Comedy Cast

http://thecomedycast.com/ Hello and welcome back to The Comedy Cast; today you’ll be hearing from Australian stand-up comedian Yianni Agisilaou. We kick off the interview by speaking about how he once accidentally (so he says) put on his girlfriend's pair of jeans and it lead to a profound questioning of the differences between men and women. We get talking then about Yianni ongoing Edinburgh Fringe Festival show then, Pockets of Equality and how those jeans were one of the inspirations behind it. We delve deeper then into the show and speak about the different themes of it and the narrative that ties it all together. We chat then about gender roles in society and what's both expected of us and what we're force to do in society thanks to the bits we're born with. We get talking then about the differences in what are perceived as 'gender roles' in Western Europe and Britain. Yianni has lived in Britain now for quite a while so I was interested in asking him about this, particularly as there's a giant stere