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Harriet Gibsone

Roisin Conaty: ‘Me and Greg Davies once shared a whole jar of pesto, neat’

Roisin Conaty
Roisin around… GameFace’s Roisin Conaty. Photograph: Sophie Mutevelian

The funniest sketch I’ve ever seen …

Anything by Key & Peele, like the terrorist on the plane sketch. Or Cardinal Burns’s acting sketch Fiery Hawk. Also Ellie and Natasia’s new show Ellie & Natasia has some corkers; Sexy Baby is very funny.

The funniest heckle I’ve ever had …

They are never that funny to be honest but someone once shouted: “Joan, is that you?” in the middle of a set. They thought I was their friends’ daughter.

The funniest meal I’ve ever eaten …

Me and Greg Davies once shared a whole jar of pesto, neat, during the Edinburgh festival years ago because we had no food in the flat.

The funniest hairstyle I’ve ever had …

When I was seven in Ireland I went to a barber’s on my own with my pocket money and asked for long hair with spikes on top like Pat Sharp and they gave it to me. I bought a tub of blue gel that I called my “spike gel”. My mum swore at me when she saw it then laughed for so long I cried.

The funniest item of clothing I’ve ever owned …

Anything I buy straight after a breakup, like my lime-green cowboy boots.

The funniest dream I’ve ever had …

I dreamed I had forgotten I was a Spice Girl and was late for a gig and my Spice Girl name was Shocko Spice.

The funniest word …

Kummerspeck – it’s a German word meaning weight gained from emotional eating and translates as “grief bacon”.

GameFace is on Wednesday 31 July, 10pm, Channel 4

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