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Zainab Johnson: Toxically Optimistic review " US comic targets gun culture

by Brian Logan

Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe slick standup's fringe debut is full of searching questions about the right to keep and bear arms 'I've got a gun." Nice to be pitched, with that opening line, straight into a show declaring itself different from the others. Zainab Johnson's maiden fringe set " although she's already a big noise in the US " gives an account of how she came to own a firearm. It's not an explicitly pol…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 5:32pm on August 19, 2025