Proficient Coatbridge-raised comic, broadcaster and columnist, Ayesha Hazarika, will make a return to the Edinburgh Fringe pageant along with her extremely acclaimed present, State of the Nation - Energy, Politics and Tractors, subsequent month.
The 47-year-old took up comedy after she was persuaded by a pal to take a course run by comic, Logan Murray.
Ayesha then started to carry out comedy gigs whereas working on the Division of Transport and Trade.
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And in 2003, she was a finalist on the Channel 4 stand-up comedy competitors, So You Suppose You’re Humorous.
Nevertheless, her comedy profession took a again seat after 2007, when she targeted on her profession as a political adviser.
She labored with senior Labour figures, together with Harriet Harman and Ed Miliband, from 2007 to 2015, and after leaving her function working with Harman, she was awarded an MBE for political service.
Ayesha made a return to stand-up in 2016, when she carried out a present on the Edinburgh Fringe pageant impressed by her time in politics.
And a yr later she introduced a brand new present, State of the Nation, to the pageant.
In December 2018, she appeared on the hit BBC present Have I Obtained Information for You as Ian Hislop’s staff mate, and reprised her function in Might 2020 in the course of the Lockdown sequence.
Ayesha will carry out in Edinburgh from August 8-14 on the Gilded Balloon, Teviot Debating Corridor, along with her satirical present, the place she revisits the state of politics, however this time she has known as in reinforcements - a every day panel of high company from the world of comedy and politic.
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