Eight years ago, Richard Gadd had a breakthrough in his career and in his life. The Scottish comedian went to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with a one-man stage show called “Monkey See Monkey Do,” which was the first time he’d incorporated his real life into his work. The show, which he performed on a treadmill, detailed his grooming and sexual abuse at the hands of an older and more successful comedy writer — and while it required a brutal honesty to put his experience on an Edinburgh stage every night for a month, it was also freeing.
“Of all the techniques I had tried to understand all the things I’d gone through, nothing had the power and impact that processing it into art did,” he said.
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