Hanging out with the First Lady of America and the First Lady of Comedy was not something I ever thought an anxious girl from Elephant and Castle would do. What’s more, in order to be allowed to work there, I’d had to get a visa. What was printed on the visa was probably the nicest thing anyone has ever said about me: “Alien with extraordinary ability.” If you’d told me that’s what I’d grow up to be when I was eleven, I’d have taken that.
