Sara Pascoe
English comedian, presenter, writer
Cleaning toilets at McDonald’s when I was 16.
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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
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In the school holidays, I worked at a soft drinks factory in Southport.
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I worked in a unisex clothes store for three days. Girls would say, 'Do I look fat in this?' I'd say, 'Yes.' I was fired.
Cold call market research at uni.
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View profile →Still being here, aged 60. If I thought I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself.
The motorcycle crash, but also when a neon sign fell on my head in Soho in the 90s.
In my first bedsit when I went to art college in Leeds. It was a hideous basement, but I loved the freedom.
To my first real boyfriend, for being so mean to him. But really I was just being mean to myself.
Yesterday: I went to see the film God’s Own Country.
Rolf Harris – he let us all down.
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