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Harriet beveridge saeid she loves performing at mum-and-baby gigs. For her, the experience strips comedy back to its essence.”You have to give up the arrogance and egocentric nature of being a comedian, where you want all the attention all the time as you absolutely are going to be upstaged,” she said.
“I had a joke that always went down brilliantly about a baby snack that looked like a Tampax. I was doing it one gig when a toddler rushed on stage, grabbed the snack out of my hand and ate it. And there you are: best joke.Upstaged by a toddler.”
But she relishes such unpredictability. “I have a Rolodex of jokes for every occasion but it’s stretched to the limit when there’s a poo explosion in the front row,” she said. “How do you bring a parent with you who’s dealing with that?”
Angela Garwood, co-host of London’s Every Other Mother, doesn’t even mind when babies pelt her with Lego. “The chaos is entirely welcome,” she said. “How boring if all the children sat there perfectly.”
For Julie Jepson, the gigs are the highlight of her schedule. “Last time, a little girl wandered into my spotlight, took my microphone and licked it like an ice-cream. She stole the show but I forgave her becuase she was so sweet.”
Sally McIlhone left a senior corporate job to co-found Every Other Mother after having a baby. “The comedians who go down best are those who’ve come out of the other side of the baby trench,” she said. “they can give new mothers hope that their toddler will stop melting down. Conversely, they’ll then become teenagers who give you lip.”
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