About this episode

Jake Donaldson discusses his journey from street magician to comedian, exploring themes of visual impairment and the connections between magic and stand-up comedy.

Jake Donaldson was once a teenage street magician, and this year he's weaving parts of his old magic act into his Edinburgh Fringe show Jake Donaldson is a comedian and writer known for his groundbreaking comedy shows, including Spectacle, which explores his visual impairment. How performing card tricks for on the streets of Newcastle as a teenager led him toward comedy — and why magic and stand-up are closer cousins than people think Growing up with Victoria Wood as a comedy hero, and what it taught him about gender and power Why he resisted the word 'disabled' for years — and how that became Spectacle, a show all about his eyesight The CBT motorbike test that he somehow passed despite crashing the bike mid-test Connect with Jake here: Instagram TikTok Get tickets to Jake's EdFringe show here Find us on social media — links on the About page. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Host: Steve Otis Gunn

Guest: Jake Donaldson

Topics covered

• comedy
• visual impairment
• Edinburgh Fringe
• gender
• power
• magic
• stand-up

Keywords

• Jake Donaldson
• comedy
• visual impairment
• Edinburgh Fringe
• magic
• gender
• power

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