Comedy Cast

http://thecomedycast.com/ Hello and welcome back to The Comedy Cast; today you’ll be hearing from English stand-up comedian Kwame Asante. We kick off the interview and speak about his ongoing Edinburgh Fringe Festival show, Open Arms. We speak about the themes behind the show and his inspiration for it. We chat about it being Kwame's first full-hour show and how he says it's been a long time coming. We talk about how the previews had been going and Kwame speaks about his excitement about bringing his first hour-long show to the Fringe. I ask him whether he's nervous about getting back on the scene having had a 4-year break while he was finishing his studies. He has performed at Edinburgh many times over the years though, just not with a solo show, so I asked him about some of the highs and lows that he's experienced performing up in Edinburgh and what he's learned that he can use to ensure he puts on a good show this time around. Kwame is a doctor, a proper medical doctor, none of this Hunter Thompson st