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TV presenting is not so easy.
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Presenting
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My dad makes me hiss with laughter.
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Laughter
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My Greek relatives I think probably are vampires.
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Greek
Relatives
Vampires
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I'm so lucky! I got to be a vampire! It's incredible.
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Vampire
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If anyone pays me a compliment, I'll do almost anything.
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Compliment
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I suffer from IBS so I'm severely constipated at all times.
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Times
Suffer
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I'm not green-fingered, I'm grey-fingered. I suck the life out of plants.
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Plants
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Whenever we do wire work, we do look like babies just being, like, dangled.
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Wire
Babies
Whenever
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Turns out tomato feed is the gift that keeps on giving. It's good for any plant.
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Giving
Plant
Turns
Feed
Tomato
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Treat your eyeballs to people who are truly joyful, escapist or interesting for you.
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Eyeballs
Joyful
Your People Treat
Escapist
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It's very rare to be able to do a show where the most important thing is being funny.
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Being Funny
Rare
Important Thing
Most Important Thing
The Most Important
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I lived for a little while in a place where the kitchen was a cupboard on the landing.
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Landing
Cupboard
Little While
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Comedy characters that take themselves very seriously, but are actually fools, is so funny.
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Fools
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I feel passionately that we need more space on TV for sketch shows for character actors to experiment.
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Experiment
Passionately
Sketch
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I've always wanted to try presenting and see what it was like, and you know, it could be a huge mistake.
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Presenting
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Having an enthusiasm to move doesn't necessarily mean that the Lord has blessed you with the feet to do so.
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Blessed
Enthusiasm
Feet
Lord
Necessarily
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What's not to aspire to about how to grow your own fruit and vegetables and plants, and then being creative?
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Aspire
Vegetables
Plants
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I tried to pull off a pair of thigh-high suede boots once, but my legs just looked like two big trouts wrapped up.
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Boots
Legs
Pair
Suede
Wrapped
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You just get satisfaction from achieving something that you just don't get in any other way than from being creative.
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Creative
Satisfaction
Achieving
Any Other Way
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Well, I'm obsessed with shoes - small shoes, weirdly shaped shoes, hotdogs in shoes, things sliding in and out of shoes.
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Shaped
Sliding
Weirdly
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It's embarrassing to say you want to be a comedian. Admitting that you want attention and you think you're such a laugh.
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Admitting
Embarrassing
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Working with Vic Reeves in a beautiful English field surrounded by loads of chicken wire - it's every person's dream job.
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Wire
Chicken
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I think being creative and making something that you can look at is so good for your brain and your soul. Nothing beats it.
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Beats
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Stath Lets Flats' at its heart is a character comedy show about a family-run estate agents, but it's inspired by a real family!
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Agents
Comedy
Flats
Inspired
Estate
Lets
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I used to be a nanny and the kids used to laugh at me when I'd say 'Shall we paint something?' They just wanted to go on their iPads.
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Ipads
Paint
Nanny
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Obviously getting to work with me is a huge pull, I know there's a lot of big A-listers out there desperate to get screentime with me.
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Desperate
Work Me Know
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Vampires, they're like the gift that won't stop giving. It's a good fruitful place to find comedy because they take themselves so seriously.
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Fruitful
Vampires
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I find it a lot with Australian and New Zealand comics, and people from that part of the world, we share quite a similar sense of humour I think.
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Australian
Humour
New Zealand
World People New
Zealand
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We had such a strange upbringing with such eccentric parents and so we were often put in situations where finding what was funny was a survival thing.
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Eccentric
Survival
Upbringing
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I think trying to be hot is the antithesis of trying to be funny. If you're aware of what you look like, or you're trying to... you can't be truly funny.
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Antithesis
Truly
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I grew up watching 'Big Train,' these collectives of comedians who knew each other, and as a comedy fan you knew who was going out, who were best friends.
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Comedians
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I've got friends who are nurses and teachers. They're making a difference. I'm like, 'Sorry I'm so stressed - I'm working on a character and my wig hasn't arrived.'
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Making A Difference
Sorry
Stressed
Nurses
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I was obsessed with 'Twilight.' I love the very, very serious drama of Bella and Edward. They were the most serious people in the world, with the worst senses of humor.
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Senses
Twilight
Edward
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I've just got a flat with a little balcony, so I did that fantastic thing of buying far too many plants and not really knowing what was going to stay alive and what wasn't.
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Alive
Buying
Balcony
Plants
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I think mockumentaries are such well-trodden grounds for comedies. It has been done a lot, but it is because of that informal nature, it's such a fertile ground to be funny.
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Fertile
Comedies
Grounds
Informal
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Who doesn't want to come and put fangs on, and a funny mad costume, and pretend to be like a really over-the-top bloodsucking monster for a couple of days? It's like dress-up.
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Over The Top
Costume
Pretend
Dress-Up
Monster
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It's just a lovely way to do comedy, where you have the freedom to try stuff, but then you also have a really strong, solid script to go back to if you're brain dead and tired.
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Lovely
Solid
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We are trying to shine a light on the infantilisation of women in the music industry. It's in the fashion and media industries too - this idea that women are more attractive if they look like little girls.
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Attractive
Music Industry
Industries
Little Girls
Shine
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Anyone who takes themselves very seriously, or is in any way pompous, or thinks of themselves quite highly, as soon as you pull out one little thread, you find one little chink... that's when it's the funniest.
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Pompous
Thread
Funniest
Highly
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My parents let my old room out to students studying abroad and my dad can never remember their names. They had a boy called Gerchen staying for over a year once and my dad called him 'courgette' the entire time.
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Staying
Abroad
Time Dad Remember
Entire Time
Studying
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Me and Jamie have grown up together and we work in the same industry and I quite often feel very lucky. Doing 'Stath' I look across the room and think, 'Not only is one of my best friends here, but he's also my brother.'
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Jamie
Best Work Together
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Like in 'Eastenders' they can write coronavirus into the scripts, so people can actually be socially distancing. But if you're in a sketch show where you're on top of each other, doing stupid things, you can't really make it work.
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Scripts
Sketch
Socially
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Often it's seen as empowering if you're cleverer than the men, or more aware - then you're giving the woman a great strong role. And that's true to an extent. But when it's a comedy, you want to be as mad and silly and funny as the men.
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Empowering
Silly
Extent
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I love watching TV, I probably spend too much time on my phone, but it's probably not very good for your mental health is it? It indulges some of your worst personality traits, like staring at other people's lives on Instagram for hours on end.
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Mental Health
Traits
Watching Tv
Too Much Time
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We still have a long way to go in such a misogynistic industry. But the discussions that we are having on social media and in politics, about the equal representation of women, which wasn't happening when I started out, is definitely changing things.
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Equal
Long Way
Representation
Social Media
Discussions
Happening
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They are cheaper to make and easier to do; you can just cram in loads of talent into a format that works and works. But if you look back, a lot of people we love today like French and Saunders, Ricky Gervais and Steve Coogan, all started in sketch shows.
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Cheaper
Format
Cram
Ricky
Sketch
Steve
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My parent's house, to be honest, is like a snail's disco. It's a fine house but my parents are very eccentric. Also that house might be built on an Ancient Egyptian burial ground or something, because the plague of insects that hit that house as we were growing up.
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Ancient
Burial
Disco
Eccentric
Egyptian
Fine
Growing Up
Honest
House
Insects
Might
Parent
Plague
Snail
Also
Hit
Ground
Parents
To Be Honest
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I only use Tinder to have horrible conversations with people. I accidentally liked this man on there and he sent me some really horrendous things. I was like, 'I'm gonna be even more horrendous.' I was by myself, having the time of my life. Then I felt slightly sick.
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Life Time Myself
Accidentally
Conversations
Horrendous
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