“I'm very jealous of my daughter's education. She's been inspired by her teachers, and nobody inspired me as a teenager.”
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I think I might actually die of showing off. It'll be on my headstone - 'Cause of Death: Showing Off.'
As a five-year-old in Berlin in 1965, I didn't know that funny women existed. It wasn't until I got back to England that I realised women could be funny.
I can't watch other people doing comedy. As soon as somebody starts being funny I have to turn off because it upsets me. I get comedy indigestion. I just hate anybody else being funny. That's my job.
I was trained as an actress. But I wasn't a very convincing actress, so I started doing punk poetry and then fell into doing stand-up.