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Fern Brady

July 2024

  • Asha Puthli, singer, songwriter.

    The best original photographs from the Observer
    Original Observer Photography

  • Fern Brady holding a teetering stack of buns

    Life on a plate
    Comedian Fern Brady: ‘I went to get hypnotised out of eating bread’

April 2024

  • Fern Brady Autistic Bikini Queen

    With her Netflix comedy special Autistic Bikini Queen, Fern Brady is a cynic to savour

    The huge success of her memoir has turbocharged the Scottish comedian’s career, with midlife, Catholicism and marriage in her withering sights

March 2024

  • Fern Brady.

    Audiobook of the week
    Strong Female Character by Fern Brady review – moving account of undiagnosed autism

    The Scottish comedian narrates her traumatic experience of being ‘wired differently’ and why autism is so frequently missed in women

January 2024

  • Paul Murray, Fern Brady and Michael Magee.

    Paul Murray and Fern Brady win inaugural Nero book awards

    Booker-shortlisted author Murray and standup turned memoirist Brady won in the best fiction and nonfiction categories, alongside debut and children’s fiction winners Michael Magee and Beth Lincoln

December 2023

  • Fern Brady by Raphaël Neal, Crystal Palace 27 November 2021

    Observer New Review Q&A
    Comedian Fern Brady: ‘Bloody everyone says they are bisexual now’

    The ​author of the award-nominated memoir​ Strong Female Character on her early ambition to be a spy​ and why she’d never do a film about being autistic

November 2023

  • Contenders … (from left) Paul Murray, Fern Brady and Lex Croucher.

    Paul Murray and Fern Brady shortlisted for inaugural Nero awards

    The prizes, which have picked up from the abruptly cancelled Costa awards, cover fiction, debut fiction, children’s fiction and non-fiction

January 2022

  • Fern Brady by Raphaël Neal

    ‘Everything ends up about death and shagging’: Fern Brady on comedy, autism and intrusive thoughts

    Her scathing, surreal standup wowed audiences – and when she was diagnosed as neurodivergent, it started to make more sense to her, too

December 2021

  • Fern Brady Grace Dent Comfort Eating podcast

    Comfort Eating with Grace Dent
    S2 E8: Fern Brady, comedian

    Grace’s Comfort Eating guest this week is the comedian Fern Brady

September 2021

  • Fern Brady, Ivo Graham and Darren Harriott in British As Folk.

    The watcher
    British As Folk: three comedians in a campervan have fun with history

    Hampered by a terrible name, Dave’s new travelogue investigating modern Britain is constantly entertaining

August 2021

  • Fern Brady.

    Hot shame, dry heaving and dream audiences: a standup’s return to Edinburgh fringe

    The festival is back – and so are stage fright and self-loathing. But this year’s event has been small and beautiful

December 2020

  • Making space for people to speak for themselves ... Carmen Ali as April Fiasco.

    Standups and sex workers unite: 'I can joke about it because I've done it'

    Carmen Ali and Siân Docksey are among the comedians who riff on their experiences as strippers. The pandemic has revealed both industries to be precarious – but they’re looking out for each other

August 2020

  • Silhouette of woman with microphone singing on concert stage in front of crowd

    'I've had men rub their genitals against me': female comedians on extreme sexism in standup

    For years, sexual predators have infested the live comedy scene. But female comedians are demanding action. Is this British standup’s #MeToo moment?

July 2020

  • The standup Fern Brady

    No joke: 77% of comedy venues in UK face closure within a year, finds survey

    Fears sector will be overlooked in allocation of £1.57bn of coronavirus emergency arts funding

November 2019

  • Unflinching … Fern Brady.

    Fern Brady: Power and Chaos review – a scattergun blast of cynicism

    The Scottish comic hits some acerbic highs with an oddly episodic set that hops from politics to porn to parenthood

July 2019

  • ‘Your little comedy show couldn’t matter less’ ... clockwise from top left: Nish Kumar, Lou Sanders, Olga Koch, Phil Wang and Sofie Hagen.

    Comedians' guide to Edinburgh: where to eat, drink, swim and snog

    Sofie Hagen, Phil Wang, Nish Kumar and others reveal their favourite festival spots, from Portobello Beach to the middle of the Royal Mile

November 2017

  • ‘If you haven’t endured sexual abuse, you probably shouldn’t talk about it’ … clockwise, from centre: Margaret Cho, David Cross, Doug Stanhope, Fern Brady and James Corden.

    Don't go there? Standups on Weinstein, taboos – and the gags they regret

    Is it ever OK for comedians to joke about sexual assault? Is there such a thing as ‘too soon’? Margaret Cho, Doug Stanhope, David Cross and other fearless comics on the fine line between funny and offensive

August 2017

  • Scott Gibson

    Rowdy, rude and darkly funny: Scottish standups at the Edinburgh festival

    Scott Gibson returns to the fringe after winning the best newcomer award in 2016. Can Scotland’s comedians triumph again this time?

January 2017

  • Composite of comics: Scott Gibson, Fern Brady and Billy Connolly

    Open mic
    It's Burns Night: what is it that makes Scottish comedians so funny?

    As suppers are held for Robert Burns’ birthday, here’s a toast to the standups of Scotland whose attitudes and accents are perfectly suited to comedy

August 2016

  • Fern Brady

    Fern Brady review – eye-catching tales of standup's past life as a stripper

    More confident than last year’s debut, Brady’s show Male Comedienne focuses on what stripping taught her about feminism and female behaviour
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