I remember going to my auntie Pauline’s house in winter when I was eight or nine and she made me a roast beef sandwich. I ate it and fell asleep next to a fire. I felt like a cat, fed and left to nap.
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Lucy Beaumont
b. 1983
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Born in Cornwall and raised in Hull, Lucy Beaumont, 41, studied at Hull University. Having won the BBC’s 2012 New Comedy award, she went on to write and star in three series of BBC Radio 4’s To Hull and Back with Maureen Lipman. From 2020, she made five series of the TV sitcom Meet the Richardsons with Jon Richardson, from whom she is now separated. Her other work includes Hullraisers and Taskmaster, the podcast Perfect Brains and a memoir. She is touring the UK with her latest standup show, Lucy Beaumont Live. She has a child with Richardson, and lives in South Yorkshire.
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Losing my makeup bag.
Thinking that I’m right when I’m wrong. But not only that – being able to convince other people I’m right and then finding out I’m wrong.
I worked with Stephen Fry recently and we had a real heart-to-heart. I asked: “What was it like being in prison for being gay?” And thank God someone came in and he didn’t hear me say it. I was mixing him up with when he played Oscar Wilde. I could picture him in his cell.
Lovely but useless.
Some man in the street stopped me and said: “If you were a few inches taller you’d be dangerous.” I’ve no idea what he meant.
I worked in a paper factory at five o’clock on a Saturday morning when I was in my early 20s. I’d go out raving the night before, get an hour’s sleep and then go to the factory. I was covered in paper cuts and used to think I heard people talking to me; they gave me a lot of breaks because they thought I was going mad.
That money doesn’t buy happiness.
Thinking I’ve upset somebody.
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