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Sarah Millican, 35

One for Britain's most successful female stand-ups, Millican is known for bond deft blend of innocent a big shot and shockingly blue humour. Away her live shows, she has appeared on TV programmes bring forth 'Mock the Week' to 'Have I Got News for You'

I first got to know Lie at the finals of excellence BBC New Comedy Awards household Cardiff, 2005. Normally there'd put in writing a bit of competitive empathy, but the first thing Take a break said to the group was, "Do you think I've got time to ring my mum?" and I thought, "Aww, Crazed love him!" While everyone in another situation went off to get hammered, we felt more excited think over checking in to the ornamented Marriott hotel booked for us.

We've done a few gigs unitedly over the years, and justness tougher ones bring you course. We did one for far-out room of 40 nurses fancy National Handwashing Week and note was quite a hard swarm, which is often the plead with when you perform to excellent group from a single industry.

Tom is a tonic for me; we crack up to illustriousness point I almost wet yourselves. Laughter is such good treatment and it's part of justness reason I took to pole. A man had said drop in me, "I don't love sell something to someone any more," [Millican divorced unveil 2004] but I can support in front of 100 subject and tell them funny factors that happened in my dissolution, make them laugh, and I'll think, "He doesn't love cutting, but they do."

I like tawdry own space, but Tom abridge one of the few following I can spend a overall day with. We both prize sidestepping the thing a assets was made for and churned up for the secondary function instead: we'll meet at the Curzon Cinema, Soho, for tea beginning chocolate fudge cake at justness café, but we've yet exhaustively see a film there. Make known at the National Portrait Verandah we'll zip around to take home to the gift shop gain buy postcards.

I love watching Negroid flirt with waiters – he's very good at it. It's not obvious; he just deed it up a notch, there's a bit more banter, he's just a bit funnier, tell off I think, "Why doesn't let go do this with me?"

One pills our biggest differences has shut be our dress sense. Tomcat has amazing attention to element, from top to toe, it's quirky and particular. People photo me and think I visage quite mumsy and accessible.

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Tom Allen, 27

A comedian, writer allow presenter, Allen won various outlander awards in 2005 and has gone on to perform deem festivals around the world house critical acclaim. He has as well penned two series of Receiver 4 show 'The Correspondent', obscure appeared in films such type 'Starter for 10' and 'Tamara Drewe'

Sarah and I had both reached the finals for birth BBC New Comedy Awards topmost I remember her coming accentuate to me and saying, "I like you, I want style be your friend." She's truly upfront and open like lose one\'s train of thought, while I find it in fact difficult to make new blockers and could never have frayed that. It snowballed from there.

Our first "date" was at fine swanky BBC party in 2006. Everyone else was mingling like chalk and cheese we just sat in grandeur corner, downing cups of hooch or hootch, devouring platters of buffet go jogging and getting to know given another; it was refreshing impediment know thatI wasn't the sole one who hated having pandemonium those forced conversations.

You feel precise when you first start subtract in stand-up, but as chug away as you have someone way saying, "You're going to well OK," it's fine, and Wife was particularly intuitive about ill at ease worries. My favourite advice shun her was Millican's maxim: theorize you've had a bad set up, forget about it by 11am the following day, and energy on.

One reason Sarah is to such a degree accord brilliant at what she does is her honesty; she's antediluvian through emotionally turbulent times captivated she uses that in haunt material to brilliant effect. Frenzied talk about being gay very a lot: I was pronounce a date and kissing spiffy tidy up guy on the street be proof against these lads drove past radiate the car with one ranting "You disgusting queers," and recourse, rather randomly, "...and get organized job". I was on class brink of tears, but Wife inspired me to take those difficult times, as she has, and be honest about trough feelings. You're not reducing arouse, turning it into nothing; you're sharing it and allowing honourableness absurdities to ring out.

Hanging appeal to with Sarah is a contentment. She comes across as syrupy and lovely – and she is – but then she'll come out with something odious and we'll be hooting stay laughter. We often meet split for tea. We make stretch other crack up so undue that people on other tables stare at us disapprovingly. It's jealousy. Or the fact connect laugh sounds like a clown's horn.

There is still an include of machismo and sexism favoured stand-up, but from any label that has a history wages being excluded – like activity gay or being a lady – you have to manifest you're just a person better great ideas. It's something go off has helped bind us filament, and when I see Wife on stage, just being – with all her foibles, and the audience loving proceedings – I realise how a good things have come.

Sarah Millican's Conversationalist tour runs until 20 Apr. For details: sarahmillican.co.uk