"[Her] comedy depends on the cognitive dissonance between her appearance (primary school teacher in spectacles) and the filth she speaks."
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Tanya Gold "There’s something funny about that woman", The Sunday Times (15 March 2015)
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Sarah Millican
Sarah Jane Millican (née King; born 29 May 1975) is an English comedian, writer and presenter. Millican won the Edinburgh comedy award for Best Newcomer at the 2008 Festival Fringe. In February 2013, she was listed as one of the 100 most powerful women in the United Kingdom by Radio 4's Woman's Hour, and in the same year she married fellow comedian Gary Delaney. Her first book, How to Be Champion, was published in 2017. Millican has performed on tour, mainly across the United Kingdom, during her
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