Edinburgh Fringe only for the wealthy, says comedian Richard Herring
Herring found fame in the 1990s with comedy partner Stewart Lee. They met at Oxford University before going on to create cult BBC sketch show Fist of Fun.A regular fixture in Edinburgh in August, he says he has performed at the Fringe 27 times over the last 35 years.
Accommodation costs were prohibitively expensive and performers with smaller audiences were likely to end up in thousands of pounds worth of debt, he added. But he added: "Being able to go back every year to improve and experiment has been key to the limited success that I have enjoyed. If we lost money we were likely to get a job from the Fringe that would pay back some or all of the debt.
"A lot of these people, your standard fringe act, they'll have gone to public school, they'll have gone to Oxbridge.
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