Claire Hooper: ‘People have different forms of therapy. Songs for the Deaf by Queens of the Stone Age is mine’

The comedian, TV presenter and Bake Off alum gushes about the joy of silence, an awkward encounter with Shane Warne, and getting recognised during a colonoscopy Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email The premise of your new standup show, Fun Show xx , is that you are not a fun person. What is the least fun thing about you? The minute my husband leaves the house, I turn the music off. I love silence. For my 40th birthday my husband, my two babies and I flew to Adelaide and hired a car to drive to the Barossa. My husband said, “It’s your birthday, you get to choose the playlist!” and I said, “Just complete silence please.” So we drove in silence for 90 minutes and that’s all I wanted. Continue reading...