There are lots of actors, and you need a way to stand out. Writing comedy sketches was a way of doing that.
Comedy and drama are less ageist media for women than stuff like light entertainment. But in TV or film, women have to be more pleasing on the eye than men.
I think the best comedy is tragicomic. Yeah, I suppose if you were to look at everything I've done, there is a bit of a black streak through all of it. It's not deliberate: it's what makes me laugh, and there's a fine tradition of it, especially in Ireland.
Comedy is helping a lot at the moment. It also seems to be getting under Trump's skin and revealing a lot about the kind of thin-skinned fool that he is.
I think that's important to women in comedy, that we get a lot of the good lines and you're not just the girlfriend or the sister.
I was the kid who liked making other people laugh, so maybe the comedy came before the acting.
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