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You gig and gig and wonder what your first Edinburgh show will be like, if people will like it, and when they do, it just feels like it validates the last few years of your life, and that you're on the right track.
- Rachel Parris
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I've been a musician and a songwriter for years, since I was a teenager, and made my living doing that on and off for a long time, so when it came to writing comedy material, it was the thing that came easiest to me, the most natural way of writing.
- Rachel Parris
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I started doing improv comedy in 2007, and I think it was that that gave me the confidence to try doing stand-up!
- Rachel Parris
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There is almost no topic that can't benefit from being talked about in a humorous way.
- Rachel Parris
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And sometimes you can make your point better with comedy than you can through shouting about it.
- Rachel Parris
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I've got a few things on YouTube and the most I've ever had is about 8,000 clicks over five years.
- Rachel Parris
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Much like Tim Minchin, I'd love to write and appear in a West End Musical. That's the dream.
- Rachel Parris
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I mean, the number one goal is to make people laugh, that's definitely the first aim; but aside from that, when we discuss which topics to talk about, the second goal is to try and make a point about it.
- Rachel Parris
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I know it's TV, but at the same time you don't foresee that so many people all over the world are going to see it, and have an opinion on it.
- Rachel Parris
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Determined cheerfulness is something I happen to do very well.
- Rachel Parris
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I'd always liked having a laugh with my friends, and I'd done comedy in plays; but then my friends asked me to join this improv troupe and it went well and I started performing with them.
- Rachel Parris
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You can still have comedy which is sensitive to the topic, where you're laughing at the right part of it, you're not mocking the things that shouldn't be mocked.
- Rachel Parris
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It is easy to misunderstand what a comedy song is, or what its potential is. I'm used to musical comedy being maligned as an easy artform.
- Rachel Parris
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Unless you're Barack Obama, you cannot pull off an impromptu a capella rendition of a heart-warming song in the middle of a speech.
- Rachel Parris
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If you're mocking anyone, make sure it's those at the top of the food chain, not the bottom.
- Rachel Parris
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#Food
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#Sure
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