THE SHOCK MERCHANTS

MADDY, 27, and MARINA BYE, 24, daughters of Ruby Wax and TV producer Ed Bye, have been making each other laugh since childhood. Maddy (left) was encouraged to swap her office job for clown school by her late godfather Alan Rickman, while Marina got her break in Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie as Kathy Burke’s assistant. They unleashed their character-based comedy at last year’s Edinburgh Fringe with their debut show Siblings. The sisters, who live together in London’s Notting Hill, are currently writing the follow-up, Siblings: Act 2. @siblings_comedy

THEIR BIG(ISH) BREAK We’ve always played characters for ourselves, but then in 2015 we signed up for an open mic gig in Edinburgh. We were wearing cagoules and had no material. It was really bad but we had so much fun we decided to keep going. Our mum...