Acting is a great preparation for Stand up comedians

Even if Bylgja Babýlons graduated from the Icelandic Film School as an actress she has increasingly been working as a stand up comedian.

Currently Bylgja is working in London and having just returned from a tour in the Baltic countries. She discovered yesterday that a video she had sent to Jokenation, a stand up competition held by Montreux Comedy had been chosen to take part in their online voting.

“I´ve never sent anything of this sort before and to be frank I had completely forgotten sending this one about a month ago until I by chance found out that this was online for the voting since 1st October.”

Bylgja points out this is probably the cause of her attention deficit disorder. No wonder she has had little or no time to follow this up since she´s been on the road for a while.

“I´ve just finished off a tour of four days with Comedy Estonia, to Estonia, Latvia and Finland and from there I went straight to London to take part in some Open Mic evenings me and my friend Snjólaug were invited to after having sent them some samples of our work to Smile emotion. ”

And Bylgja is still in London. She says her acting training at IFS has been a great asset for the stand up career. We ask her if it isn´t difficult to change gear like that from the Baltic countries to London and her answer is that it´s not so difficult. If you make sure to change out some of the private jokes of the locals…

“…it seems all nations find the same urge to laugh at problems our trips to the toilet cause or what difficulties we run into during this one time of the month, the period.”

We recommend that you tune into Bylgja Babýlons act at Jokenation and that you give her your vote. And of course we wish her all the best in here adventures in London.