Camilla to perform stand-up

John Cleese’s daughter Camilla is to perform stand-up at this year’s Fringe.

She will appear in a three-hander show in a 120-seat venue at the Gilded Balloon alongside two other American comedians.

Camilla, 30, as been working as a comic in Los Angeles, and has worked with her father on his one-man stage show and a planned stage musical version of A Fish Called Wanda. However she said today that they ‘don’t see eye-to-eye’ on stand-up.

She may have plenty to talk about as she battled alcohol and drug addictions in her teens and early twenties.

Camilla told today’s Scotland on Sunday: ‘I’ve heard a lot about the Fringe and I’ve a few friends who come over every year, but I don’t really know what to expect I’ve heard that you will cry a lot and that it is quite stressful, but also that is can be an awesome and amazing experience.’

She will be appearing in the show Americna..ish with Cort McCowan and Sarah Tiana for a week from August 6, in the Dining Room at 8.15pm. And once their run is over, Nancy Dell'olio will take the slot with her one-woman show.

John Cleese appeared at the Fringe in 1963 as part of the Cambridge Footlights show, which also starred Bill Oddie, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Graham Chapman.

Published: 18 May 2014