{"id":535838,"date":"2026-04-17T11:08:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T11:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/535838\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T11:08:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T11:08:18","slug":"last-one-laughings-maisie-adam-urges-stand-ups-to-visit-jersey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/535838\/","title":{"rendered":"Last One Laughing&#8217;s Maisie Adam urges stand-ups to visit Jersey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Adam won Best Newcomer at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards in 2018 and the Best Breakthrough Award from comedy publication Chortle in 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">With the opera house reopened and Fort Regent set to reopen with potentially a 2,500-seater auditorium, Adam said she was confident that such venues could attract bigger comedy names to the island, while venues like the art centre with a capacity of up to 250 were ideal for performers like herself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said: &#8220;Last weekend I was in Scotland for some work-in-progress shows and I live in Brighton, so that&#8217;s five or six-hour train. Then&#8230; it was 20 minutes to Gatwick before flying straight over [to Jersey].&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She described Jersey Art House as &#8220;gorgeous&#8221;, adding: &#8220;You can literally get here in what felt like the speed of sound, so there&#8217;s no reason why you don&#8217;t do a tour date here&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Adam won Best Newcomer at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards in 2018 and the Best Breakthrough Award from comedy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":535839,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-535838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}