Are you in London this weekend and looking for something to do Saturday night? Well, look no further as I have a show that you may want to see! Rebecca Schuster and Lynsey Bonell are hosting a show called Comedy Double Whipped at The Glitch in Lower Marsh. I caught up with the duo to find out all about it.

Hello, tell us about who you are and three unknown facts about yourself!

Lynsey: I’m from the UK, sound Australian and most recently lived in New York. I’m a comedian, writer, actor and drag performer. Facts: I was on the front cover of the magazine for Campaign For Real Ale (CAMRA), I am scared of pigeons and I’m from the same town as Julie Andrews – Walton on Thames.

Rebecca: I’m a lost Canadian, who has been living in London UK since 2010. I’ve been doing various forms of comedy: improv, character, stand up, sketch, since 2011. I have a pet rabbit. I was raised in Regina Saskatchewan. That’s right, Reeeeegina. And I’m almost always sorry. It’s a hazard of being Canadian.

How did you both meet?

We first met briefly on the streets of Edinburgh during the festival. We became friends through our drag-king comedy group, The Bareback Kings—a not so regular group of women having a go at being regular dudes.

How did you come up with the name of your show? Was it difficult?

The show is a split bill WIP so we riffed off that while eating a Veggie Deli Rye Roll and Chef’s Italian Chicken Salad at Pret A Manger. For two doughnuts that fret and forget, it wasn’t too strenuous although one of us did develop an eye twitch soon after that.

How did you get into comedy?

Lynsey: I didn’t know where to start so went to The Comedy School in Camden and attended one of their days of taster classes and panel sessions. The whole day was wonderful but I loved the improv class and signed up immediately for their weekend improv course. It brought me so much joy that I regularly started doing improv classes and branched off from there. The passion for making things up and being silly probably started with my mum – when we cooked together when I was little she’d always suggest we pretend it was a cooking show! So we’d play these two chefs and pretend like we were on TV!  

Rebecca: About a year after moving to London, I signed myself up for Logan Murray’s stand up course and had a blast. From there I lurked around the open mic scene for about a year and half until I discovered courses for improvisation, then sketch and character comedy. The spark for comedy came about when I was younger though, watching SNL skits and trying to replicate the characters with my friend Erica. We would also make up our own, get all dressed up, and record them on the ol’ camcorder. It was absolute gold. Fool’s gold!

How did the show come about?

We were out celebrating Pride, chatting about our respective solo shows we had in the works. Lynsey mentioned you could book the spacement at The Glitch and we love that venue, so we drunkenly said, “let’s get another pinot grigio baby”. Later that week, we decided to split a bill.

Tell us a little bit about the show that is happening this week?

Although the show is a split bill for two separate solo shows, we realized early on that both had similar themes addressing facets of the brain. The first half, Rebecca will address issues of overthinking, indecision, and that complete wazzock of an inner critic, through high energy character comedy. In the second half, Lynsey tells us about that one time when she forgot an entire week of her life, and her girlfriend’s birthday too. She’ll teach you a bit about the brain through action packed storytelling.

What three things are you looking forward to about performing in this show?

Lynsey: Trying out some new material – I just performed a work in progress of my half of the show in The Camden Fringe and now want to take feedback and ideas I’ve had since then and see how the tweaks go! I’m really grateful any time I get to perform and so I’m excited to put this up and share it with an audience. 

Rebecca: I’m looking forward to performing the three characters I have for this set. They are all various forms of douchebags. Maybe I need to switch it up a bit but hmmm for some reason I love playing the bad guys. I’m going to go away and overthink that now.

How do you warm up before a show?

Lynsey: I don’t think I’ve got a routine down for just me, as I’ve performed improv and in sketch for longer. But usually a little meditation and some quiet focus. I like to think of three words and set that intention for the show as well.

Rebecca:Dry heaving. No, but for real, there is a chant that ends in “I’m a rockstar! I’m a rockstar! I’m a rockstar!” I’ll sometimes disappear to a corner, first pump the air, and mouth the words in my lamest over-the-top life-coach impression.

If people want to find out more about you, where can they follow you on social media?

@lynseybins (Instagram) Lynsey Bonell (Facebook) 

@becSchuster (Twitter X, Instagram, Threads)

And Finally in three words – Why should people come and see the show?

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