Anna Piper Scott on welcoming straight people to her shows: ‘I want them to come and feel queer’
After resounding success in Edinburgh, Anna Piper Scott is heading to Adelaide with another show mining her personal life for laughs
The queer comedian that straight people didn’t know they needed (and fresh from a five-star Edinburgh Fringe run of previous show Such An Inspiration), Anna Piper Scott’s latest offering provides delectably gauche, honest humour that won’t make anyone feel left out.
‘I get a lot of straight people coming to my shows and I’ll ask the audience “Who here is straight?”, and they always sound so sad, apologetic and scared,’ the Melbourne Fringe’s Best Emerging Writer explains. ‘Queer culture kind of pulls away from straight people, so I want straight people to come and feel queer, even if they’re not.’
The pace of None Of That Queer Stuff mirrors Piper Scott’s ADHD: it’s a whirlwind hour that darts from one topic to another at an unrelenting pace, touching on everything from Pirates Of The Caribbean to polyamory. Don’t expect to leave humming a political party tune though. ‘No one should be using me as the face of their political movement,’ she laughs. Rather, Piper Scott aims simply to provide a space so straight people who think they’re missing out on all the fun can hear first-hand what that queer stuff is really all about.