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What’s a typical day for you now?

On a work day, I get up around 7 a.m. to let our three dogs out and make breakfast
for my eight-year-old daughter, Violet. She can eat a stack of pancakes before

school so I make the posh North London protein, almond milk, blueberry kind. I

have all the coffee. We live next to her school in a Gothic church conversion. I’m

lazy so it’s genius. I don’t even have to change out of my bathrobe.

If I’m filming, I show up to my dressing room in a tracksuit and my hair and

makeup artist, Fiona, gets started on turning me into a “suitable-to-appear-on-TV”

woman. We are great friends so we talk about things, read magazines and play on

Snapchat until I am called down to the production office for a script meeting.

I’ve been working on a new couples’ gameshow for Comedy Central UK, so our

script meetings for that are really relaxed. We just go through the contestant bios

and throw possible ideas around for things to bring up on the show. We move into

studio for a rehearsal and then it’s back to the dressing room to finish getting

ready. By then, my stylist, Jen will have arrived with a suitcase bigger than she is.

If we are recording two episodes in the same day, this dressing room remains our

tiny home base until 10 p.m. If it’s one episode, we finish taping in time for me to

get back home and meet Violet at the school gate. We walk the dogs, go

swimming, play tennis, go to dinner or the park, run errands around the

neighborhood. I don’t feel guilty about the late nights that I often have to work
because 1. Her horseriding lessons don’t pay for themselves 2. She’s in bed by 8

p.m. anyway 3. I get a lot of days off.

What other comics do you admire?

Growing up I really loved Bette Midler–I know she wasn’t a stand-up but I loved
her. And Bea Arthur and Joan Rivers. The Golden Girls really, really, really