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Videos
Fanny Bleach performs a very bizarres stripteas at Chortle’s Fast Fringe.
It comes from her ‘fantastical freak show’, Nearly Naked Show, which is being staged at Assembly Roxy at 21:50 during the Edinburgh Fringe.
It was recorded at Chortle's Fast Fringe – which is on at Pleasance Dome at 18:30 daily. Tickets here.
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Fanny Bleach at Chortle's Fast Fringe
Extract from her Edinburgh show
Extract from his Edinburgh Fringe show
Burger And A Pint... and the lost city of gold
Sketch from Chortle's Fast Fringe
From her Edinburgh Fringe debut Ay Am!