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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Anya Ryan

Sophie Duker: Hot Beef Injection review – bad encounters with men spun into great comedy

Comedian Sophie Duker licks a metal microphone stand against a pink background
Beef encounter … Sophie Duker is at Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh, until 30 August. Photograph: PR

Sophie Duker is done with men. She swears it. And, in her fourth hour, Hot Beef Injection – named after a crude euphemism from 80s teen film The Breakfast Club – she is going to tell us exactly why.

Duker has had her fair share of relationships, tracking all the way back to her adolescence. “I did hand stuff with a 16-year-old boy,” she announces at the show’s opening. On reflection, though, most of those experiences have left her feeling, well, weird.

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