MARION SAUVEBOIS takes a look at how everyone’s favourite Outsider made it to become comedic royalty

IN THE past when you put Sarah Millican outside, she asked things like: “Why? Where is the taxi? Do I need a cardie?” She also said things like: “There’ll be wasps. I’ve nothing to sit on. Is that poo? Can we go home?”

But times have changed as the audience finds out in her new show Outsider. She now has “outside slippers” and can tell a chaffinch from a tit. But she still can’t tell if it’s an owl or her husband’s asthma.

Since winning the 2008 if.comedy Best Newcomer Award for her debut solo show Sarah Millican’s Not Nice at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the comedienne has fast established herself as a household name.

She has received six nominations for the British Comedy Awards and was crowned The People’s Choice: Queen of Comedy in 2011. She’s also been BAFTA nominated in 2013 and 2014 for her self-titled TV programme, of which she has made three series.

Her debut DVD, Chatterbox Live, became the biggest selling stand-up DVD by a female comedian of all time.

She has notched up countless appearances on top comedy shows including QI, Mock the Week, Have I Got News For You, 8 Out of 10 Cats and Live at the Apollo and has chatted to Graham Norton, Jonathan Ross and Alan Carr on their respective shows sharing a sofa with various wowsers celebrity bums.

Outsider at the Wyvern Theatre, on November 10, is sold out. For more details on coming tour dates visit www.sarahmillican.co.uk