‘Am I going to get shot?’ Comedy’s wild pranksters on their most daring stunts

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They are the shock troops of comedy, pranksters who risk arrest and worse to ridicule the powerful. As two acclaimed practitioners – including the man who threw Nazi golfballs at Trump – hit Edinburgh, they relive their greatest scrapes

‘A bit of fun’ … Max Fosh’s Welcome to Luton sign, near Gatwick Airport.Into this lineage – “being silly, having fun, and putting a smile on people’s faces,” as he describes it – fits, a new prankster on the block brought to us by YouTube, and currently performing a fringe show too. But with Fosh’s work, there’s a twist. “I try to stay away from the word prank,” he tells me. “It has a negative connotation around there needing to be a victim. I don’t think people resonate with that any more.

Both brands of pranking are largely male, too – not that anyone I speak to wishes to discuss the fact. A reason for that gender bias may lie in the language its exponents use to describe the art form. “It’s like being a boxer,” says Brodkin, and later: “You probably need some good cojones on you.

 

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