Ellie Taylor

“Playing the Hammersmith Apollo was pretty special.”

“I'm always in comfy clothes.”

“I tend to read quite serious things in order to try and appear superior.”

“When I was younger it was people like Victoria Wood who I loved.”

“I went out with a guy from Wolverhampton once. He took me to watch a Wolves match. A man in the seat behind me burned a hole in my coat with a cigarette.”

“I can't drink anything after 9 P.M. otherwise I'm up all night.”

“Don't get me wrong. I don't have a problem with anyone being proud to be a parent. I love children, some of my best friends used to be children. But I was fed up of these 'competitions,' so I decided to do the opposite, I decided to do the non-motherhood challenge and post five photos of myself which made me proud not to be a mother.”

“In group situations, I tend to be the quiet one.”

“I was always the tallest. I was five foot seven when I finished junior school.”

“I would like to go to the Oscars. I'm not even talking about being nominated - although that would be lovely. Even if it was I won a competition on the back of a crisp packet to go to the Oscars I would like to go to the Oscars.”

“The real pleasure of cruising is arriving at a new destination.”

“Everyone knows the feeling where you're in the pub and you make your mates laugh. It's awesome, you feel like you rock. That's what comedians want with a bit of extra ego.”

“I reckon I'm in pyjamas 70 per cent of my life. But I do love getting dressed up, too.”

“I was never thin enough to be a proper model and not big enough to be plus-size.”

“With social distancing restrictions in place, many are finding themselves isolated from their support networks and suddenly navigating parenthood differently than they expected.”

“I prefer clothes with a waist rather than boxy shapes.”

“I feel like the timbre of your voice as a woman doesn't cut through as well as a loud bassy voice, so you need to noticeably speak up.”

“If you haven't truly died a million times as a comic you haven't gigged enough!”

“I'd like to be on 'Graham Norton.' Just because I used to do the audience warm-up for the 'Graham Norton' show, and I just think that would be a beautifully lovely, typical end to a narrative. I like a neat ending.”

“My sister told me: 'You need to have a baby so that you've got someone to look after you when you're old.' And I was like: 'Hang on - I thought that's what the NHS was for? Unless the NHS is that screwed by the time I'm old, you've literally had to give birth to your own medical professional.'”