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# Mark Bittlestone to take debut stand-up show to Edinburgh Fringe this summer
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/mark-bittlestone-to-take-debut-stand-up-show-to-edinburgh-fringe-this-summer/
- Published: 2024-06-13T12:00:30.000Z
- Updated: 2024-06-13T11:10:08.000Z
- Description: Mark Bittlestone, known for his hilarious and scathing takedown clips of the gay male experience with 200k+ followers across social media, is taking his new stand-up comedy show I Need a Straight Guy to Edinburgh Fringe in July and August . London, 2024. The best city in the world to be gay in. So w
- Author: Graham Robson
- Tags: Comedy, Edinburgh Fringe, LGBT, LGBTQ

**Mark Bittlestone**, known for his hilarious and scathing takedown clips of the gay male experience with 200k+ followers across social media, is taking his new stand-up comedy show ***I Need a Straight Guy*** to **Edinburgh** **Fringe** in July and August .

London, 2024\. The best city in the world to be gay in. So why does Mark still find it hard being gay?

Mark is looking for a straight guy in his debut Edinburgh hour. He uses his unique perspective to explore the continuing obsession with popping queer people in boxes – boxes it can be frustrating to wrestle out of when you just want to watch the football and have a pint.

Could it possibly be that a decade of lying to himself and everyone else about who he was has made it difficult for him to form meaningful relationships? Is it possible that a very heteronormative upbringing left him ill-equipped to embrace his queerness – and, quite literally, even find gay men to shag?

**Mark’s debut stand-up hour *I Need a Straight Guy* is at Edinburgh Fringe in July and August**

**[Tickets HERE](https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on?ref=scenemag.co.uk#q=%22Mark%20Bittlestone%3A%20I%20Need%20a%20Straight%20Guy%2A%22)**

***Lead Pic by Rebecca Need-Menear***