So I've been performing since I was a child. So I was singing in church at four years old in all the school sort of productions. I used to always want to do it. I did amateur dramatics being a kid. And then I was like a punter's blue coat. So I've always worked within singing, dancing and acting type thing. Um, so it's always been in my blood. Now it's just a show off as a kid, but you didn't do anything. No, until your friends. Did you come to school,

please? I did a couple of school. Yeah, but not like, not big parts. Yeah, no, nothing. Nothing. Nothing. I didn't join any drama groups. I didn't do anything. I didn't. But always, it wasn't until like later on in life when I kind of sort of psych one lies to myself and my behavior as a kid. And I always used comedy as like a tool. I always used making people laugh as a thing. If I had a social interaction with a group of people, I would put my stamp in as I'm the funny one here, by the way. Yeah, I wouldn't say that because that tends to cover you opposite effect. Hey guys, I'm the funny one just in case anyone's got any ideas. Yeah, but basically, I remember one time that really sticks out, I came back from holiday and I must have only been 12, 13. I came back from Holy Remarm and Dad and I just met some strange kids on holiday, some characters and strange things that happened. And I remember I almost formed them and it was set in me head in like a comedy routine. And I knew, you know, I'm gonna tell me mates this and then I'm gonna move on to this story about this and then bang, bang, bang. And I just really got this vivid memory of I was I was on my friend's driveway and it was a summer night and all the kids were sitting up against the fence on the grass cross-legged. And I was just telling them about me holiday and they were just falling about laughing. And it was a part of us to the point of where I was like, are they, are they winding me up here? Like if I got like dog poo on me shoe when I haven't noticed or as a bird pooed on me back, like they're laughing to the point of where I feel and then it wasn't until later on my friends they'd go tell it, oh tell him that story that he's told me. And then through my life, it just became if I was on the bus to go and meet my friends somewhere and my head I'd be like, right, what am I gonna say when I get there to make them laugh? And then my friend when I was 19, we were both at uni and he said, I'm gonna go and do stand up. And it was just like this, this moment where I was like, sorry what? He's like, I almost grabbed him and I was like, what, what, what, what did you say? And he's like, I'm gonna go to a do stand up and I went, how, how? Because I had no idea how you got from man on the street to man in a theater. Yeah, of course. I didn't know the path. But is this it with creative careers as well? There is no set path. It's not, oh, you can do this. So you, you know, you can try to go to strums school, you can do this and that. But that isn't even the successful formula. There is one. It's just a, I thought stand up was something famous. People did as a folly once they were famous for something else. Yeah. And Rich Jevias cemented that in my head because he did the office and then he did stand up literally as a folly. He said it. And if you were, I'm gonna try stand up and it happened to be a me, isn't that it? I don't know that. Yeah, he did the office on that first. And then he said, I wanted to do, yeah. And he was on, I thought he was a, he was on, it was, well, when there was the 100 greatest comedians thing on channel four years ago, there was an interview with someone and a comic said he went, oh, yeah. And I remember thinking, oh, you're going to try stand up, you're right. Let's see how good you are. And he was amazing. And the guy's talking about what he drew is. But when me mates said to me, I'm going to, you just go to comedy club and you get on and you do it. The, the burn and sensation I got to go and do it was the only way to describe it is whatever your favorite thing is, if someone like your favorite thing, I don't know clothes, cars, shoes, whatever, if someone came up to you and said, oh, your favorite thing, they're selling them for 10 pens round the corner. Yeah. There's one left that feeling you would have to leg it to that shop and get whatever that thing is. That's the feeling I got to quickly go and do stand up. Did you find it came naturally to you? I was, luckily, my first gig was an absolute stormer. And if it hadn't been, I don't think I'd be sitting here now. Yeah. I think that had given in. If my first gig was a dying on me, I was Mormon. I wouldn't have went back to it. Yeah, it would have been hard to come back. Yeah. I would have not been back to it. You got to build up that resilience. You got to have a few stormers and then you have your, I'll never, your first death. Oh. Is that just what like everyone's not laughing? Oh, yeah. Oh, it's unbelievable. And it's the feeling of this normally works. I feel really mean because I love stand up. I love going to watch it. But to get me to actually laugh is really difficult. And I'll turn to my boyfriend after we've got, we go to the angel quite a lot. And he'll say to me, did you find

that funny? I was like

hilarious.