The Bathgate-born comedian Fern Brady’s memoir, Strong Female Character, was a Sunday Times bestseller and winner of the non-fiction category at the Nero Book Awards in 2023.
What’s your earliest memory?
Looking around a soft play area thinking: “I hate every single one of yous.”
What has been your most memorable Scottish gig?
Doing Late’n’Live thinking, “It’s good to be home,” then a drunk man kept shouting out something but his accent was so strong I couldn’t understand him. After politely asking him to repeat himself it turned out he was shouting: “I’d get in about ye like a dug eating beetroot.” So that was nice. On a similar note, a man once had to be dragged out of my Aberdeen tour show because he
