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As she attempted to establish herself on the circuit back in the early noughties, Jen Brister received a much-needed boost from a comedy legend.
The occasion was the BBC New Act semi-finals in Brighton; the legend in question, Spike Milligan, who was one of the judges. Although Jen didn’t get through to the final, she did find out from the show’s producer that Spike had voted for her. “He’d also remarked that I had ‘a great pair of Bristols,’” she recalls. “So clearly he had great taste in comedy and, er, tits!”
Photo credit: Matt Crockett
Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury
7.30pm £27.50