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| It’s 1:30 a.m., and a Clown Wants to Fix You | It’s 1:30 a.m., and a Clown Wants to Fix You |
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| Around 2 a.m. one recent Saturday, Julia Masli laughed as she glided up to an audience member in a sweaty basement room at Edinburgh’s Monkey Barrel comedy club. | Around 2 a.m. one recent Saturday, Julia Masli laughed as she glided up to an audience member in a sweaty basement room at Edinburgh’s Monkey Barrel comedy club. |
| Wearing a ghostly outfit with dolls’ legs sticking from a black hat, she pointed a microphone at the panicked-looking man and asked a simple question: “Problem?” | Wearing a ghostly outfit with dolls’ legs sticking from a black hat, she pointed a microphone at the panicked-looking man and asked a simple question: “Problem?” |
| After a confused “Er,” he blurted out a genuine issue for most people in the basement. “I’m quite warm,” he said. | After a confused “Er,” he blurted out a genuine issue for most people in the basement. “I’m quite warm,” he said. |
| Masli, looking concerned, led the man onstage and made him sit on a stool. Then she pulled a huge electric fan from a nearby cupboard and duct-taped him to it. | Masli, looking concerned, led the man onstage and made him sit on a stool. Then she pulled a huge electric fan from a nearby cupboard and duct-taped him to it. |
| As the audience laughed, the clown was already moving on. “Problem?” she said, pointing the microphone at another audience member. |