Sharon Horgan

But we had sort of parted ways and then we met each other one night in a pub, just like bumped into each other and he had written his first play.

And so I was just sort of astounded by this.

And that's what got me into the writing.

I was like, I want to write sketch comedy.

Then off the back of that, a kind of sitcom.

Mainly that.

Sketch and sitcom.

That's what I wanted to write.

Yeah.

Was I?

Yeah, that's true.

No, because I mean, I really, really was.

I'd done a few shows at that point, but they were culty, kind of no one watched kind of things.

Right.

So actually that particular award was for pulling and annually retentive.

It was my first starring role kind of thing.

I just remember it being really surreal because six years earlier I'd been doing fuck all.

Yeah, admin assistant.

Yeah, there was no structure to what I was doing, even though I was like trying to find a way into the industry.

I was trying to get a job in radio or trying to get a job writing for someone else's show or any route in I was trying.