Hannah Gadsby

The thing about wombats is that they might look cute and cuddly, but they have this really hard butt-plate which they will use to crush the skull of any dingo stupid enough to put their faces into the wombat’s territory.

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