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She may be on a roll in America — a place she suggested earlier this
year she might only have one good crack at — and what she credits
is not necessarily the years of standup in Britain that made her
famous there, but her presence on The Fix, a U.K.-style panel show

that arrived on Netflix earlier this year with her regular collaborator
Jimmy Carr.

“I have so much faith in Jimmy Carr (and) I know that a lot of
people in America and Canada and other countries have more

access than ever before to British comedy … I had a good sense
when I was filming in Los Angeles, you just have a feeling when it’s
good (so) it’s no surprise to me, really, that Americans found it.”

Before The Fix got released, though, she taped Glitter Room — not

in the Britain where her fame could guarantee her a warm welcome,
but in Los Angeles (with veteran sitcom director Linda Mendoza),
entertainment capital of a country where she’s still mostly
unknown. She credits Netflix with filling a thousand-seat theatre
with general fans of comedy — “I don’t think it’s like The Price Is
Right audience at all” — but it wasn’t necessarily her audience.