Tell Us about:
Your latest stand up show:
Perfectly Imperfeckt! is my first English hour, which made its debut at Edinburgh Fringe this year. It’s about how job hunting and online dating are eerily the same thing. Both make you question your self worth, ghost you, and give you anxiety in the name of “feedback.” After a decade in acting and comedy, this is my breakup letter to both systems. It explores career changes, dating, identity, belonging, and some highly questionable life choices, all from a Turkish woman’s perspective. Come for the tips, stay to feel better about your own life choices.
Your favourite joke you have created:
Usually the freshest joke I’ve written is my favourite. After my first performance, audience members came up to share their favourite jokes, and they were all over the place, completely different picks from across the whole set. That’s the most satisfying part.
Your favourite venue to perform at:
The Comedy Store even though it was a gong show.
The joke that was the longest to write and why?
Some jokes sat in my drafts for over six years before finding a home in this show. Most took at least two years to go from “idea” to “actual joke.” Some sat there out of laziness, some because I hadn’t lived enough yet to find the rest of the joke, and some just didn’t fit anywhere in the first set.
Comedy hero:
Future me!
Dream venue to play at:
Beyond fantasising about big historic venues, I dream of getting on line ups or guesting at the cult clubs like Comedy Cellar, Top Secret, The Comedy Store, Angel. I’d also love to perform in as many different cities and countries as possible and watch audiences from completely different backgrounds react to the same jokes. The dream is simply to reach and engage more people.
Describe the feeling you get when you walk on stage to do a show:
If it’s a new venue, or there’s no one familiar in the room, it’s always a little scary and nerve wracking at first. But there’s also real eagerness and curiosity underneath it.
The hardest joke to perform and why:
The very personal, dark, self deprecating jokes are my favourites. They’re never hard to perform, but sometimes the audience has a hard time swallowing them It’s best when they laugh at them.
Essential items you always take on tour with you?
Things that are soothing, familiar, and calm me down. I’m the kind of person who carries her own teabags now. The kind of person with a stuffed support animal. Noise cancelling earplugs made the list too. Basically anything that makes a strange city feel like home. Pillowcase, towel, neck pillow: things I don’t want to mention.
Describe your fans in three words:
Bold, creative, open-minded.
What we can look forward to from you this year:
More dates and stage news in the UK.
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