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For a show built around the love letters of his deceased parents, Milo Edwards opens his latest hour with quite the shocker having nothing to do with them but everything to do with the way we’re warped by modern communication.
All Edwards has to do is to remind us that Osama bin Laden was making videos for global distribution from a cave in Afghanistan a full quarter-century before today’s TikTokers. “Imagine if they had podcasts then!” Edwards quips. I mean, could you imagine terrorists putting out podcasts like Joe Rogan does, or making content like today’s influencers?
The comedian does find himself grappling with contemporary information peddlers, at first recalling his mother listening to Radio 2 around the clock during the pandemic, reading her correspondence with Milo’s father. Then Milo describes how he got caught up with The Jeremy Vine Show (comparing it to America’s InfoWars), and how discovering the box of horny love letters his parents wrote to each other in the 1980s got him thinking about them in a new light, and wondering what happened to his dad’s old Hong Kong business partner (and his catamaran!).
Edwards might not be faring as well as he’d hoped, particularly when he compares his stock to that of his father, but he’s not too cool for television. Even if that means his best early TV credit comes from Jeremy Vine. Edwards should be getting more and better TV offers, though!
Milo Edwards: Catamaran plays Cabaret Voltaire during the 2026 Edinburgh Fringe.
