"They Should Know Better"
A dark and uncomfortable comedy in which a heart-warming dinner party reunion turns into a violent nightmare as the host and the guest revisit their traumatic shared history to extreme ends.
Social & External
The people behind it
Juan Manuel Salcito
Alex
Karina Wolfe
Nicole
Susane Lee
Jill
Dylan Saunders
Oliver
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This special was filmed at the end of the Edinburgh Festival at Carnivore. Outside of the festival, this room is used for storage but I thought it looked pretty cool. This show is the culmination of doing hundreds of sets coming out of the pandemic and loving stand-up again after a longer break than l've ever taken in 17 years of doing stand up.
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A young boy sneaks into the kitchen to steal some chips, only to encounter some night time monsters
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