“I officially declared the Fringe over about half an hour ago,” Sam Nicoresti informs me after mentioning last night’s dreams of the Fringe. “And I slept for nine hours for the first time in five weeks, so something has been crossed,” they continue.

And what that “something” is? “Hell.”

When we chat it’s been nearly a week since Sam (she/they) won the prestigious Best Comedy Show award at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards that closed the Edinburgh Fringe. In winning with her show, Baby Doomer , Sam became the first comic who is trans (“an important distinction” we get to later) to win the award previously attained by Hannah Gadsby, Richard Gadd, and Stephen Fry among others.

“Bloody hell. Time moves on, doesn’t it?,” Sam remarks with a sense of genuine shock in regard to the passage of time.

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