But what’s consistent through both incarnations and into her recent show about motherhood is a personality that fizzes with fun and – Tories be damned! – an indomitable love of life. She has gone on to become one of comedy’s most articulate chronicler of the left’s beleaguered decade. Then, just as the coalition government came into power, the girl from Orpington pivoted towards outraged political comedy.
The queen of indie comedy announced herself as a sweet-natured woman-child, making not so much shows as scrapbooks of the things that made her big heart burst.
