Emmanuel Sonubi chats Blackpool Comedy Festival

Blackpool Gazette

Comedian Emmanuel Sonubi shares his excitement for the Blackpool Comedy Festival.

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00:00Hi, I'm digital reporter Amy Seddon.

00:04Take a look at what the comedian Emmanuel Sinobi had to say

00:07before performing at the Blackpool Comedy Festival at the end of May.

00:12This exclusive footage was shared with us by radio personality Jed Mills.

00:18I'm a big fan of a comedy festival as well.

00:20I do love, you get to see so many acts in one place.

00:24It's awesome.

00:25And Blackpool's a lot of fun.

00:27I've gigged in Blackpool a few times and it's never been, it's never disappointed.

00:31In terms of a comedy club, is it different, obviously, than being on tour?

00:37In terms of, you know, if someone's been on before you and you think,

00:41oh, they were really, do you try and, you know,

00:44is there a bit of warm-upmanship all the time or how does it work?

00:48I'll tell you how it feels for me.

00:50With a tour, when you do a tour, so I explain it this way.

00:55A comedy club, people go to the club.

00:59A tour, people come to see you.

01:01So when you've had a whole year of people coming to see you,

01:05where you literally walk out and there's an applause break for a minute

01:08before you've done anything, it feels awesome.

01:11But the problem is you get used to it.

01:13And then you go to a comedy club where you walk out and they're like,

01:17okay, go on.

01:18And it's such a weird jump.

01:22But also what you want is you want everyone to do really well

01:28because energy keeps going.

01:30If the energy's in the room, and I've done gigs where we've done charity nights

01:34where it's been 15 comedians all on stage,

01:38and these are all like 15 really good comedians,

01:41and then they go, Emmanuel, you've got to close.

01:43And I'm going on after Jack Dee and Stephen Gray.

01:47Oh, there's so many big names.

01:48And now I have to close and I don't want to.

01:53You said about Blackpool before, you've gigged in Blackpool before.

01:56How do you find us as a town, as a venue, and our audiences, of course?

02:01So coming up from London, I love the North.

02:05It's so much friendlier, so much more laid back,

02:09and it's just so much fun.

02:12I've never had a bad gig in the North.

02:15I think it's so much fun.

02:18And again, people are just people.

02:21That's what I sort of live by.

02:23And a lot of the stuff I talk about is very universal.

02:27It's stuff we've all been through.

02:28All of us have looked at our child at one point

02:31and thought, well, you're an idiot.

02:33There's loads of things that we all discuss.

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