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The couple also appear on Channel 4's Celebrity Gogglebox, with Beaumont suggesting in an episode broadcast earlier this month that Richardson watching the film Titanic six times was potential grounds for divorce, and will play together this Friday evening in the opening episode of the twenty-second series of 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. Lucy Beaumont: One to watch". Edinburgh Festivals Magazine. 18 July 2014 . Retrieved 29 December 2019. Jon’s a brilliant dad. He’s devoted to Elsie but I think he’s even more sure he doesn’t want kids now. Although her material stays firmly away from politics, off-stage Beaumont has an invested interest, and says she admired watching Irish comics weave through heated topics throughout the 90s.

After university, she briefly worked as a teaching assistant. When one of her first acting jobs after university fell through, Beaumont took on a job as a cleaner at the university to make a living, leading her to joke later that she was probably the only person with both a BA and an NVQ from the University of Hull. [9] [3] Career [ edit ] Jon: There’s a movement towards overt discussions of problems, and then there's the very traditional British view that that's all just beneath the surface. You can see what all our issues are, but we carry on as if nothing's happening. I think people like that sense of pent-up misery and fear that we have. Lucy: I usually write notes of real things that have happened whether in the house or at work Then Tim [Reid] and I look at how we can make them into storylines. So half is real and half engineered.Lucy: We really try to just go for laughs. We never wanted to go serious or start talking about our marriage. We’ve kept it silly. When we first did publicity for it, we said it's a documentary. We can be honest now, it's a sitcom. It's written but so much is real in it.

It was like one of those big ones. It’s one of those presents for Christmas. It’s not for a Tuesday. But I said, ‘Elsie, look!’. And she said: ‘can we get it?’ and I said ‘yes!’. In 2019, Beaumont returned to the Edinburgh Festival with her show Space Mam, [27] which she also took on tour in the UK. If you grow up with that, they do help to inform you. It's very, very powerful," she adds, suggesting that too many channels today seem to avoid political comedy altogether . Lucy, 38, admits: “We get loads of messages and some have said that it’s even saved their marriage.Jon: I can. But can Britain or Hollywood? Jed Mercurio [the Line Of Duty writer, who appears in the new series]gets it. My performance as a balding slightly podgy middle-aged failing comic is so believable that people forget I’m actually an athlete in his prime. She was a guest on Dave's Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled in 2015 and on the BBC Two panel quiz show QI in 2016. She has been a regular guest on the Dave panel show Jon Richardson: Ultimate Worrier, hosted by her husband Jon Richardson, in 2018 and 2019. [26] That’s not a bad thing, she says – and Richardson too can see upsides to their unusual televised lives. “Every couple argues,” he says, “but we have an end product for our arguments. We hone them then put them on TV. And then it’s like: ‘Oh, perhaps we weren’t arguing – perhaps we were just working on a routine.’”