Joz Norris Is Dead. Long Live Mr Fruit Salad. - British Comedy Guide (original) (raw)

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It feels strange to recommend a show in which the main star is absent, but Joz Norris's replacement Mr Fruit Salad does a remarkable job. He is new to the circuit, but he certainly has ambition... you just have to make sure that he has got the right show theme.

Joz Norris has retired or possibly died, who cares? All that matters is Mr Fruit Salad, a fictional chimaera he created as a form of self-care, has developed autonomy and is putting on a solo show. Absurdist meditation on anxiety and grief performed by an idiot from Pontefract who doesn't exist. Sell-out show at VAULT Festival and Leicester Comedy Festival 2019. As seen/heard on BBC3, Channel 4, ITV2, Dave and BBC Radio 4. 'An absolute idiot... Simple, silly and screamingly funny' (Fest). 'A comedy legend' (ToDoList.org.uk).

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Joz Norris interview

Joz Norris has retired or possibly died, who cares? All that matters is Mr Fruit Salad, a fictional chimaera he created as a form of self-care, has developed autonomy and is putting on a solo show.

Keira Brown, The Fountain, 13th August 2019

Nightmare audience members

We asked performers going to the Fringe who they would least like to see in the audience of their show...

British Comedy Guide, 10th August 2019

Edinburgh Festivals: light in dark times

Everything sucks. Everything's...mucked up. We live in difficult, polarised times, with people and institutions exposed as flawed and failing. The festivals are no exception, but is there light in the darkness? Fest finds out.

Fest Mag, 23rd July 2019

Q&A: Joz Norris as Mr Fruit Salad

Deadline at the Fringe are interviewing performers across the festival, putting 20 questions to them - both as an artist and as their stage or performance alter ego.

Lucy Samson, Deadline News, 23rd July 2019

Interview with Joz Norris

"I never really wanted to be a stand-up, I wanted to make comedy, and I guess the live circuit, specifically the Fringe, is a way of building up your ability and your self-belief and your repertoire in the hope of one day making that big thing."

Tom Inniss, Voice Magazine, 19th July 2019

Random 8: Joz Norris

Before his double-pronged return to the Edinburgh Fringe, the cerebral-but-silly Joz Norris wants to blow your mind about butterflies.

British Comedy Guide, 2nd July 2019

+3 interview: Joz Norris Is Dead

"I went to Morocco with my friend and trekked into the Atlas Mountains and climbed the third-tallest mountain in Africa and it made me burst into tears. Gotta remember to actually live your life, y'know?"

Dan Lentell, Edinburgh49, 2nd July 2019

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