Sandi Toksvig

And she was the sweetest person I think I've ever met.

And when she got married, she had a week's holiday in Copenhagen.

And when she got back to Jutland, the main country area of Denmark, nobody wanted to know what Copenhagen was like.

Everybody wanted to know what it was like to have a week off.

It was just unheard of.

And she told me a story, and it has stayed with me all of my life.

So they got every other Christmas off, right, the milkmaids.

So one year, it was her year to have Christmas off, and a milkmaid came to her and said, could she swap years because there was a boy she really liked and she wanted to go to a dance with him.

And my aunt said no, she wanted to have Christmas off, and she said she regretted it for the whole of her life.

Yeah.

So there's an interesting lesson for us all there.

Well, no, I mean, weirdly, I went into comedy because of Denmark.

So my dad, as is the way, had lots of friends in show business.

And he had a friend of his called Dirk Passer.

And Dirk Passer was in his time the most famous comic kind of slash clown in Denmark.

And I remember going to see him at the age of six and watching him

Just have the audience completely in the parmesan and people were rocking with laughter.

And I sat there and I thought, yeah, that I'd like that.

I'd like to do what he's doing.

That looks like fun.