffe
Essex comedian and podcaster Milo Edwards has had an unorthodox route to standup success.
Now based in London, he studied at the University of Cambridge, where he was a member of the Footlights and a student comic – before making the decision to move to Moscow back in 2015.
It was in Russia that he first gained TV popularity, becoming a regular on network comedy shows including Open Microphone and StandUp.
Returning to the UK three years later, Edwards made the acclaimed and award-winning Pindos, documenting his time as a comedian in Russia.
Subsequent Fringe shows Voicemail and Sentimental both met with a string of glowing reviews, award nominations, and transfers to the esteemed Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
Edwards has been continuing to build an audience by co-hosting a trio of podcasts: the political comedy show Trashfuture, which has featured guests including Rob Delaney, Josie Long, Nish Kumar and Owen Jones, Glue Factory, which is billed as the “dumbest smart podcast on the Internet”, and Masters of Our Domain, which combs “pop culture from about 1500BC to the present day”.
Following an Australian tour, he is now back home and taking his latest Fringe hour, How Revolting! Sorry to Offend, around the UK.
In the show, he proposes to answer “salient questions of modern British life”, including “who are the posh and what are they up to?
“Why can’t Danny Dyer and Boris Johnson fulfil their true destinies? And, under what circumstances can a man reasonably be expected to learn Dutch?”
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Milo Edwards: How Revolting! Sorry to Offend is at The Gaffe Comedy Club on December 2 and The Rondo, Bath on December 3. Find out more at www.miloedwards.co.uk or follow @milo_edwards.
All photos: Joshua Peroti
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