A biography for Lolly Adefopehasn’t been written yet.
“The thing that attracted me the most was comedy acting and people like Catherine Tate and Olivia Colman; people doing funny voices and accents.”
“It is fun to play someone who likes everyone and is liked by most people, or is at least tolerated.”
“I have no brand loyalty to toothpaste. It's absolutely a different brand every tube.”
“Making people laugh, I think, is very powerful.”
“Going to Edinburgh when I was at university and seeing people who were my age just getting up and doing what they wanted to do, was quite a clincher for me.”
“I had always wanted to do comedy, but didn't know where to start - all I knew was that Edinburgh was where it happened.”
“Comedy should always evolve; it's so easy to punch down.”
“A lot of people just kind of act as if it's their God-given right to be overpaid and on TV, but it just feels like there has to be a level of like: 'This is an exciting thing to be doing.' It's not just something that we're owed.”
“I still maintain that Looney Tunes is the funniest program ever made.”
“TV is kind of messed up in terms of stereotypes and who plays the leading man and leading lady.”
“If I was doing standup I would worry that someone would think I was being preachy, whereas, with a character, it always tends to be the opposite of what I think. You can get away with things.”