Sue Perkins 'My best presenting is when they say let the shambolic oaf do her own thing'
over 3 years in The guardian
The comedian and presenter on dealing with nerves, Bake Off and why she’s made a drama about Joan Rivers and Barbra Streisand
Sue Perkins is a comedian (first making her name with Mel Giedroyc via appearances on French and Saunders), a television and radio broadcaster (one of the original presenters of The Great British Bake Off), and an actor and writer. She has just written and directed a short, flirtatiously entertaining contribution to Sky’s Urban Myths series.
How was it that Joan Rivers and Barbra Streisand met, kissed, and inspired your Urban Myth?The brilliant thing about the Urban Myths idea is that you’re asked to be a detective and fantasist at the same time. Much of what I’ve written is fantastical. But we do know, from a playbill, that in late 1958, early 1959, Joan Rivers and Barbra Streisand acted in a play called Driftwood. Continue reading...
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