Our last show of the day is a late night affair in the company of a comedian who’s new to me but looks like he will be a laugh! He’s Toby Arsalan, also known as the Nazi Jihadi, at Maggie’s Front Room @ Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, at 00:45 late at night on Tuesday 22nd. This is the blurb: “A German Muslim who grew up in Syria, South Africa and Pakistan. Toby Arsalan is basically all the bad guys from all the Die Hard movies squeezed into one. This show is Toby’s attempt to find his place in this topsy-turvy world (spoiler alert: the place was within him all along!). Along the way, he’ll point to the absurdities of life, such as the Ancient Greeks using Photoshop, the anatomy of the Antichrist and why Syrian people love the movie Titanic so much. Don’t miss Nazi Jihadi, Toby Arsalan’s first solo at the Fringe!”

I hope we can stay awake long enough to enjoy this show, because it intrigues me – and I’ve no doubt he will be very funny. Check back around 2 am (or maybe tomorrow morning!) to see if we managed to stick with it. By then the next preview blog should be available to read too.

This was a bit of a shame – nothing against Mr Jihadi, who has a delightful wry delivery and some very funny material. It’s just that the majority of the audience chose to sit right at the back so there was no atmosphere and no momentum built – and after half an hour, he decided to call it a day. Never mind, it’s a risk for such a late night show that many of the attendees will be very drunk, very tired or both!