Laura Smyth

And then when I was going back to work after my third child, I decided to sign up for the comedy course where she and I met because I just knew if I went back to work after maternity leave,

I'd never do it.

Do you know, you go back into the day to day, you don't have the headspace for anything creative.

And I had read somewhere that Ricky Gervais started stand up when he was 37.

And I think that, you know, we see all these lists of, you know,

like Forbes 30 under 30 or these 15 year old you know Wimbledon tennis stars and I think that you can as a mum of three and a teacher and you think yeah that's me done yeah and I just thought maybe it's not me done and I had that 37 in my head and so I started and then within a year I'd won the funny women awards and incredible yeah and funny enough at the end of 2018 I had

watched 300 years of French and Saunders and it really affected me.

I thought, wow, that's what I should have been doing.

I'm living the wrong life.

And then by the following Christmas, I was with the same agent, Maureen Vinson was taking care of me and Carly.

So it was just this amazing little bit of, what did I say once?

I said...

I think it was on Woman's Day.

I said, my success feels like a reward for bravery.

That's what it feels like for like, you know, when you see women, a lot of women succeeding, you know what I mean?

Like, oh yeah, she's, I see her and it feels nice.

So that's how I feel.

I feel life's good.

But I still got the hump.

Do you know what?