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I have never been good at doing impressions of women. Which is understandable. There's a gender issue.

I find it an effort to keep up appearances.

How you look has become ridiculously disproportionate to what you do. Critics are more harsh on female presenters.

That's the mistake women make - you shouldn't see your makeup. We don't want to look like we've made an effort.

I can't wait to be seen as a woman. But I know I probably have to contribute to that with behaviour.

No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.

What is frustrating is being told that no matter how hard I've worked, it counts less than my appearance. Although if you're not considered conventionally attractive, that also becomes an issue: you know, you're a feminist because you couldn't get a man.

How insulting is it to suggest the best thing women can do is raise other people to do incredible things?

I've said this before, and I'm sure there are people who disagree, but I feel like one of the reasons there aren't a lot more women in stand-up - and there are many more now; it's not parity, but it's getting there - is that women are not socialized to look stupid or silly. They're socialized to be pretty and precious.