Lucy Beaumont

“If you can still laugh when things are tough, you've found the secret of happiness.”

“We're not celebrities really, are we? We're just us. We don't really hang out in London and go to premieres.”

“Where we lived when I was a child I had recurring dreams about a fire and then we found out there had been a fire in the house a few years before. It freaked us out because we thought I'd be like the child from 'The Sixth Sense.'”

“What Hull needs is role models that are successful and entrepreneurial.”

“I moved to London in 2011. I was working as a teaching assistant in the day and was doing stand-up gigs in the night.”

“My granddad was a painter and my mum writes. They're working-class but they're creative.”

“My mum is extremely caring and protective over me, if anything she's overly empathetic.”

“I used to be a teacher. I miss the kids and the camaraderie, but it was a lot of pressure.”

“I know now that what put me off standup was the horrific misogyny that I suffered.”

“Lockdown allowed me and my mum to reflect on how she struggles in certain situations - and excels in others.”

“I care about a lot of things and I try to give to different charities, but I've picked my team - child hunger, weekend hunger. That's really, politically, the only thing I try to tweet about, so it's not like virtue signalling, because you can't sway people, you can't change people's opinions.”

“We lived in a little village in West Yorkshire in the middle of nowhere.”

“I don't think for one minute anything I tweet makes a difference, I just can't not tweet.”

“My act is strongly centred around Hull and being working class, so I felt guilty living in London - like I was betraying my roots.”

“Well because of social media you do something and then you check Twitter to see how people feel about it.”

“More and more women in particular are being diagnosed with neurodiversities later in life, with celebrities such as Christine McGuinness and Melanie Sykes talking openly about it in recent months. And sometimes just having a diagnosis is enough to start making sense of yourself.”

“I'm messy, but my sinks, toilets and work surfaces are clean.”

“All my favourite writers have come from humble beginnings.”

“You need people to take you under their wing and I don't think it happens enough in this industry.”

“I don't think people nap enough. I've had a nap after a big dinner and I've woken up and looked 10 years younger.”