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Luisa Omielan: 'I want my standup shows to be like Dirty Dancing' by Ryan Gilbey

Combining TED talk and party, the comic's gigs challenge sexism and body-shaming. Now she's riffing on Mary Magdalene, singing Cher to Richard Curtis " and hoping viewers watch again and again Luisa Omielan is fuming. When I arrive to meet the 36-year-old standup at Bafta, where she was named one of 2018's Breakthrough Brits, she and her agent are in the middle of some crisis management. A production company has just…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:00AM on April 4, 2019

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