Sara Pascoe

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Sara Patricia Pascoe (born on 22 May 1981) is an English comedian and actor.

She began performing stand up comedy in 2007.

In 2010 she performed her first show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Sara Pascoe Vs Her Ego.

In 2012 she appeared in Live at the Apollo.

She appeared on the BBC TV panel show QI in 2013.

In 2014 she performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and toured the UK for the first time with the show Sara Pascoe Vs History. She also appeared in Never Mind the Buzzcocks and on the topical panel quiz Have I Got News for You as a panellist.

In 2015 she appeared as a panellist on two Radio 4 programmes, the science discussion programme The Infinite Monkey Cage, and the comedy quiz programme The Unbelievable Truth.

In 2016 she went on tour again with the show Animal. The same year, her first book, Animal: The Autobiography of a Female Body, was published. She also aprticipated in series 3 of Taskmaster this year.

Between 2014 and 2016 she appeared in all three of Frankie Boyle’s Autopsy BBC programmes, discussing political issues.

In 2017 she performed a half-hour stand-up set on Live from the BBC, and appeared in an episode of the British travel documentary series Travel Man. Since 2017 she has also been a regular guest on Frankie Boyle’s New World Order.

In 2018 she started a BBC Radio 4 series called Modern Monkey, appeared as a panellist in two episodes of the BBC Radio 4 panel show Just A Minute, and starred in a BBC comedy short entitled Sara Pascoe vs Monogamy.

In 2019 she appeared in Travelling Blind with Amar Latif on BBC2, and a live recording of her LadsLadsLads tour at the London Palladium was broadcast on BBC Two. The same year, her second book, Sex Power Money, was published. She also hosts a related podcast of the same name, in which she interviews people who have experience around sex work, stripping and porn.

In 2020 she hosted An Evening With Yuval Noah Harari, a livestream book launch held by How to Academy and Penguin Books. The same year, her six-part comedy series Out Of Her Mind premiered on BBC Two. Her three-part BBC Two series called Last Woman on Earth with Sara Pascoe also premiered in 2020.

[Source: Wikipedia, 03/03/2021.]