Words matter. These are the best Rachel Parris Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I mean, the number one goal is to make people laugh, that’s definitely the first aim; but aside from that, when we discuss which topics to talk about, the second goal is to try and make a point about it.
There’s a very delicate but important contract that a Royal has with the British public and it’s this: Most people don’t mind paying for the Royals as long as those Royals live a miserable, thwarted existence full of horrible compromise.
I’ve been a musician and a songwriter for years, since I was a teenager, and made my living doing that on and off for a long time, so when it came to writing comedy material, it was the thing that came easiest to me, the most natural way of writing.
If you’re mocking anyone, make sure it’s those at the top of the food chain, not the bottom.
I’m a sports idiot – watching it, playing it, making conversation about it – I got nothing.
Much like Tim Minchin, I’d love to write and appear in a West End Musical. That’s the dream.
I’ve got a few things on YouTube and the most I’ve ever had is about 8,000 clicks over five years.
I don’t really get heckled! I think it’s because I might burst into song at any moment and even rude people have a weird respect for not interrupting singing!
Determined cheerfulness is something I happen to do very well.
And sometimes you can make your point better with comedy than you can through shouting about it.
The first time I saw Tim Minchin live, it was his 2008 show ‘Ready for This?’ in a very big room at the Pleasance during the Edinburgh fringe.
I’d always liked having a laugh with my friends, and I’d done comedy in plays; but then my friends asked me to join this improv troupe and it went well and I started performing with them.
I started doing improv comedy in 2007, and I think it was that that gave me the confidence to try doing stand-up!
You can still have comedy which is sensitive to the topic, where you’re laughing at the right part of it, you’re not mocking the things that shouldn’t be mocked.
It is easy to misunderstand what a comedy song is, or what its potential is. I’m used to musical comedy being maligned as an easy artform.