Tamsyn’s skint. So is her boyfriend. She works in comedy. So does he. They decided to move to London anyway. No doubt the drive and desire that took them there explains why she pops in each morning to the venue; just to check no-one’s opened a door that might disturb that damp subterranean ambience long ago patented by The Fringe. It’s a long way to the top, or maybe Blue Peter, but an even longer journey if you’re born to a homeless couple in Cornwall, though, as this show proves, it does provide better stories.

Tamsyn Kelly’s Rat’s Ass at the Edinburgh Fringe finds a comic on the cusp of something special. A Fringe hit in the making? Perhaps.

"This show is about me learning to stick with my choices and make the best of it, instead of spiralling and binning everything. "