Tuning in…
Tuning in…
Castaway
1 appearance
A comedian known for her Every Woman Yet No Holds Bard style, sell-out tours, and BBC series, drawing humor from everyday life and intimate human moments.
On the island
Eight records
first single I ever bought; plays it while changing the cat litter
Theme from SupermanFavourite
makes her feel invincible; plays it before scary tasks
The keepsakes
In conversation
Presenter asks
1:49Are you someone who finds comedy in everything in real life?
I try to because I think it's quite a good way of thinking about things. So something horrible happens to you, but there's something funny in the middle of all of that. It somehow lightens it and maybe makes it easier to handle. So it is something I look for.
Presenter asks
2:01Are you always on red alert for good material?
Yeah, but good material can come from just having a conversation with a friend. So what I find is if all the only jokes I can think of are related to driving or hotels, then I know I need to see my friends or maybe go supermarket shopping or go to the cinema or just do some normal things, and then all of a sudden material comes again.
Presenter asks
2:32What makes you laugh – a proper gut laugh that comes from nowhere?
Oh, loads of things. I'm such a laugher. Everyday conversations with my husband or my family make me laugh a lot. Uh we my my sister always says, you know, we're all funny in our house, Sarah's the only one that gets paid. And which I love I love the sort of mild arrogance of that. But also it's true. We are I'm not the funny one when I go home. We are.
The book
a survival book (not specified)
Bear Grylls or Anna
I'd like a survival book by Bear Grylls or or Anna. They're just basically something that tells me how to build a boat and how to like drink my wee. And I know I have to do these things because I'm determined to get off the island. And I think a book to help would be good
The luxury
Because I think writing would stop me going mad. And then when I did get off, which I will, I would already have like a show written? And ready to try out in front of audiences?
Presenter asks
14:23What did it feel like to be a child in a community during the miners' strike?
I think, um I have purposefully kept my memories as a child, so I haven't really sort of. I don't know, I. I remember it was hard, but I remember that the family were really strong. I went to free dinners, free school dinners, and there was me and one other girl in our year, and we used to get seconds and sometimes cuddles off the dinner ladies. … I woke up and the bed was covered in blood and it was because my shoes were too tight and I hadn't told my parents because I knew they couldn't afford any new shoes. … But I also remember like the French miners that Christmas sent loads of toys. So we still got presents at Christmas, but it was very clear where they'd come from.
Presenter asks
23:40What's it like to display your pain and have it make people laugh?
Oh, it's it it takes away the uh it takes away the pain, but it takes away the power. And also, I think sometimes you feel like you're alone. Nobody's ever been dumped like this. This is horrific. And then when they laugh, it's like they're saying, Oh, I've had that. Yes, that's happened to me, and you feel more like you're in a group.
Presenter asks
27:35Did it annoy or upset you when you were criticised for what you wore at the BAFTAs?
I mean, but it's all of those things. I was thrilled to be there and put in the same category as, you know, like Anton Deck and Alan Carr and Graham Norton. And it was so flattering. And then to be pulled apart for something that is so unimportant seems really odd. … It's just pointing somebody on tapping them on the shoulder and saying, You look rubbish. You shouldn't be wearing that. You're too fat for that. You're too ugly for that. Of course that hurts. It shouldn't matter. I'm on the red carpet because there is literally no other way into the bafters.
“I woke up and the bed was covered in blood and it was because my shoes were too tight and I hadn't told my parents because I knew they couldn't afford any new shoes.”
“I went into the ladies' loo's afterwards and jumped up and down'cause I'd done it,'cause I'd sort of ticked it off my list.”
“And it went from silence to this woof of laughter. And I just thought, well, he doesn't love me, but all of these people do. And that is enough for me for now.”
“The best piece of advice he's ever given me is that there's no such thing as can't. Uh the only thing you can't do, there's only one thing you can't do, and that is um stick your bum out of your bedroom window, run downstairs into the garden and throw stones at it. Everything else is achievable.”
“I recently had some time off of the summer, and therefore nobody told me I was funny every day. And my husband laughs, but it's not the same as like two thousand people.”