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Pippa Evans

Pippa Evans: 'The funniest word? Discombobulated, it's how everyone's feeling right now'

Pippa Evans
Knock knock... Pippa Evans Photograph: PR HANDOUT

The funniest standup I’ve ever seen …

An Audience With Billy Connolly (1985). In between jokes you can play “spot the celeb” in the background, and even Ringo is there so it must have been good.

The funniest TV show I’ve ever seen …

The Office: An American Workplace. No wait! The Golden Girls. No wait! Baroness von Sketch Show. No wait! The Trip. No wait! It’s impossible.

The funniest film I’ve ever seen …

Carry On Up the Jungle. I haven’t seen it since I was 11, though, and I fear it doesn’t hold up. So instead I am going to say Booksmart.

The funniest item of clothing I’ve ever owned …

A T-shirt with a big smiley face that said in sequins: “CHEER YOU UP!” Who knew positivity could be so aggressive?

The funniest meal I’ve ever eaten …

A hedgehog made of puff pastry with tinned spaghetti in the middle, so it looked like roadkill the minute you cut into it. Now I think about it, it was less funny and more deeply disturbing.

The funniest hairstyle I’ve ever had …

When I was seven, I cut my own hair so that I had a shorter fringe, botched it and the hairdresser had to go the full Linda McCartney/David Bowie in Labyrinth. I was literally the babe with the power.

The funniest thing that shouldn’t be funny …

All of us trying to figure out how long two metres is in the queue outside Sainsbury’s, while signalling that that is what we are doing by using our faces to perform “measuring acting”.

The funniest word …

Discombobulated. And is how everyone is feeling right now.

The funniest joke I’ve ever heard …

“Knock knock.”
“Who’s there?”
“Grandad – stop the funeral!”
Told to me by Barry Cryer – the only name I like to drop.

Follow Pippa on Twitter and Instagram @IAmPippaEvans

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