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DISABLED PEOPLE AREN’T
THE PROBLEM SAYS LOST VOICE GUY IN HIS NEW EDINBURGH FRINGE SHOW
Edinburgh preview: Newcastle Stand Comedy Club Sunday 24th July 2016 @ 5:30 pm
Edinburgh Fringe: Edinburgh Stand Comedy Club Five Friday 5th – Sunday 28th August 2016 @ 1:15pm
BBC New Comedy Award winner, Lost Voice Guy, will
use his unique style of humour to entertain and educate audiences at the
Edinburgh Festival Fringe this August, in his new show ‘Disability For Dunces:
Volume Two’.
The
comedian, who cannot talk and uses an iPad to tell his jokes, will shine a
light on the general public’s view of disability and shatter some of the
perceptions that they may have.
Lost
Voice Guy often gets asked if he’s as clever as Stephen Hawking, if he really
needs all that benefit money, if he really can’t talk at all and If he can have
relationships. And that’s usually just minutes after he has met the person
asking him.
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Photo: Caroline Briggs
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‘Disability
For Dunces: Volume Two’, will be at The Stand Comedy Club Five on York Place at
1.15pm from the 5th until the 28th of August (except Mondays) and will act as
an amusing self help guide to those people who get awkward around disabled
people and blurt out the first thing that comes into their head. Watch a clip
from the show at https://youtu.be/
Lost
Voice Guy, real name Lee Ridley and from Newcastle-upon-Tyne, lost his speech as a
baby when he developed Cerebral Palsy. He won the BBC New Comedy Award in
December 2014.
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Photo: Caroline Briggs
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35-year-old
Ridley said: “I’m not sure why people get so awkward around disabled people but
they definitely do! I’m often getting asked if I really can talk after my gigs,
because obviously pretending to be disabled for the sake of entertainment is
perfectly acceptable. Some people even ask if I can have sex…as an opening
question! For the record, I definitely can. All of these questions are
embarrassing for both of us. When I was asked some of them for the first time I
was speechless.
“Thanks
to the current government and some of the media, many people just see disabled
people as being stupid or as a burden to the country. Believe it or not, we’re
not all benefit cheats and, yes, we are allowed a sense of humour as well. It’s
almost as if we’re normal human beings. It is the people who portray this evil
image of us and those who choose to believe it that are the problem. There may
be a serious message behind it, but my show pokes fun at the awkwardness that
exists and let’s everyone have a laugh about it.”
Ridley
recently supported Patrick Kielty on tour and has appeared on BBC’s The One Show and BBC Scotland’s sitcom, Scot
Squad. He has been described as “a wonderful comedian” by Little Britain’s Matt
Lucas. After supporting him on his warm up tour, Ross Noble described Lost
Voice Guy as “a very funny guy”, Sean Hughes thinks he is “fantastic” and
Greg Proops says that he is “tremendous”.
Tickets:
The
Fringe preview takes place at Newcastle’s Stand Comedy Club, on Sunday 24th
July 2016 @ 5:30 pm: Tickets cost £5/£1 from http://www.thestand.co.uk/show/27675/lost_voice_guy_disability_for_dunces_volume_two_fringe_preview
or call 0191 300 9700
Edinburgh Fringe: ‘Disability For
Dunces: Volume Two’ is on at Edinburgh Stand Comedy Club Five from 5th
– 28th August 2016 (except
Mondays). Tickets are available from The Stand box office on 0131 558 9005 or
at http://www.
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