Ever served so hard you almost toppled a government? After gaining attention for her short film GUTS, Maia Tassalini began performing stand-up in 2024 and later that year reached the final of the BBC New Comedian of the Year Award. She is a member of the Pleasance Comedy Reserve 2025, a Soho Comedy Labs Plus alumna, and made her full Edinburgh Fringe debut this year. Her hyper-articulate, theatrical stand-up has rapidly marked her out as one of the UK’s most exciting new cult comic voices. Tassalini channels the muse (Monica Lewinsky) to boldly ask the question on everyone's lips: is there anything more cursed than being 22 and stunning?

"Maia is a natural. Born to do it. Unreal!" - Shaparak Khorsandi