I have always thought of comedy as an important job and medium, and so I put pressure on myself to do the best I can.
From Miranda Hart
About me - I used to want to be a P.E. teacher, and kind of still do.
You want comedic themes to be recogniseable life truths that we all battle with, and with that comes the healing properties of comedy.
Writing humour certainly involves pain. A sitcom is 6 months of writing pain!
I am pleased to say that as I get older, I get less and less like the sitcom 'Miranda.' She is really a clown character, a heightened version of the 20-something me.
If I had had plastic surgery, I would have asked for something better than the face you are seeing! I actually really hate plastic surgery when it's just for aesthetics and anti-ageing. I think ageing is beautiful and expressive and characterful.
In my head, I have the most sensational singing voice. I perform concerts to thousands in the shower. The reality is I can hold a tune. The dream is a West End musical one day - no, really!
No one likes a show-off, but if parallel parking was an Olympic sport, I would get gold, no probs.
Because I have a dog, it's easier to work at home: I sit in a horrible weird 'Mastermind'-style chair and bask in my own mediocrity. Being single, I've no family life to distract me at the end of the day. Apart from taking the dog for a walk, I have no other responsibilities.
I'm not saying writing comedy's brain surgery, but there is a certain pressure to it. It's the equivalent of doing homework that's going to end up on national television.
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