From Lizzo to Prince Charles to race and the British standup circuit, the rising comic lets rip London Hughes is the talk of the town. Every town. At this year´s Edinburgh festival fringe, her sold-out, roof-raising show To Catch a Dick narrowly missed out on the big prize, making her the first black British woman to be nominated. In Atlanta, Georgia, she recently did a standup gig for an African-American crowd which received the besotted-yet-bemused heckle: `What part of `black´ you from?` Meanwhile, back in her home town and namesake, she is continuing her regular gig on ITV2´s panel show, Don´t Hate the Playaz, starting her new Spotify dating podcast, London Actually, and kicking up a Top Boy-related Twitterstorm about black representation (`Black British culture is not is not just one way, there´s more to us than grime and gangs and knife crime,` she tweeted). The offers are pouring in so fast - gigs, book deals, merchandising - that all she can do is laugh: `God, you should see my agent´s emails; it´s, like, ridiculous! She´ll screenshot me the emails and we´ll just go: `Wow!´ Because those people were not returning her emails at the beginning of this year, I´ll tell you that!` Continue reading...
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