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All the Emergency Questions from the Edinburgh Fringe
For the Edinburgh Fringe we asked scores of comedians the most ridiculous things, thanks to Richard Herring's Emergency Questions – the conversational catalysts he uses on his Leicester Square Theatre Podcast and has recently compiled in a book. Here are all the preposterous queries, in one place, linked to the best answers.
What is the most impressive thing you have ever been underneath?
What’s the worst experience you have ever had in a hotel?
What is the worst date you have ever been on?
Which conspiracy theory do you think might actually be true?
Who was the first person you remember fancying?
What have you recently done for the first time?
If you could be any sitcom character, which sitcom character would you be?
Who are your favourite ghosts, real or (let's face it) fictional?
If you had to have sex with an animal - if you HAD to - what animal would you have sex with and why?
If your house was on fire what three items would you definitely leave behind?
Which is the sexiest TV puppet?
What is the most disgusting fart you ever did in public?
What is the most inconsequential thing you have ever seen a child have a strop about?
If you could poo any substance instead of poo, what substance would you poo?
What is your favourite anagram?
Have you ever been inside a police car?
How do you think the human race will end?
Would it be better to never be able to say 'yes' or never be able to say 'no'?
Does sex with a robot count as cheating on your partner?
If you could choose anyone to be your parents who would you choose?
Have you ever had a near-death experience?
Have you ever had anything removed from your body?
Who was the biggest prick at your school?
When did you last have a meltdown?
What's the best museum you've ever been to?
What's the worst thing you've eaten for a bet?
Have you ever been in the proximity of one of your heroes and been too shy to say anything to them?
If you got on Dragons’ Den, what product would you pitch?
What's the funniest thing that's ever happened to you at a funeral?
Have you ever been called a nickname you didn't like?
What is your favourite flat thing?
Published: 26 Aug 2019
