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Harriet Gibsone

Charlotte Ritchie: ‘Telling people your dreams just can’t be allowed, it’s too boring’

Charlotte Ritchie
Dream on… Charlotte Ritchie. Photograph: Mike Marsland

The funniest standup I’ve ever seen …

Specifically, Billy Connolly on scaring his sister in the corridor; even more specifically, the way he runs around mapping said corridor.

The funniest sketch I’ve ever seen …

Key and Peele’s Laron Can’t Laugh. It’s so stupid. Or SNL – Emma Stone and Kristen Wiig’s Dream Home Extreme. I can’t get over Kristen Wiig.

The funniest TV show I’ve ever seen …

The Armando Iannucci Shows. It is inspired. I wish someone would put it back on TV. But you can find it on YouTube and All4.

The funniest film I’ve ever seen …

I watched Mean Girls again recently and it is so good.

The funniest heckle I’ve ever had …

At a Q&A of a play I did years ago, a lady put up her hand and said, as if asking a question: “I saw the same show here but in a different space, and that one was much better?” And left it there hanging.

The funniest item of clothing I’ve ever owned …

Quite a bad purple furry bucket hat I owned from age 11 until last year.

The funniest dream I’ve ever had …

I just wrote out a long description of my best dream and realised telling people your dreams just can’t be allowed, it’s too boring.

The funniest thing that shouldn’t be funny …

When my dad fell really slowly backwards off a very small boat on holiday, fully dressed – coat, shoes, everything.

Charlotte Ritchie stars in Dead Pixels, Thursday 4 April, 9.30pm, E4

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