Edinburgh Fringe 2025
Chloe Petts: Big Naturals
Chloe Petts
Genre: Comedy, LGBTQ+, One Person Show, Stand-Up, Storytelling
Venue: Pleasance Courtyard
Festival: Edinburgh Fringe
Low Down
An hour of tightly packed and hilarious comedy, Chloe Petts’s fourth Fringe run just goes on to extend her successful track record down at Pleasance.
Review
She’s done it again. With three successful Fringe shows under her belt, Chloe Petts is back at Pleasance for a fourth run talking about her favourite things: lad culture, football, and big naturals. With seemingly effortless set-up, she delivers an hour of tight, well-paced comedy, complete with throwaway gags, one-liners, and countless set ups with incredibly satisfying punchlines, discussing everything from her history of almost exclusively dating small bisexual women to her teenage love of Kasabian. How many times is too many times in seeing Leicester’s most famous band, you’d ask? She can tell you – she was there.
Petts’s gigs are almost reliable at this point for drawing out roars of laughter from the crowd – indeed, this show had such good reactions that you almost couldn’t hear the start of the next few jokes. Not that it particularly mattered, though. Petts can read the room fluently at this point, and has the innate skill of pulling laughs even on command. Which she did. Several times.
Petts has the magical ability to be able to draw you completely into the story – an almost blink and you’ll miss it phenomenon where suddenly the entire hour has passed, and everyone’s on their feet for a rousing applause, and one that’s incredibly well deserved. Even with tight jokes and well-timed sight gags, she’s incredibly fast on her feet in adapting to the crowd – latecomers and toiletgoers beware. Covering everything from the Women’s 2022 Euros Final to who exactly should be considered as a good role model in this day and age, she commands the stage with an electric presence, and her dry delivery and nonchalant tone just makes it even funnier when she picks those who just so happen to be sat in the front row.
Petts is quickly establishing herself as a huge name in the British comedy scene, and her career is most certainly on the up and up. Who knows what heights she’ll have reached by this time next Fringe? If the last few years are anything to go by, get yourselves a ticket while you still can. They’re guaranteed to sell out.
