SP40: Fay Walsh and the unattractive man

Fay Walsh Gopal is an English-German stand-up comic, kind of
accidentally born in Berlin, where she now lives again, after
some moving around with her family. Fay talks about a bit which
she played very recently at the Berlin show Laughing Spree. In
the bit she tackles the fact that, over time, she got asked quite
frequently whether she is a man or a woman.


While it could be considered conceivable that the question is
asked with no malicious intentions (e.g. when asked by a former
classmate of Fay’s), the message it entails and the effect it has
are fully different. However, Fay finds a way to bring all this
together in just under a minute. Apart from that we talk about
conveying experiences as a comic onstage. How can a comic’s set
give the audience an insight into a whole different world? And
what’s the deal of building a joke with various layers?


Fay’s Instagram profile


Fay on the podcast Erich on the World