"Yes there are awards and opportunities to be had, but this is not a competition. We can all help uplift each other and we can all benefit. I can’t wait for all the freaks I’m going to meet. It’s going to be a big big party."

"When I sit at a desk I start thinking that maybe instead of writing I should just repeatedly smash my own head into the wooden top as that’d be more fun than being locked up in this self-imposed detention."

"People should feel empowered to talk about their experience of taking time off work to see Loose Women get recorded on a weekday, and I hope my show helps them realise they can."

"A couple came up to us after the show and shared with us that they had recently lost their child, and that we made them laugh for the first time IN months, and that they were just so grateful. I went to the bathroom and just sobbed."

"The Edinburgh Fringe Festival is the most storied & iconic fringe festival in the world and it deserves to have San Francisco’s most storied & iconic pair of 8th Best Legs to mar that reputation"

"Children and inebriated adults share a lot of similarities, and you know pretty quickly if you’ve chosen someone to come up who is going to be a bit of a loose cannon! "

"Someone’s wife rang him while I was mid joke at The Comedy Store in LA, accusing him of being with a girlfriend. He wasn’t. He was with a group of mates, drinking and disrupting my set."

"From my 3-week Melbourne Comedy Festival experience, I found comedy shows become like castles. I start staring at them with a glazed expression after the first dozen!"

"I got  a review that said I needed to figure out what my comedy offered audiences. That stayed with me. I have always done art for art's sake. However, what is art if it's not viewed by anyone?"

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