Marjolein Robertson

Marjolein Robertson

Shetland born and raised comedian who performed her first Edinburgh Fringe run in 2016, despite only having a few gigs under her belt. She was nominated for the  (ISH) Edinburgh Comedy Award last year and has also reached the final of Funny Women  and the  BBC New Comedy Awards. She regularly appears on BBC Radio Scotland’s Breaking The News
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Men can't handle this period drama...

Three blokes faint at Marjolein Robertson's blood-based show

comedyMarjolein Robertson says three men have fainted at her Edinburgh Fringe show, over its graphic description of vaginal bleeding.

In her performance at the Hive, the Shetlander talks about how she almost died as a teenager when what she believed was a heavy period was actually an internal haemorrhage.

Speaking to Metro.co.uk, she said: ‘We’ve had three men faint at shows and another nine people leave. Of the nine early risers, seven of these were men.

‘It’s usually when I’m talking in the latter half of the show. The thing that really triggers people is talking about my injections, talking about the implant, talking about my condition adenomyosis and how it rips open the muscles and I haemorrhage from the inside of my body.

‘Two men have had to run out on the word hysterectomy, which I think is very funny.’

Adenomyosis is when the lining of the uterus grows into the womb’s muscular.

Robertson, who starts the show, O, with a spray of fake blood,  added that one day her technician told her after one show: ‘Well Marjolein you wouldn’t have seen it because your back was turned around and you were busy pumping blood but a woman got up in the first minute of the show and went, "Nope", and just walked out.’

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Published: 18 Aug 2024

Past Shows

Edinburgh Fringe 2017

Marjolein Robertson: Relations


Edinburgh Fringe 2018

Marjolein Robertson: It's Time


Edinburgh Fringe 2023

Marjolein Robertson: Marj


Edinburgh Fringe 2024

Marjolein Robertson: O


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