Drinking Custard: The Diary of a Confused Mum

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That said, “we went to Center Parcs recently,” says Beaumont, “and a lady in the toilet said to me: ‘Isn’t it nice that your husband’s let you be on telly with him?’ And you’re just like: ‘OK, I can now go away and write a scene.’” Even in real life, she says, “I very much still feel like the jealous wife who’s hungry for a career.” Beaumont was passed over for a couple of roles, subjected to smallminded comments (“an actor’s husband said, and this crushed me, ‘You’re never going to play Juliet at the RSC with your accent’”), then told by a casting director that they were looking for comedians who could act. She’d always been told she was funny. Auditioning for TV parts, she’d accidentally turn drama into comedy: “I went to one for Casualty, an audition for this woman who’d had a horrific accident, and they were in floods of tears laughing at me.” In 2011, she decided to try stand-up for the first time. Pryer, Emma (26 September 2021). "Meet the Richardsons' Lucy Beaumont thought she was dying during traumatic birth". Daily Mirror . Retrieved 13 April 2022. Although, as the title suggests, there’s the odd mention of Richardson and her marriage, it’s a reintroduction to who she is now, as a 40-year-old woman released from some of the anxieties that plagued her youth. “It’s totally freeing,” she says. “When I was starting out it was all about proving yourself. Now people have already decided: you’re funny.” This read like a daily list of what happened, with frequent reminders of how tired she was which may have impacted her memory as she also mentions her famous husband, a lot.

She also revealed that she now considers herself both working and middle class - as demonstrated recently after buying a bottle of organic red wine, she tripped on the way out of the shop, and saved the wine before herself. Watch Jon & Lucy's Party of the Year | Stream free on Channel 4". www.channel4.com . Retrieved 1 June 2023. It means that stand-up is making her happier than ever. “You’ve got a responsibility,” she says. “I feel it more than ever because things are really hard, everyone is a bit deflated. But that’s great for comedy because people want a laugh.” This first foray into standup in a decade has raised old demons for Beaumont, which her new career as a successful TV writer has yet to slay. “I know now,” she says, “that what put me off standup was the horrific misogyny that I suffered.” Only a decade ago, she says, promoters still didn’t want to book female comics; comperes introduced them with an apology and “you’d get on stage and the audience would instantly look embarrassed before you said anything. Or they would use you as the time to go to the toilet.”While Lucy doesn’t think a North/South divide still exists, she admits you can be shaped by where you grow up. ‘In Hull it feels like there's a great sense of humour that comes from being in a working class town and an exciting place to be,’ she explains. ‘We’re a very small country but I am fascinated by how different areas have different attitudes. You sort of adopt that if you’re not from there. I think the more we keep saying there’s a North/South divide, the more it creates an issue. All there needs to be is better links.’ I loved the later setting of Hebden Bridge having lived in Bradford for 9 years and also loved the earlier home life tales from Surbiton, 2 vastly different places yet more similar than you would imagine I give Drinking Custard Diary Of A Confused Mum By Lucy Beaumont (With interruptions from Jon Richardson) a Five out of Five paw rating. TV Comics Launch Charity Gala in Aid of Local Children". Hull Echo. 9 May 2019 . Retrieved 29 December 2019. Review: Lucy Beaumont: Space Mam at Pleasance". Edinburgh Festivals Magazine. 12 August 2019 . Retrieved 29 December 2019.

It led to her convincing herself “that I don’t belong here, I’m not good enough, I’m not funny”. Four series of a hit TV show later, she says, “I still have all that in my head whenever I do anything. And it’s really frustrating that men don’t. So my thing with the new tour is I just want to make it” – like Meet the Richardsons before it – “the funniest thing it can be.” Reading this book, I think Lucy Beaumont is the mum I would love to have bumped into at mum and baby groups. She talks candidly here about the ups and downs of being a new mum, not least the pressures we often pile upon ourselves. Coldwell, Will (16 January 2015). "Comedian Lucy Beaumont on Hull". The Guardian . Retrieved 30 October 2016. Beaumont, Lucy (30 September 2021). Drinking Custard: The Diary of a Confused Mum. London: Octopus Publishing Group. ISBN 9781913183738.

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I'm not overly familiar with Beaumont as I don't necessarily enjoy most Radio 4 comedy, and this was a light-hearted read with one or two memorable anecdotes and a fair bit of filler. Following in the footsteps of other comedians' books, this touched on the matter of class along with comedic diary-style entries.

It meant Beaumont had less time for stand-up, but she didn’t stop completely. She and Richardson run regular charity comedy nights around Yorkshire. “It’s something I’m really proud of. It’s only an evening of our time, but you can raise thousands.” This was my first ever audiobook and it was an easy one to start with! Before starting this I didn't know anything about Lucy Beaumont or Jon Richardson so I went into it totally blind. Meet the Richardsons' Lucy Beaumont thought she was dying during traumatic childbirth". 26 September 2021 . Retrieved 10 October 2021.But she also feels – much to the consternation of the show’s publicist, within earshot – that Meet the Richardsons is becoming too career-focused. “The new series is too work-based,” she says. “It’s my least favourite.” Lucy’s voice is warm and relatable, and I couldn’t help hearing it in her voice as I read, and the corrections and clarifications from Jon Richardson set the tone early on. They seem like a nice couple when they’re on TV things, and that comes across here too. Jones, Alice (1 August 2015). "A right pair of jokers: The secrets of comedy couples". The Independent . Retrieved 29 December 2019.

Mutch, Michael (26 December 2019). " 'Rude' University Challenge audience laugh at Lucy Beaumont's degree". Hull Daily Mail . Retrieved 29 December 2019. That job, however, may even have spurned her next big thing if the plot of her show is to be believed, and if she has indeed written a comedy 'Wet Cloth, Dry Cloth' - a sitcom about a bunch of cleaners working at a university campus in Hull. However, it's currently not clear if that's real or a scripted part of the plot. Read More Related ArticlesIn 2019, Beaumont returned to the Edinburgh Festival with her show Space Mam, [27] which she also took on tour in the UK. But she suffered terribly from nerves. “It felt like every time you walked on stage you were walking off a cliff. I just used to shake. I had to bring it into my persona.” My only experience of raising children is being a fairly surprised 15 year old when Mum announced she was ‘with child’ over dinner and now daily Facetime chats with this ‘child’ who has 2 of his own under 3, I love the chats but am no parent and am pleased to press the ‘End’ button when the noise gets too loud…..that’s my experience so I started this book not knowing really what to expect and am soooo pleased I went way out of my usual genre, I am still smiling as I write this!