What ‘doing the Edinburgh Festival’ means to comedians and why it’s your civic duty to attend

The Outsiders: Up next in his series, comedian Dan Antopolski guides us through the festival’s jargon and his early years among comedy greats

If someone asks you if you are doing Edinburgh and you are only performing for part of the festival, you may answer yes, but you must rush to provide specifics, for to do Edinburgh truly is to be assumed to join in the comradeship of adrenaline, fatigue, ambition, debt and the alternating euphoria and depression of the gigs, which vary wildly in character and success from one night to the next, pummelling your heart.

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