A comedian who went ahead with his Fringe show despite having just one person in the audience has become a hit at the festival.
Friday was the first day of Robin Grainger's run at the Edinburgh Fringe but when he went on stage he found a solitary man in the audience.
His decision to carry on was reported by a comedy critic and ticket sales for subsequent shows soared.
"I'm an optimistic guy, it was the first Friday - everyone was tweeting about busy audiences. I thought it would be fine," Robin said.
"My lovely tech operator Eric came to give me my two-minute warning and I asked how it was looking, and he winced. He said 'There's one'.
"I thought, he had paid his ticket and I've got a microphone and an ego, so I went for it."
Robin said that a tweet he posted about what happened has 250,000 views, adding that he has had a lot of support from the comedy community and "a lot of hugs".
His performance the following day was almost sold out.