Tell us about:

Your latest stand up show: 

Silkworm is my latest, and first, show! It’s an hour about how exhausting it is to be a perfect girl (derogatory), and choosing to be a horrid girl (complimentary) instead. I took Silkworm to Edinburgh Fringe in 2024, but she’s going to look a little different for the tour. I’ve made the show much SILLIER, and I’ve invited a special secret guest to each performance, so you’ll have to come and see it to find out who that is. 

Your favourite joke you have created: 

It changes I think, but I have a special place in my heart for a joke I wrote about maturity. That the truest sign of maturity is using the word ‘concerned’ before you start bitching about your friends. It’s better IRL though I promise!!!!!!!

Your favourite venue to perform at:

The Bill Murray feels like home to me. It’s such a good room, and it’s where I did my first ever work-in-progress of this show. It’s also where I’ll do my last ever performance of it, and film it, on the 8th of May. What if you came?

The joke  that was the longest to write and why?

Anything personal, because there are so many different ways to tell it. Finding the right perspective on anecdotes can take a while I think because there’s such a thin line between sad and funny. All my material about getting double jaw surgery took a really long time before it stopped getting cries of sympathy from the audience and started getting (some) laughs.

Comedy hero:

The woman who runs Club Chalamet.

Dream venue to play at:

I’ve dreamed of doing a show at Soho Theatre since I started, so I can’t believe I get to perform there on this tour. It’s where I’ve seen all my favourite shows, so it really feels like a huge bucket list moment for me. 

Describe the feeling you get when you walk on stage to do a show:

Weirdly, it’s usually a sense of calm. The time backstage is for letting yourself get nervous, and then you brace yourself and let go as you walk onstage. You have to trust yourself and relax enough to have fun. Trust that the jokes are written, trust that people will like you. Of course, it feels a bit different if the audience is particularly rowdy, or if you’re doing new material. Then it feels more like taking a leap into the unknown, but there’s a relief to doing stand up; nobody’s going to die if something goes wrong. If you bomb, you bomb, and as long as you’re prepared to do it with grace, there’s nothing to be scared of. It’s just something that happens sometimes. 

The hardest joke to perform and why:

There’s no specific joke I can think of. But I do think jokes get harder to sell the more you do them. Because you’re not as emotionally connected to them as you were when they were new. Sometimes jokes stop working simply because you don’t feel it anymore, or you’re bored telling it, so you’re just going through the motions. But I think you can make any joke work again if you add something extra to it to keep it spicy. 

In general though, the hardest joke to perform is your opening joke, when the audience doesn’t know what to make of you yet. If an opening joke goes badly it can affect the whole set. You’ve got to be confident before you get a laugh, so people immediately relax and know they’re in safe hands, and you have to really sell it in the delivery. The key is to give the audience a sense of who you are without scaring them (in my experience).

Essential items you always take on tour with you?

Sertraline, antihistamine, watermelon ice lost mary (x8).

Describe your fans in three words:

Girls that get-it

What we can look forward to from you this year:

I’m making more scripted stuff! I’ve got a couple of shorts in the works that I’m very excited about filming. I loved making my first short film ‘OnlyFran’, which you can even watch on YouTube!! But I’m planning to actually perform in these next ones. I’m not sure when they’ll be out yet but they will be posted all over my Instagram when they are. I’ve also started working on a new hour called Scary Movie 7, I already have a few work-in-progress shows coming up. Post-tour I’m gonna be focusing a lot on that, and I’ll be taking it to festivals (and Edinburgh Fringe 2026). 

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