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Jayne Austin

Comedy actor

Our cast of comedy geniuses may be unknown to you as yet so we sent the show's producer Gerald Strother along to find out more, Gerald meets Jayne...

Give me a couple of lines about yourself. What have you done? What’s your background? Professionally speaking…

I’ve just graduated in Theatre, Film & TV from the University of Glasgow and have recently been accepted into the Ö÷²¥´óÐã Production Talent Pool.

I also work as an Assistant Director and Drama Tutor at . Most recently I’ve worked on Now’s The Hour at the Fringe and The Tin Forest – International Performing Company with the .

Tell me some comedy stuff that you like. Programmes, stand ups… what makes ya giggle?

I really love , South Park, and . I’ve been watching a lot of and recently too - they are both geniuses at creating stuff for Vine.

When it comes to comedy, the Scots are the best - it doesn’t get much better than , , and .

Erm, something about filming or rehearsing with us. Was ANY of the experience enjoyable? (Lunch can be included in your fond memory if that was the best bit or you can just big me up. No?)

The crew were so much fun! I particularly enjoyed trying to locate specific graffiti to film one of my sketches. We all ended up driving to Paisley where I had originally filmed it on my phone. It was very surreal and hilarious returning with a proper crew.