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Ed Byrne.
Ed Byrne has just arrived in Adelaide: 24 hours late due to misplacing his passport and being stuck home in London, resulting in the cancellation of his opening night's Fringe performance.
"Well I didn't lose it," he starts off. "I thought I'd lost it, but for all intents and purposes it was lost so I missed my flight and it's been a costly mistake." Since he's an observational comedian, I offer some consolation in that this would have to pay off for Byrne in the long run with material. "Most of the stuff I do is lamenting the stupidity of the everyday person. That's one thing that I always enjoy doing, pointing out the idiotic things we do, you know?
"But it's funny because then you find yourself doing the things that other comedians do stuff about. Like when you lose something, you go and check where it's supposed to be and it's not there so you go away. Then, even though you know it's not there, you still go back and check there again. Like have you ever lost your cell phone in your house so then you phone it from a landline? Then you find it and see that you've got one missed call and when you check it you realise that it's your own number so you go, 'Fuck me, I'm an idiot!' Next time I'm going to withhold my number just to play a trick on myself."
Or you can phone from a telephone box, I add without really thinking because then he wouldn't hear the ringing - "Yeah, but I'm that stupid I could well have lost it in the telephone box," he laughs.
And where did the passport eventually turn up? "In a jacket pocket that I had already packed," he replies, sounding very annoyed at himself. "I hadn't even left my house and the cab was sitting outside honking the horn, so I had to slip him a fiver and let him go. There's no doubt some people who bought tickets to the show last Friday night are probably pissed off that I didn't show up, but I want to stress that I'm sorry and that it cost me a lot of money."
Not to mention the ridicule he copped from people back home."That was the other embarrassing thing," he titters, "at the time I felt like a fucking idiot. Like I'd go to the kitchen and ask if anybody wanted anything, and they'd go, 'Nah that's alright Ed, you probably couldn't find it anyway'."
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Ed Byrne has arrived safely and performs at The Arts Theatre in Angas St nightly.
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