Claire Hooper: ‘People have different forms of therapy. Songs for the Deaf by Queens of the Stone Age is mine’

‘I’m not looking for life to be more fun. I just want less of everything, thank you’: Australian comedian Claire Hooper. Photograph: Ellen Smith/The Guardian

The premise of your new standup show, Fun Show xx, is that you are not a fun person. What is the least fun thing about you?

The minute my husband leaves the house, I turn the music off. I love silence. For my 40th birthday my husband, my two babies and I flew to Adelaide and hired a car to drive to the Barossa. My husband said, “It’s your birthday, you get to choose the playlist!” and I said, “Just complete silence please.” So we drove in silence for 90 minutes and that’s all I wanted.