Rachel Parris: 'Standup would have terrified me " the piano was a good comfort blanket'
The comic on hecklers, pre-show rituals, Jane Austen puns and her childhood heroes Why did you get into musical comedy?I did musical comedy first because that was all I could do! I'd written and performed songs since I was young, so it was the most obvious way in. Doing standup straight away would have terrified me at that time. The piano was a good comfort blanket. Can you recall a gig so bad that it's now funny? I …