Monkey Barrel, EdinburghThe 2023 best newcomer winner rebuts her 'mild' reputation with choice quips and boyband erotica On her first visit to the fringe, Urooj Ashfaq left as the surprise winner of the best newcomer award. Now she returns, to rebut a descriptor widely applied to that 2023 debut " specifically, that her comedy is mild and lacks edge. You want edge, she asks in How to Be a Baddie? I'll give you edge! …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AM on August 9, 2025