A HILARIOUS video exhibits a Scots comic stealing his personal Fringe poster as a “memento” after performing nearly 60 exhibits in 25 days.

Fearghas Kelly had been prepping for his remaining present on the Edinburgh Fringe Pageant when he determined he wished to “mark the event” by pilfering his personal poster board.

The 29-year-old had coughed up £33 for the commercial board on the Mound within the metropolis centre, just for it to finish up coated by a handrail and chicken poo.

However, video exhibits Fearghas, from Glasgow, getting his cash’s price by sauntering as much as the poster in broad daylight with a pair of nail clippers and scissors in hand.

Fearghas explains: “It’s the ultimate day of the Fringe, so clearly I’m going to steal my very own poster.”

The digicam zooms in on the poster which seems to be positioned snugly behind a steel railing, with the highest half of Fearghas’ face peering out from the poster together with his present title, Tip of the Ice-Fearg.

Fearghas continues: “You may keep in mind it from a earlier video. It’s bought an enormous pole over it. Nice.

“I labored it into my present.”

The clip cuts to a view from the again of a crammed room throughout considered one of Fearghas’ exhibits, with the viewers laughing as Fearghas fumes: “There’s a f***ing pole over half the title.”

The clip then cuts again to Fearghas on the Mound as he hilariously pulls out a nail cuticle set, joking: “Anyway, I actually need to chop my nails, so I discovered this fabulous manicure set.”

He opens up the manicure set to point out a pink velvet-lined inside full of scissors, clippers, a cuticle pusher and extra.

He jokes: “I don’t assume anybody who cuts their nails with scissors ought to be afforded fundamental rights however I figured they’d turn out to be useful.”

Fearghas then boldly begins to chop the zip ties holding up the poster utilizing the tiny pink scissors, hilariously commenting: “Simply the one little bit of chicken s**t.”

He then clips off extra zip ties and begins to pre-emptively pull the poster earlier than realising there’s one final wire to chop.

Eventually, Fearghas pulls the board out from its steel jail and the digicam zooms in on the poster as he triumphantly proclaims: “There she f***ing is.”

He whips the poster beneath his arm and units off, strolling previous vacationers alongside the Royal Mile as he voices over: “And that’s how you are taking the facility again.”

The digicam then exhibits St Giles Cathedral as he randomly provides: “You recognize, that’s the place they put The Queen when she died.”

The clip then cuts again to Fearghas’ present as seen earlier than, revealing that he has introduced the poster together with him, integrating his heist as a part of a sketch for his remaining present on the Fringe.

Fearghas beams on the stage as he lifts up the poster and declares: “There it’s. It’s f***ing mine now.”

The viewers cheers as he provides: “Thirty quid? You assume I used to be going to show that down, let that go right into a skip?”

Fearghas took to social media to share the video on Tuesday (29 AUG), writing: “I stole my very own poster.”

Talking to Fearghas at present he stated: “I used to be performing my first solo present, Tip of the Ice-Fearg, at Hootenannies at The Apex Grassmarket, which is what the poster was promoting.

“I additionally had Stragglers; a late-night split-bill present with Erin McKinnie for the Scottish Comedy Pageant on the Waverley Bar.

“On high of some shorter spots round Edinburgh, I did 59 gigs in 25 days, by no means had an evening off and carried out a minimum of twice an evening on all however one date of the pageant.

“I plan to be in my mattress till Halloween – not as a result of I’m drained, I simply get actually scared.

“It was my first time doing a present by myself on the pageant, and I actually wished to mark the event with a kind of large outside posters.

“I appeared into how this was executed and, in the long run, I spared no expense…and went for the most cost effective choice.

“The larger ones stretch into the a whole lot – some nicely over a thousand – so £33 was good for me.

“I used to be so excited to see my title up in cardboard and skipped up the Mound to see it in individual. There was a pole overlaying half my title.

“I used to be initially fairly irritated till it clicked that this was one thing I may moan about on stage for your entire month.

“It all the time bought a very good snigger which I step by step resented increasingly more.

“Why did I steal it? £33 is some huge cash, I wished the souvenir of my wee skilled milestone, and this simply couldn’t survive in a skip (if you happen to can’t see me, I’m pointing to my very own face).

“I’ve each religion I’d have been responsibly recycled right into a lateral circulate take a look at or a Kinder Bueno wrapper however I couldn’t bear the considered half my face being repurposed into the within of a council bin lid, for instance.

“So, my poster has come again to Glasgow with me, and I don’t fairly know what to do with it. Possibly I’ll body it and cling it in my rest room.

“No matter I do, I must take away all of the chicken faeces that’s on it, so I actually ought to take it out my kitchen.

“I’m actually delighted with how my entire month went.

“I really feel like I’ve discovered a lot and progressed so much as an act with all that stage time now beneath my belt and hope that is one thing I can exhibit as I return to gigging across the nation.

“Just one present needed to be pulled – Stragglers on the ninth – and that was as a result of a person pulled what everybody believed to be an actual gun on the sensible Ralph Brown who was performing instantly earlier than us, which is honest sufficient.

“The cancellation, I imply, not Ralph having a gun pulled on him.”