Exclusive: Dee Allum praises changing comedy scene ahead of major gig

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to being nominated for Chortle's Best New Comedian and being a finalist in the 2022 BBC New Comedy Award competition.

And on Thursday, Dee is the headline act at the LGBTQ Comedy Festival in a show hosted at the The Queer Comedy Club. Dee will be performing alongside comedians Jeremy Topp, Ben Pollard, Kate Dale and David Ian, and ahead of her major appearance, she sat down with HELLO! to discuss the show as well as the changing comedy scene when it comes to diversity and how it feels living as a transwoman in the UK.

Speaking about her act, Dee explained: "There's not a huge amount of representation of trans people in the media in a particularly positive light and then even less of that is of trans people representing themselves.  I'd like to think that my comedy could be important in that sense, but my first priority is always to make people laugh. "The star, who names Monty Pyhton and Stuart Lee as her comedy inspirations, is part of the forefront of the change to the comedy scene that has seen more LGBTQ+, female and Black performers step into the limelight.

Dee highlighted how "valuable" it was to hear from different backgrounds when it came to comedy, highlighting old panel shows when the line-up would be entirely white, straight men. "There's no alternative angles, obviously, there's different styles of comedy, but I think there's something about being part of different groups, that gives you a different perspective on things," she mused. "It's so valuable to have accommodated that kind of diversity.