Fed up with the white boys’ club of British standup, a one-way ticket to LA finally brought fame to the ‘comedy Beyoncé’. Now she has written a memoir detailing her rise from bullied teen to transatlantic hit
et me think,” says the comedian and actor London Hughes when asked what she misses about living in the UK. “I miss my friends and family. I miss pickled onion Monster Munch, and Malibu and pineapple in a can. I miss sea salt and chardonnay-flavoured crisps from the Co-op. Do I miss working in Britain? After the way I was treated?” She lets out a throaty laugh. “Not at all.”
Hughes, 34, has a string of TV and film projects in the pipeline, none of which she can talk about because of the actors and writers’ strikes. “Oh yeah, I’m picketing, babe!” she exclaims. “I’ve been in the streets dancing to Rihanna’s Bitch Better Have My Money.made homemade shortbread and gave it out to everyone. This is real. It’s a crazy time.”
It was Hart who took Hughes under his wing when she first arrived in the US. After seeing a clip of one of her Edinburgh shows, he flew her to Las Vegas for a meeting where she told him she wanted to be “the comedy Beyoncé”. He replied: “OK, well I’m gonna drive this train. Just call me the captain.” He was as good as his word, executive producing her first Netflix special,, a bracingly candid show about her sex life that was shown in 194 countries.
I was crying for most of those chapters. I was reading it and thinking: How am I OK? How did I get through that?
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