Drinking Custard: The Diary of a Confused Mum

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Fitton, Sarah (19 September 2019). "See top comic couple Jon Richardson and Lucy Beaumont and more perform at gala gig to help Calderdale families". Halifax Courier . Retrieved 29 December 2019. Although, as the title suggests, there’s the odd mention of Richardson and her marriage, it’s a reintroduction to who she is now, as a 40-year-old woman released from some of the anxieties that plagued her youth. “It’s totally freeing,” she says. “When I was starting out it was all about proving yourself. Now people have already decided: you’re funny.”

He was an older gent that lived with his elderly lover and he said ‘when she dies you can have her room’. Her foray into comedy saw the stand-up enjoy a sharp rise in the British circuit, making it to the finals of So You Think You're Funny in 2011, and winning the BBC Radio New Comedy Award in 2012.

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She made it to the final. The following year, she won the BBC New Comedy Award. When she took her debut show to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2014, it was shortlisted for Best Newcomer. Her jokes found joy and the surreal in the everyday, moving between silly puns and surprising double punchlines with ease. Lucy Beaumont started doing stand-up comedy in 2011 (Photo: UKTV) As per her mother, Lucy doesn't take to social media to share pictures with her. One of the most recent images is from 2020, after her mom attended a comedy gig where Lucy performed. Drinking Custard Diary Of a Confused mum is all about Lucy's reflection on life before and after becoming a first time mum. She discuses her childhood, meeting her husband, moving home and of course baby Elsie!

When my mum looks out of her bedroom window she can see the house she was brought up in on the other side of the road. I personally feel you haven’t achieved much in your life if you can look out and see that but she finds it comforting. Did you need to make any changes to the place? One of the actors in the show, Natalie Davies, posted a message on Facebook at the weekend that said: “And that's a WRAP on #Hullraisers! What an incredible 7 weeks it has been. I'm so overwhelmed right now but my God has it been a blast. To the cast and crew I bloody love you. Thank you @fablepicsuk for having me it's been emotional. Cannot wait for you to meet ASHLEY!”

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She became well-known after reaching the finals of So You Think You're Funny in 2011 and winning the BBC Radio New Comedy Award the following year. Drinking Custard: The Diary of a Confused Mum is Lucy’s new ‘mumoir’ – it’s filled with plenty of hilarious parenting moments (including being hospitalised with indigestion in her third trimester thanks to a burrito, a Disney’s Frozen party that really didn’t go to plan. and her addiction to custard) which we’re sure every first-time mum will relate to, but it’s also a very honest look into Lucy’s life. She really waves the flag for Hull whenever she can and, after living down South for a while, Lucy, her husband (8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown Team Captain Jon Richardson) and first-born Elsie (who took an early liking to Yorkshire pudding) moved to Mytholmroyd near Hebden Bridge. I did find some parts a little too repetitive. There was also random parts that seemed unnecessary, the main one was the location, location, location part about kirsty and Phil it just didn't make sense?! If you were brought up on the Sound Of Music, that’s what does it - and the Pampers advert of a woman in a white shirt with a newborn baby.

Lucy Beaumont and her husband, Jon Richardson, have a surprisingly happening life as they make uncomfortable jokes about family and each other. In 2013, Beaumont won the Chortle Award for Best Newcomer and appeared on BBC Three's Live at the Electric. She presented her show We Can Twerk It Out at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2014 nominated for that year's Best Newcomer Award. [25] Fletcher, Harry (16 September 2014). "Jon Richardson engaged to fellow comedian Lucy Beaumont". Digital Spy. When you Google Lucy Beaumont's name, the first search prompt that reveals itself is: 'Are Jon and Lucy really married?'. The second is: 'Is Lucy Beaumont's mum her real mum?'. I have enjoyed Lucy’s comedy on TV so I bought this. Maybe I’d have enjoyed an audio version or wasn’t in comedic mood to self deliver any wit here.That’s not a bad thing, she says – and Richardson too can see upsides to their unusual televised lives. “Every couple argues,” he says, “but we have an end product for our arguments. We hone them then put them on TV. And then it’s like: ‘Oh, perhaps we weren’t arguing – perhaps we were just working on a routine.’” No, but the place she was renting before had a big gun safe. She found out the owners were small-time drug dealers. But she said it was helpful because takeaway delivery drivers were always on time because they were scared of them. What else appealed to both of you? It meant Beaumont had less time for stand-up, but she didn’t stop completely. She and Richardson run regular charity comedy nights around Yorkshire. “It’s something I’m really proud of. It’s only an evening of our time, but you can raise thousands.” Coldwell, Will (16 January 2015). "Comedian Lucy Beaumont on Hull". The Guardian . Retrieved 30 October 2016. Beaumont, Lucy (30 September 2021). Drinking Custard: The Diary of a Confused Mum. London: Octopus Publishing Group. ISBN 9781913183738.

We are quite autobiographical, me and Jon," she smiles, speaking over Zoom. "Bizarrely, we get on better when we're in situations where most people... we're comics, and comics are a different breed. They are wired differently." Jon: I'm going downhill the other side so it won't be long before I'm recording 3,000 episodes of a quiz a week in an airport hangar somewhere. I'm quite happy for Lucy to take on the world. And it will happen. We’ll move to America at some point because that's what Lucy wants to do. She's done everything else she's set her eyes on. In 2022, Beaumont appeared in an episode of the revival series of The Weakest Link, hosted by Romesh Ranganathan. She was voted out in round 3. A comedy series, Meet the Richardsons, written by Beaumont and Tim Reid was broadcast on Dave from February 2020; [30] it is a documentary-style sitcom with Beaumont and Richardson playing exaggerated versions of themselves. [31] A two-part Christmas Special aired from 9 December 2020 [32] and a second series followed in April 2021. The third series began broadcasting in March 2022, with the fourth series airing from 6 April 2023. The Silver Cod pub, in Anlaby Road, and Larkin’s Bar in Newland Avenue, are among the well-known city haunts that will be having their moment of fame in the new series, Hullraisers, about three working-class women living in Hull.

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The writing style is chatty and reassuring, without any inkling that her way was the right way. It was just the way it was. I found the familiarity of her experiences comforting and her honesty refreshing. I give Drinking Custard Diary Of A Confused Mum By Lucy Beaumont (With interruptions from Jon Richardson) a Five out of Five paw rating. Jon’s a brilliant dad. He’s devoted to Elsie but I think he’s even more sure he doesn’t want kids now.