Stand-up comedy has never been the easiest of career choices, especially when you are not only female, but British Iranian. But from the age of 10, when she discovered she could make grown-ups cry with laughter, Shappi Khorsandi never doubted she was funny. "At parties my father would get me to do impersonations and I would have this roomful of grown-ups rolling with laughter," she recalls. "I had quite severe ADHD, only recently diagnosed.
I couldn't navigate school and I couldn't form healthy relationships. But the one thing I really understood and wanted to do was to make people laugh - both on and off a stage.
I got the message at a young age that this is what you can do to make yourself feel most alive and most useful. Being pretty and.
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