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'Comedy in the woke world'

'Comedy in the woke world'

An open letter to Nica Burns, director of the Edinburgh Comedy Awards

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James Harris
Sep 21, 2022
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Dear Nica

I hope you are well and congratulations on another successful Edinburgh Fringe for 2022. I know many of the acts who absolutely smashed it this year, and I was delighted to see them doing so well.

Since 2019, I’ve been developing and touring my own show, ‘The Palace of Earthly Delights’, and it now feels ready to take it to Edinburgh.

Yet that’s …

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