Drinking Custard: The Diary of a Confused Mum

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It meant Beaumont had less time for stand-up, but she didn’t stop completely. She and Richardson run regular charity comedy nights around Yorkshire. “It’s something I’m really proud of. It’s only an evening of our time, but you can raise thousands.” Jones, Alice (1 August 2015). "A right pair of jokers: The secrets of comedy couples". The Independent . Retrieved 29 December 2019. As well as honest it is happy, sad, thoughtful, irreverent, moving,basically every emotion you can think of rolled into one joyous read

The two met through fellow comedian Roisin Conaty and now have a daughter Elsie Louise, born in 2016. In her own book called Drinking Custard: Diary Of A Confused Mum, she confessed that when she was wheeled into theatre for an emergency C-section, she feared she would die. Pryer, Emma (26 September 2021). "Meet the Richardsons' Lucy Beaumont thought she was dying during traumatic birth". Daily Mirror . Retrieved 13 April 2022. This first foray into standup in a decade has raised old demons for Beaumont, which her new career as a successful TV writer has yet to slay. “I know now,” she says, “that what put me off standup was the horrific misogyny that I suffered.” Only a decade ago, she says, promoters still didn’t want to book female comics; comperes introduced them with an apology and “you’d get on stage and the audience would instantly look embarrassed before you said anything. Or they would use you as the time to go to the toilet.”

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It was more amusing than funny to me, although part of that was the class angle. There is just something that annoys me about middle class people trying to distance themselves from the ludicrous ways of the snobs around them, while their own child's behaviour, reminiscent of an obnoxious princess, is no reflection on them of course. That said, one of the anecdotes I did find funny was the idea of a toddler asking her gran for a breakfast smorgasbord.

Like when Lucy was hospitalised during her third trimester with chest pains but it turned out to be a burrito. Or when she was so tired at the park she forgot her own child's name. Heart-warming and laugh-out-loud funny, Drinking Custard also captures Lucy's marriage to comedian Jon Richardson, as they navigate Lucy's raging pregnancy hormones and balk at pram prices together.

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Those nerves were exacerbated by the way women in comedy were treated. When Beaumont started out, “The misogyny was mad. When I would go on stage, a lot of the audience would go to the toilet or get a drink,” she says. “I couldn’t get gigs, they’d say ‘We’ve booked a woman this month’.” 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] Jon Richardson and Lucy Beaumont welcome Dave into their home…sort of". corporate.uktv.co.uk. 11 June 2019 . Retrieved 29 December 2019.

Born prematurely in Truro while her parents were on holiday in Cornwall, Beaumont grew up with a single mother [2] in the Spring Bank area of Hull. She later lived in the town of Hessle, near Hull. [4] [5] Her mother is the playwright Gill Adams, who won the Fringe First Award for best new play in 1997 at the Edinburgh Festival. [6] She attended Hessle High School, [7] before going on to Wyke Sixth Form College. [8] Beaumont worked at the meat counter of Asda on Hessle Road, West Hull, [3] and later went on to the University of Hull, graduating with a degree in drama studies. [5] That job, however, may even have spurned her next big thing if the plot of her show is to be believed, and if she has indeed written a comedy 'Wet Cloth, Dry Cloth' - a sitcom about a bunch of cleaners working at a university campus in Hull. However, it's currently not clear if that's real or a scripted part of the plot. Read More Related Articles I'm writing todays review as part of the Random Things Tour. Thank you to them and to Lucy Beaumont for sending me a copy of this book to read and review. Television Interview I was paralysed doing stunts on Harry Potter. It was still the best job in the world Read More

Drinking Custard: The Diary of a Confused Mum is Lucy’s new ‘mumoir’ – it’s filled with plenty of hilarious parenting moments (including being hospitalised with indigestion in her third trimester thanks to a burrito, a Disney’s Frozen party that really didn’t go to plan. and her addiction to custard) which we’re sure every first-time mum will relate to, but it’s also a very honest look into Lucy’s life. She really waves the flag for Hull whenever she can and, after living down South for a while, Lucy, her husband (8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown Team Captain Jon Richardson) and first-born Elsie (who took an early liking to Yorkshire pudding) moved to Mytholmroyd near Hebden Bridge. Richardson’s role, he tells me, “is to be humiliated and look embarrassed”. Meet the Richardsons provides him with ample opportunity, as he bursts into flames at a children’s party while dressed as a monkey, or – in the new series – disappoints his comedy hero, Ben Elton. Is it right to assume his haplessness and Beaumont’s career anxiety are all exaggerated for comic effect (she has, after all, been nominated for a Bafta for her performance)? “That’s Lucy’s skill as a writer,” says Richardson. “To understand that sitcom is driven by a need. If we’re successful and happy and calm, you lose that fundamental element of comedy.” And for Beaumont, “It’s really nice showing your personality. That you’re not just someone’s wife.”She made it to the final. The following year, she won the BBC New Comedy Award. When she took her debut show to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2014, it was shortlisted for Best Newcomer. Her jokes found joy and the surreal in the everyday, moving between silly puns and surprising double punchlines with ease. Lucy Beaumont started doing stand-up comedy in 2011 (Photo: UKTV) Heart-warming and laugh-out-loud funny, Drinking Custard also captures Lucy's marriage to comedian Jon Richardson, as they navigate Lucy's raging pregnancy hormones and balk at pram prices together. 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 Richardson's wife Lucy Beaumont reveals the strange way he proposed". Hull Daily Mail. 20 June 2018 . Retrieved 29 December 2019.