Hannah Gadsby

I had also been asked to join the cast of one of my favourite televisions shows, Josh Thomas’s Please Like Me. It was a career highlight for me, because not only was I going to be in it, but Josh had asked me to write for my own character. To be given the opportunity to be the actor who delivers your own material for a television show you love is pretty much the greatest kind of screen work for a stand-up comedian. I was as happy as a clam

They say that comedy is trauma plus time

I don’t sleep very well. I never have. My brain is too busy. Anxiety is sometimes the root cause of my wakefulness but it isn’t the only culprit. Sometimes I don’t sleep simply because I’m having too much fun solving problems. Not real problems, to be sure, just creative problems. I’d always done this. When I was a kid, I would lay awake at night imagining how I could pack my school bag more efficiently, or different ways I could rearrange my bedroom.