Fern Brady’s Autistic Bikini Queen becomes a Netflix special

...as Ivo Graham also releases a show

Fern Brady’s stand-up show Autistic Bikini Queen is to be released as a Netflix special.

Filmed in Bristol, the show will be streamed globally from April 22.

Brady said: ‘This show, despite its title, is 1 per cent about autism and 99 er cent about relationships, marriage and death.

‘I’m delighted my bleak worldview will find a bigger audience on Netflix, but I am sorry that as the first Scottish lady with a Netflix special, it will mislead people into thinking we’re all like this when we aren’t.’

Autistic Bikini Queen launched at the 2022 and has since toured the UK and overseas, while her previous her stand-up special Power & Chaos aired on BBC One in 2021.

Known for the likes of Taskmaster and Frankie Boyle’s New World Order on TV Brady is also author of the Sunday Times bestseller Strong Female Character, which this year won the first Nero book award for non-fiction.

She is currently on tour with her new show, I Gave You Milk to Drink. Fern Brady tour dates.

Meanwhile, another former Taskmaster contestant, Ivo Graham, is also releasing his latest stand-up special, Live From The Bloomsbury Theatre, next month.

Ivo

The show was first performed as My Future, My Clutter at the 2022 Edinburgh Fringe before touring and covers the likes of go karting regulations, Radio One text-ins, Eagles documentaries, and KFC's social media presence

It is being released by indie label 800 Pound Gorilla Media on April 5 under its usual model: first available to watch on the company website under ‘name your own price’ terms before being released for free on YouTube from May 2.

Graham and Brady previously appeared together in the Dave travelogue British as Folk.

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Published: 18 Mar 2024