Ep. 454 - Abby Wambaugh
My Time Capsule
Cast Off Productions
4.8 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 3 January 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Comedian Abby Wambaugh was the 2024 winner of the Best Newcomer at the ISH Edinburgh Comedy Awards, winner of the Best Show at the European Comedy Awards and the Theatre Weekly Best Show winner. She was also nominated for Best Show at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards. Quite a year! She’s previously made the Funny Women finals in 2021, was shortlisted for the 2022 BBC New Comedy Awards and selected for the Pleasance Comedy Reserve in 2023. Her award winning show, The First 3 Minutes of 17 Shows, is now transferring to The Soho Theatre from the 9th to the 18th January 2025 .
Abby Wambaugh is our guest in episode 454 of My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things she'd like to put in a time capsule; four she’d like to preserve and one she’d like to bury and never have to think about again .
For tickets for Abby Wambaugh’s show at Soho Theatre, visit - https://sohotheatre.com/events/abby-wambaugh-the-first-3-minutes-of-17-shows .
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Produced and edited by John Fenton-Stevens for Cast Off Productions .
Music by Pass The Peas Music .
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and happy new year and welcome to my time capsule. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm Mike Fenton-Stevens and my time capsule is the podcast where people tell me five |
| 0:19.6 | things from their life that they wish they had in a time capsule. |
| 0:23.3 | They pick four things that they cherish and one thing they'd like to bury and forget. |
| 0:28.0 | My guest in this episode, our very first guest of 2025 is Abby Wombau. |
| 0:34.4 | Abby is an American comedian, writer and improviser, who, after waking up in the hospital |
| 0:39.7 | following a late miscarriage, still high on anesthesia, made an unexpected decision to become |
| 0:45.8 | a comedian. |
| 0:47.4 | Since then, she's really made her mark on the UK comedy scene, notably becoming a finalist |
| 0:53.2 | in the 2021 Funny Women's Stage Awards. In |
| 0:56.7 | 2024, she debuted her critically acclaimed show, the first three minutes of 17 shows, |
| 1:03.0 | which earned her the Best Newcomer-ish Edinburgh Comedy Award and the European Comedy Awards |
| 1:08.9 | Best Show. She was also nominated for the best newcomer of the Edinburgh Comedy Awards, |
| 1:13.9 | the Comedians' Choice Award, and Next Up's Biggest Comedy Award. |
| 1:18.9 | Theatre Weekly named her as Best Comedy, |
| 1:21.5 | highlighting her show as one of the standout performances of the fringe. |
| 1:25.5 | Abby regularly performs and hosts comedy shows in both Copenhagen, |
| 1:29.4 | where she lives, and in the UK. In fact, she's just about to perform a run of her hit show, |
| 1:35.0 | the first three minutes of 17 shows, at the Soho Theatre in London, from the 9th to the 18th of |
| 1:40.6 | January. So if you have the chance to see her there, take it. If you're listening to |
| 1:45.1 | this after that date, she's about to be on somewhere else, so look her up. Abby is the creator and |
| 1:50.7 | co-hosts of the podcast, Help Hold, alongside Sophie Hagen, where they take turns reading self-help |
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