Why did you get into musical comedy?
I did musical comedy first because that was all I could do! I’d written and performed songs since I was young, so it was the most obvious way in. Doing standup straight away would have terrified me at that time. The piano was a good comfort blanket.
Can you recall a gig so bad that it’s now funny?
I remember one in the West End. I was wearing a glitzy gold sequin top because I had a joke about it. I walked on stage and opened my set saying, “I know what you’re thinking about my top,” and someone shouted, “It’s shit,” very seriously, before I could do the punchline. I had a bad time.
