No less a comedian than the highly praised Arthur Smith once described Lucy Beaumont as ‘the next Victoria Wood in the making’. Others have called her ‘a riot’ and praised her ‘devastating comic timing’.
For Lucy’s part, though, she’s just grateful that performing no longer feels like an out-of-body experience.
“I started out acting but quickly realised I needed to try something else,” says the Hull-born comic, who was last year diagnosed with ADHD and recently amicably separated from husband and fellow comedian Jon Richardson. “I’ve had all sorts of humorous things happen to me in my life, so I thought it made sense to see how I’d do at being funny.”
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No less a comedian than the highly praised Arthur Smith once described Lucy Beaumont as ‘the next Victoria Wood in the making’. Others have called her ‘a riot’ and praised her ‘devastating comic timing’.
For Lucy’s part, though, she’s just grateful that performing no longer feels like an out-of-body experience.
“I started out acting but quickly realised I needed to try something else,” says the Hull-born comic, who was last year diagnosed with ADHD and recently amicably separated from husband and fellow comedian Jon Richardson. “I’ve had all sorts of humorous things happen to me in my life, so I thought it made sense to see how I’d do at being funny.”