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My dad is a much more flamboyant character than I am. I think that's why I couldn't see myself going into straight acting. I always just felt daft.

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I've started running three or four times a week, which prompts millions of sketch ideas.

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If I'm on my own, I'll speak to 'Monkey' to generate new stuff for the act. I mean, I don't do it for moral support, although I wouldn't say that's out of the question. In fact, I could do it, I might do it... yes, I think I should actually start doing it more.

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I looked into studying psychoanalysis, wrote to the governing body and was about to start the year where they psychoanalyse you, four times a week, before you get to do it yourself. I just thought I'd taken the ventriloquism as far as I could. My act is so deconstructive, and I'd made all the monkey jokes anyone wanted to hear.

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With acting, I always felt like I didn't have control of it. It was all about other people giving me a job.

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I think acting is overrated. I'm not sure I enjoyed it. You never get to write your own roles. It's wonderful for some people, but I found it nerve-wracking. I was too busy worrying that no one would give me their words to speak.

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I make napkins talk in restaurants, socks talk on car journeys. There is an awful lot of puppetry going on in the house.

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I feel Scottish when with English people, and when I'm with Scottish people, I realise I'm English.

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Because I'm around comedians all the time, in my downtime I tend not to watch comedy. Something the whole family enjoys is 'You've Been Framed!' It satisfies all of us. It's universal, and we all laugh a lot.

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It's sad, the lottery. Good projects get funded by it, but there's an air of desperation about it.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Actress

Born: June 5th, 1974

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