Comedy news: Kate Copstick talks sex on Gemma Goggin's bed

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Kate Copstick blurs the line between comic and critic more than most people at the Edinburgh Fringe. Already a fearsome reviewer for the Scotsman Copstick is also a personality in her own right – something which Show Me The Funny has only helped to reinforce.

Sitting on Gemma Goggin's inflatable bed in the Gilded Balloon last night it seemed that Copstick should take the plunge and run a show of her own, she left most people open mouthed after recalling her plans to teach African boys how to masturbate this autumn, including pitching in with a manual lesson if necessary.

In a laid-back chat show which included a pregnant Wendy Wason and Puppetry of Penis, it was Copstick who took the limelight. Speaking frankly about both her own sexual experiences with older men 'if you have to fight through that many flaps of skin i'll fuck a girl' and younger men 'I like my them ambivalently sexual and permanently damaged'.

Yet however crude or outlandish Copstick's plans to sexually harrass boys in Africa have their point. 

“Young men don't know how to touch themselves,' she said. “So they don't understand that they can have a release through masturbation. Instead they harrass girls.”

Other projects Copstick has been involved in were showing sex workers how to give a soapy tit wanks and blowjobs, but the cause – however outlandish does have a point: “They [sex workers] earn twice what the average sex-worker can earn because African men haven't ever those kinds of experiences.

All that was left was for the puppet guys to flap their foreskin and create a few tasty shapes for the female front row of the audience. What a way to to escape the rain.