can remember, she’s wanted to be on television. “My mom told me when I was 5 years old I tried to get on TV by climbing around the back of it,” she says. So when Kevin Hart’s HartBeat Prods. and Netflix came calling, the comic was quick to travel across the pond to film her first comedy special for the streamer, titled “I’d planned on filming this special in March, so I flew to L.A. in February, and two weeks into me being in America, everything got locked down. I couldn’t go back home to the U.
In the special, you highlight different opportunities for men and women in comedy. In the decade you’ve been in the business, how have things changed for women? But comparing it to the U.S., I know they feel like they’ve got a long way to go too, but it’s better than Britain. In terms of female comics, we’ve got Ali Wong, Amy Schumer, Tiffany Haddish, Leslie Jones. I can’t say that for British comics — we have no British female comics that are on the same level as those women I just mentioned. They’re not allowed to shine this big. The U.S. has so many female comedy stars.