I’d have had Julia Davis on there too. She’s dark, funny, smart. Everything that male comedians are commended for. Nighty Night was amazing for similar reasons as Ab Fab – women who aren’t good, they’re bad and unapologetically so.

Here are mine:

1) Issa Rae, creator of Misadventures of an Awkward Black Girl: http://www.awkwardblackgirl.com/

2) Sally Outen, stand-up comic who made me double over with laughter in a Vauxhall pub: http://www.lashings.org/sally/

3) Grace Nichols, poet. She has a gentle sort of humour that used to cheer me up when I was in my mid-teens my mum blu-tacked a copy of her poem “give yourself a hug” by the mirror in my room: http://literature.britishcouncil.org/grace-nichols

4) Marjane Satrapi, author and illustrator. Persepolis also made me cry, but its humour is beautifully expressed, wry and brave: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marjane_Satrapi

5) Kate Beaton, illustrator. The webcomic I have cried with nerdy laughter at: http://www.harkavagrant.com

….I might make a post out of this comment!