Sara Pascoe

Sara Pascoe

Sara Patricia Pascoe is an English comedian and actor. Her first book, Animal: The Autobiography of a Female Body, was published in April 2016. Her second book, Sex Money, was released in August 2018. She has appeared on TV programmes such as 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown.

About Sara Pascoe in brief

Summary Sara PascoeSara Patricia Pascoe is an English comedian and actor. She has appeared on TV programmes such as 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown for Channel 4, QI for BBC and Taskmaster for the digital channel Dave. Her first book, Animal: The Autobiography of a Female Body, was published in April 2016 by Faber and Faber. Her second book, Sex Money, was released in August 2018. She also hosts a podcast of the same name, in which she interviews people who have experience around sex work, stripping and porn. In April 2019 a live recording of Pascoe’s LadsLads tour at the London Palladium was shown on BBC Two.

Pascoe had an abortion in 1997, which was detailed in her memoir, Animal. She was born in Dagenham and raised in nearby Romford. Her parents divorced when she was young, leaving her to be raised by her mother. She attended Eastbury Comprehensive School in Barking. She later attended Gaynes School in Upminster. In August 2010, she performed her first show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Sara Pascoe Vs Her Ego, which received positive reviews.