Mae Martin

“If you bite and chew the peel of a banana, then eat the fruit of the banana itself, you will find that it tastes like a tomato. I swear.”

“I'm talking about personal stuff so I think people are on my side.”

“How can I tell if I was born hating coconut or developed a hatred of coconut because my father distrusted it as an ingredient?”

“You don't need a murder on a Martian colony. What is more dramatic than love? There's highs and lows, especially in your twenties, when it completely takes you over.”

“We're all severely addicted to our phones... it's not glamorous or always harrowing even, it's just damaging.”

“If you're unhappy, you can't make anything.”

“If I had met Bette Midler, I wouldn't be answering these questions right now because I'd have spontaneously combusted and gone to heaven.”

“With the 12-step program, if you don't subscribe to that way of life completely, it can be seen as failing, and I think a lot of people can take the parts of that kind of program that they need and not other parts.”

“I love being gut-wrenchingly honest.”

“It's exhausting trying to impress someone and be a version of yourself that might be attractive to them.”

“In my pantheon of comedy idols there's maybe six people: Lisa Kudrow, Conan O'Brian, Julia Louis-Dreyfuss, Martin Short. Lisa is at the top.”

“If you never, or rarely, see your experience depicted in art or pop culture then you can begin to feel isolated or separate; Othered. So, representation is super important.”

“In comedy you are allowed to be weird - and even applauded for it.”

“I want people to see how universal experiences of intimacy are, regardless of demographic or label or whatever.”

“People have referred to me as 'innocent', which makes me feel disingenuous.”

“I've been doing comedy for 20 years now. I started when I was 13 and I think for the first 10 years I was impersonating other people.”

“What audiences see is a curated version of myself.”

“I love the comedy world and really grew up in green rooms, so I wanted to show the positives and negatives.”

“Most people have had that feeling of like, being obsessed with someone, and losing self control a bit, and that hopefully humanises addiction a bit.”

“As a child I wanted to be a kind of hybrid of Ferris Beuller, Ace Ventura, Bette Midler, and Lucille Ball.”