At the Glasgow Comedy Festival

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Wendy Wason's introduction to stand-up came with her first job, at The Gilded Balloon in Edinburgh .

But her background is in acting job, with roles in Taggart, Fun At The Funeral Parlour and Coupling. She even played an obsessive Bill Hicks fan who becomes a stand-up in the 2000 British film, Resurrecting Bill.

She debuted at the Edinburgh Festival in 2001 in Trevor Lock's play, What You Really Want, alongside Phil Nichol, Sarah Kendall - and had to strip off while four months pregnant.

By the time she was pregnant with her second child she was filming The Libertine with Johnnys Depp, Malkovich and Vegas.

When her son was 8 weeks old, she started stand-up. In 2005 she was a finalist in the Funny Women contest; and the following year she was a finalist in the first Scottish Comedian Of The Year competition.

Fun and confident delivery, but her material isn't that strong.

Jo Phelan, October 2007

Brilliant in Farnham last night - some good and edgy stuff concealed by a breezy delivery

Gordon, October 2006

Saw her at the Afrobar in reading last night, and she has a great stage persona with some good material to back it up. Good one.

Dave, April 2006

Sexy, sassy and made me laugh. Will look out for her in the future

GM, February 2006

What does it matter if she was once an actress - she's funny. She was brilliant at The Stand in Edinburgh the other night.

Maggie from Edinburgh, January 2006