The pioneering comedian talks about her new book 'My Lady Parts', the woeful treatment of working mothers on TV sets, and dealing with a litany of sexual harassment
“I was ushered into a circle of boys,” she recalls. “I was told to lift up my skirt and pull my pants down. I did so. Why? As they sniggered and touched themselves I felt a deep, burning humiliation.”
Unlike many little girls, humiliated this way in an era before kids were educated about “appropriate” behaviour, Mackichan told her mum. Who told the school. The boys were made to apologise, one by one, but the outcome was social exclusion for their victim and Mackichan was made to feel she was “neurotic and attention-seeking” for causing a fuss. She was no longer invited to join the other girls’ skipping circles.
She took the piss out of misogynistic rap, beatboxed and brought Ken and Barbie dolls onto the stage with her to argue about gender politics. One of the earliest sketches she wrote featured a director asking an auditioning actress to remove a garment for each line of Shakespeare she read.– she was horrified to have her bottom groped by her soap actor co-star in the queue for the theatre canteen. Her former on-screen hero mumbled: “Mmmm, nice arse.
She took that empowerment with her onto her first TV set. Cast as a stupid, “Essex-girl Cinderella” in theChristmas special, she vehemently refused to let the make-up girl shave her legs, despite orders from the director. Although the all-male camera crew zoomed in on her calves and chanted Gilette jingles, she emerged with her head held high, and when Jim Davidson took a swipe at her back stage, she found an ally in Harry Enfield, who eyeballed the older comic and cast her in his upcoming show.
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