Introducing: Wisecrack

Hi, Talina Zar listeners! We're excited to share with you a sneak peek at iHeartPodcasts' latest release, Wisecrack!

Wisecrack: Edd Hedges, the once chubby kid without many friends, is now a young, handsome, stand-up comedian, packing theaters from London to Sydney.  After making a name for himself on the road as “The Millennial Mike Birbiglia,” Edd returns to his hometown village, Stansted Mountfitchet, UK, to headline a charity event after a four-year absence, giving him a few days to reconnect with his working-class family.  

What Edd didn’t know was that his schoolmate – a boy that had bullied him, making his adolescence years a living nightmare – had begun to unravel during the years Edd was building his career. The former star athlete was on a downward spiral, in and out of jail. The most popular kid in town was now the town milkman, and on that night, he would become the town murderer… with Edd still on his mind.

This genre-bending event will weave in Edd's stand up set, recounting the scariest night of his life, and the deadliest night in his small village. “Wisecrack,” the world's first mash-up of true crime narrative and stand-up comedy, is one tough act to follow. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Please welcome to the stage, Ed Hedges.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
My name is Ed. Everyone say hello. Ed from a
very rural background myself. My dad is a farmer and
my mom is a cousin. So like it's not like
not loads going on.

Speaker 1 (00:22):
Ed Hedges, a slender, floppy haired up and comer stands
on the stage. He was captivating and quirky and had
the audience eating out of his hand. And then the
whole night took a turn.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
On the twenty second of July twenty fifteen, I woke
up to that noise coming from my front door. That
was the loudest thing I've ever heard in my life.
And at the end of my bed, staring out of
my window, there is someone standing. She is terrified, and

(01:06):
she says, whatever you do, do not turn on the lights.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
In Quest into the Death of a woman and a.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
Man, the lifeless body slumped on the sofa and covered
in her own congealed.

Speaker 3 (01:21):
Also repeatedly stabbed and caused a fatal head injury at
least day forty one stab wounds to the head, neck
and torso, plus fourteen blunt force injuries and defensive wounds.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
Well twenty second of July twenty fifteen, between eleven and
twelve o'clock at night. Twenty three year old man had
killed his family and then he came to my house.

Speaker 1 (01:51):
I was shocked, and so was the audience. This can't
be true, but I had to find out more. The
mystery would take me to a small village outside of
London and the murders. They didn't stop there.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
Does anyone know what show they've come to see? Well,
it's a story and it's about the scariest night of
my life.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
From Tenderfoot TV. This is Wisecrack, coming September second. Listen
for free on Apple Podcasts.