She participated in series 3 of the comedy challenge show, Taskmaster, which was broadcast on Dave in October and November 2016. In 2016, she went on tour again with the show Animal. She also hosts a related podcast of the same name, in which she interviews people who have experience around sex work, stripping and porn. It is informed by evolutionary biology and social research, and by her own experiences and feelings. Her second book, Sex Power Money, was published in 2019, which explores (mostly heterosexual) sexual relations, with particular focuses on male sexuality and on sex work. The first, Animal: The Autobiography of a Female Body, was published in 2016. In 2016, along with numerous other celebrities, Pascoe toured the UK to support Jeremy Corbyn's bid to become prime minister. In 2015, she appeared as a panellist on two Radio 4 programmes, the science discussion programme The Infinite Monkey Cage in February, and the comedy quiz programme The Unbelievable Truth in September. Also that month, she appeared on the topical panel quiz Have I Got News for You as a panellist and in one of the sketches of the Channel 4 charity night Stand Up to Cancer. In October 2014, she appeared in Never Mind the Buzzcocks and stood in line at the identity parade round as a former dancer and back-up singer for the entertainer (and Robbie Williams's father) Pete Conway. The show was nominated for the Foster's Edinburgh Comedy Award 2014 for Best Comedy Show. 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 appeared on the BBC TV panel show QI in 2013. In 2012, she appeared in episode 11 of the Comedian's Comedian Podcast hosted by Stuart Goldsmith, and in Live at the Apollo. In August 2010, she performed her first show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Sara Pascoe Vs Her Ego. In the following year she was a runner-up in the Funny Women award in 2008 with Rachel Stubbings. Pascoe began performing stand up comedy in 2007. Pascoe has appeared in many television programmes and panel shows, including Stand Up for the Week, The Thick of It, Mock the Week, The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret, Campus, Being Human, Twenty Twelve, QI, Have I Got News For You, Would I Lie to You, Hypothetical, and W1A as well as all-female sketch show Girl Friday (part of Channel 4's Comedy Showcase), which she co-wrote. ( December 2020)īefore her comedy career, Pascoe was a tour guide in London. Please help improve it by revising it to be neutral and encyclopedic. This biographical article is written like a résumé. After graduation she worked as an actor and supplemented her income with temporary work, but found work "hard to come by" and declared herself bankrupt. However, she read English at the University of Sussex, where she met and became friends with Cariad Lloyd. įor a short while, Pascoe aspired to study philosophy at the University of Cambridge, motivated by both her enjoyment of the novel Sophie's World and her desire to join Footlights, the university's dramatic club. Aged 16, Pascoe had an abortion which was detailed in her memoir, Animal: The Autobiography of a Female Body. She later attended Gaynes School in Upminster. She attended Eastbury Comprehensive School in Barking. Her parents divorced when she was young and she was brought up by her mother. īorn in Dagenham, London, Pascoe was brought up in nearby Romford. Her great-grandmother was Rosa Newmarch, a poet and writer on music. Pascoe was born to Gail ( née Newmarch) and Derek Pascoe, a musician.
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