The funniest person I know …
Julia Davis. We make each other roar while recording our podcast Dear Joan and Jericha. Then we have to edit it all out.
The funniest item of clothing I’ve ever owned …
I once bought an old music hall hat bedecked with clinking coin buttons and tassels. I’m not sure why. I’ve still got it, but I’ve never worn it. Yet.
The funniest thing that shouldn’t be funny …
My sister Jane and I went to the register office to report our mum’s death a few years ago. As we went in through the door I farted quite loudly by mistake (grief) and we had to go back outside for about 15 minutes because we couldn’t stop laughing.
The funniest word …
When I was younger I had a job selling advertising space, and one day I was, I’m afraid, quite hungover and struggling to remember my usual spiel. I got to a bit where I had to say: “If you place your ad in our publication I can guarantee you maximum … ” and then I just blanked and there was a very, very long pause. Eventually the poor man at the other end said: “penetration?” And I had to hang up, because that felt like the funniest word anyone had said ever. I lost that job.
The funniest joke I’ve ever heard…
Tommy Cooper: “A man walked into a bar. He went: ‘Ouch.’ It was an iron bar.” But you have to watch him do it.
Vicki Pepperdine is the co-writer and star of Always, June, on Saturday 21 March, 9.30pm, BBC Radio 2, as part of the station’s Funny Fortnight
