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When her husband left her, Sarah Millican unusual response has been touring Britain trying to make people laugh. The actor says Stephanie Merritt on your hard Geordie, quiet humor of his father, mining - and the absurdities of sex

In 2006, I went on vacation to a Spanish country home to learn how to perform stand-up comedy. The guardian of the residential course was a comic named Sarah Millican youth. She had just turned to comedy as a second career and has been identified as a rising star. She had been installed only a year, but had already won a prestigious national competition for new talent and was a finalist in three others. It was impossible not to warm to nonsense Geordie mouth slightly open with Mumsy and dirty, but spend a week under his tutelage the back made me realize that comedy was something we took very seriously. The message we gave more importance is that if you want to be good, you should be prepared to put in the leg work. Write every day, every day living, traveling across the country for an open mic spot, if necessary, but always remember that in comedy, doing so only to improve and learn from their mistakes. I remember the time someone had pushed so incredibly far to go, if only by sheer bloody determination.

Two years later he had his first show of the Edinburgh Fringe, the opening of the first night to an audience of five (three of them knew). But she took home the award for Best Comedy Newcomer Edinburgh. This decrease was reading the 3500-seat Hammersmith Apollo as part of a national tour sold out, about to release his first DVD

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, and recently announced his first series television, to emerge in spring on BBC2.

"A friend of mine said," His career has been a disaster this year, "he reflects." I said, 'Do you mean the stratosphere? Turned to her, but I just had to see. "

36, Millican seems pleasantly surprised by their own success, but did not diminish his work ethic. "It is not enough for something to be popular, it must be good," he said. "When you look at a place like the Hammersmith Apollo and all that the people came just to see the night is overwhelming . You can not rest on our laurels. This trip should be better than the last because I want people to get to the next. "

attributes his determination, in part, to his father. "Laziness is the only thing he could not tolerate people," he recalls. "I think that's where my positivity and my hard drive. He always said," No such thing as can not. The only thing you can do is stick your ass out the window, run down and throw stones at it. You can do anything other than that. "He pauses to consider. "Maybe one day I prove that I can do it too. If I had to very quickly. Or if my ass was big enough."

is just that his father was the subject of the first joke has a smile on stage. He had married young, at 22, and after seven years of her marriage collapsed. It was because of her divorce and was again much of its equipment at the beginning was the return to their parents at the age of 29 years. The first time I saw her performance, described the attempts of his father in his office while he was crying in a sea of ??tears and snot. "Well, you're bound to be upset. [Pause.] You have lost everything. [Long pause]. Nothing remains. "In the hands of Millican, the combination of tone and timing of this impersonation of a practical man, Geordie trying to cope with an avalanche golden age of comedy emotional." J did it a slot five minutes in a pub in Newcastle, "he recalls with a smile of affection," and for two and a half minutes, no one laughs. Then I did little and the room was silent for a huge laugh, and I I thought, 'Right, that runs from the beginning. "Then thank God for him."

also thanked his family together with your feet on the ground. His father was an electrical engineer at the mouth at South Shields, where he grew up, and she remembers keenly the effects of the miners' strike. "We have free school meals for one and dinner the ladies gave us extra servings because I knew it was the meal of the day," he said. "I knew very well what was happening, except that there was not much money to spare. I remember my shoes were too tight, but I did not tell my mother this week because I knew I could not afford to buy other news. One morning I woke up with blood all over my feet from blisters and I had to put my rubber boots in the summer. But I think it has to go through that kind of stuff to learn the value of money and he knows that can survive with very little. My sister still can not watch spaghetti hoops for years because it was everything we had. "

Millican was a shy child to school - something she attributes to the need for glasses since the age of six years. "I think even at that age you realize that it is not attractive," she said. "At school I was the only mousey in the corner that nobody really liked." But at home to write endless stories and poems, which had been his family behind a curtain.

after a level, which took a course in film and television as a way to keep their creative interests, but without thinking of standing in front of the camera. "I was really behind the scenes and I wanted to be behind the scenes." A constant work in public administration since, although he continues to fill his free time with creative projects, taking classes for several nights a week on topics such as creative writing and film editing, film writing a column for the local newspaper making short films with friends and have your Playscripts developed in places such as live theater in Newcastle.

"I would say," I'll write my way out of this hole, "she says," and I did not want the place they live or work, only work I had. I never felt respected, and if I wrote it out of my system. "

But after 20 years of marriage was comfortable routine at the brink of starvation creative. "I installed a little something to do with it -. I really enjoy the coupley-ness of being married had never been to a couple right before, so it was fine.. "She had been dating her ex-husband for two weeks when he proposed, when I raised an eyebrow, it is easy to defend the relationship. "Yes, but we have been together for seven years, so it's a long time. I do not regret at all. I would not be where I am today if I had not done all that. "

The end of her marriage was clearly devastating, but it has become, in his words, a "regeneration". No doubt, I wonder, in a moment of emotional vulnerability first, the last thing that most people who use stand-up comedy, where you are exposed to insults and public rejection of all nights? "Yes, but I had the worst kind of rejection," she said, quite frankly. "The audience does not laugh when your husband tells you he loves you more. To have a look at the person to go" No "to some extent ... 50 people in a room is" No "is not so bad. They are only 20 minutes to try the equipment, not a marriage of seven years. "She looks at me seriously and suddenly explodes into a raucous storm of laughter.

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