Most people have had that feeling of like, being obsessed with someone, and losing self control a bit, and that hopefully humanises addiction a bit.
It's a universal experience to be compulsively doing something that's damaging your life.
We're all severely addicted to our phones... it's not glamorous or always harrowing even, it's just damaging.
If I could go back and tell 13-year-old self that I would be on screen with Lisa Kudrow, spending my birthday on a ghost train in Blackpool with her, I would have been beside myself.
What audiences see is a curated version of myself.
You're basically getting on stage and asking people, 'Do you guys like me? Do you like who I am?' But you grow pretty thick skinned. And the less scared you seem, the more people like you anyway.
A Canadian comedian once told me that when you first go out there to imagine that you're actually just going back out for the encore, that all the clapping is because they've already seen you do your thing and they want to see more. You can train your mind to do anything.
It's very weird trying to imagine yourself as a 'comedy character.'
I love the comedy world and really grew up in green rooms, so I wanted to show the positives and negatives.
If you never, or rarely, see your experience depicted in art or pop culture then you can begin to feel isolated or separate; Othered. So, representation is super important.
Making someone laugh is a good way to get their defences down so that they might then be open to new ideas, especially when they're laughing at some common ground they relate to. Comedy's always been an amazing tool for social change.
I'd love to write more observational comedy but the stuff people seem to respond to is the most personal so it's snowballed from there.
I've been doing comedy for 20 years now. I started when I was 13 and I think for the first 10 years I was impersonating other people.
In my pantheon of comedy idols there's maybe six people: Lisa Kudrow, Conan O'Brian, Julia Louis-Dreyfuss, Martin Short. Lisa is at the top.
It's exhausting trying to impress someone and be a version of yourself that might be attractive to them.
I love 'Titanic', I love 'Romeo & Juliet', those are my favourite films, and so it's crazy to think that people wouldn't connect with 'Feel Good', it's just a love story.
I'm so unqualified to be a family therapist.
I like to do shows that open a dialogue.
In comedy you are allowed to be weird - and even applauded for it.
I dropped out of school when I was 14 and I was hanging out with comedians in their thirties. I moved out of home and had some real lows.
