In her first three solo Edinburgh shows Bridget was childish and silly, portraying historical characters and inanimate objects such as Charles II, a cheese roll, Guido Fawkes, Oliver Cromwell, The Fire of London and The Great Plague, using terrible costumes and without so much as a nod to the fourth wall.
The following year she wrote an autobiographical show about her old job at The Daily Mail.
Some critics thought it lacked ambition, just because she wore normal clothes.
Then last year they liked her again because she pretended to be an ant.

This year, the 39 year old Catholic mother views everyday housewife life through her trademark Bridget Christie Lens of The Absurd™.
The HOUSEWIFE SURREALIST discusses transubstantiation, the British class system as applied to animals and insects, Ken Clarke's shoes, priests, getting her teeth knocked out, and horrible bitchy mothers.
Her 7th consecutive Edinburgh show also features an uninvited weed comedian, Nick Clegg doing an interpretive dance in simulated fire, a seductive Nicholas Sarkozy capering like Pan with the hind legs of a goat, and a battery-powered re-enactment of The Ascension.
Housewife Surrealist ran at The Stand, Edinburgh at 4.40pm daily during the 2011 Edinburgh Fringe.


Bridget was commissioned to write and perform a short story for BBC Radio 4's Afternoon Readings slot as part of their Comic Fringes series.

It was recorded on the afternoon of 20th August and broadcast the following week.

You can listen to it on the radio page.



Bridget Christie used to dress up as Charles II, talk about the English Civil War and pretend to be The Great Plague.

But this had no commercial value, so she gave up on that pointless nonsense.
This year she’s talking about cat-litter, priests, rude mothers and ghosts.

Bridget is supported by the first ever and so far the finest Ant comedian on the circuit, A Ant (Winner Nivea Funny Ant Competition 1993).

A Ant ran at The Stand, Edinburgh: 4.15pm 6-29th August 2010 (except 16th)

All press can be found here.



As well as her main show, A Ant, Bridget appeared in the following shows during the 2010 Edinburgh Fringe:
Susan Calman Chats Up... Just the Tonic Friday 6th August at 12.55pm.
The Garden Belushi’s, Market Street, Friday 13th August at 2.40pm.
(Super-gang of idiotic comics make up some stuff about things, featuring Josie Long, Humphrey Kerr, Bridget Christie, Sara Pascoe and David Reed.)
Celebrity Autobiography Underbelly Cowbarn, 5th - 14th August at 7.25pm
(Celebrity Autobiography' features a first-rate comedic ensemble performing from the actual memoirs of a wide range of celebrities. Audiences ask, 'Did they actually write that?' Yes, we couldn’t make this stuff up!)
Bridget was also asked to do the introduction for the anonymous artist The Poster Menace’s Photographic Exhibition at The Underbelly. It was displayed with all the photographs in the Cow Cafe area, you can also see it here.



In 2003 Bridget began doing open spots on the comedy circuit and working on the diary column of the Daily Mail. Whilst there, Bridget was strangled by Gene Wilder, fed a fish by Peter Stringfellow, mistaken for someone else by Mel Brooks, hated by David Dimbleby, ignored by Cherie Blair and patronised by Jenny Eclair.My Daily Mail Hell's affectionate expose of a showbiz gossip column is sure to delight both Daily Mail readers and decent people too.

See how Alan Yentob fell off a chair.
Hear what Liam Gallagher said at the premiere of Shrek 2.
Touch a real cup once held by Jack Vettriano.
Find out how Pop Idol's Darius Danesh got Brad Pitt's horse to lie down. And learn how many lions Antonio Banderas has got.

But above all, share in the baffling experience of a provincial Gloucester girl, with no real qualifications, adrift in the sophisticated world of wealth and fame.
Bridget Christie: My Daily Mail Hell ran from August 5th-31st at 6.30pm in The Gilded Balloon Teviot (no shows 12th & 17th).


Bridget also appeared as Lionel Blair's wife Lady Teazle in Richard Brinsley-Sheridan's comedy of manners, The School For Scandal.

First performed in 1777, the play remains a crowd-pleaser and is one of the standard repertory pieces in our dramatic literature.

The cast included Phil Nichol, Stephen K Amos, Lionel Blair, Marcus Brigstocke, Paul Foot, Huw Thomas, Ella Kenyon and Clare Thompson, and it was directed by Cal McCrystal.

The School For Scandal ran from August 5th-31st at 4pm in the Pleasance Courtyard.








King Charles II's second solo show.
Introducing Christopher Wren, Samuel Pepys and The Great Plague.


There's some videos from the show on the video page.







The 17th Century. Deranged royals.
Incompetent terrorists. Mentalist fundamentalists. Pointless WAGs.

A time very different to our own.
Bridget Christie gives Charles II, Guy Fawkes, Oliver Cromwell, and Nell Gwynne their long-overdue Edinburgh festival debut.