I've met big-name actors doing Hollywood films, and they've said that all they want is an in at HBO and their own show.

I started doing comedy just as myself, because I thought, "This is what's expected, you're meant to tell stories and do observations." And then I started to realize that I wanted to mix it up a bit, so I started to doing songs, and I had a little keyboard onstage and would bring in little props. Then I thought about the idea of talking about a character and becoming the character onstage. So, it sort of morphed into being stand-up that was more character based, and I found that's the stuff I got the better reaction from and was more exciting for me.

I would love to play a British character one day. My accent wavers between Scottish and Irish very easily, though.

You feel the pressure of going to university because you need a back-up plan, which is why I enrolled.

I think surprises make TV entertaining.

I'll probably be still playing a school girl when I'm 60.

Once I got into high school, any time I had to do a talk or a speech, I just loved being up in front of an audience, it was always a character. And then I discovered that an impersonation of the teacher was a really, really good way to get a laugh, and it would also get you good marks, because the teachers were always bored and loved to be the "teacher-parody." So that became my little trick at school, and I became known for doing that.