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Sarah Millican
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Sarah Millican
Sarah Millican 2010.jpg
Millican in 2010
Birth name Sarah Jane King
Born 29 May 1975 (age 42)
South Shields, Tyne and Wear, England
Medium Stand-up, television, radio
Nationality British
Years active 2004present
Genres Observational comedy
Subject(s) Relationships, body image, television
Spouse Andrew Millican
(m. 19972004; divorced)
Gary Delaney (m. 2013present)
Website www.sarahmillican.co.uk
Sarah Jane Millican (ne King;[1] born 29 May 1975)[2] is an English comedian.
Millican won the if.comedy award for Best Newcomer at the 2008 Edinburgh Festival
Fringe.[3] In February 2013 she was listed as one of the 100 most powerful women in
the United Kingdom by Radio 4's Woman's Hour.[4]

Contents [hide]
1 Life and career
1.1 Early life
1.2 20052009: Career beginnings and touring
1.3 2009present: Mainstream success and DVDs, TV and radio shows
2 Personal life
3 Stand-up DVDs
4 Bibliography
5 Awards and nominations
6 References
7 External links
Life and career[edit]
Early life[edit]
Millican was born and brought up in South Shields, England, the daughter of Valerie
Prince and Philip D. King, (who have been married for 50 years) [5] who was a
mining electrician. She attended Mortimer Comprehensive School, later to become
Mortimer Community College,[6] and then worked as a civil servant at a job centre
until the age of 29.[7] She was married on 5 November[8] 1997 but divorced in 2004
and moved back in with her parents for two and a half years.

20052009: Career beginnings and touring[edit]

Millican's debut Edinburgh Festival Fringe show Sarah Millican's Not Nice, inspired
by her divorce, won the if.comedy award for Best Newcomer in 2008.[9] In spring
2009 she began previewing her second Edinburgh show, attracting enthusiastic
reviews for her material on the battle of the sexes.[10][11] Many reviewers
commented on her 'blue' material.[12] Her third show, Chatterbox, was hosted by the
Stand Comedy Club[13] during Fringe 2010.[14] The show was nominated for the main
Edinburgh Comedy Award, losing to Russell Kane.[15]

2009present: Mainstream success and DVDs, TV and radio shows[edit]

Millican has appeared as a panellist on 8 out of 10 Cats, Have I Got News For You,
Mock the Week, You Have Been Watching, Would I Lie to You?, QI and Never Mind the
Buzzcocks, and as a performer at The Secret Policeman's Ball 2008 and on 4 Stands
Up. She was featured in the Manchester edition of Michael McIntyre's Comedy
Roadshow, which was broadcast in June 2009,[16] made an appearance on the third
episode of David Mitchell's panel show The Bubble in March 2010,[17] and has been a
guest on six episodes of Frank Skinner's Opinionated.

She provided vocal work to the BBC's natural history footage for Walk on the Wild
Side, alongside fellow comics Rhod Gilbert, Jon Richardson, Isy Suttie and Gavin
Webster.[18] She appeared on Live at the Apollo on 11 December 2009, and headlined
Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow, recorded at the Empire Theatre, Sunderland on
15 August 2010.[14] Millican also headlined the fourth episode of Dave's One Night
Stand.[19]

Her radio series, Sarah Millican's Support Group, began broadcasting on 18 February
2010 on BBC Radio 4.[20] The format is that studio audience members are encouraged
to share problems with her agony aunt character for her to offer tips "in the same
way as the busybody at the end of your street who knows everything and dishes out
advice whether you want to hear it or not does". Some problems are scripted, the
roles being played by guest actors, while others come from real people in the
audience, to allow Sarah to improvise. Audience member problems have included "My
boyfriend prefers his Blackberry to me". A pair of "therapists", also played by
actors, feature in each week's show and provide scripted and improvised responses
to all the "problems".[21] A second series debuted on BBC Radio 4 Extra on 2 May
2011.[22]

She was a regular co-host of the satirical news show 7 Day Sunday on BBC Radio 5
Live, along with comedians Chris Addison, Andy Zaltzman and one different guest
each week. The first episode aired in January 2010; she and Addison left the show
on 27 February 2011.

In December 2011, she voiced three Viz Comedy Blaps alongside Steve Coogan, Simon
Greenall and Gavin Webster for Channel 4.[23]

Also in 2011, Millican became a panellist on the ITV programme Marriage Ref and
joined the panel on ITV daytime chat show Loose Women, leaving the series in
August. She was also a guest on several other panel and chat shows. A live DVD of
her Chatterbox tour was released in November 2011 by Channel 4.[24] The Chatterbox
DVD went on to break an all-time record in sales for a female stand-up comedian
selling 172,000 copies in just over one month.[25]

Millican's stand-up show, The Sarah Millican Television Programme, was first
broadcast on 8 March 2012 on BBC Two. In November 2012, she released a follow-up
live DVD, Thoroughly Modern Millican. In early January 2013, she appeared for a
couple of nights on The One Show. On 15 January 2013, she began presenting a second
series of The Sarah Millican Television Programme. Millican was nominated for 2013
and 2014 BAFTA Entertainment Performance awards for her work in The Sarah Millican
Television Programme.[26]

Millican appeared in a celebrity episode of Deal or No Deal broadcast on 29 April

2012, where she won 20,000 for charity. She had 100,000 in her box.

Millican also appeared on the Comic Relief 2015: Face the Funny TV Programme,
broadcast on Friday 13 March 2015, Where she was a host for the BBC Comic Relief
show.

In May 2015 it was announced that Millican would be made the eighth "curator" of
The Museum of Curiosity, co-presenting the eighth series of the BBC Radio 4 comedy
series.[27]

In 2017, she announced she is in the process of writing her first book, titled How
to be Champion.
Personal life[edit]
After her husband Andrew Millican left her unexpectedly in 2004,[28] Millican found
solace in attending writing workshops in local theatres, such as at Newcastle's
Live Theatre and the Custom House, South Shields. Jokes about her failed marriage
initially formed the vast majority of Millican's comedy material.[29]

She began a relationship with fellow stand-up comic Gary Delaney in 2006.[30] The
couple moved in together in 2013 and married in December 2013.[30][31]

Stand-up DVDs[edit]
Chatterbox Live (21 November 2011)
Thoroughly Modern Millican Live (12 November 2012)
Home Bird Live (17 November 2014)
Outsider Live (21 November 2016)
Bibliography[edit]
How to be Champion (Upcoming)
Awards and nominations[edit]
So You Think You're Funny? (2nd place) 2005
BBC New Comedy Awards (finalist) 2005
Funny Women (runner-up) 2005
Chortle Awards (Best Newcomer nomination) 2006
North West Comedy Awards (Best Breakthrough Act) 2007[32]
if.comedy award (Best Newcomer) 2008
Edinburgh Comedy Award 2010 (Best show nomination)[15]
British Comedy Award Peoples Choice Award for the King or Queen of Comedy 2011
In February 2013 Millican was assessed as one of the 100 most powerful women in the
United Kingdom by Woman's Hour on BBC Radio 4.[4]

References[edit]
Jump up ^ Who Do You Think You Are?, BBC TV, broadcast 11 September 2013
Jump up ^ Thorpe, Vanessa (5 May 2013). "How Sarah Millican struck comedy gold".
The Guardian. London.
Jump up ^ Mickey Noonan (13 October 2008). "Sarah Millican isn't resting on her
laurels". Metro. Retrieved 13 May 2009.
^ Jump up to: a b "The Power List 2013". BBC Radio 4. BBC. Retrieved 16 February
2013.
Jump up ^ "Start building your family tree today". Retrieved 1 December 2014.
Jump up ^ "Sarah Millican profile". BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 31 December 2016.
Jump up ^ Funny Girl: Sarah Millican in The Independent Retrieved 27 June 2015
Jump up ^ 8 Out of 10 Cats, 4 November 2014
Jump up ^ Tim Arthur (10 December 2008). "Sarah Millican: interview". Time Out.
Retrieved 13 May 2009.
Jump up ^ David Durkin and Sarah Newman (6 May 2009). "What you thought of
Liverpool's comedy festival: Sarah Millican, Justin Moorhouse and Drink Up Stand
Up". Liverpool Echo. Archived from the original on 19 March 2012. Retrieved 13 May
2009.
Jump up ^ Victoria Nangle (21 July 2009). "Review of the week: Sarah Millican
Typical Woman". Latest 7.
Jump up ^ Sam Wonfor (1 August 2009). "Sarah Millican: Typical Woman, Live
Theatre". The Journal.
Jump up ^ Richard Herring (14 August 2013). "Richard Herring's Edinburgh Fringe
Podcast" (Podcast). Retrieved 16 August 2013.
^ Jump up to: a b Wonfor, Sam (11 August 2010). "Sarah Millican leads the comedy
pack home". The Journal. Retrieved 13 August 2010.
^ Jump up to: a b "Two women make the shortlist". Chortle. 25 August 2010.
Retrieved 25 August 2010.
Jump up ^ "New comedy tops bill on BBC One this summer with Michael McIntyre's
Comedy Roadshow". BBC. 23 April 2009. Retrieved 14 May 2009.
Jump up ^ "The Bubble, a brand-new comedy news quiz on BBC Two". BBC. 2 February
2010. Retrieved 20 February 2010.
Jump up ^ "Interview: Sarah Millican's stand-up is in the worst possible taste".
The Scotsman. 1 August 2009. Retrieved 8 August 2009.
Jump up ^ Ian Wolf. "Episode 1.4". British Comedy Guide. Retrieved 9 October 2010.
Jump up ^ "R4 Sarah Millican's Support Group". BBC Press Office. 18 February 2010.
Retrieved 18 February 2010.
Jump up ^ "R4 series for Millican". Chortle. 10 November 2009. Retrieved 10
November 2009.
Jump up ^ "Sarah Millican's Support Group". British Comedy Guide. Retrieved 14 June
2011.
Jump up ^ Henderson, Steve (12 December 2011). "Viz Animation "Blap" to basics".
Skwigly. Retrieved 6 January 2012.
Jump up ^ "Sarah Millican signs DVD deal". Chortle. 24 August 2010. Retrieved 24
August 2010.
Jump up ^ Cavendish, Dominic (21 December 2011). "Sarah Millican reflects on her
remarkable DVD sales success". The Telegraph. London. Retrieved 16 February 2013.
Jump up ^ "Television in 2013". BAFTA. British Academy of Film and Television Arts.
Retrieved 31 December 2016.
Jump up ^ Dessau, Bruce (6 May 2015). "News: Sarah Millican Curates Museum". Beyond
the Joke. Retrieved 6 May 2015.
Jump up ^ Gilbert, Gerard (2 March 2012). "Funny girl: Sarah Millican on comedy,
money and marriage". The Independent. London.
Jump up ^ Chitra Ramaswamy (10 August 2008). "Sarah Millican preview". Scotland on
Sunday. Retrieved 13 May 2009.
^ Jump up to: a b Sarah Millican marries Gary Delaney
Jump up ^ Strang, Fay (3 January 2014). "Sarah Millican has married fellow comedian
Gary Delaney in secret festive ceremony". Daily Mail. Retrieved 31 December 2016.
Jump up ^ "The Northwest Comedy Awards". Manchester Confidential. 27 January 2007.
Retrieved 16 May 2009.[dead link]
External links[edit]
Official website
BBC story about 2008 Perrier Award
Biography from Chortle.co.uk
BBC The Culture Show Interview with Lauren Laverne
Sarah Millican on IMDb
Preceded by
Tom Basden if.comedy award for Best Newcomer
2008 Succeeded by
Jonny Sweet
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