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Glasgow International Comedy Festival Q&A: Ben Target

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Tell us a bit about your show.

My show is an utter delight*.

Ingredients: 3 x funny stories about being broken up with, 2 x excellent jokes, 1 x dangerous stunt, 0.5 x brief discussion on the meaning of "home", a sprinkling of quality references to genitalia, and free compliments for everyone in the audience.

*It's on 30th March, 6:30pm, The Vacant Space. Tickets at glasgowcomedyfestival.com

Do you have any top tips for anything else visitors should do while in Glasgow?

Come see my show first (30th March, 6:30pm, The Vacant Space). Then let's go for a drink: we'll pile into The Laurieston bar for some pints and pies and then hit The Star Folk Club to get our groove on (in a considered, corduroy-clad way)

Who would you recommend comes to see you at the festival?

Anyone with a pulse, but especially: The freaks, geeks and alt-chics,

The rockers, rollers and tea-time strollers.

The daydreamers, heart-on-sleevers, better-world-believers,

The kindly, gentle, uncool and overly sentimental.

The artists, slackers and backpackers,

The well travelled, the overlooked and the undervalued - for these are my people!

Oh, and any eccentric, prejudice-free billionaires who want to fund my creative endeavours and/or hedonistic pursuits.

And who would you suggest maybe doesn't?

Cattle.

What sets your show apart from others in the programme?

It will be the only show with an impersonation of a hermit crab paying rent for a shell it can't fit into.

(Unless all the other comedians read this and rip me off.)

What's next for you after the Glasgow International Comedy Festival?

Come see me at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, where I'll perform a show about love called: Six Endings in Search of a Beginning. 2nd August onwards, 2:10pm, The Hive on Niddry Street.

Ben Target : Work in Progress

ARG at The Vacant Space

Saturday 30 March

6.30pm

Photo credit: Ed Moore

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