Sara Pascoe
English comedian, presenter, writer
Cleaning toilets at McDonald’s when I was 16.
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Cockroach stamper at a dried-flower factory.
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Omid Djalili
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Selling low-grade cookery books in west London office buildings.
I’ve never really had a horrible job – I liked working at restaurants and being a nanny when I wasn’t acting.
Bruno Tonioli
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I had to choreograph dancing cows for a commercial. I had to superimpose footage of dancing legs – some were mine – on to the cow. It was bonkers.
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I cried watching the movie Coco with my daughter.
OCD medication.
A flight from Paraguay to South Africa that went badly wrong. The plane nearly fell out of the sky and the oxygen masks dropped. People were screaming but the pilot saved the day, and then apparently never flew again.
A strong work ethic and enough wealth not to need it.
Massive DMT release, your perception of time dilates, you realise you can fly, then it all goes black, and you start again, only this time … you’re a slug.
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