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Ashish Vijh – Performative Male

Ashish Vijh – Performative Male

Show type: Edinburgh Fringe 2026

Engineer. MBA. Corporate. Startup. LinkedIn said everything was "fine". Ashish Vijh was "above baseline happy". Then he became “self-aware” (FAAKKKK!). After twenty years of doing life “correctly”, he noticed something odd: success feels weird AF… like a performance. In this playful stand-up hour, Vijh unpacks masculinity, ambition, therapy and the strange art of explaining yourself as a grown man... until you can’t. Blending personal stories, cultural observations and a few (ok, many) questionable life decisions, he asks a simple question: What happens when the life you confidently explained to everyone suddenly stops making sense?

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