This tour has Janey wielding a variety of talents, as she delivers the kind of forthright stand-up which has earned her a strong reputation on the comedy circuit and a loyal band of followers. But she will also be displaying her skills at improv, as she stands by a screen and narrates ad-libbed voice-overs of people (many of whom are today’s crop of politicians), giving them a heavy Scottish accent and inventing a story, many of which involve making soup for the community.

“The soup pot is very universal: if you’re in Australia, America, Brazil, France Germany or Alaska, and someone dies or gets married, people will make soup. The soup pot is the hub of the community. When somebody died near us when I was a kid, somebody would make the big soup pot so all the visitors had something warm to drink and eat. It’s part of us all being in it together. Of course, that was before people discovered they were gluten free and worried about being allergic to lentils.”

Janey first discovered that she could develop this new strand of her career on the night of the Scottish Independence vote in 2014. “I first did the voice-overs live at the Wild Cabaret club in Glasgow where the big screens were up. When the news came through and it was all looking a bit bleak, we turned the volume down and I started talking over the top of people. The audience loved it and I realised this was something I could do really well.”

She then poked fun online at the likes of Theresa May, Ruth Davidson and Nicola Sturgeon, replacing their talk of policy and elections with chat about big Isa and her soup pots. A recent piece she did on Kim Kardashian (largely mocking her for walking backwards) also went down spectacularly well, while clips of supermodels, Pathé newsreels and Fanny Craddock (the original celebrity chef) are given the Godley treatment. “I started off doing it for me, really. I liked the fact that I could give those politicians a whole new background persona and the idea that they might have these ordinary conversations; I love the idea of that normalcy which cuts through all that bulls**t. The ones that are the hardest to do are of Katie Hopkins, because the audience just boo like they’re at a pantomime.”

Since the voice-overs took off, an unusual trend started which reminded Janey of the halcyon days of Spitting Image when politicians would tune in avidly on a Sunday night, desperate to see if they had been captured in wax and caricatured in song. “MPs will say, ‘Are you going to do me?’ I’d like to do some international ones; I do Trump but I want to do Australian and Canadian politicians. There’s a lot of fodder to go on.”

When she started performing comedy in the mid-90s, there were very few female acts kicking about, but Janey Godley has now become a standard bearer in Scotland for young women who might fancy a career in stand-up. “I did Have I Got News For You and I was the first working-class Scottish female comic to do that: the first and last. There are girls from Glasgow who saw comedy and it would be Kevin Bridges and Frankie Boyle, so they all thought – that’s not our job, that’s for Scottish men. But when they see me and they see someone like Fern Brady, they think – yeah, that’s also a woman’s job.”

Recently, Janey has ramped up her acting CV, appearing in Wild Rose (staring Jessie Buckley, Julie Walters and Sophie Okonedo) about a young woman trying to make her way in the world of Country music, and has written and directed a short film entitled The Last Mermaid. She’s also had a one-woman play run off-Broadway, and will be on TV screens soon playing the lawyer of Martin Compston’s character in Traces, a crime drama from an original idea by Val McDermid.

But for now, she’s enjoying making people laugh all over the country with both her no-holds barred stand-up and the unique nature of these new voice-overs. “The most important thing is that this has never been done before, no other comic in the world is doing this. I’ve been doing stand-up for over 20 years but it took a Tory called Theresa to make me famous.” Mrs May might now be virtually out of the public eye, but the moment has surely arrived for Janey Godley to take centre stage.

Janey Godley brings her Soup Pot Tour to Manchester Comedy Store on 26 February 2020. See website for full details.

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“As a word, ‘wallop’ just isn’t used enough but I use it quite a lot. I think it sums up me and my show. ‘Here it is, have a bit of that’, we’ll enjoy ourselves and then go home. I’m very much in it for the audience and to do whatever it takes to be as funny as possible for an hour and a half as opposed to delivering a message or narrative or life-changing view of the world. My show isn’t going to sort out Brexit, but it will take your mind off it for an hour and a half. Essentially, the show is all about the funniest things that have happened to me or I’ve thought of since the last tour.”

As a father now of two toddlers, the temptation for Beckett might have been to make Wallop! his ‘new-dad’ show. He’s more or less resisted that. “Though I have kids, it’s not my ‘I’m gonna talk about my kids for 90mins tour’. I love the kids and that’s going to be the hardest thing about going on tour. It’s not really about the things my kids have said, it’s more about my new relationship with my in-laws and my own parents. The show is about family. I’ve always wanted a whole family to sit down and laugh at my stuff; before it was more of a happy accident because my comedy is quite accessible, but now, all ages can get a lot from it.”

Coming from a very large family (“everyone’s my cousin in south-east London”), where Rob is the second youngest of five brothers, he’s noticed an over-compensating tendency for those siblings to stop him from getting ideas way above his station. “The level they go to in order to keep my feet on the ground is actually quite rude. It’s really odd how much they don’t talk about my job. If I worked at Sainsbury’s they’d ask me more about my work. They almost go out of their way to not turn me into some sort of showbusiness dick, and it’s not spoken about. They’re all proud, though, don’t get me wrong.”

His mum is also no doubt very proud of her lad’s achievements, but in Rob’s eyes has a funny way of showing it: “My mum always likes to have a go: ‘if you could get a degree in annoying . . . you’d have a degree in annoying.’ Thanks mum. If she could get a degree in analogies . . . I don’t think she’d get one.”

While his feet might be planted solidly on terra firma, that doesn’t mean that Rob Beckett won’t have ideas and nurture dreams about where his career might be headed in the future. “I want to do stand-up forever; I’d love to fill my local, the O2. It would be a dream of mine to have that many people in one place coming to see me. That would be amazing.”

His natural flair for shooting the breeze with anyone who comes into his orbit means that one day he can see himself fronting his own talk show. “I love hosting and presenting TV, and I’d really love to have a chat show later on in my career when I’ve calmed down a bit. I don’t think I’d get that much out of the guests at this point, but later on when I’m a bit more tired, I think I’d be a good chat-show host.”

In terms of the ideal TV show he’d loved to have appeared on, Rob mentions Game Of Thrones (“I saw Ed Sheeran and I think I would have ruined it as well”), and namechecks Match Of The Day (“to get on that, I would suddenly have to have a full career as a footballer”). While a big fan of football, he has recently got heavily into boxing. “It’s the comedy equivalent of sport, though obviously boxing is way harder. In performance terms, a singer has a band and an actor has a crew, but in stand-up comedy and boxing you’re out there on your own. To do all that and then get punched in the face? I’m in awe of them.”

It’s been 10 years since Rob Beckett first launched his career in the stand-up game, and 9 years since he took third spot (“I prefer to call it runner-up!”) in the prestigious So You Think You’re Funny competition which culminates each year at the Edinburgh Fringe. So, what would he say to his younger self, a decade on, now that he has a wealth of experience in stand-up comedy and the wider entertainment world in general?

“There are loads of things I would have told him not to do, but he wouldn’t have listened. I was just enjoying it and ploughing on, and obviously you make mistakes. But through throwing yourself into stuff and making mistakes you learn invaluable lessons. I had come from a working-class background and had no idea about the industry and I didn’t even know the Edinburgh Fringe existed, so I went in not giving a shit. Both parents were so supportive and there was no pressure, but maybe if you had been to Oxbridge or Durham and your parents had funded your education, they’d be saying ‘why are you going to the Edinburgh Fringe? You should be off being a barrister!’ So there was no expectation on me . . . But mainly I’d say to him, ‘cut your hair because it’s an absolute disgrace!’”

Rob Beckett’s Wallop! tour comes to O2 Apollo, Manchester on 13 and 14 December 2019. See website for full tour details.

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“You can take it in a variety of ways: is it every man for himself, as it appears to be around the world at the moment? Or is it that we should reconsider the fact that the whole of humanity will only survive and progress if every man pulls together? It really does depend on your point of view. I’m not a preachy sort of comic, I prefer to leave things up in the air and for the audience to make their own decisions.”

On an annual basis, Stephen takes a sparkling new show out to the nation, and each time fresh social and political challenges are there to be faced. This time around, Everyman may well be performed in a country which is now no longer part of the EU.

“What I’m trying to be more prepared for is how the audience will react because I did a show on the night of the Brexit vote, and that was the weirdest crowd I’d had for many years: there was a huge division in the room and people were in shock. The only other gig I could equate that to was one in East Anglia where there was a funny mood in the audience, and after about seven minutes I just said: ‘Hey guys, there’s about 800 of us in here: what’s happened?’ Someone shouted out, ‘They’ve closed the car park and we had to walk for 10 minutes!’ So they just sat there in a grumpy mood, and that was the exact same thing that happened on the night of Brexit.”

Stephen insists that he won’t cover Brexit if he finds he has nothing new to say about it, but he does have some broad areas he will definitely be confronting in Everyman. “I’m tackling things as simple as how we face our own mortality as we get older, and looking at things you can do to improve yourself when you’re trying to find answers to questions.”

This desire for answers has been partly sparked by a TV show he appeared on earlier in 2019. BBC’s Pilgrimage featured a number of celebrities (including Dana, Lesley Joseph and Les Dennis) who embarked on a journey (both physical and spiritual) to Rome. As an atheist and gay man, Stephen was initially taken aback when the group was offered a private audience with the Pope as part of their adventure.

“Never in my wildest dreams, at the dizziest heights of stand-up comedy when you’re meeting very famous people and on bills with Rihanna or Madonna, never did I think I’d be sitting down for a half-hour private audience with the Pope. Particularly for a man with no religious leanings; it was so surreal. I was very apprehensive because I said I would only be part of it if I could ask some questions; I didn’t want to be sitting there being talked at and not have the opportunity to address issues. I had a weight on my shoulders that if I didn’t do this, that I would be doing a disservice to a whole community of people. They did say it might spark an international incident depending on the question, but I said bring it on.”

The Pontiff’s response to Stephen’s question about not feeling accepted as a gay man by religion and religious groups surprised him by being so open and generous. “I said to a friend there beforehand that I was 100% prepared to walk out, not flounce which may have been great for TV, but just get up and leave if he had given me a stock response. But I was blindsided by how candid he was. He wasn’t that explicit in what he said but it was enough to make me realise that, you know what, you’re one of the good ‘uns.”

His experience during Pilgrimage left him altered and has bolstered one of the long-standing ideas he’s had for his own comedy. “I’ve always wanted to have people in the audience who don’t share the same views as me whether politically, socio-economically, and racially, and to see if we can have a common ground for laughing together. I don’t want to be that kind of comic who gets a big round of applause and everyone goes ‘yeah, I agree!’. I want you to laugh and to be blindsided in the way that the Pope blindsided me. I want you to be surprised, not to feel like you’re at a rally with like-minded people.”

Stephen is happy to be back on the road and delighted with the show he has put together. “The structure is in place, and I’m very fond and pleased with it. I think there’s a maturity to the show; I’ve got peace with myself in terms of not having to show off. It’s a departure for me.” But one thing that won’t be different is Stephen K Amos’ ability to make audiences laugh, wherever they are around the country. Especially if the venue car park is fully operational.

Stephen K Amos brings his Everyman tour to The Lowry on 15 January 2019. See website for full tour details.

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In the last year alone, she’s worked her socks off with a whole heap of excellent new TV credits on her CV: she’s appeared in Comedians Giving Lectures on Dave and The Comedy Bus for Comedy Central, recorded episodes for Richard Osman’s House Of Games, and made her mark on Live At The Apollo, while her own Live From The BBC stand-up special is back on the iPlayer. As if this wasn’t enough, Suzi was recently named as the Chortle Best Club Act, recorded a special for Radio 4 entitled Suzi Ruffell’s Postcards To Portsmouth and is co-writing a sitcom entitled Hatch about a non-nuclear family. Now she is all set to launch herself onto a second solo national tour.

“I’m now definitely happier than I have been for a long time. I’ve met someone, and that’s all very exciting, but I can’t stop being who I am. So my worries now might be about starting a family and what that will mean and what that child’s life might be like in this world . . . I don’t stop being me, so for the kind of comic I am that does confessional stuff and talks on stage about her overactive brain, I’m still a worrier..”

The last year has been especially busy and successful for Suzi, with her having completed a first UK tour, Nocturnal, and taken her act to Australia. But now she’s back, hitting British stages again with the intriguingly titled Dance Like Everyone’s Watching.

“My mum has a sign in our house that says ‘dance like no one’s watching’: the rest of my family are the least likely people to dance while nobody’s watching. We are a family of show-offs, so we dance like everyone’s watching. Everyone does show off a little bit. People who are super-smart show off by being able to do a crossword really quickly. We all do it in our own way.”

When she was growing up, the entertainer/show-off gene rather than the academic one seemed to be dominant in Suzi. She happily admits this herself, and it seemed to be recognised within the Ruffell family. “I’m not super academic. I remember talking to my mum about me going to university and she said ‘your brother’s the clever one; you can tap dance’. And that’s been the mantra of my life. When you’re a kid, it’s rubbish doing stuff that you’re not very good at, and maths and English were really hard for me at school. But when I was able to go to an am-dram society and put old-lady make-up on and walk with a stick and pretend to be someone‘s granny, I had the time of my life.”

And now British audiences are about to have a great time as Suzi brings them her new show. “Part of it is about the expectations of what you want and what you get. There are bits about the idea of the perfect relationship and what I thought having a career like this would be like. I romanticise being recognised by people for my stand-up and it happened a little while ago while I was in an Uber pool crying. I had hurt my back and had to get to an osteopath and so called a cab where people share. I just burst into tears and the other person said ‘were you on Mock the Week?’ I am very lucky doing the job I do but you have those ideas of what something is going to look like against the reality of what it is like.”

The reality now is that Suzi Ruffell is having a lot of fun finding her audience (those who haven’t got on board yet are in for a treat), and is happier with herself and her life. That all adds up to an exciting period ahead as she takes Dance Like Everyone’s Watching on the road. “I had a tour last year which completely sold out and we had to add extra dates. For me, that’s what it’s all about it. In the last six months I’ve really found my audience which has been the best; I absolutely love that.”

Suzi Ruffell brings her show Dance Like Everyone’s Watching to The Lowry on 28 November 2019. See website for full tour details.

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Always a man who likes an incendiary show title, Phoenix From The Flames represents Nick Helm’s return to something like his old self. The man who starred in BBC Three’s wonderfully charming Uncle, fronted a food programme for Dave entitled Eat Your Heart Out, and will soon appear in series two of Romesh Ranganathan’s Sky sitcom The Reluctant Landlord, has always given off the vibe that just about anything could happen during one of his live extravaganzas.

You don’t go along to a show with titles such as One-Man Mega Myth or This Means War! and expect to see a shy, retiring wallflower. Yet, for his 2017 touring show, There Is Nothing You Can Do To Me That I Haven’t Already Done To Myself, Nick delivered a set that was much more stripped back and intimate, with a few songs breaking up what was effectively a storytelling affair.

He insists that after his break from live comedy, he is now ready to get back to his roots. “I’m known for doing shows with production numbers and costume changes and props and a set. After the tour, which I really enjoyed, I did miss doing a proper old-school show, so this is me going back to what I started doing.”

The onstage Nick Helm is a very different animal from the polite and quietly spoken offstage man. A bombastic and in-your-face performer, there are few holds being barred when he lunges into full flow. There is a very good reason for him becoming such an unstoppable force of nature once the curtain goes up. “I do get very nervous and stressed before a show, and the day of a gig can be a complete write-off. That is why my act is the way it is. I get nervous all day and bottle all this tension and then I go on stage and let it all out. I’m very loud.”

As far away from the definition of a one-trick pony as it’s possible to get, Nick Helm is equally at home writing music, making short films, penning poetry and doing a bit of acting, as he is on stage working his stand-up magic. “When you need a break in one area, you just go and do something else. I have lots of different creative outlets. And that’s really what Phoenix From The Flames is all about: it’s about rising back from the year I’ve had. I had an up and down year personally; I suffered from mental-health issues and depression, but I’m now coming back to being my best self and bouncing back in an Alan Partridge-esque way. It’s really a tongue in cheek look at my life.”

With more people in the public eye willing to talk about the mental health issues which affect themselves or those closest to them, there’s certainly no reason why comedians shouldn’t be tackling these issues head on as well. “The last show was very personal and I’ve always dealt with depression in my comedy,” says Nick. “Before, I’d maybe have a one-liner about depression but as I’ve improved as a stand-up I can get up on stage and talk about my experiences and make that funny rather than just having some jokes that I’d try to get into my set.”

For Nick, this feels like a more honest approach to both the subject and to his craft as a stand-up comic. “I have a lot of friends who suffer from mental health issues. I think it’s possible to talk about these issues without it being morbid. So, this will be another personal show. But it’s OK, it’s still going to be a good night out!”

Treating audiences to many a good night out has led Nick Helm to creating a live comedy career that has pleased critics and award judges as well as the public at large. Among the accolades he has received for his live shows are Best Breakthrough Artist at The British Comedy Awards, Best Music And Variety Artist from Chortle, and Best Newcomer from the Loaded LAFTAs, while he also scooped the Dave Joke Of The Fringe Award in Edinburgh in 2011 for a gag (which he actually attributed to his dad) about Snow White and her Seven Dwarves (look it up, it’s a clever one).

But Nick Helm is never likely to rest on any such laurels. A consummate professional and hard worker who always strives to get better as a comedian, he is a close reader of his own product. “The percentage of actual stand-up has crept up a bit over the years. For Phoenix From The Flames, I have to work out how many songs I want in and how many poems I want in, and how much stand-up I want to do. You’ve got a pile of songs and poems over here, a pile of jokes and stories over here, and a pile of props over there. The process of working it all through is like having a bucket of Lego and throwing it all over the floor: you can do whatever you want with all those pieces.” And as he will no doubt prove once again, with Phoenix From The Flames, Nick Helm just can’t stop giving audiences exactly what they want.

Nick Helm is at The Dancehouse, Manchester on 8 November 2019. See nick-helm.co.uk for full tour details.

Stewart Francis goes into the punset.

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First the sad news. Into The Punset is the farewell tour of UK-based Canadian gag master Stewart Francis. The great news is that he’s promising to go out with a show that proves he’s at the peak of his punchline-making powers. “For me, it’s a happy conclusion as I’ve left the best til last. I’m thrilled to bits with what I have and it’s nice to go out on a high, like when the athlete that throws the winning touchdown in the Super Bowl then retires.”

Stewart can be confident that he has a farewell show that will be remembered fondly as he’s been trying it out on the folks back home. “I’ve been doing it in Canada, my home and native land, where I got to workshop it and get it into my brain. I write solely for British audiences, so I was doing jokes there that I knew full well the Canadian audiences wouldn’t really appreciate. But I had fun with it by stepping back from the joke to tell them what I’m going for in it and when I repeated it, that would generally be a nice moment. There’d be some sarcastic laughs . . . but what are drunks like?”

Having arrived in the UK over a decade ago, Stewart Francis has cultivated a strong following among critics and audiences, aided by TV appearances on the likes of Mock The Week and Live At The Apollo, but fully consolidated by joke-heavy live shows such as Tour De Francis, Pun Gent and Outstanding In His Field. And at the Edinburgh Festival of 2012, he won the Dave Joke Of The Fringe Award for this perky one-liner: “You know who really gives kids a bad name? Posh and Becks.”

“From my perspective, British and Irish audiences are so comedy savvy, so I don’t have to pull a big cheesy smile after every punchline to let you know that the joke’s over and you can now feel free to laugh. With my dry, deadpan humour, I can just leave it out there and the audience will connect the dots.”

Stewart admits to feeling no extra pressure to make Into The Punset an extra-special one, and his joke-writing process for this show hasn’t changed. “I just come up with the gags as and when. I’ve got the template for the show down, so as I come up with a new gag I try to work out how I can put it in there. But for me, if it ain’t broke don’t fix it, and that’s how I can carry on with my day without being obsessed with writing jokes. I just feel the sunshine on my cheeks and if I come up with a gag, all the better.”

The big question, then, is what comes next for Stewart Francis? “I’m going to step away from comedy and focus on acting which is another passion. When you’re a comedian, casting directors can be a bit lazy and think, ‘well he’s just a comedian’ but I’m not. I think I have some significant acting chops and I want to prove that to myself and to the world. But when you’re wearing both hats as a comedian and an actor, you can be taken less seriously; so I want there to be a real separation.”

So, anyone thinking that this ‘farewell tour’ could be one of those fake finales which some bands have announced down the years only to return and tread some more boards shortly after, you’ll have to take Stewart on his word. “I saw Simply Red’s last show at the O2 three years ago and they came back out a year later! I have way too much respect for the audience to do something like that. People don’t know me well enough to know how much I value the crowd and how much I appreciate their time. Even if I did want to come back, I wouldn’t do it, I’d get a job doing what I needed to do, because I try to be a man of my word. Sadly we live in a world where there’s all this cynicism and some people might believe that it’s just a publicity thing. It’s not. Andy Kaufman is dead, he’s not coming back, and this is my last tour.”

To date, Stewart’s acting CV features the likes of Canadian comedy An American In Canada, US legal drama Kevin Hill, and British sitcom Not Going Out, but is there a particular type of role he’s on the lookout for? “I love my fellow Canadian Will Arnett, he gets the most wonderful parts. But I’ve been watching The Assassination Of Gianni Versace recently and I’d love a part like Darren Criss has on there. That would be juicy. Honestly, I want to be the Disco Killer. I can do the eyes so I’m good to go.”

While Stewart Francis is currently focussing on making Into The Punset the best show he can possibly do, he will soon have half an eye on new horizons. Those who have lapped up his pinsharp brand of quickfire puns, gags and punchlines over the last ten years might feel a pang of regret that they won’t be able to see him on stage in the future, but he has some words of comfort for them. “This tour is a love letter to the UK and Ireland, thanking them for a wonderful chapter in my comedy career. It’s not a sad moment for me, it’s just all about new challenges and new horizons.”

Stewart Francis brings his final ever stand-up tour, Into the Punset, to The Plaza, Stockport on 10 November 2019. See website for full tour details.

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Emily spent her 20s in the public eye, appearing in a diverse range of TV programmes such as her breakthrough role as Charlotte in The Inbetweeners, appearing in a Birds Of A Feather Christmas special, while being herself in Dancing On Ice, enjoying a co-hosting stint on This Morning and claiming the runner-up spot in 2018’s I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here!. She has also fronted her own four-part documentary series, Adulting, and co-presented ITV2’s Singletown. 

Now that Emily is on the cusp of a brand new decade and further exciting challenges (she has a book out soon called Are We There Yet? and is also filming a new series of CBBC’s Almost Never), is there anything she will miss about the one that is about to disappear into the rear-view mirror? “I think not being able to say ‘I’m in my 20s’ might hurt a little bit, but I definitely won’t miss being young enough to care about what everyone thinks of me.” 

Emily has already taken Talk Thirty To Me on a totally sold-out first leg, and this next stage of her tour will keep the positive message bubbling along. “It’s absolutely fine to not have every box ticked by 30. I also think we’re fed this idea that people come without flaws or imperfections (you can thank Instagram skin-smoothing apps for that). In the show, I tell stories about my life, my friends, and my relationships: girls seem to really get it, and funnily enough the lads do too as they’ve all had wives or girlfriends going on about the same things.” 

Of course you can’t discuss millennials without mentioning social media. While you will see plenty of people in their 40s and 50s completely entranced by their tiny screens, heads almost permanently downwards facing, those in their 20s seem to take the biggest flak for anti-social tech-obsession. “Social media is part of the air that we breathe,” admits Emily. “I’m lucky that I was part of the last generation where I do remember life before the internet and Instagram. I do wonder how it will all unfold over the coming years. I hope that we’re entering into a more mindful stage.” 

When people spoke about the first set of Talk Thirty To Me shows, the modern buzzword ‘relatable’ cropped up a lot. While that brand of comedy chimes strongly with Emily, her tastes are broad. “I think relatable-ness (is that a word?) is rooted in some of the best comedy. The idea that we say ‘oh I know someone like that’ or ‘so and so would say that’ keeps the convo going after the gig has finished. Growing up I love (and still love) Ricky Gervais, and god I love Kathy Burke. She was the whole reason why I wanted to end up in a sitcom. I also love Amy Schumer: I think the female American comics are brave and brilliant. It used to annoy me that I ended up constantly playing the tarty girl without the funny lines, although I don’t regret a single part: those roles gave me a career! But I wanted to play against type and felt like comedy could do that for me one day.” 

Now that comedy has helped to catapult the talented Emily Atack into stardom, she is keen to play down any notion that might exist in people’s heads that being a celebrity means living a perfect life. Part two of Talk Thirty To Me will put such ideas firmly to bed. “A lot has happened since I first took the show on the road, and I’m really excited to tell everyone about some more hideous mistakes that I’ve made!” 

Emily Atack’s show. ‘Talk Thirty to Me’ comes to The Lowry, Salford Quays on 5 November 2019. Visit website for full tour details visit.

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