London Comedy Award nomination Sarah Millican: '..arrives on stage to some rather dramatic, X-Factor-esque music. This is incongruous, given her style, which is friendly, inquisitive, conspiratorial and not showbizzy in the least.'

Independent Review: “The 36-year old arrives on stage to some rather dramatic, X-Factor-esque music. This is incongruous, given her style, which is friendly, inquisitive, conspiratorial and not showbizzy in the least... much of what Millican says can be insightful and tender, but she can go straight for the jugular when she needs to. ‘I saw my boyfriend in a suit and I must admit I was a little bit turned on,’ she says. ‘I don't mind telling you. I think it was the prospect of a regular income.’ In the end, Millican classes herself as a dodgem, which is hard to believe of someone who has such a bumper career ahead of her.”

Sarah talks to the Guardian about the Comedy gender divide: "I don't think it is difficult... I think if you're funny you get on, if you're not, you don't. Gender doesn't come into it. And it's too easy to use it as an excuse. If I don't do well at a gig I could come off and go, well it's because they don't like women, but it's much more likely to be because your jokes weren't good enough or you didn't have the confidence, or it's just a hard gig. There's a million reasons why an audience might not like you and it's almost never to do with gender."

The lady laugh-monger from Newcastle is currently touring the UK to sold-out audiences, so not too many gender biases going on there then.