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Joe Kent-Walters: From Clown School to Cult Stardom
Season 4
Episode 10
Published 11 months, 1 week ago
Description
Joe Kent-Walters trained at a clown school in Paris, created a cult character, won the Edinburgh Fringe Best Newcomer Award, and has been throwing himself around stages in dress shoes ever since.
Joe Kent-Walters is a British comedian best known for his larger-than-life alter ego Frankie Monroe, blending physical theatre, absurdism and punk cabaret in a way that earned him the Edinburgh Fringe Best Newcomer Award in 2024.
- What a Parisian clown school actually teaches you — and what it definitely doesn't
- How Frankie Monroe went from a Fringe experiment to a cult phenomenon
- The physical toll of performing high-energy character comedy every night on the road
- How late-night comedy culture shapes the kind of work you end up making
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