Comedian Sara Pascoe chats with MARION SAUVEBOIS

FROM Live at the Apollo, Mock the Week and QI to Never Mind the Buzzcocks, Sara Pascoe boasts an impressive array of television credits.

The Fosters Comedy Award Nominee is back, this time on stage, with her latest tour, Sara Pascoe vs History.

Leaping from stimulating arguments to abstract concepts with doses of open honesty, she will share everything with her audience at the Arts Centre on Thursday, December 4 – from her romantic history to existential theory and cultural insights.

At the age of 18, Pascoe tried but failed to get into drama school and ended up studying English literature at Sussex University, where she began to appear on stage. Her growing obsession with stand-up carried her through her first open spots and onto the Hackney Empire in January 2008 where she appeared in their new act competition.

That determination has served Pascoe well and she has built up an increasingly impressive stand-up CV, as well as appearing on panel shows and acting in comedies such as The Thick of It and Campus.

Although she has ambitions to write a novel and may well have a stab at penning a semi-autobiographical sitcom one day, live comedy is where she gets her creative buzz right now.

“I once thought that it would be very easy to make people laugh but it’s all about alchemy and magic.

“It’s not even an exact science, because you can have all the right ingredients but sometimes it just doesn’t work. Yet sometimes you can be in tune with it and you can improvise and it all works. At that point, it can be a really powerful thing.”

The show will start at 8pm. Tickets are £12.50 and are available from the ticket office on 01793 524481 or online at swindontheatres.co.uk.