Some exciting news has come in. Fatal Distraction has won the Venue Magazine Awards for the 2011 Best Comedy Show. They have said… “Well, he slips in under the radar, though he’s technically a magician and mentalist… Yes folks, he’s been the coming man for a while now, but this is the year when Chris [...]

Fatal Distraction is still touring the country and picking up incredible reviews and standing ovations. There was a lovely 5 star review for the show in Salford which can be read here and a great 4 star one from Venue Magazine for the show in Bath. Be sure to get your tickets for the tour [...]

This was in The Independent newspaper on Saturday “Chris Cox – Fatal Distraction. Astonishing feats of jiggery-pokery from “the mind-reader who can’t read minds”; a kind of Derren Brown for the E4 generation, blessed with oodles of on-stage pep.” That’s nice isn’t it? (yes)

An open letter to reviewers and editors at the Edinburgh Fringe. As the Edinburgh Fringe heads into its final week proper, it gives performers some time to reflect on the weeks that have passed – and one thing none of us can stop talking about is reviews. After some good advice from Tim Minchin a [...]

The Edinburgh Fringe is in full swing, flyers are being handed out, tourists are looking confused at student groups in all in one lycra bodysuits running down the Royal Mile and I am fretting about my show. All normal stuff then. The first show is always a bit of an unknown. You’re getting used to [...]

The rain has stopped, the sun has come out, and the Edinburgh Fringe is underway. Excitement ahoy. I arrived by the Hogwarts Express on Monday, went straight into my venue for a solid 5 hour tech run through. The lights look all fancy, the sound is nice, the set and stage looks pretty sexy, I [...]

Monday morning. 8am. I’m on the train out of Kings Cross. I resisted the urge to get on a platform 9 & 3/4 and instead took the normal train to Edinburgh rather than the Hogwarts Express. As I look out the window I can see London looming into life, I’ve just chugged past the closest [...]

Well it’s just under a week till my first Edinburgh show, which is Fatal Distraction, 7.10 at the Pleasance Dome tickets available now, just in case you didn’t know. My current schedule is like this, tomorrow morning, all my props go up to Edinburgh. There are a lot of them, there’s a big set, there [...]

Are you ready for this? Well are you? I’m not, well not yet anyway. Oh and by this I specifically mean the Edinburgh Fringe. Hi by the way, I’m Chris. You might remember me from blogging a few years ago, I didn’t blog last year as I had a year off Edinburgh. What? Oh yes [...]

Alright, So as the previews for Fatal Distraction role around it’s time for me to remind you to check out the live page and try come along to one. They’re fun, rough and ready and possibly a bit rubbish. What more could you want? Got some exciting news, if you want to see me on [...]